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Anything rwd with decent power. I'm assuming that you don't have a skyline?

No your mum's auto vn commo will not drift well.

Basically, any turbo skyline/silvia/rx7 etc etc will drift ok

na cars can be drifted more and require more skill.

General mods required:

mech diff (a must, once you move from the stock viscous to a mech, you'll notice the diff. When the stock one single wheels, you'll lose control)

suspensions

seat and harness are nice, so you aren't always triyng to brace yourself off the door etc.

stock power is enough to learn on, but air filter, exhaust, highflow cat, fmic won't hurt.

oil cooler depending on how hard you drift (on a 31 degree day, my r33 was starting to get hot, but I drive hard)

camber, castor, swaybars etc.

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RX7's ARE NOT GOOD FOR STARTING TO DRIFT IN.

The only cars you should be looking at are S13 Silvias or maybe DR30/31 Skylines. Someone may be able too drop futher info on those skylines for you compared too the S13.

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anyone watch serious performance 7 i htink.. when the drifter got into the stock auto VT and piled in 4 mates too..... i think it was adam newton if im not mistaken, he did alright, and would have done 100 times better if he had just an LSD

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thanks man naa not yet but yer im lookin for a skyline though im from wa as well where r the drift practice days

check out

www.driftwa.com

or

http://westdrift.com/

you will get all the information you need on where to drift in perth and how much it will cost you :)

AndyMac: it doesnt matter what car you have, althou you think an rx7 will be hard to learn in, other people may fine it quick easy;

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anyone watch serious performance 7 i htink.. when the drifter got into the stock auto VT and piled in 4 mates too..... i think it was adam newton if im not mistaken, he did alright, and would have done 100 times better if he had just an LSD

Anything can be drifted. My last rental vt commo was pretty fun even though it was auto.

like It was said above, it's how well it drifts, and how easy it is to learn.

What's wrong with rx7s?

My friends fd is very easy to drift. Stock, they're pretty neutral in terms of over/understeer.

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' date='3 Dec 2006, 08:22 PM' post='2723479']

check out

www.driftwa.com

or

http://westdrift.com/

you will get all the information you need on where to drift in perth and how much it will cost you :)

AndyMac: it doesnt matter what car you have, althou you think an rx7 will be hard to learn in, other people may fine it quick easy;

thanks man i wil have a look at them

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manual r31 skyline

pull out diff centre, weld it up

has n/a rb30 so enough torque to go for gold. if you get desperate for more power just whack on vl turbo setup. then it'll tyre fry no worries

and some average to half decent shocks money permitting

can even chuck in s13 front arms to go down the s13 coilover route

live axle so its fun to drift with. no hicas or irs dramas

fatz from this forum can prove they are good to go for a cheap weekend fun car ---->

cheers, MARK

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Get an NA car weild the diff....stiffen it to buggery...have a manual and a handbrake that works really well. A corolla with a 4age is fun......a skyline is fun but tends to steer out of a drift cause of the HICAS (remove it and its good). Learning in an underpowered car can teach you to take the right line a speed, can get your confidence up, with a turbo car you can have other problems.

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fatz from this forum can prove they are good to go for a cheap weekend fun car ---->

lol look at all that body roll, im guessin its still got stock suspension..... any more info on that car?

nice to see the vid stopped right before he speared off the track in that first bit of the clip

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lol look at all that body roll, im guessin its still got stock suspension..... any more info on that car?

nice to see the vid stopped right before he speared off the track in that first bit of the clip

That vid was taken when it was a stock standard R31 Silo, prob with a welded diff.....

this is what they did to it :dry:

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Just wait till it rains and take your shit box auto commy out and learn that way. Thats what i did i got a feel for drift first then started to progress from there. Then when you progress more then mods start comming from what you know you and your car needs to feel right.

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