Currently drive a ‘15 GT86 which I don’t want to drift as it’s high mileage and my only car.

Want to buy an older E46 (Ci model, M54) to turn into a drift car but there are some barriers…!

I have the money, but what I don’t have is time or experience. The experience part I don’t think is a huge issue for this platform when it comes to mods because there are tons of forum posts and tutorial vids, BUT when it would come to do repairs I’d probably find that quite a bit harder.

The car would be kept at my parents’ house as that’s the only place I can work on it. I don’t live there and I’d have to travel 2 hours by train every weekend to work on it.

Am I worrying about nothing? I’d do at most 4 or 5 drift days a year + some occasional street stuff (if I grow some balls) so will these M54s/general beemer shit go so wrong to the point the car becomes undriveable? At some point yes, but I just worry about not getting a lot of time out the car and as mentioned won’t really have time or experience to repair if anything goes wrong.

Is the best idea at this point just to continue renting indefinitely? The cost just kills me and turns me off a lot of events, not even considering the freedom of being able to take your own car AND getting more seat time (usually an entire day vs an hour in a rental).

I currently am rocking an FDF mega mantis kit on my G35, but recently acquired a Gen1 wisefab kit. I have 0 problems with the FDF, but all my homies swear my Wisefab. The kit has been fixed 2 times on the passenger knuckle, but still works. Has anyone tried out both and have recommendations of which one to use and which to sell? TIA!

Check out this video of this guy jumping over a drifting Mustang. This is the craziest instagram account I stg. Has anybody ever been to one of these events?