Ranzo

Actually the best way to learn to drive.....drift or other wise is to do autocross. Go drive your car and try to push yourself to your limits one step at a time. Autocross will teach you to look down the road ahead of you and to think about where your car needs to be in order to get it where it needs to be past the next obstacle in order to prepare for the next obstacle to get to the finish line before the next guy. When you are doing this you will get better at driving and you will understand how your car reacts in different situations and this will help you learn how your car changes when you modify things. Another good thing to do if you have a place is do donuts start small and get bigger. Place a cone or something in themiddle and turn circles around it trying to keep your bumper or whell or someplace on the body of the car aligned with the cone. This will force you to have throttle control and understand how countersteer works. Then try to do wider and wider circles around the cone until you are basically drifting around it. When you get good at that set up two cones and do a figure 8 through them sometimes changing direction. This is the basics of car control and it will help you immensley.



This is also safe considering there is nothing to hit and damage your car. If you feel confident doing this then try more autocross until you are competitive. If crashing your car is a concern then stick with autocross because you will hit something or course out if you drift.....it is not a question of if but when. Even D1 drivers hit stuff and thier wheels break and so on.........its the nature of the beast.

Midnightdriver

I agree with Ranzo. but thats the ideal way to learn. now the practical way or should I say the evey day way...find a large parking lot one with no speed bumps is best. wait until late at night practice. start out small like Ranzo explains. for the most part you will be using you e-break until you learn what it takes to get your car sideways easly. (proper break, gas, clutch, and steering inputs). Def. don't try to learn in an FD, get a **** box to learn in. YOU WILL CRASH. My japanese friend tought me in his car and lucky for me he knew of just the right place to teach me.

BoostedRex

To further reinforce what others have said, don't learn in your FD. I learned in my FD and it cost me the car. I totalled it along with the help of a concrete post and a telephone pole. Now I play in my TII and my Supra. Neither one of them is special in any respect, but I can drift both of them easily. In a few more months when my new FD is finished being built, you can bet that it won't be drifted on the street. I will keep drifting in drift shows and parking lots though. But please please save yourself the heartache and go buy a shitbox to learn in. You'll be glad you did!!



Zach

Srce

Definetly, you could easily get a decent S13 Hatch for under 2K and learn with it till you get it right.

Ranzo

Yeah I am on my third FC and it needs body work right now......lol The only problem is with getting a different car to learn in is that it will not react exactly as the FD will but conversley the more different cars you drive the better you will become.



The **** box that you buy will need to have a diff and some sort of suspensioin and all. basically set it up to drift otherwise you are kinda wasting your time. It doesn't have to be a full blown setup but a REAl working LSD is a must and good suspension ie not stock is also a requirement. So what you should be realising is that if you really want to drift you are gonna have to invest some time and money into it. If you just want to play and try it out some while driving a really cool looking car then just find a empty parking lot and practice in the FD.

tancred

I learned to drift in a jeep cherokee, lol...had an 89 240 and now a FC and i dont even drift my FC.....But to start with a piece of **** is the best advice.....you dont want to break your NICE car....

Drifter101

Hearing all you guys drifting story's is bringing back good memories... the way i figure it is its like this...



You slide it

If it breaks you fix it

If i dont work you make it work

and when you total your stock suspension drifting ORDER NEW ONES BEFORE YOU PLAN ON DOING IT DOH! ( needless to say the new **** is on t here now )

Keep 500 in the bank just incase

and last but not least... grey primer is easier to fix than paint should you crash!

sidewinderx7

lol ... well said

rx-7Drifter

extreamly well said. drifting my fc is alot diffrent than my old 240 was. but my 240 was setup to drift. the fc is total stock.

rmaiersg

I started in an industrial area. There was a really nice left turn to a right hand turn (both were like 80 degrees). It is was long and very wide so it gave me the oppotunity to build up my speed going through the corner sans the worry of immovable objects. Find something like that without cops around and you're golden. Parking lots work too i guess but it doesn't quite feel the same.