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my old subie was an ff car, wow, 250whp is amazing in a subaru, i only get my jollies off of watching other people trash themselfs trying to drift. here are a couple occasions...
last winter i had my moms 1998 VW Cabrio its ff but if you pull out from a stop sign in like a big city with blocks and crap you can pull the e-brake and throw down a huge slide like big! i was sidebraking down a hill out of a 90 degree right hander for like 30 or so feet then into a small alley, its a crazy set of corners to do it on, but man my buddy kept trying to do the same thing in his dodge neon and almost ripped a wheel off hitting a curb on the way into the same alley i was hitting.
ohhhh, i came into a 35mph corner at about 93mph and it was slightly banked and then went uphill right after, i worked at the end of the road i was on so i knew it alright, but the catch is there is 3 bumps or dips or whatever in the corner and the ass end of the subie comes out with absolutly no warning! i was on the full left lock all the way up the hill, hoping like hell i dont get into the grass on the inside, go into the ditch on the outside, or hit someone speeding over the hill, well the black marks go from the inside of the middle of the corner, then to the outside, then back to the far right of the road about 50 feet up the hill, when i came out of the slide i was still doing 60mph.
anyone that wants to drift a fwd, make your front tires bald and switch them wiht the rear witch should have good tread still.
another subie story, i was on bald rears, good fronts, these el cheapo tires called douglas performance gt in huge white letters on the sidewall, now picture a 1994 subaru legacy L wagon with black 14 inch steel wheels, and huge white letter tires filling the wheel wells. looked pretty bad ass. story goes on, i was driving around the backroads, i hate main roads, ie: county roads, freeway, anything hevily traveled. i came upon a dream come true, a 1966 shelby cobra, just tooling along! so i get behind him and pace with him for a mile or so and we come to a T intersection so the guy in the front seat of my car honks the horn and yells do a burnout to the cobra guy, he did just that, 3 gears of black for 35 feet down the road, it was on... i floored it outta the intersection and matched his 3 gears of rubber with 2 of my gears, and proceded to chase him through 6 and a half miles of twisty road, now this is not a lie, i had 3 people in the ride with me, i ran with this shelby through ever corner, but then the road emptyied out into a huge straitaway, well lets say i ran wiht him for 6 miles or so, then it was like bye bye, and he shot off down the road like an f-ing rocket!!! i laid it to the floor, and to my suprise he is slowing down so i can catch up for the corners again!! so we ran about 120 through some really nice sweepers, i stopped at a citgo and talked to him, he said i should be racing pro or something but other than that he felt pretty bad about being paced by a station wagon!!
i fried my 3rd cilinder running with a riced out neon in a long strait and then proceded to roll at about 75mph through a nice peice of road consisting of 13 35mph corners and no banks or water drainage so it was really slick on the exit of the corners and in the middle, so i was laying it down sideways through this nice section of corners just using the power to pull out of the slide and dropping off the trottle and giving some light braking to pull the weight off the rears and get the car to slide the other direction without getting straitened out. but i stopped at the next town i came to, being my stomping grounds, lodi, swung into citgo and got out to have a smoke, my car was idling and i could hear a sound like someone was hitting my engine block with a hammer! the worst knocking sound ever. turns out i starved the oil pump and the weakest link in a subie motor is the 3rd cylinder, so guess what took the beating of no oil in the drifting?? so my motor is out of commision and i am limited to a toyota corolla, but i have it set up better than my subie was so i am all good with that.
i gotta go pick up my buddy and give him a ride home so i will post more under this topic later. but let me know what you guys think of this crap, its like everyday something like this happens so if you like it let me know i have a million storys i can tell.
last winter i had my moms 1998 VW Cabrio its ff but if you pull out from a stop sign in like a big city with blocks and crap you can pull the e-brake and throw down a huge slide like big! i was sidebraking down a hill out of a 90 degree right hander for like 30 or so feet then into a small alley, its a crazy set of corners to do it on, but man my buddy kept trying to do the same thing in his dodge neon and almost ripped a wheel off hitting a curb on the way into the same alley i was hitting.
ohhhh, i came into a 35mph corner at about 93mph and it was slightly banked and then went uphill right after, i worked at the end of the road i was on so i knew it alright, but the catch is there is 3 bumps or dips or whatever in the corner and the ass end of the subie comes out with absolutly no warning! i was on the full left lock all the way up the hill, hoping like hell i dont get into the grass on the inside, go into the ditch on the outside, or hit someone speeding over the hill, well the black marks go from the inside of the middle of the corner, then to the outside, then back to the far right of the road about 50 feet up the hill, when i came out of the slide i was still doing 60mph.
anyone that wants to drift a fwd, make your front tires bald and switch them wiht the rear witch should have good tread still.
another subie story, i was on bald rears, good fronts, these el cheapo tires called douglas performance gt in huge white letters on the sidewall, now picture a 1994 subaru legacy L wagon with black 14 inch steel wheels, and huge white letter tires filling the wheel wells. looked pretty bad ass. story goes on, i was driving around the backroads, i hate main roads, ie: county roads, freeway, anything hevily traveled. i came upon a dream come true, a 1966 shelby cobra, just tooling along! so i get behind him and pace with him for a mile or so and we come to a T intersection so the guy in the front seat of my car honks the horn and yells do a burnout to the cobra guy, he did just that, 3 gears of black for 35 feet down the road, it was on... i floored it outta the intersection and matched his 3 gears of rubber with 2 of my gears, and proceded to chase him through 6 and a half miles of twisty road, now this is not a lie, i had 3 people in the ride with me, i ran with this shelby through ever corner, but then the road emptyied out into a huge straitaway, well lets say i ran wiht him for 6 miles or so, then it was like bye bye, and he shot off down the road like an f-ing rocket!!! i laid it to the floor, and to my suprise he is slowing down so i can catch up for the corners again!! so we ran about 120 through some really nice sweepers, i stopped at a citgo and talked to him, he said i should be racing pro or something but other than that he felt pretty bad about being paced by a station wagon!!
i fried my 3rd cilinder running with a riced out neon in a long strait and then proceded to roll at about 75mph through a nice peice of road consisting of 13 35mph corners and no banks or water drainage so it was really slick on the exit of the corners and in the middle, so i was laying it down sideways through this nice section of corners just using the power to pull out of the slide and dropping off the trottle and giving some light braking to pull the weight off the rears and get the car to slide the other direction without getting straitened out. but i stopped at the next town i came to, being my stomping grounds, lodi, swung into citgo and got out to have a smoke, my car was idling and i could hear a sound like someone was hitting my engine block with a hammer! the worst knocking sound ever. turns out i starved the oil pump and the weakest link in a subie motor is the 3rd cylinder, so guess what took the beating of no oil in the drifting?? so my motor is out of commision and i am limited to a toyota corolla, but i have it set up better than my subie was so i am all good with that.
i gotta go pick up my buddy and give him a ride home so i will post more under this topic later. but let me know what you guys think of this crap, its like everyday something like this happens so if you like it let me know i have a million storys i can tell.
