You can't drift in a FWD, that's RWD territory. Your best is like everyone says, snow, water or dirt/sand. But if you worry so much, why do you want to do it?

 

yeah, zx3's are gay. and slow.

there's no way around that.

 

if you drift, don't worry about the car cause you are ****ing up the car and if you crash it your focked.

 

I was feelin crazy coming home from partying on saturday night and started hittin up my loop (a one way two-lane circle track in a futuree devel with no houses or curbs yet) i was doin about 90 the whole way and it was maybe .4 mi around whenever i hit a hill the thing would slide out at 45 degrees, and every once in a while it would spin out, though i should stipulate that i do this on a basically closed road, and my integra is a toy, not a daily driver, so i don't wanna hear about wear but my girlfriend loved it, especially spinning out.

 

You can't really "drift" in a FF car (the FR guys call it @zz-draggin which is pretty accurate) but all of the above will get your tail loose.

You can't power-on oversteer in FF so it's pretty tough to suddenly decide to kick out your rear in the middle of a turn. With an aggressive rear end I can oversteer on entry in a turn...but you really need the proper drivetrain to be a tr00 driftking. h:

I would also highly advise AGAINST drifting on public roads. I was sitting at a left-hand turn signal at a stoplight and some idiot almost side-swiped me going sideways.

Shingo

 

"Drifting" in the sense of driving like a retard/thrashing your car is a mis-translation of a Japanese pastime of hanging the ass end of a car out to look cool. The actual term "drift" is when the slip angle of all 4 tires is the same a.k.a. neutralsteer. Of course now this begs an explanation.

Slip angle - the difference between the direction a tire is pointed and the direction the car is traveling.

Understeer - the slip angle of the front tires is greater than the rear tires; also called "pushing."

Oversteer - the slip angle of the rear tires is greater than the front tires; also called "hanging the ass end out."

Neutralsteer - all four tires are sliding at the same slip angle; a true "drift" and also the fastest way through a corner (assuming you're on a non-limited-traction surface like a paved road).

You can get any car to understeer, oversteer or neutralsteer. It's easier to get a FWD car to understeer because power can be used to break the front tires loose and increase their slip angle. Oversteer is easier to get in a RWD car for the same reason. AWD cars don't necessarily neutralsteer because they're not always splitting power 50/50 front-rear and because the amount of weight and stiffness of suspension is not generally tuned to encourage neutralsteer.

For a more detailed explanation (which will also make you much much smarter ) check out http://www.turnfast.com/tech_handling/handling.lasso and at the very least read the sections on tire traction and weight transfer.

OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.

 

Getting the ass end to swing out a decent amount on a turn is coo :thumbup: Ahh how I love slight oversteer.

 

get a thick rear swaybar, it'll make it a lot easier

 

or do it on sand...
on your old tires

its fun!


check me out :P

 

i thought i knew how to drift in my corrolla, but when i bought the WRX, i found out the real thing. it's like a wet dream..



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