Drifting With The Zf Auto.

[TUFXRT6]

I can assure you the ZF makes drifting EASIER.

I have done it several times with Initial Drift days at Eastern Creek.

You can be mid slide and change up gears without unsettling the car, as opposed to a manual that will change the attitude of a car when changing gears.

The problem I found was that you tend to over turn the tyres too much and delaminate them, due to being in a higher gear.

You may want to look at your technique, but also consider not using your road car for drifting.

I have retired my car from drifting and will be getting a dedicated drifter.

Using an auto means you can really only use the handbreak to start a drift, in a manual you can use the handbreak & the motor killing clutch dump.

[ZAP]

I had no problems getting the car to drift with eithe feint or a scando flick. The cars have a fair bit of weight, so a scando is a great way of getting it sideways. dropping it down a gear in manual mode while turning can also get it boogying.

Here is a short video of me at turn 2 at EC. I was taking it easy as it was the FPV drive day and only had one set of rear tyres.

DRIFT

[XF Falcon]

hehe nice smoke show at the end

[Jman]

that's mad ZAP!

How did you mount the cam?

would love to do something similar in my ute...

[ZAP]

I got some alloy squarebar and cut it through the middle. Drilled some holes and put 2 bolts through and some fuel hose split down the middle.

It clamps onto the 2 metal supports for the headrest and is stable. It has passed ANDRA and CAMS inspection. Cost about $30 to make of which $19 was for the special camera pillow mount.

The rattling you can hear in the video is the lense cap hitting the mount. Normally I secure it with tape, but forgot.

[castro7]

just on the mention of weight of the car and drifting, I saw a top gear episode where they threw jap in a monaro and he, being paid to do so, said it was an awesome drift car.... surely the XRs can out drift the poxy monaros... just a matter of contolling it...

id still go a manual if I was after some driftin though

[senna_T]

actually, the monaro would be a better drift car due to the lower centre of gravity and the weight bias.

If you want to see a full on drift car based on a monaro, search for Robbie Boldger's VIP Pet Foods monaro or Rhys Millens Pontiac GTO in the states - both insanely expensive drift cars

[Chief_XR6T]

Well you should go and buy a S14 200sx then

nah , buy a S13 , manual , drift pineapples to lock the rear sub frame preferably NA ,and go phyco at it , they love a good flogging

Robbie Boldgers car sucks so bad , a 20grand AE86 gives it a flogging well used to always on tv , dam it was hilarious

sigh I used to be like you trying to "drift" a T took lots and lots of speed and weight shiftments to come to think of it now it was very stupid , I always kept the revs below 3K in it tough , was no need for power

[senna_T]

chief if you saw Boldger monaro drift at a resonably large track, your opinion about it would change quite quickly. The car is a mega horse power boat and it drifts with precision its got no right to have, a credit to the engineering development that has gone into it

[ZAP]

Bolgers Monaro might not be a light jap drifto, but it did win the championship last year against the Peer Hatchi AE86 and the rest of the jap import competition.