some questions about drifting

[Janky99]

Hey me and my freind got into an arguement about drifting, he tells me he drifts his toyota ceilca, i tell him you cant drift a front wheel drive car, its about impossible, i thought that when you used the e brake to attempt drifting, it was called powersliding with a front wheel drive car, not drifting, could someone clarify this for me? thanks alot -Ben

[Slash]

its not even powersliding with a FWD car.. its merely e-braking....

You cannot drift a front drive car with the same finesse and duration of a rear drive car.. I have yet to see any FWD cars that can consistantly slide for more than 2 minutes like some good D1 drivers in RWD cars.

[Matt Vassallo]

hahaha.

you havent seen Y2JAY on trays then ;-)

[Slash]

i'd like to see y2jay or another FWD do 2-3 laps around a real track sideways the entire way.. no breaks to rebuild momentum...

[JapDanny]

The Champ is the best drifter around .

Plain and simple

[Slash]

vid? link? pic?

I'm not saying it cant be done, I just need to be proved otherwise

[Geoffrie]

Originally posted by Slash
i'd like to see y2jay or another FWD do 2-3 laps around a real track sideways the entire way.. no breaks to rebuild momentum...

Heck, I'd like to see a rwd car do that... I don't think anyone here in tampa has that kind of skill and power...

-Jeff

[JapDanny]

I've been to Japan ...

[Matt Vassallo]

on trays its very well possible!

[Geoffrie]

http://my.so-net.net.tw/s3sport323/cv4.wmv

[Matt Vassallo]

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!! we need him ahhahah thats so weasome

[_Charles_]

okay.....

[1Pinay4lyfe]

See Slash. Its not the car, but the driver.

[Funk]

too bad no1 knows how to drift fwd around here

hey pinay why is ur rx7 a savanna and not an efini?

arent u like 14??

[æ86]

that vid is bad.that guy is a pro his car is completely track and drift.i forget his name but he is awsome his car is clean as shit.hes the best ive seen.for real someone need to do that around here pic up a shitty ef civic for like 500 bucks and build it

[zenki_s14]

Originally posted by AW11Drifter
I've been to Japan ...

i've lived there for the past 11 years

[Slash]

Still... that guy has to take "breaks" from the slide in certain places to regain momentum.... He cannot stay sideways and continue to support his momentum with the rears dragging.. eventually he slows down (after 3-5 turns) and has to stop and go straight and not sliding to regain speed.....

[China]

well i still think that you can "drift" in a fwd but you cant DRIFT in fwd.heh but seriously tho, i think that all you need is a powerful engine and then you can just drag the back end around. if the engine was powerful enough, it wont matter if you have fwd or rwd, just pull yourself through thet apex of the turn with e-brake engaged. with that said, i dont think that you can pull the 30minute drift bcuz the foward momentum would eventually straighten the car out, no matter how strong the engine.


china

[China]

on a seperate note, that vid was awesome, god bless thoese d1 drivers... props to geoffire for find/posting that.


china

[Slash]

fwd's can certainly slide and have fun.. but I dont think it has the grace of the standard RWD drift...

I'll give this guy credit where credit is due... His setup on that CRX is spot on and his skills match it... not many people on this planet could replicate what he is doing and thats amazing within itself...

Certainly it is more driver than car for 90% of motorsports.. but there ARE times where the chassis and drivetrain layout is the limiting factor and extended non-stop drifting is one of those where the fwd setup is limited in lots of ways...

[buck19]

its all in ones taste. i do both.

vid dont work any more.