Can we get some documentation togeather?

[Picc84]

If you visit the Gran Turismo 4 Forums, you'll see there is ALLOT of written documentation on drifting in GT4, and I know allot of those concepts carry easily over to GT5, But its a new generation, so why not make them better? Include videos, Pictures, Something to revamp the guide to make it amazing for GT5... I know we can't get TOO indebpt, considering (i'm) not sure if this is our definite way to tune our car's, but we can defiantly start something?!

 

[MarTin3Z420]

soo far ive seen many kinds of drifters, some are very young or new to drifting and dont know anything except what they saw in Fast in Furious, some will only drift with n tires in drift trial, some will drift with a controller, some with different kinds of wheel, some will drift the old 512 Ferrari or other MR cars, some will go 4wd drifting, some will go with the traditional FR cars. Some wont care about how realistic the drifting is the just go for points, some go for style but dont care about the rev limiter or the tires. Some will go with slick tires like R3 :S, some will drift the high speed ring :S some will drift the d1gp sections, some will drift the mountain circuit, some will only drift stock cars, some will only drift cars with rock hard suspension and maxed out negative camber.




I think the way to go is with a 900 degree steering wheel without the power assisted steering option and with an FR car with Sports tires and no assists on professionnal physics, as far as the tuning goes, just adjust the gears and the brake balance and you might as well drop the height and stiffen the suspension a bit at the same time, might wanna give a little bit of camber and a tiny bit of toe out in front and thats pretty much it, try to keep the weight and power to a minimum, and then gradually augment the power and even aerodynamics to get even more speed while drifting and stability. I recommend starting to drift on the mountain circuit eiger nordwand because drifting was born in the mountains, especially the hairpins. To practice high speed drift High Speed Ring is good but that track is very unrealistic to drift. the 2 last corners of Fuji are good practice drift corners, Suzuka is a good circuit overall very technical and london is more like street drifting, very tight.

 

[Ske]

From my experience so far the GT4 guides should still be valid... apart from car suggestions. There's not really enough content in GT5P to warrant completely new guides in my opinion, especially since the tuning system is so rudimentary... but I'll go through my old guide again and see if I can rewrite it for GT5P.

So far, the things that I'd find useful to add are to use Pro physics and max steering angle, and that tire staggering is even more pointless than it was in GT4. Toe settings can help a bit now, but in general tuning for drifting in GT5P just adds a bit of personal flavor - there's not much you can do suspension-wise to actually improve a car.

Gear ratios CAN make or break a drift car, but again that's different from track to track and from drifter to drifter... and it's not really very hard to fathom

 

[Picc84]

From my experience so far the GT4 guides should still be valid... apart from car suggestions. There's not really enough content in GT5P to warrant completely new guides in my opinion, especially since the tuning system is so rudimentary... but I'll go through my old guide again and see if I can rewrite it for GT5P.

This is true, But what Im also saying, is that some of the drift guides for GT4 also have general drifting technique guidence. We can most certinly revamp these for the coming of GT5 like I said, Maybe video's, detailed In car view picture, replay's, replay pictures, etc... We can get very creative. And thanks for the time to look at your old guide...

So far, the things that I'd find useful to add are to use Pro physics and max steering angle, and that tire staggering is even more pointless than it was in GT4. Toe settings can help a bit now, but in general tuning for drifting in GT5P just adds a bit of personal flavor - there's not much you can do suspension-wise to actually improve a car.


Gear ratios CAN make or break a drift car, but again that's different from track to track and from drifter to drifter... and it's not really very hard to fathom

This I belive... Even in racing!