Ever since i saw the new Fast and the Furious movie ive been experimenting with drifting. It isnt nearly as difficult as you may think. I started out experimenting on empty roads after a rain. (so i dont wa ste alot of rubber on my tires).
My easy guide to drifting is this:
1) Get some speed, but not too much. Approaching the turn, let off the gas, get on the clutch, and get ready to rip that E-brake.
2) When you get to the turn(or where ever your planning on drifting) start the turn as you usually would. After your car starts to turn, pull the e-brake rather hard until you get the back end sliding a bit.
3) As soon as you feel your car start to slide sideways, get on the gas and ease the e break in or out depending on where you want to drift to.
WARNING: i take no responsibility for anything resulting in you trying to drift. So use caution when attempting to. I recommend and empty parking lot to practise. If you have any questions, please post them. Or anything you see wrong with my guide, because i am by no means a professional driver.
Nice to see someone here who is learning the right way. Most people just boot it into a corner and just slide it into a tree or something.
My friend and I are in the EuroDrift Event this year Im driving a nissan Silvia S12 and my friends mostly drive s13's.
Here is a pic of my friends Drift spec S13.
OMG you just reminded me of a post I saw on another forum.
http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=22049.0
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| Just bringing my camera to the threatre at the time the movie ends, and record all the ricers trying to drift in the parking lot (and most likely wrecking). |
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| The biggest problem with the F&F movies is the dumb-asses who think they're watching a documentary! Just about every week here in N.Z. they're scraping whats left of some idiot off the road who thought you could actually drive like that in the real world. |
rofl difference is my and my friends who are actualy in the event have been doing drifting for 4 years now.... All our cars are for track only as they are not road legal and dont have tax or mot. F&F is gay nothing like the real thing. Its been interesting watching people over the last few years in there ricer cars trying to race and drift. only thing is it gives the people who do the sport on a official competitive level a bad name.
Round 1 was held at Silverstone (England) will try and find some pic if anyones interested.
I dont dont want people to get the idea that me and my friends are ricers rofl.
when i get a car, i think i will try and drift... when i get used to driving anyway 
is it hard to drift? Whne I was younger I lived in a small town out in the middle of nowere I used to watch the older kids race in the contry. Loose dirt is nothing to laugh at at high speeds. They would slide around the corners of the country roads to make the turns. I guess you could call that drifting, but I'm sure I'm way off base. I would love to hear more on the sprot and types of cars that make good drift cars. I would also like ot know more on where I can find events. I don't want to drive myself but watching the movie, although it was overtly flashy, took me back to my childhood.
Tim
You should limit how much you do that. The previous owner of my jeep wore out the e-brake that way, and it's not easy to replace! (Much harder than a normal brake job.)
yeah e-breaks (handbreaks)are so anoying to do as they act like a normal drum break behind the read diskbreak so its like doing a rear disk change and then some extra work ontop! lol i had to do my car's one recently as i snapped the cable so i installed a hydraulic ebreak so now i dont get cable wear.
Is drifting when you use the handbrake and powerslide where u just loose traction?
drift is nice thing to do. only problem - the tyres Not only the tyres... every part is suffering due to driffting. Engine is overheating, when U R sliding, clutch, geabox, suspension parts, like uniballs, brakes. In fact driffting is very expensive. But when practice is done on wet tarmac, U should spend less money for repairs and tyres 
| jackill wrote: |
| Not only the tyres... every part is suffering due to driffting. Engine is overheating, when U R sliding, clutch, geabox, suspension parts, like uniballs, brakes. In fact driffting is very expensive. But when practice is done on wet tarmac, U should spend less money for repairs and tyres |
Here there are some school were they teach it (defensely) for when it rains and your car slips.
Drifting is nice but i like it more combined with speed like in the other fast and furious.Yea not to say that anything in the FF movie is possible. Ive still been trying to experiment more with this, but i am by no means good at it. I really really do stress that you be careful with this, especially if your doing it on the road. Bes tthing to do if your into racing, is to find an auto x track. Or find a drag track that allows regular cars to race like one night a week or somehting. Ive still been trying to dig up somehting liek this in my area(pittsburgh). A few friends and I are trying to get into modding cars. Here is my website if you would liek to take a look. Please sign up at the forums and post pics and info about your car! Ille put it on the website as well if its nice.
