Fluffy's Actual Car Thread! 8-0

[angelo89]

If I knew u wanted a drift car I would've told u guys about my old 180sx sold it just before I got my XR6T

[BenDoCo]

so I've watched a couple of videos including one of a 7 year old drifting (kids got skills) and they all have a hydrolic hand brake. Remembering that I know nothing about how to drift a car properly, am I correct in thinking that - if ya don't have 500 + giddyups, it's easier to get the back moving around with the hand brake? or am I just pissing in the wind

[angelo89]

Never drifted myself but I would assume having slightly less would be more controllable

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Don there are ao many ways to skin a car so to speak....

Firstly there's power... In a light car like mine 200rwkw is very sufficient to get the back end happy... Powering out of corners etc...

But once u start drifting as wanna actually be proficient at it there's more than exiting a corner sideways... Yes that's drifting but drifting is also going around the actual corner sideways....

The hand break method is the most common drift method ...

Basically when your coming into a corner down gear clutch in rip handbreak get a tad sideways then clutch out powerdown couterstear...

However easier said than done... Once u get really good at it then u can end up to the point where people can't even see u ripping the handbreak...

You can ofcourse just clutch kick it but that requires less skill and worse on the car etc etc

Edited 17/10/13 09:43 AM by Princess Fluffy

[BenDoCo]

makes sense and now I really wanna go and try it but scared of breaking the G6

does yours have 1 of these brake levers fitted Fluff

[Never had any say Panda]

Or you can use the cars own momentum combined with a bit of steering and foot brake and throttle to throw it off balance which will give you more speed to bleed off during the corner, but requires the suspension to be set up for it...

Personally I don't care how you do it! As long as you're having fun and learning..

I think drifting would be an amazing thing to get into because you have to completely change the way you drive a car..

Think like this: we all know the theory of what's involved, but certain reactions to certain occurrences behind the wheel of a car are almost ingrained in us.. How many times I've seen on a car forum where someone has lost control and grabbed the brakes and heaps of people post 'oh you should of done this instead blah blah blah'.. It's so easy to give an opinion when you aren't the one acting on an instants notice..

So enjoy it fluff.. I'm keen for vids :-)

Edited 17/10/13 09:54 AM by Slightly Depressed Panda

[BenDoCo]

would be good to try it sdp, just for the learning factor but prob wouldn't remember a thing I was taught after 5 minutes coz alzheimer's.........lol

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Ye it's so much harder than it looks.... I'm packing myself again lol

[Never had any say Panda]

Haha.. I tried drifting once.. In the wet..

Learned my lesson when the cops showed up while the tow truck extracted my car off a power pole..

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Ouchies.... Definitely glad I'm keeping this to the track ... Hence why I didn't buy a car that could be registered coz then no temptation