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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: Choking Hazard on March 27, 2006, 10:05:01 PM
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It is clear we all love these cars for the driving. Anybody else besides me had a 6 cylinder BMW? Mine was an e-21 so I'm sure it was lighter than the e-30, but more importantly, you could feel that bigger engine weight up front. It has been a while, and I'm pretty sure the e-21 had almost 50/50 weight distribution, but I remember it had a different feeling - inertia wise. It made the car want to understeer more.
What is your driving style? Fluid? Violent? Mechanical?
I like to use the Schumacher style with my car. No really sudden moves, just rushing the flow... I have found that I get the best performance from the engine by bringing the revs up to about 4 k before I let the clutch out, even in the higher gears it is quite noticable that the torque is greater if the RPMs are as high as I can make 'em ( and so will be slightly, or more, above matching speed ) then engage the clutch quickly. The turn in is so natural -and nutral- for these cars that I haven't overheated a turn. I'm guessing AXing this car, one would use more of a Dale jr style, since it seems like it would feel pretty easy to steer with the throtlte.
So do you blast aaround on full tilt? Actually, sometimes I drive by the mpg guage. It can be quite a challenge too, and nets me 35+ mpg even in daily commute.
Who does autocross here?
or Tell me about your drive today!
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I'm definately usually smooth motions except sometimes when other people are in the car sharp jerky motions cuz it's funny to watch the passengers get tossed around. Today it was smooth turns and full throttle cuz my gf hung up on me and we were fighting. Aint life grand...
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I'm definately usually smooth motions except sometimes when other people are in the car sharp jerky motions cuz it's funny to watch the passengers get tossed around. Today it was smooth turns and full throttle cuz my gf hung up on me and we were fighting. Aint life grand...
ahh yes, i know this...
your driving style sounds exactly like mine!
i enjoy throttle steering every now and then, but usualy i like a nice fluid turn, maybe a bit of slidding thrown in there just for the fun.
edit: i also like to get a nice jerky turn in when my friend falls asleep on the way home from school and he wakes up mid slide.
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edit: i also like to get a nice jerky turn in when my friend falls asleep on the way home from school and he wakes up mid slide.
Ya, if ur careful u can even make their head smack the window gently, that'll wake em up.
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I drive pretty slowly most of the time. With the 4.10LSD, if I go much over 65, the MPG really drops... and I don't accelerate too fast most of the time... just casual.
I do enjoy throwing the car around corners though.
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Let's just say I average 25mpg ;)
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I heard e21's were actually heavier than the e30, that's one thing they improved when they built the E30 - pity they seemed to have ditched that approach on most models since.
Re the 6ycl e30's I used to have a 325i, that was quite ponderous on turn in compared to the 318is - more understeer on entry, but more oversteer on exit available too.
Driving style I used to be, well lets just say not very smooth in my driving, so I've tried to smooth things out over the years.
Yeah these engines like the high revs, they don't really do a lot below 4k, so I do tend to thrash it a lot, once warmed up
Sometimes I drive by the economy gauge, but that gets boring quite quickly!
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I've noticed even with my driving style, which is accelerate hard most times, and drive about 60 everywhere, i still pull in damn near close 30mpg. Just a question though, my low fuel light has been burned out since i got the car, when does that light usually come one, is it at the line before empty?
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Sometimes I drive by the economy gauge, but that gets boring quite quickly!
haha oh man, everytime i fill up im like ok, this tank i will pussy drive the car just to see what kind of mileage i can get. that gets old after i turn the first corner!! i find it absolutely impossible not to punch the gas every now and then and hear her wind up!!
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I've noticed even with my driving style, which is accelerate hard most times, and drive about 60 everywhere, i still pull in damn near close 30mpg. Just a question though, my low fuel light has been burned out since i got the car, when does that light usually come one, is it at the line before empty?
Our cars have a low fuel light??? wow, not sure I ever saw this come on. I wonder if mine works.
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lol i know mine works...i didnt want to see how much there was on reserve but i remember filling up like 12.5 gallons
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ahh yes, i know this...
your driving style sounds exactly like mine!
i enjoy throttle steering every now and then, but usualy i like a nice fluid turn, maybe a bit of slidding thrown in there just for the fun.
edit: i also like to get a nice jerky turn in when my friend falls asleep on the way home from school and he wakes up mid slide.
never ever tell the driver (esp. in a manual car) that you gotta take a piss.
My friends never learn.
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never ever tell the driver (esp. in a manual car) that you gotta take a piss.
My friends never learn.
hahaha +1:D
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Really depends on what im listening to, if its Bob Marley or Jack Johnson im kinda mellow. But when i listen to techno, or AC/DC, Led Zeplin i kinda scare myself. i like to but it sidways quit often (its kind of addicting if you ask me). But now matter what im listening to, if im first at a stop light i like to dump the clutch at 5k. i like it better when my GF is in the car cause then i can get both wheels to spin......damn i need an LSD!:mad:
oh by the way its better for fuel milage if you drive WOT to speed. Or so i was taught.
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correct spelling : Led Zeppelin
and they fuckin rock...i also wind up when listening to something up-beat.