The site is: www.nhtuners.frih.net
Suggestions are welcomed. I believe that some of those stunts are possible... I saw a show on TV here that advertised a school or whatever that teaches drifting. They did some demos and they were really drifting, 'cept for the car with a small engine cuz it kept on failing.
EDIT: And the cars were somewhat like the pic of Evarus' car.
The best way is in my oppinion to (if possible) practice with a RWD car on slow/ice.
My first car was a Ford Sierra, with (probably less than) 110Horsepower. (since itīs 20 years old, and quite worn down).
Anyways it was quite enough to learn the basics of drifting.
Now I have a 240 Horsepower turbocharged Volvo 240, and with that itīs no problems at all to drift even when I got really great traction.
Be adviced though, when the traction is quite good itīs quite easy to make an misstake and smash your car Drifting sounds like a lot of fun. I doubt that I'll ever be able to do it, but it's great watching it. I envy anyone who has the means to actually do it (i.e. a drift car- or anything with rear wheel drive ). Since I've started driving I have become very fascinated with racing and drifting...
I think they're both great sports, but make sure you're very careful. I've seen people get hurt- its not pretty. Man I would love to try drifting, I just need to get a car and then perhaps my liscense....
Then I could have some fun...
A friend of mine was into drifting as well. He told me that it's easier to do it on a bigger car, more precisely longer car, like saloon or executive type. My question is has anyone done it on a hatchback? What is the technique? Do you have to get more speed?
quote="Shin"]A friend of mine was into drifting as well. He told me that it's easier to do it on a bigger car, more precisely longer car, like saloon or executive type. My question is has anyone done it on a hatchback? What is the technique? Do you have to get more speed?[/quote]
What will help you most is a lot of engine power. Since you need to loose traction on your rear wheels to be able to drift.
I have only driven and tested drifting with a few cars, generally Iīd say tons of power is all you need... and a big car would probably just make it harder.
Try it out on gravel or snow/ice, then you wont need so much engine power (and it will also save a lot of cash due to a lot less tire wear)
Good luck
Regards ide like to sit in the car when sombody else..(an experienced drifter) drives around a course...then i could feel how far to drift and whatnot....i wonder what its like inside the car...
It feels alot different if you arent the one driving, i will say that. You dont feel like you are in control. But RWD cars arent much if any worse for drifting,. I find that with FWD its alot easier to pull yourself out of a drift if you start slidding too wide and whatnot. If your locking the e brake, fwd shouldnt matter anyway. Its quicker to get traction if your not locking and unlocking the rear wheel in RWD cars. My opinion though.
I Drive a '98 Civic Ex.
But guys u all are professionals, atleast Evarus is.
So how does it feel like when you bang up your car into a pillar off the roadside, just trashed something like 2000 bucks while simply experimenting something.
I think that there should atlesat be safer ways to it then jus doin it on ur own car, like some institutes really teaching how to do stuffs like these.
Nyways, passion has NO LIMITS, so keep trying.
Warm Regards,
airek: agreed to some extent... But with RWD you can have full controll of the traction with the throttle, with FWD itīs a lot harder... but if you need to abort the drift itīs a lot easier since you got traction on the wheels that has power. (not sure what itīs called in english, but I think you get my point;)
toughtrio: sure, might cost a lot. I have never crashed though, and I have been drifting a lot. Only on streets and parking lots and such, and not competitions on race tracks though.
But if itīs what you think is the funniest thing to do, then you are probably willing to spend some cash if thatīs what it takes.
Regards
i think the funniest thing about this topic, is the fact it was created in the first place 
lol, sorry, what i mean is, you cant write a guide to drifting - every cars different, obviously RWD cars are the best for the job. Drifting has been around for as long as cars have, but all of a sudden it seems like a new 'discovery' - the joys of the big screen...! I kind of found out how to drift the hard way... in the wet going too fast round a corner
Was scary but now Ive tried it a few times purposely... not something I like to do though. yeah i wanna try learning drifting and i wanna kno wat is the fastest way to start learning it i curently have a nissan skyline and a 200sx twin turbo
Drifting looks fun, if only I had a car.
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Yea not to say that anything in the FF movie is possible. Ive still been trying to experiment more with this, but i am by no means good at it. I really really do stress that you be careful with this, especially if your doing it on the road. Bes tthing to do if your into racing, is to find an auto x track. Or find a drag track that allows regular cars to race like one night a week or somehting. Ive still been trying to dig up somehting liek this in my area(pittsburgh). A few friends and I are trying to get into modding cars. Here is my website if you would liek to take a look. Please sign up at the forums and post pics and info about your car! Ille put it on the website as well if its nice.
