Sohcahtoa
Pfft...FFs don't drift...they just drag their ass.
...right... I would say more but... no... not worth it...sorry if that sounds like an insult...
silviadrifter
Agreed...
As for FF drifting... I do it, and enjoy it... However, I would not consider it in the same league, or even category as FR/MR/AWD drifting... I tend to refer to it as sliding rather than drifting...
This kind of thread (and a number of the replies) is exactly why the drift forum is looked down on by the rest of GTP...
that's unfornattley so...but would I be just out of my mind to say some people have been trying to sorta turn that sitaution around...even though it is threads like this that does
not help our situation one bit (and I would go futher but...not for a while...)... I mean...yes this is not exaclty a helpfull thread... I thought about not replying...I'm still wondering why I've bothered to say something... I guess cause of what Silviadrifter and a few others said..
As for the topic... okay... that's argueable...on many levels...why?...
FF has no power to the rear tires, a drift is usually defined as sending the car into a controlled skid...usually before or at the start of a turn... this is best caused by using the car's power, steering, weight shifting, etc to start a 'drift' or a proper skid thru a turn at a given angle at a good speed. That's
a definition of a drift as far as I know unless I''ve been mis-informed (or I can just give the other explination that Fujiwara Takumi did put in and that Yuichi futher had thought about...that could work too...then again...), but a key thing is that it's with partly the rear tires that start it since they are a factor to keeping the skiding or drifting or whatever going becuase power is transfered into it.
To even try that with an FF would be very difficult if not impossible outright becuase power is just transfered to the front tires, to get that loss of rear grip, you would use something like the E-brake or pull the car into an oversteer similar to an rear drive car save for the fact you may not want to step on the gas a lot if at all due to the drivetrain's natural understeering tenecny... I could be wrong altogether about this though... but I've seen this in RL and in GT and Life For Speed (yes I've actually manged to spin out with an FF at least once or twice...mainly in LFS than GT and only cause I don't pratice in LFS as much as GT so I otherwise suck 50% of the time...) in a number of cases.
So the question is, is it good or not? Well... depends on what you try to do, Silvia drifter probally had answered it best... it could be that but one could disagree becuase it's not the same as you would with a car with power to the rear wheels, be it FR, MR, RR and also AWD be it based on origionally an rear drive or front drive format (someone somewhere said some stuff on about how AWD's can not be considered drifting due to the front tires spining as well... I felt like argueing but I decicded to not say anything about it... I'm not great wtih AWD drifting to begin with so would it be a strech to ask just how that entire process works...again?...I may already know to some extent but it would not hurt in this case to at least have that explained a bit again...)... and it depends on what you're trying to do.
Since I've not yet mastered FF drifting, i can't take a side yet on an intelligence basis...least on my view yet... as far as it stands... I can't take an actuall side (this leads to one wondering just why in the hell I bothered to say anything to begin with eh?...)... I guess good or bad depending on what you're trying to do I guess.
So much for trying to make it short...probally left out and said some stuff I'll be kicking myself later for too... oh well I guess...
Untill later... I think...
