Drifting FF cars

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It depends your how you define drift in your vocabulary. Techically, if you can't power over it and drift through the corner, but what you do is use your momentum cut the car quickly to cause oversteer and the rear will swing (drag) itself around and produce smoke and a drift angle. It looks nice, but you can't maintain that again like you can with a Rear wheel drive car, you will have to pull the ebrake to maintain its angle.
 
GOOODam, use the freakin search button next time!

FF drifting is defined as : Ass-Sliding. there, thank you, closed for business, goodbye.
 
FF and drift should not be in the same sentence... it MIGHT be possible on GT3 but it is not even going to happen in real life... I have seen someone do a drift ON GT3 in a FF car, but it was complete ass dragging around a small Laguna Seca turn... (the 2nd and the one after that)
 
Ugh, not this again. FF drifting is a contradiction in terms. In FF drifting there is no balance, you're just yanking the e-brake and sliding through the corner. Drifting is not sliding, drifting is balancing the car perfectly so that even though it has exceeded its limits for grip, it is still under control. In an FF, you're just inducing oversteer by preventing the rear wheels from spinning. It's child's play compared to drifting. Ask any D1 drifter about FWD drifting and they will laugh until they cry.
 
thats all i wanted to know..
i read somewhere a guy saying that he could drift a civic type R...
now i know that it can be done just with the e brake.. i dont think its cool..
 
i think
FF- Front Engine mount. Front Wheel drive
FR- Front Engine mount. Rear Wheel drive
RR- Rear Engine mount. Rear wheel drive.
MR- Mid Engine mount. Rear wheel drive.
AWD- yeah. all wheel drive.
:D
 
well i dont care what u call it, technically its not a drift, but i still like to call it a drift neways... shorter than saying ass dragging, but neways u can slide an ff car pretty easily. one way u can doit is buying very sticky tires for the front and then buy sims or something of less traction 4 the rear. ur choice just make sure the front tires are stickier, then use the ebrake to maintain that angle...u might want to keep on the throttel as u r doing this as u would do in real life but again a matter of preference.
 
night-drifter, don't put yourself down by ass-sliding (yes, it is called ass-sliding) FF. Seriously, you are good with awd, stick with that.
 
Well....if you put really dark rims on the car, and pick a good angle to hide the fact you are using your e-brake to drag the @$$ of the car around a corner......yes, you can drift a FF car.

For those who refuse to accept that a FF can POWERSLIDE around a corner, put SIMS on a fully-tuned Integra, and tap the e-break once or twice around a corner while going full-throttle. When you get the angle you want, simply stop tapping the e-break, and countersteer.
*note* I guarantee you won't be able to do this around medium to long corners......just think of MarioKart for SNES. Short, blind, 90-degree corners, and you can get away with it.
 
i was just messing around, i know that FF is ass draggin, but its good to see something new though, hey its only a game. But i do like 4WD and FR drift much more better, i drift with FR the most, and FF is harder to do.
 
how about we leave it at this... FF can oversteer, but oversteer without the beauty that is drive to the rear wheels will never ever be drift. Without the control offered by rear drive ( this includes 4wd) all you can do is drag your ass as you oversteer, and their is nothing pretty about that...
 
Hey! Don't hate on ff drfit. Yes, ff drifting is ass-dragging but pulling the e-brake is the drifting style of an ff car, just like the style you all use to drift with your fr,rr,mr,and awd. I don't hate fr,rr,mr, and awd drifting because I also drift with those cars too. I just want to make a point to you all that ff drifting is slow, yes, but that is because the driver is not an expert yet. If you guys disagree with me, just try ff drifting for once and try to drift like those ff drifters who have experience.
 
Originally posted by JDMPORT
Hey! Don't hate on ff drfit. Yes, ff drifting is ass-dragging but pulling the e-brake is the drifting style of an ff car, just like the style you all use to drift with your fr,rr,mr,and awd. I don't hate fr,rr,mr, and awd drifting because I also drift with those cars too. I just want to make a point to you all that ff drifting is slow, yes, but that is because the driver is not an expert yet. If you guys disagree with me, just try ff drifting for once and try to drift like those ff drifters who have experience.
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Agreed :D Atlast somebody with sense!!! Just kidding :) This is my argument also... drifting with FR, FF, 4WD, two wheels, three wheels... Aslong as that car (or any object on wheels :lol: ) is sideways - and keep moving sideways to eventually be straightened again - basic definition of a drift - that be a DRIFT!

And yes.. it does take skill to drift which ever car you are using... some more than other.. but skill nonetheless...
 
how about without wheels? maybe a tank or train? Anyone have a copy of the original Sega Rally Japanese Commercial where the guy is trying to cross the street? And you have various vechicles drifting through the intersection? Can anyone post a link of that? I am still looking for all those japanese drift videos.

I think if anyone knows how to tune the car, they can take advantage of other drifting techniques and do away with e-braking for ff cars. I like to think that changing the brake bias to simulate e-brake is a good way to learn, as well as changing the alignment and suspension to accomodate weight transfers and shift lock techniques. If you guys ever seen a CRX or a Civic in ITS racing or some real life GT racing, most of the honda ff cars can track out nicely (4 wheel drift coming out of a turn).. remember, you dont always have to power drift a FF car.. accel off and other techniques can be used to make the car go around the corner with beauty. I usually like to bring in a lot of entry speed.. my speed will determine how long I can drift through the corner until I start to lose momentum, then you can use the left-foot-braking technique (also used IRL rally races and autocrossing) to keep the in the drift while still applying the gas.. the wheels wont lock up like the e-brake method (which I think locking up wheels to stop the rolling look nasty in drifting).


Keefe
 
Originally posted by JDMPORT
Hey! Don't hate on ff drfit. Yes, ff drifting is ass-dragging but pulling the e-brake is the drifting style of an ff car, just like the style you all use to drift with your fr,rr,mr,and awd. I don't hate fr,rr,mr, and awd drifting because I also drift with those cars too. I just want to make a point to you all that ff drifting is slow, yes, but that is because the driver is not an expert yet. If you guys disagree with me, just try ff drifting for once and try to drift like those ff drifters who have experience.
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You guys can "think" and "postulate" all you want, but the fact is that you don't decide what drifting is. It's already been defined, before you or me or any of us were drifting. We're not hating, we're just being honest. If you don't like it, fine, but don't walk in here throwing out things left and right trying to change the definition of drifting just because you think it should be that way.
 
Originally posted by pergatory
You guys can "think" and "postulate" all you want, but the fact is that you don't decide what drifting is. It's already been defined, before you or me or any of us were drifting. We're not hating, we're just being honest. If you don't like it, fine, but don't walk in here throwing out things left and right trying to change the definition of drifting just because you think it should be that way.
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Agreed. ;)
 

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