AWD vs. RWD

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Hey, im new to these forums, but once i found them i've been practicing drifting all the time now. I'm sorry if this has been beaten to death, but i tried searching and couldnt find anything but my question is: For beginners, are RWD or AWD vehicles easier to drift in? thanks in advance for input.
 
RWD in my opnion because you don't need the e-brake to drift just use the brake and punch the gas a little bit :)
 
ShiBByLLaMa, welcome to GTPlanet. 👍 Anyways, I think RWD would be good. This may sound odd to some, but I think RWD is a lot better handling wise since more cars are RWD, like FR and MR, or AWD, which is 4WD. There is more value, and mainly, not all, but most Race Cars are not 4WD.
 
4WD is easier to learn with, but once you get fairly skilled, they're both fairly equal as far as difficulty goes. I still prefer RWD though. I just think it's more fun.

Get yourself an S14 or something. Throw on some sim tires. Turn off ASM and TCS and go have fun. 👍



-Mark
 
hmm. awd will not spin out as easily as a rwd and requires more gasing, but when you start to drift with a rwd, you'll probably spin out because you are used to gasing it most of the turn. i think awd will be easier to start out to drift, but will be harder when you start drifting with rwd. on the other hand, rwd is pretty hard to control to begin with and requires control, but it will be easier as you move on to awd. i started out with rwd, so my vote goes with rwd.
 
For a real beginner, try 4WD. If you find it really hard to get it to drift, try playing rally first. That is for those who are really really really starters. In rally, your car drifts by itself :) You just need to take car of throttle and steering.
 
i personally drift the S14 and S15, ummm...and i hate sim tires, i jsu can't get use to them, i use sports in the rear and jus loosen up my rear end, and have a med soft or suepr soft in the front and tighten up the front very lil
 
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RWD in my opnion because you don't need the e-brake to drift just use the brake and punch the gas a little bit :)


I'm not sure how I missed this before, but the e-brake is not needed for 4wd drifting. It can help, but it's not needed by any means.



-Mark
 
with a good setup, you can drift an awd almost like a rwd. the only difference would be the feeling of spinning out. awd can get more angle because all tires a spinning. so when you drift with the same angle, an awd will feel more secure.
 
Hey,
I'm not sure if it was said already, but I feel that it's largely to prefrence. But if it were up to me, I would suggest RWD over AWD. Even though I can drive any car of any given drivetrain well, as far as drifting is concerned, I'm best with RWD, sure you do have that 'secure' feeling of AWD but it's not always that secure, maybe it's just me because I'm too used to drifting with FR's, evenh though lately I've been trying with AWD's had had some sucess (I tested an Evo VII only because my brother asked me and also a Ford Escort Rally car...I may try an Evo IV and Subaru Impreza (no specefic model in mind...) later on...), it's largely up to preferecne and what YOU want to do.

Do you want to master an AWD like a Lan evo or an FR or MR like a Corvetter or MR2, it's up to what you want to do in the end I guess. But for me, I'd stick to RWD just becuase it seams a bit more pratical in my opnion.

Well that's about it for me...till later...
 
As, R_Riders said, its about preference. Personally, I prefer 4WD. Now practicing on a 1051hp skyline to drift, thanks to CMD for his setup ;)
 
R_Riders basically said it all. I will add more to that:

For the long run, drifting with an FR gives a drifter better foundation because in the beginning, they know how to handle the drifts since FRs have power going to the rear only. If a drifter starts drifting with AWD in the beginning, then they may have tough time switching over to FRs once they want to drift, let's say, the Trueno or the S-13/14/15s. From my experience, it took me a while to learn how to drift FRs coming off of drifting the Skyline as my first car. After numbers of hours practicing and staying up late at night drifting, it paid off.

When I look in the past, I think that I could have obtained these certain skills when I started off drifting FRs and expand my style further than what it is now, since I have started drifting with AWDs first.

Like what everyone else said before me, it is up to you. Either way, if you want to perfect your drifting skills, it takes time, practice, and practice.
 
Thio
R_Riders basically said it all. I will add more to that:

For the long run, drifting with an FR gives a drifter better foundation because in the beginning, they know how to handle the drifts since FRs have power going to the rear only. If a drifter starts drifting with AWD in the beginning, then they may have tough time switching over to FRs once they want to drift, let's say, the Trueno or the S-13/14/15s. From my experience, it took me a while to learn how to drift FRs coming off of drifting the Skyline as my first car. After numbers of hours practicing and staying up late at night drifting, it paid off.

When I look in the past, I think that I could have obtained these certain skills when I started off drifting FRs and expand my style further than what it is now, since I have started drifting with AWDs first.

Like what everyone else said before me, it is up to you. Either way, if you want to perfect your drifting skills, it takes time, practice, and practice.
Yep. Thio and Ethix101 said it best.

