Drifting Techniques Part 1 by Doctor Drift

[fatz]

word badbiki

suspension is the good but after owning 3 cars with that shit. im over it.. *** im getting old sombody help me

you just have to work abit harder with the standard gear thats all

pete

[Guest MRE]

I have to disagree with some of the comments made above.

I have standard suspension and can drift quiet well thank you.

"the best suspension is not going to make a great driver"

Skill, knowledge, control and practice are the key.

The best way to learn is on dirt in an open paddock/dirt, this lays a foundation that allows you to master the very basic's of drift.

When this is taken on the road this prepares you for what will happen when the car breaks traction, the increased grip forces you to fine tune throttle control amongst other things.

My car is also an Auto...............

I find knocking her to 1st for the tight ones and 2nd for all others is fine. Most drifting I have done is rarely above the range of these 2 gears.

A few of the fellow QLDers saw some of my work on Saturday night and will back me up.

1. Stock Suspension

2. Auto

Are not limiting factors

BTW loved the Vid Dr Drift, some more corner work and a little less 180's and it would have been a perfect Vid.

[[ABU53]]

I'll back u up there Dave.

U had some insane doorifto action happening

[Dr_Drift]

I agree totally, some of the best drifting was in my old datto 1600 with stock suspension...

As for the 180's the clip posted was more specific for the burnout action, much better footage from the day, but i don't have any posting space to put it, that was courtesy of meggala. That was not my choice of clip, I'll try and get him to post another up there...

Any video's of QLD drifters to back up your "I can drift an auto with stock suspension" claim?

Doc.

[Guest MRE]

Just picked a pair of rims and I have 6 pairs of tyers of driftooling.

Any one care to be the camera man?

[Dr_Drift]

I have some spare tyres too...

Come down to Melbourne, we can have a drift off!!!

[Guest Nismo_Freak]

My 240SX cant drift very well... 3 degrees of negative camber in the rear w/ sticky tires and a N/a motor makes for short skids before tires catch and make for some interesting fish tailing. I have open differential by the way alond with a front tower bar and lowering springs. Im sure it can drift but my technique doesnt work and I dont like using the e-brake... seems too easy for me. Only way I can get a good slide is to go into the corner wide, turn in towards apex at 40mph, then I downshift hard into 2nd gear and it spins the rear wheel some and causes the weight-shift to sling shot the rear end out. It is very short lived and cant be maintained... possibly with some crappy tires but its very hard keeping the car from doing 180s or 360s with the open differential. In the rain the car is damn near impossible to drift as the car is too low... it pushes before sliding the whole car into a straightline skid. I am getting some Tein HE Drift Spec Dampers some time along with a LSD so that should make it a tad bit easier and alot more controllable.

[Dr_Drift]

Sounds like your going down the right track.

Had an opportunity to see two identical R32's on the weekend, except one had a tight LSD.

The Diff makes a big difference to sustaining a drift, and if you don't it can be a recipie for disaster....

Good Luck.

Doc.

[badbiki]

for a controlable and impressive d0rift in an s13 (silvia/180) you want some fine suspension (tein coilovers, koni etc) some front/rear sway bars (large), front strut brace and a GOOD LSD!... single spinners are horrible!...

seriously i wouldn't try to fang a single spinner out sideways, its way too dangerous and hard to control. atleast get a LSD (2-way mechanical =) )

btw, power oversteer out of the corner isn't drift.

flicking it left then right well before the corner and having it sideways the entire time is =) and preferably coming out parrallel to the direction of the road you are turning onto. my definition anyway =) and to attempt at doing that on stock suspenion with a single spinner AND a n/a motor is truley asking for trouble.

skill can only go so far =) good suspenion just hides my lack of skill at this point =)

bolt on a turbo to your sr20de mate! buy one of my boards, retune him and away you go!!!.. i'm in the process of doing a 2nd conversion with oneone atm =) good results

[Cubes]

I often drift on the way to work there are two corners that first is a right hand bend then the good one is a left hand bend with that slippery road surface that looks rough but is a light grey colour.. I'm sure u ppls all know it..

Anyway the stock suspension seems to handle it perfectly.

Sideways all the way through second I havn't tried 3rd as there is a nice stoby sitting there just waiting.

Also i do often use slight pressure on the brake just to get it hanging there that bit longer and it also causes almost 90degree powerslides.

3rd gear is dodgy with stock suspension i think.

[Guest Nismo_Freak]

Ive only drifted once ... ive tried many times but could only get the car to really drift once. Its not even a SR20DE ... its a KA24DE. Car is also lowered 3 inches.

[MaTBoY]

cars r a limit, but never blame the car fully. i have a single spinner n/a r31, i can drift it a fair bit.

cant wait 4 booooooooost baby

[GiJOr33]

i've got Potenza Shocks... but standard (or very close to standard) springs... i'm gonna get it lowered another inch i think