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correct spelling : Led Zeppelin
and they fuckin rock...i also wind up when listening to something up-beat.
me too, i try to mellow out when i drive, but i always just say "screw it" i select AC/DC or Off Spring, or somthing else good, and i crank it right up.
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Our cars have a low fuel light??? wow, not sure I ever saw this come on. I wonder if mine works.
yep, thats what the little yellowish colored circle is apparently, our cars don't get crappy enough gas mileage to ever truly be empty :)
anyone else ever notice the little ding that happens too when you have low fuel? I never knew my car had that until a couple months ago, I was driving with the radio of and I hear this dinging noise and I was like wtf is that, apparently I was low on fuel. This is after having the car for over a year too.
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yep, thats what the little yellowish colored circle is apparently, our cars don't get crappy enough gas mileage to ever truly be empty :)
anyone else ever notice the little ding that happens too when you have low fuel? I never knew my car had that until a couple months ago, I was driving with the radio of and I hear this dinging noise and I was like wtf is that, apparently I was low on fuel. This is after having the car for over a year too.
Theres also a 'ding' from the computer when it gets below 38 degrees outside to warn you of icy conditions. Up here in upstate NY I hear it ALL THE TIME. I actually noticed it first in my wifes 95 318i and for 2 winters we had no idea what it was. I thought it sounded like the ding in airplanes when you hit 30,000 ft, so everytime I drove it and it dinged I'd yell "Cruising altitude!" and punch it. I still punch my pedal through the floor when I hear it in mine - kinda because I get a kick out of the airplane joke, kinda because its trying to tell me to be careful and I have authority issues.
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I thought it sounded like the ding in airplanes when you hit 30,000 ft, so everytime I drove it and it dinged I'd yell "Cruising altitude!" and punch it.
Hahaha, that actually made me laugh out loud when I read that, good times, good times.
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Hahaha, that actually made me laugh out loud when I read that, good times, good times.
haha SERIOUSLY! that mad me cry from laughter...
man that shit cracked me up...
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Our cars are supposed to be driven as if they were stolen, who's with me?
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Our cars are supposed to be driven as if they were stolen, who's with me?
Well if you don't drive it like you stole it, then how are you driving it? Like a little girl I suppose? So to answer your question in short......yes.
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And to accompany the ding and the cruising altitude, you should have gotten one of the lame vanity plate reading "I don't drive fast, I just fly low" :)
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I should read the topic heading next time.
Guess it's a common saying among M42 owners.
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And to accompany the ding and the cruising altitude, you should have gotten one of the lame vanity plate reading "I don't drive fast, I just fly low" :)
i really really like that saying.
like really like it.
thats all i have to say.
club motto: drive it like you stole it.
thats the only way to drive these bad boys, they beg for it over and over again.
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I push it ,, is my overall driving style I guess,
I have had M20B20, B25,
M10B16, M10B18,
S50B30
motors in e30īs and handling was never a issue I could push it as much as possible,
altough the 6cyl where more prone to understeer I simply drove in a rally style, swinging the weight over soon to not upset the car right before the turn,
with the S50 I just powerred trough all turns and adjusted steering angle with the throttle,
I really have alot of fun in this M42, itīs just the low end that idnīt there that I miss..
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live in the red.
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On the interstate smooth sailing just above the flow but when in town nothing like ziping through traffic but over all nothing like hitting curvy country roads and just hearing the rpms climb through the gears and the turns I guess like others it all depends on what kind of mood I am in. right now my bimmer is down awaiting paint so I am stuck driveing the pig of a jeep I got but on a good day 14mpg down hill with the wind pushing me but when I jump in good ol BMW to take it around the block to keep things lubricated it always puts a smile on my face! only if everyone drove a BMW then they would understand!!!
"I'm not tailgateing I'm drifting"
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Once the engine is warmed up it's taken to redline in 1st and 2nd. Fuel economy suffers a lot with the fogged airbox and muffler on the car :p
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Let's just say I average 25mpg ;)
Wow, that good?
Actually I get about that and it is almost all highway miles.
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i had the privilige to drive two sixes- an e36 328i for a few years and for a few months a 325is... with those cars i tend to either drive really smooth but fast or by playing the OBC mpg game.
in my subie i drive rediculously fast most of the time and can observe the fuel dropping significantly over the course of a drive... gas sucks
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i drive over 120 miles on interstate 95 everyday commuting to and from work. I'd like to say that I stay a consistent 7mph over the speed limit and cruise w/ traffic, but whenever i hit the acceleration i don't stop until 80mph+ and then it's too hard to let off the throttle long enough to get below 75, and then someone passes me so I have to either A) not tailgate, but "drift" them, or B) kick 4th gear and show them how a REAL car passes someone, ya feel me? As far as driving style I try to stay smooth and precise while maintaining good speed and definitely not hesitating to drop a gear for acceleration, after all, you wouldn't want to work the engine to hard in the low rpm's at WOT, you might get worse gas mileage!
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i hit the acceleration i don't stop until 80mph+ and then it's too hard to let off the throttle long enough to get below 75!
I drove my other BMW on the Autobahn. The car really showed it's merits at speed.
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indeed. i've hit over 120mph probably up to ten times. where i live there is a 3 mile bridge w/ no place for cops to sit so as long as you don't run up on one it's how fast you can go with about a 2 mile stretch starting at 55mph, I love it!