Drifting Cars

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I like my Subaru With 22 bees in it changed to 10% Front to 90% rear for stock drifting, or me supra
 
The Mustang SVT Cobra is PERFECT for drifting. It's nose heavy, stiffly sprung, and very powerful right out of the box.
I don't drift just to get sideways. I use it to get around corners faster. Like that first wicked U-bend at Seattle and a Laguna Seca.
The only problem, that I have been working out it "catching" the car before it slides too far and taps the wall. I have found that by using the gas and brake at the same time I can bring the car back in line. Sort of like the rally technique taught at one of the two rally schools here in the states. Though it works best if the cars is not set up too stiffly. There must be a small ability left in for the car to transfer weight onto the front tires (nosedive) to get the neccessary bite on the track.
 
Originally posted by axletramp
Are we talking about Frentzen again? ;) :D

Sideways action? I prefer to do it stock (anyone can run an engine up to 1000bhp and throw a tail out), so it's got to be between a Mustang or a Vantage. An R34 isn't bad but the 4WD system gets in the way mid bend. :)
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Stock? I can do that too!
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Standard except oil change and sim tyres, TCS and ASM off naturally:D
 

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You love it really, the smooth flowing lines, hugely powerful engine and huge numbers of people who would rip your arm off and beat you with the wet end if you said anything bad about it :p
 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes one day my child, you too will own a Shigeno version... :lol:


God, I missed this.... ;) :p :D
 
Very funny Allegro Boy and Angel O'Doofus (aren't my insults great?:D). That is my first car in GT3 and now one of my chief drift cars. I have a Shigeno as well, but I am still perfecting the setup on this. I had one person, after posting another pic asking if my front wheel was bent. It's like 3.5 degrees of negative camber on the front isn't normal or something!
 
Are we talking rally drifting? 'cause the car I use for that is a FTO LM ED. On real tracks, I generally don't drift (unless I'm in the Escudo :D:D). WAIT: there is one car I drift with: TIGRA ICE RACER. WAIT (II): that was in GT2! Dangit!! That was the best car of them all! (just barely sub-F1). I use the Beetle Cup Car mainly.
 
Too easy off-road. You could get that Midget Milk Float thing from GT2 to drift on a rally course.
 
The midget was quality! I managed to get one to do over 180k/mh, took an age to get there though. Do you remember the Skyline in GT1? If you had one fully tuned you could turn into a hairpin, nail the throttle apply opposite lock, get it pointing the wrong direction and the front would still come roundso you went the right way out of the corner:D They don't make car physics as dodgy as they used to........
 
Originally posted by Angel O'Death
wut neon_duke described so well, isn't it better known as powersliding?
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zZZZZ*wha*huh? I heard my name?
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Actually, what I was calling drifting is really known as 'drifting' among the road racing/autocross crowd.

What apparently everyone else here means by 'drifting' is frequently called 'powersliding', because it is maintained by applying alot of power to the rear wheels to prevent them from getting traction during the oversteer slide.
 
Don't you need power to keep the back end out anyway? With the setup on my cars, they will go sideways if you turn in off or on power. Also when I drift, I try to keep sideways for as long as possible. Would you describe that as drifting?
 
That's why it's called powersliding. Drifting is when all four tires have a little sideways motion (the rears slightly more than the fronts, to keep the car rotating) but the front wheels are pointed more or less straight forward along the axis of the car.

Exhibition (Japan-style) Drifting = Powersliding.
 
so drifting is wut you do when you steer with the gas? i thought that was just luck+skill. wow, i drift alot :D as for powersliding, i do that when i am feeling really bored and i need to spice the race up...😈
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Exhibition (Japan-style) Drifting = Powersliding.
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I disagree. :) Powersliding is just one method used in exhibition drifting. There are many other techniques. Feint, lift-throttle, trail-braking, e-brake, dirt drop, and so on. Powersliding is almost always the method used to exit a drift smoothly, but entering the drift, or extending it, there is a lot more variety in technique.
 
my favourite drifting technique is shift-lock... to bad i murdered 2 trannys with it ... also jump drifts when they can be performed (something to make the rear jump is needed) ... parralel drifting with friends... you gotta trust yourself tho , it's fun , but very dangerous... anyway still my favourite is powerover... power is needed for that tho...
 

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