Drifting a Lightning

[corvette killer]

Anyone think that I could drift my lightning or would it just be a powerslide?

[Geoffrie]

http://www.hotfords.com/svt/lightning/spec's.htm

Your lightning has a 57%/43% weight distrubution, (ideal is 50/50), and you weigh some 4,670 lbs (over double what my ae86 weighs) and have a fairly imprecise leaf sprung rear end. But the good news is you have some 380 hp!

I think anything rwd is driftable. Sure some things are easier to drift, but I've heard it said drifting is 90% driver and 10% car. So the real question is if YOU can drift, not your truck. Get some cheap rear wheels/tires and try it!

-Jeff

[neurovish]

I've seen a friend of mine drift an expedition....you could definitely do a lightning, though it'd be a bit weird and probably not good to learn on.

On the plus side though you wouldn't really have to worry about hitting curbs, that thing will drift right over them (the expedition would)

[4wdFury]

just don't roll over

[corvette killer]

I powerslide all the time. Where is a good place to expirement with drifting?

[Chin]

BIG OPEN LOT

[flubyux2]

somewhere secluded and wet... alot of noise, namely squealing tires, draws unwanted attention.

[Geoffrie]

Another thing thats important to drifting - a LSD or posi as domestics call it. The lightning has one of these.

Drifing like as seen in the no ants video is kind of an extended power slide. It's a matter of controlling the powerslide with countersteer. Try counterseering to keeping that powerside going. You want to point the front tires in the direction your heading. Look at what the front tires are doing on some drifting videos for an idea of what I'm talking about.

I hope this helps somewhat...
-Jeff

[Slash]

yeah unfortunately no ants didnt have any "course" set up in the video, hopefully next time around they have some corners to everyone can watch crazy bill in his environment...

This isnt to say that the no ants video isnt perfect.. I think it gives a wonderful emotional view into drifting

[Funk]

LOL..this was bound to happen??

oh well.. drift nissan pickup is around.. so why not...

[Garage Battle]

IBitflipsover

[flubyux2]

the No ants video was pretty good... but the down side was that there was no set course so no one was bustin out combos.... it seemed like a big ol skid pad w/ them just sliding continuously around one central axis... kinda like a spiral donut. AWD's do them alot like scoobies and Evos. Ive got a video of a 22B Impreza doing a powerslide spiral where the radius keeps gettin smaller the longer he holds his drift until its only like an axis donut.

places like laurel are Teh good and is a prime place for peeps to show their skills.

i think i have the a short clip of where bill was drifting and almost lost it and kissed the curb and kept going... and then the cops came shortly thereafter. everyone ran except me, psifactor, taylor and james. :cool:

[skittles]

wat do u suggest besides obvious struts needed to drift a nissan hardbody single cam? nothing serious just a friend was churious? i was thinkin maby like sub-frame stabelizers from the bed to the cab or somethin...