Originally posted by Nackers The definition of drifting is over powering the rear wheels making them loose traction. I don't care what anyone says, thats that.
sigh a 95 guy even. Well if you look at a buncha of the posts I posted a while back you can figure out how I drift my car but I'm not gonna write it all down.
anyway that is called power over drifting that your mentioning there, its a type of drift. Its also known as a power slide. The definition is to induce loss of rear traction (OVERSTEER) by using the throttle to break traction the rear slips out and you control it through countersteer and throttle modulation.
NOW we can't exactly do that can we, we can do a power underdrift though, if the same thing but the front end slides instead and well you can't really control it you can just stop it, helps get through tight S turns I guess.
There are many ways to induce a drift in a FWD just not as many as a RWD which makes it more challenging, and yes a FWD will never be able to drift as long as a RWD cuz its got no pushing action but I can make my car look better drifting than most newbie drifter I see out there.
Funny thing about RWD drivers (notice I don't say drifters) is that they thing "OH I have a RWD I can just stab the throttle yank the wheel and let the ass hang out and start countering" That's what puts a lotta those drivers into guard rails and spins. Drifting is all about shifting weight and managing traction loss.
I can also make a FWD drift as fast most RWDs just won't look like that pretty full countersteer tire smokin drifting you see in those option vids. You can make the car do a 4 wheel drift with no countesteer, which allows the car to push forward and go sideways at the same time.
anyway look this stuff up in the search engine I'm kinda tired right now: left foot brake e-brake drift feint motion
if your into japanese racing video magazines you should check out this months "drift tengoku" its volume 18 and Hatakeyama the FF drift master is in it, you know what that means.
http://www.hadesomega.info -car specz and movies 95 Eclipse RS | 76' 280Z | 89' MR2 | 99 Neon | 91 Zephyr Who sez FF can't drift?