The site is: www.nhtuners.frih.net
Suggestions are welcomed. |
Everything in FF related to drifting is in someway possible. It's obvious you can't do some things with a normal car, you need a car prepared specially for doing this, if you are drifting with a normal car at very very high speeds your car can even roll over. | aneotoena wrote: |
| airek wrote: | Yea not to say that anything in the FF movie is possible. Ive still been trying to experiment more with this, but i am by no means good at it. I really really do stress that you be careful with this, especially if your doing it on the road. Bes tthing to do if your into racing, is to find an auto x track. Or find a drag track that allows regular cars to race like one night a week or somehting. Ive still been trying to dig up somehting liek this in my area(pittsburgh). A few friends and I are trying to get into modding cars. Here is my website if you would liek to take a look. Please sign up at the forums and post pics and info about your car! Ille put it on the website as well if its nice.
The site is: www.nhtuners.frih.net
Suggestions are welcomed. |
Everything in FF related to drifting is in someway possible. It's obvious you can't do some things with a normal car, you need a car prepared specially for doing this, if you are drifting with a normal car at very very high speeds your car can even roll over. |
ture but you still can do it if u have done drifting beforeyou can roll a drift prepared car almost as easily as the equivelant standard car, dont be fooled.
To the guy who asked about learning... take the 200sx out, find a big empty carpark, and get a feel for it OFF the road. My personal opinion is, as cool as it looks, drifting should be kept off the road... you may not crash, but the person you just made shit their pants might!
| generalgazz wrote: |
I kind of found out how to drift the hard way... in the wet going too fast round a corner
Was scary but now Ive tried it a few times purposely... not something I like to do though. |
that would not be drifting, that would fall under the "skidding out" category. Drifting is when you purposefully pull the ebrake while turning.Not the same thing.Drifting is awesome I used to do it a lot... I have had to replace my tires though so... now I don't do it any more
I also almost wrecked i was going too fast. | airek wrote: |
that would not be drifting, that would fall under the "skidding out" category. Drifting is when you purposefully pull the ebrake while turning.Not the same thing. |
e brake hey? to be honest the e brake becomes pretty useless on a race track at anything over a 70kmh entry speed. a far better technique is to approach the corner with some speed, and before you enter the corner turn outward THEN into the corner. this unsettles the rear of the car. what you do next depends on how the car has reacted to the weight shift. if the tail end lets go violently your best bet is to just throttle it, let it countersteer and hang on. if the car doesnt get sideways then its best to perform a 'clutch kick' whilst shifting the weight. as you turn into the corner press the clutch, press on the gas, release the clutch and hang on. the result of this usually ends up quite violent, but controllable and somewhat spectacular.
heres a photo of me drifting at the Collie Motorplex in Western Australia a couple of months back
thats in a 3rd gear corner at about 120kmh. good fun ;D
m drift car is an Australian spec R31 Skyline. i have fitted an RB20DET engine with a few supporting mods, Koni front suspension, bilstein rear suspension, whiteline swaybars and a minispooled diff. its lacking in a lot of departments, but as a beginners car it goes alright.[/img]To add another good place to practice drifting: out-of-the-way dirt roads.
Go out there and find a dirt road that nobody ever goes down, and practice there. Four advantages:
1: Very unlikely that you'll meet oncoming traffic.
2: Lower traction makes it easier to start the drift.
3: Very unlikely that any cops will see you.
4: Less wear on tires.
That's the only time I do any drifting; on the back roads.
I ususally don't drift for the sake of drifting, I do it in the middle of races.
(You haven't really raced until you've gone 100+ mph on a narrow dirt road.)
| ocalhoun wrote: |
To add another good place to practice drifting: out-of-the-way dirt roads.
Go out there and find a dirt road that nobody ever goes down, and practice there. Four advantages:
1: Very unlikely that you'll meet oncoming traffic.
2: Lower traction makes it easier to start the drift.
3: Very unlikely that any cops will see you.
4: Less wear on tires.
That's the only time I do any drifting; on the back roads.
I ususally don't drift for the sake of drifting, I do it in the middle of races.
(You haven't really raced until you've gone 100+ mph on a narrow dirt road.) |
Only problem is most dirt roads round here have a cliff on one side, a hill on the other, and too many blind corners for oncoming traffic. just lost my engeine to my skyline becoues of my freands custmising