Get an S14 or S13. get all the mods except the power(stage 1 turbo only) turn off the TCS and ASM put on some sims and just practice till you get it. It's all about practice. But once you learn FR well, AWD will come much easier.

Long-Drifter
i personally drift the S14 and S15, ummm...and i hate sim tires, i jsu can't get use to them, i use sports in the rear and jus loosen up my rear end, and have a med soft or suepr soft in the front and tighten up the front very lil
Oh, and please don't mix tires. It disturbs the balance of the car and you'll pay for it later with mediocre technique.(learned from personal experience.) If you don't like sims, that's fine. Just don't mix them....it'll be crutch to you later.:yuck:
 
Swift
Yep. Thio and Ethix101 said it best.

Get an S14 or S13. get all the mods except the power(stage 1 turbo only) turn off the TCS and ASM put on some sims and just practice till you get it. It's all about practice. But once you learn FR well, AWD will come much easier.


Oh, and please don't mix tires. It disturbs the balance of the car and you'll pay for it later with mediocre technique.(learned from personal experience.) If you don't like sims, that's fine. Just don't mix them....it'll be crutch to you later.:yuck:


Swift is right about that, don't mix tires, I've taken a look at the 'who cares about sim tires?' thread and a lot said there is more or less what I had figured when I first started drifting, mixing tires can and will destroy the balance of a car. It might be good initially for beginners, but that kinda really would be one of those things to real life only (I mean in the begining, later you would have to master drifting with all 4 tires having equal grip). It's just me but that's how I look at it and many others. Why? Mixing tires will hold you back, you just nead to learn how to break the traction of all 4 tires without 2 of those tires already having far less grip than your fronts. I dunno what others would suggest for settings on the rear, I'd buy a LSD full customize for FR and have the initial torque/acceleration/decell set between 40-60, you'll learn throttle and steering control preaty fast, espically with high power cars and it woun't be long untill you're going thru four wheel drifts approaching if not over 60mph al la initial D nearly hitting the wall (!) (and yes I've done that MANY times without ever hitting the wall, it took a long time though...).

A lot of cars you don't have to go all out for modifcations, some are driftable stock such as the S13-15, cars like the Corvette Z06 can also be driftable stock due to their power, even for the Z06's weight, it's a lightweight in the class it's in (the same leauge as say a Ferrari 360 or even F40, Nissan R34 (GT-R), Porsche 911 (996) turbo, Lan Evo's etc...) and given it's tendeny to oversteer easily, you'll learn a lot from it. In the later run though, you will want to learn how to tune your car to what you like, it took me a while before I could get a lot of my carsetups to what I actually use for races(!) to get used to sending a car as sideways as I can while mainting speed. Just keep at it, your efforts will pay off sooner or later.

That's another 2 cents from me, till later.
 
R_Riders
Swift is right about that, don't mix tires, I've taken a look at the 'who cares about sim tires?' thread and a lot said there is more or less what I had figured when I first started drifting, mixing tires can and will destroy the balance of a car. It might be good initially for beginners, but that kinda really would be one of those things to real life only (I mean in the begining, later you would have to master drifting with all 4 tires having equal grip). It's just me but that's how I look at it and many others. Why? Mixing tires will hold you back, you just nead to learn how to break the traction of all 4 tires without 2 of those tires already having far less grip than your fronts. I dunno what others would suggest for settings on the rear, I'd buy a LSD full customize for FR and have the initial torque/acceleration/decell set between 40-60, you'll learn throttle and steering control preaty fast, espically with high power cars and it woun't be long untill you're going thru four wheel drifts approaching if not over 60mph al la initial D nearly hitting the wall (!) (and yes I've done that MANY times without ever hitting the wall, it took a long time though...).

A lot of cars you don't have to go all out for modifcations, some are driftable stock such as the S13-15, cars like the Corvette Z06 can also be driftable stock due to their power, even for the Z06's weight, it's a lightweight in the class it's in (the same leauge as say a Ferrari 360 or even F40, Nissan R34 (GT-R), Porsche 911 (996) turbo, Lan Evo's etc...) and given it's tendeny to oversteer easily, you'll learn a lot from it. In the later run though, you will want to learn how to tune your car to what you like, it took me a while before I could get a lot of my carsetups to what I actually use for races(!) to get used to sending a car as sideways as I can while mainting speed. Just keep at it, your efforts will pay off sooner or later.

That's another 2 cents from me, till later.

That is very true, for me i drift with med softs in front and sports in back, and my st up allows me to break traction is but is hard to get it back under control after the corner unless i have the right angle, i just got into the M type Skyline R32, and mixed tires ain't cutting it, lol... so i agree with R_Riders on the mixed tires, personally i'd say sports tires or med slicks are pretty good
 
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