When we hear about drift car we immediately think about something old and Japanese, BMW or American muscle cars like Mustang or Camaro. But Mercedes… Mercedes and drift it’s oxymoron. Without any jokes it’s so. But who said that it’s impossible to build Mercedes for drift. For example in W211 generation.
Annoying and expensive brake system already many years ago died on this Mercedes so all system could be made normally, without stupid electronics.
And Mercedeses have else a lot unneeded things. Traction control from Mercedes is a legend for a long time. A lot of driver’s ambitions died due to traction control. It’s just impossible to turn it off fully.
Stock suspension is not best choice for drift because together with traction control it’s mighty power that will do everything you to go further without any drift.
All these features of Mercedes make else a lot other problems. About what do i say? At first, it’s parts. Building of a car for drift needs some specific parts. You can buy such parts for BMW and build needed car for a week, or even faster. But not for Mercedes. BMW are much more popular in tuning. That’s why you may be a real God of drift like Keichi Tsuchia or you will produce these parts yourself. At first I’m saying about suspension.
As you see on previous photo, all parts used on a car’s front end are stock or universal, like these black fenders. Maybe splitter is a hand made part. But splitter is easy to do part. And it’s so everywhere.
Coilovers lowered an suspension. Good and expensive coilovers have all needed settings. Choice of settings is especially important in drift. Because you would change adjustment for different situations.
Transmission was swapped into manual. I bet this manual gearbox is Getrag from some BMW :) Getrag produces really good transmissions for BMW.
Body is painted even from balloon or wrapped by vinyl. Body looks maximum stock. It seams that nothing was cut off to get weight lower.
It looks that in such setup this Mercedes is more for fun on weekend than for some drift competitions.
And actually… Owner can use this Mercedes even everyday to get work or home. Because this Mercedes is almost stock. At least inside. Steering wheel, custom made brake rod and manual transmission shifter are the only changes inside. In all other this is an ordinary W211. Simple look but with qualitative materials.
Media system with LCD screen, all interior – you are waiting to see inside drift car a little other interior :) Not so luxury… Honestly, we all are waiting to see no upholstery and other interior parts. Just naked metal. But this Mercedes W211 for drift is pleasureful for driver exclusion. I bet that here even AC works. What is better than powerful and fun car with AC?