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ILuMINiTE
01-20-2006, 03:39 PM
hey anyone into the sport of drifting? I find drifting to be an extremely skilled sport and its really fun. so yeah i thot id make this thread for people who love drifting

heres a short explanation from the drifting website

“Braking drifting”
To perform this, trail brake into a corner. As you do this, you will lose grip. When that happens, balance the car by steering and using throttle motions. This is normally used on medium to low speed corners.

“Clutch Kick”
To do this depress the clutch pedal while approaching or during a mild drift. Then pop the clutch to give a sudden jolt. When you do this, the jolt makes the driveline disturbed and the rear loses traction.

“Dirt Drop Drift” (If you have seen Initial D they refer to it as the “Gutter Technique.”)
This is performed by “dropping” the rear tires off the side of the road and into the dirt to keep or gain drift angle without losing power or speed and to set up for the next turn. Note that this technique is very useful for low horsepower cars. (Just like the “86.”)

"E-Brake Drift" (Described by Nissanguy_24)
This is a very basic technique. Just pull the hand break (a.k.a. the E-Break) to make the back of your car lose traction and balance the drift by steering and quick throttle motions. This can also be very useful when you need to correct errors or fine tune you angle of drift.

"Faint Drift"
To do this, rock the car towards the outside of the turn and then, using the rebound of grip, throw the car into the regular cornering direction. Quick note: This is a rally racing technique that is used to change your car’s approach during cornering, normally used on tight corners.

"FF Drift" (Front wheel drive drift)
The E-brake, steering, and braking techniques must be used to balance your car through the corner. The E-brake however is the main method used to balance out your drift.

"Jump Drift"
In this technique bounce the rear tire on the apex (this means the inside) of the turn over the curb to lose traction resulting in over steer.

"Kansei Drift"
You have to be pretty fast for this. When entering a high speed corner lift your foot off the throttle. This induces a mild over steer. Then balance the drift by steering and throttle motions. To do this however, your car should be a neutral balanced car. Therefore the over steer will induce itself. If the car plows through the turn this technique won’t work.

"Long Slide Drift"
Yet another use for the E-brake. Pull the E-brake through a strait to start a high angel drift and hold it so you set up for the turn ahead. Now remember, this can obviously only be done at high speed. Otherwise you wont slide to far.






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Viper
01-20-2006, 04:47 PM
Thanks for the tips, Loomy. There is a new track facility being planned (4.1 rod course) that once opened I'll definetly be putting a new vehicle I'm working getting through its paces.

O.D.S
01-20-2006, 05:01 PM
Ive actually been drifting a few times although never with my car (mines front wheel drive)

My cousins Supra on the other hand does the job nicely, but its rubber is too expensive for our pockets so we use my friends older series BMW (i think series 3?)...well we did anyway 'till we snapped the back left axle...dont ask how

ILuMINiTE
01-20-2006, 05:56 PM
yeah drifting can get expensive so im limited to my practise as well which sucks and yeah viper thats hot tell me where i might come and do a couple runs hehe

Viper
01-20-2006, 06:01 PM
http://www.firstcoastracing.com/






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ILuMINiTE
01-20-2006, 06:23 PM
thats hotness and daaaaamn its huge i usually practise in parking lots or up at a park near my house cuz i live up in upstate NY the big ALBANY lol yeah so i need to get out anyway

cpiasminc
01-20-2006, 07:47 PM
Best I've done is a powerslide by chance in a rented Neon. Yes, it's FF, but it happens to have such a severe forward-weight bias that the rear wheel traction comes loose somewhat easily during hard braking (the weight bias plus the braking starts to lift the rear wheels up a bit). Long story short -- nearly missed a turn I was supposed to take, so I slammed the brakes, and the rear swung out... countersteered and punched the gas a bit to slide through the turn.

I don't have nor will I ever have the money to do more than that. It's cool to watch and all, but doing it is little more than an exercise in emptying your wallet.

"Daddy, what's that smoke?"
"Why, that's money being burned."

Viper
01-20-2006, 07:53 PM
I have a Neon and I know exactly what you mean. The whole cab forward design seems to have really unbalanced it. I've never intenionally attemtped anything in it but have done some accidental slides but nothin impressive.

ILuMINiTE
01-21-2006, 03:52 PM
they say that the Toyota corollas are the easiest beginning drifting cars to learn with...

cpiasminc
01-21-2006, 07:07 PM
Well... old Corollas, they say that. Back in the early 80s when they were still rear-wheel drive. Every Corolla since then has always been FF, and FF drifting is extremely difficult. The old Corollas were lightweight, and almost perfectly weight-balanced. That's not really true anymore (except for the lightweight part).

Among modern vehicles, I'd probably point you in the direction of the RX-8. Although you have the difficulty of not being able to get away with the e-brake approach (as it seizes up a few things), you still have a vehicle with a low center-of-gravity and pretty much perfect weight distribution.

Just beware that if you're actually *trying* to drift, a car off the showroom floor will never be a drift car due to safety standards required for the street. Most factory suspensions are tuned to prevent oversteer. Granted, you can still push the car to get some results, but continuous drifting and chaining is still a ways away.