rfreeman27

I found a great spot to start drifting.



Backroads "t" intersection with massive sholders and no ditches...plus no telephone poles



So i started drifting. I tuned my rear shocks super stiff and my front soft, which seemed to make the rear the happiest.



I downshifted to second ~ 5k rpm, cut hard towards the corner's apex to induce oversteer and countersteered while applying the throttle. This seemes to work well and i got a nice slide out of it. Im afraid to go any faster right now for fear of sliding off the road, but i am happy with this level.



any tips on what to do, how to tune the shocks, ect?



ps sorry im a rush right now...

93 R1

yeah give us some tips

wile_e_coyote

I used to drift in my 240SX in the rain a lot. You guys know the difference between DRIFTING and a POWERSLIDE, right?

7th Heaven

Wide, open parking lots. Preferably where the cops don't go by frequently and not close to a residential area.

rfreeman27

yes i know the difference. I was not powersliding. I forget what style drift i was trying, but its in the list nemisis posted in the other thread.





Been there done that, had the cops called on me both times





LOL watching too much initial D has got me into a drifting mood

7th Heaven

Check out Ex-driver if you loved Intial D

rfreeman27

will do.



Nobody has any input? Stuff for me to try? comeon guys!!



lets get some traffic into this new forum!!

fc3st2

look for a DVD called "The Drift Bible" from the makers of Best Motoring. it tell you all you need to know. the best DVD to look at if you want to get into driftting

JT-Imports

damn its pretty hard to explain.



Everyone seems to be HEAVY into their E-brake GUESS WHAT unless you did some tunning to your e-brake your wasting your time. If you pull your e-brake and your tires dont lock up completely your wasting your time. You dont need your e-brake. I have drifted in my MR2 1991 Turbo about 20-30 events. Track, Open parking lots, Streets, narrow 2 way uphills, downhills, etc.... I never used my e-brake once, just forget it for now.



Learn to control your car. If you come up to say about a 70 deg turn, hit your breaks HARD since im sure we all have ABS, get some speed going before hand, im talking about 35-50mph whatever floats your boat, hit the breaks and power out of it controlling it all the way threw the turn. If you do it correctly you will complete the turn before sticking to the road and throwing yourself to the on coming traffic or you will go off the road, hit a guard rail, or telephone pole. SO I recommend it in a parking lot first. VERY OPEN! learn some control. Its not going to flip.



If you guys want some vids I have 2 buddies that own drift shops here and I can go with them and either drift their car or something or just get some shots.



A lot of vids of Option etc... So a little bit of a straight away and a big burm that several cars end up on. THIS is up near Yokota, havent been there in a couple years, since I got the FD, but thats a popular place to go. PROs, Crazy ******, and people that like the burm HAHA



I will try to get some vids for anyone that wants to see, I have some that show you how-to vids.



Its just like doing something for the first time though, someone can explain explain explain explain but until you do it yourself you wont know if you can do it or you cant. Some have it, some dont.



I had a great vid of me in the MR2 when I went dicking around at a Drift race. Everyone asked me to do it, I was just watching as I was having engine troubles. So I took the 65s MEATS off my buddys FC and went around the track you can only see me everyone and a while as there was SOOOOO much smoke coming off those bad boys (low speed drifitng) it still smoked like 15 mins after I stopped the race HAHA

vosko

nice........ i hope i don't have to drift my mom's miata at the next drift event again...........