Originally posted by Force Fed 23
the world isn't entirely a simple math problem. In a drift event, you are on and off the throttle, sustained high RPM low speed (no air movement through the engine bay), on the brakes hard, burning the piss out of your tires, tossing the weight of the car around (more stress on the unibody). Need I go on? I'd LOVE to drift, but I won't tear my car up.
"no air movment through engine bay"
-assuming your cooling system is up to par, you should have no problems unless you are doing tons of continuous laps, which no one was.
"on the brakes hard"
-techniques, and on a course such as primus, it was much more technical than go-fast, so this isn't even an issue
"burning piss out of tireS"
-um yeah, cuz like these are hard to replace.
"stress on unibody"
-welcome to suspension modifications...this is why you do them, duh. ever heard of chasis bracing? ...hmm...no? ...how about drag-radials! ah hah! there we go. I knew you'd get one.
and I dont understand your point...its only a car, and to have fun whether drag-racing, drifting, or auto-x, NONE of the above are 'good' for the car and can only break shit. If you want to do any of them, its all part of the game. Gotta pay to play.
So if you don't want to "tear your car up", buy a garage and leave it parked 365 days out of the year.