Drifting with your IS300

Mr Clam and Geoff you need to actually consider what you are saying here...

Like I said before I didn't say that downshift over redline was good, I didn't say flicking it was either I said I've done it before when downshifting and it doesn't hurt your car to much.... I said that because that guy was going nuts about how his sister went over redline a bit like 3 times or whatever.... So I told him not to worry, flicking redline from time TO time isn't THAT bad for your car because I do it on occasions when doing highspeed downshifting on turns.

As for drifing in an FF you've got to be kidding me guys.... you can drag your ass around all day but you can't drift in an FF....

Why can't you drift in an FF?

Basically the laws of physics won't allow it. See with a rear wheel drive car power is coming from the back so that basically means that you can slide the tail out and control the movement by countering with the front wheels. With a front wheel drive both the power and countering wheels are up front so it eliminates the possibilty of drifting grouped turns. A demonstration would be taking a rwd car and finding an open parking lot. Get up to a good speed and then just yank the steering wheel back and forth and you will start fishtailing. This can not be done with a ff and and drifitng is almost like fishtailing around turns. Of course this doesn't mean that you can't take your ff and throw it around turns because you can. I know some people that do it pretty successfully with their Civics but the fact of the matter is that it's not drifting. it's ASS DRAGGIN'

and yes I meant to say AE86 Tureno not 85, that was a typo...

[This message has been edited by Omni (edited September 29, 2000).]

You may have seen your friend drift once around "A" corner. But he can not make consecutive turns in an FF.

A true drifter will NOT cause a drift and then counter to straighten out, he will instead over counter so his car goes into another drift. So in essence a good drifter has the ability to take five or six opposing turns without having traction at any point in time.

To put it simply a good definition of drifting is, "Sliding your car through a set of opposed and grouped turns without having rear wheel traction as your car moves laterally through the turns."

Sorry Clam, but it is impossible to do this in an FF...... You wanna prove me wrong? Show me a video of your friend OR ANYONE in an FF car doing just what I said. No traction, no straightening out, just sliding through 2 or more turns...

Like I said BEFORE, your friend is ass dragging because he WILL gain traction as soon as he tries to go into another drift around say like an "S" turn....

lol if we left racing up to people like you the world would be a very sad place.

Well I'm just telling you that if you ask any "DRIFTER" what drifting is and they'll tell you.... I'm not making up rules as I go along.... You don't believe me? Go to http://velocity.isfaster.com/drift/overview/overview.htm

They are an american drifting car crew in Japan...

I'm not bending hte rules, I'm telling you how it is, Drifting is a HUGE pass time in Japan go to http://www.drift-station.com/ if ya don't believe that, there's a ton of car crews there that all they do is DRIFT.... and you ask anyone of them if drifing isn't going through multiple turns.. tell them your friend can drift in an Acura, they'll laugh in your face...

Now I don't want to argue with you about this anymore, go talk to some real drifters around where ya live if ya don't believe me or the websites....

Oh ya, http://velocity.isfaster.com this is TVR's main website, they have many REAL drifting videos on their site, so go check it out and watch all the people drifting multiple turns

[This message has been edited by Omni (edited September 29, 2000).]

No, MrClam was getting on me for this other guy who was worried about his redline and I said that I hit the redline while downshifting alot trying to explain that it's not gonna kill your car... But Clammy for whatever reason starts in on me and tells me that it's wrong, I'm not well I didn't say it was right now did I? I just said that it's not gonna kill your car if you do it from time to time.... The Clamdip starts trying to find fault with my FF drifting comment, I dunno what his problem with me is I don't remember starting something with my, but apparently I did... hehe...

As for if an FF car can drift, well I don't consider pulling your handbrake drifting no do I consider only being able to do this once drifting.... (although I do use the handbrake while drifting from time to time when in a drift to pin point the angle I need) Anyways.. FF's drag their ass around, FR's drift

[This message has been edited by Omni (edited September 29, 2000).]