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Originally Posted by TehBek
Hey all, I've been lurking for a while getting my mind around the necessary bits and pieces I would need to pull this off, but I'm looking for input from anyone with experience in multiple e90s, preferably with suspension mods.
I finally bought an e91 after years of debating. My ideal spec was an MT RWD but between the lack of options and the cost of the ones available I opted to sacrifice the RWD and focus on an affordable MT car.
FF to now. I purchased a car with some known maintenance and repair items needed, and as I have been working through my list I have realized that my front subframe has enough rust that replacing is a question of when, not if. I would like to get to it sometime this year which affords me a surprising opportunity to justify a conversion to RWD. The punch line is that I don't hate xDrive as much as I thought I would, and it's actually hilariously fun with DSC turned off. At this point I would like to keep the xDrive functionality, and plan to get xDelete for occasional silliness, but to me the car feels 'heavy' or maybe 'sluggush' and I'm not sure how much of that is due to xDrive and specifically the slow rack. I don't know anyone with a RWD that I could drive for comparison, so I'm hoping to get some opinions on whether the xDrive is going to hold me back from getting some fun into the car as I update the suspension and engine. I don't need to go fast, I just want to have fun getting there.
Feels like the Internet is great for opinions so I'm asking for them now, make it rain!!
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It’s not going to hold you back at all… it’s actually a huge advantage. I have an 2010xi stage 2+, XHP stage 3 for about 7 years. On ST coils. A normal 335i can barely put the power down in first and second when tuned without some very sticky tires.
The only negatives to xdrive is the couple hundred pounds of extra weight and the slow rack. I do wish the rack was faster like the non xi version but a normal rack will not fit on an xi so don’t bother trying to swap them.
I personally would only use Xdelete to send a little more power to the rear vs fully off. There is a slider on the app for what % gets sent to the front vs the rear.