January 30, 2015 09:19AM
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January 31, 2015 07:33PM
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Wow, that is something I've never seen before. It's pretty cool, but I suspect that poor car is seriously beat up. Plowing snow is pretty rough on a vehicle. Around here there are hundreds of people with snowplows on their vehicles, and every single one of them is a 4WD truck, mostly V8 Fords and Chevy/GMC. Even they get pretty tired after a few years of serious plowing.
It's good to see someone else ice racing their iX, though. I missed our first local event here because of exhaust problems with mine. I'm hoping to get it back out on the ice in a few weeks. The iX is so totally at home on the ice, it's a joy to drive. __________ Dave '91 325iX |
February 01, 2015 12:18AM
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My experience is that the RWD E30s are more fun to drive than the iX on ice. The AWD makes the weight balance very front biased, and it tends to understeer a lot unless you drive it in a very brutal way. It does however help considerably to install a significantly stiffer rear swaybar on the iX. If I was to build the ultimate ice racing E30, it would have an S50 engine, manual gearbox, RWD, no ABS, rather stiff LSD and rally tires. |
February 01, 2015 02:41AM
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February 02, 2015 03:09AM
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