They weigh almost 4k lbs, I'd look for something lighter (two door).

Is this going to be a daily drifter type car, or a dedicated drift car?

002 wrote They weigh almost 4k lbs, I'd look for something lighter (two door).

Is this going to be a daily drifter type car, or a dedicated drift car?

More of daily drifter. I was going to gut all the interior behind the driver / passenger seats, pull things out of the engine bay I don't need (ac/heat), try to make it a little lighter removing exhausts and straight piping it with kinda thin tubing, gut the trunk, lighter wheels, lighter coilovers. Whatever else I can think of to make it lighter. I don't like riding with a car full anyways so gutting everything but driver / passenger seat would be ideal. I wanted one of these because from what I hear they're pretty easy to work on, parts are cheap, and I found a whole functioning car for 800$ on craigslist that's missing a front and rear bumper and an exhaust leak. Only Thing that kind of sucks about it is the fact it is an automatic transmission and I don't believe they made them manual so I'd have to find out how to make I lock into a gear with the selective shifting (like Orion from Haggard Garage did to the Twin Turbo Lexus).

You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

In a lot of auto cars you can lock it into a gear, usually it's just first and second on the older cars. My truck (auto) is PRND321 so I can lock it in first, second, or third gear.

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Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

They're pretty common but none for real cheap around where I live. Plus I want to do something with a v8. plus the whole thought of fixing a turbo BMW drift car just gives me a headache.

002 wrote In a lot of auto cars you can lock it into a gear, usually it's just first and second on the older cars. My truck (auto) is PRND321 so I can lock it in first, second, or third gear.

Yeah that's what I'd be doing. First and second is the main gears everyone uses for more low-ish horsepower drifting. I believe 3rd will bang rev limiter too.

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002 wrote

Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

They're pretty common but none for real cheap around where I live. Plus I want to do something with a v8. plus the whole thought of fixing a turbo BMW drift car just gives me a headache.

002 wrote In a lot of auto cars you can lock it into a gear, usually it's just first and second on the older cars. My truck (auto) is PRND321 so I can lock it in first, second, or third gear.

Yeah that's what I'd be doing. First and second is the main gears everyone uses for more low-ish horsepower drifting. I believe 3rd will bang rev limiter too.

You do know how gears work, right? Think of them as a cog gear, first gear is the smallest and they keep getting bigger. First gear will spin super fast (RPMs go really high), but you won't go very fast until you switch to a bigger cog (second). At the bottom of second you will be traveling as fast as you were in the top of first but your RPMs will be lower. You are more likely to hit redline / rev limiter in first and second than you are in third.

Also with HP and torque, it depends on the RPM. For example, that 3.9L V8 you're looking at reaches its peak horsepower of 280 at 6000 RPM and peak torque of 286 at 4300 RPM (based on 2003-2006 factory numbers).

002 wrote

Daddy- wrote

002 wrote

Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

They're pretty common but none for real cheap around where I live. Plus I want to do something with a v8. plus the whole thought of fixing a turbo BMW drift car just gives me a headache.

002 wrote In a lot of auto cars you can lock it into a gear, usually it's just first and second on the older cars. My truck (auto) is PRND321 so I can lock it in first, second, or third gear.

Yeah that's what I'd be doing. First and second is the main gears everyone uses for more low-ish horsepower drifting. I believe 3rd will bang rev limiter too.

You do know how gears work, right? Think of them as a cog gear, first gear is the smallest and they keep getting bigger. First gear will spin super fast (RPMs go really high), but you won't go very fast until you switch to a bigger cog (second). At the bottom of second you will be traveling as fast as you were in the top of first but your RPMs will be lower. You are more likely to hit redline / rev limiter in first and second than you are in third.

Also with HP and torque, it depends on the RPM. For example, that 3.9L V8 you're looking at reaches its peak horsepower of 280 at 6000 RPM and peak torque of 286 at 4300 RPM (based on 2003-2006 factory numbers).

By banging rev limiter I mean that it won't shift out of 3rd gear by itself like most new cars do. So I can drift 1st, 2nd, and 3rd once I get the car to enough HP.

Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

Get a 240 dude

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Skylancer wrote You really want to be getting a manual transmission car for drifting. As soon as the torque converter builds up pressure it's just going to shift mid-slide? Never seen a automatic drift car lol

That Lincoln is a tank, I'm from the UK though so whatever floats your goat. I'd go for something much smaller and lighter. With that you can take a cut on horse-power too.

What's the parts availability over there for BMW's? An old E36 should do the trick.

Get a 240 dude

240s are always breaking and are too common. There's like 30+ in my city and I live in a small town.