Will It Rally? BMW 3 Series 

The Ultimate Driving Machine

Low center of gravity, decent suspension, no unnecessary size meaning reasonable weight... And it just flies.

here in scandinavia we use these 3 series a lot in rally. great cars for people getting into rally and dont have a lot of money.

The current market trends shows how stupid most people are or has become.

A smaller, lighter, sportier vehicle is faster than SUVs and pickup trucks? Whoda thunk?

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It’s not gone! They’re still making new “Will It Rally” videos

@@TranceFur one video every few months though

Will it rally is friggin sick

@@dragonbuttits better than nothing.

Yeah DISA or most likely VANOS seals

​@@malteserwfjvanos seals definitely need to be replaced. Easy and cheap. Wakes m54 up well.

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And an e38 7 series just for good measure

Pretty sure it will be quite a bit worse, especially on narrow twisty roads.

reinforce that rear subframe!

Right

I regret selling my 2005 330i to this day. That car was just fantastic

I have a e60 530i with m54b30. 265k miles. Runs great. Just did the trans fluid and filter two days ago actually. Shifts buttery

Only do a oil pump nut fix and its solid af

​@@kylefracaro5087 Must of had a lot of fun with it! I dream of owning a car like that someday, at least you got to experience it 😊

but do you miss the maintenance?

@@salami99 I had an 04 E46 325i and can say I did not miss the maintenance. Wasn't too bad when it only had one thing that was broken at a time, I would fix things as they cropped up. Ended up selling it when the moon roof no longer wanted to stay on the rails, a mysterious parasitic drain would drain the battery over night if I didn't disconnect a terminal when parking, the driver side door lock cylinder broke and became completely free spinning, and the main seal started leaking oil, all within a period of about 3 months lol I bought a Ford F150 that I drove for a few years after that. But recently bought an F90 M5, so will see how my luck with BMW fares this time around haha

Yes and thank you. Several Gopros running at once for the entire lap.

They'll probably go with LSD

probably the suspension would be too low

With a uniform lack of tire engagement on a free differential, 2 wheels wilk rotation. 10:37 You can see that only the right wheel is rotation (sorry for my English)

@@produman12 Yeah but if it was open left side wouldn't even push any dirt at the start. 25% lock is the most common lock used in road cars meaning if right rear has 4x torque 1x torque will be at left side that's how it pushes the dirt. If it was open all the power would be at right rear and left rear would be push dirt just like the front tires

@@Flyturn7 e46 (except m versions) did not have differential locks

@@produman12 Also it will rotate of course but it will rotate with the car moving because it gets no torque while other wheel gets all the power. And you can't do stable donuts he did at the start as well. Car will slide but as you get faster it will want to go straight right away. I have an open diff e34 believe me it refuses to continue drifting as you accelerate. Left rear will prevent lateral movement because it has no torque to make it go sideways and because right rear is spinning it can't keep the drifting by itself for there is not enough traction to carry on drifting

@@produman12 It's common that people upgrade their bmws. I have swapped a 6 speed manual transmission from an e60 and a lower ratio differential to increase the top speed of my car to go up to 280kph. Old bmws are like legos you can swap in many parts from other cars and do it very cheaply. And people who have bmws like to work on and upgrade their cars. Also with open diff you only get 50/50 torque at wheels until one of them starts spinning after that the spinning wheel will hog all the power I forgot to mention that it is way more simple explanation.

4 door is significantly more rigid, slightly lighter, and often cheaper. So definitely 4 door. Non-folding seat versions make a bigger difference for body rigidity than the number of doors tho.

3.64 final drives are rare as they only came in auto zhp's. The 3.46 is a dime a dozen (almost all facelift automatics had one).

Six speed trans has the exact same gear ratios as 5 speed with sixth gear being overdrive.

@@Dmxravin I have a 5 speed and 6 speed, that's simply not true

@@edugamer950 oh right I didn’t realise the 1-2 is shorter.

Bilstein hd suspension is dirt cheap, it's pretty much what stock wagons and sport package e46s have. This car is more stock than 90% of all 20 year old cars.

@@apodski fair but it still has a modification that would definitely help it offroad

@@jivalroopnarian yeah, but it is a change of only a few percent. All the E46s left the factory with a weirdly long suspension travel of like 12" and abnormally stiff shocks and struts.

@@apodski oh ok it just looks wayyy higher than I thought it would

@@jivalroopnarian That's probably because when you replace the front rubber strut mounts they sit high until they break in. I'm guessing they also put the bmw oem made stut tower tower reinforcement plates in, which add a few millimeters.

deez nutz

joe mama