Too much Tokyo Drift for your own good. I assume you have the Veilside kit as well?

 

If you want to keep driving this way, you can reduce wear on your tires if you put Armor All on the treads like this brilliant genius did:

http://my.is/forums/f87/crashed-my-baby-147582/

 

Is that **** fo realz!?

 

"I am pretty sure there is a warning specifically against that as well as putting it on the steering wheel, your face, your genitals, etc."

Hahahaha. That is the kind of instruction manual this kid needs.

 

wrong. Drifting if done right and not done the way the D1 guys are doing it will get you around the corner ("turn" is very uncool - Initial D lol) will get you through it faster and maintain speed a whole lot more than conventional grip driving. However It is extremely harsh on pretty much every part of your car not just the tires. Also I doubt this guy is drifting. He is probably just oversteering by accelerating to much, (which if anything it is a powerslide, not a drift).

 

Apparently, most people here seem to think this is reckless driving.

For me, and from that quoted post you've made, I call doing that Driving a RWD car.

Honestly, I'm a bit worried by all these other guy's fear of some rear wheel steering (as opposed to full on broad side drift) and wonder how they would react should they loose some grip mid corner.

Probably lift the throttle and crash their precious "correctly driven" Z's...

neeferea I encourage you to hit the track when you can to experiment with driving at the limit. In the mean time, feel free to develop your car skill by leaving a fair margin for error/surprise. Sounds like you're on the right track for a good [i]coup de volant[/b].

 

I don't think this is a very good comparison, because my *** doesn't roll if I were to slide forwards on the slide.

 

I read through the posts and no one is attacking you. You should read the posts when someone IS getting attacked.

I just sound to me a lot of folks here are giving you some good advice.

Stay safe.

 

neeferea... When racing it is common to apply a tad more power than you "need" when you see the corner EXIT. This will tend to make the car drift a little wide on exit, but increases your exit speed. Of course, try this on the track.

Oh.. and if you do this on a wet or oily road you could exit the entire road.

 

As many have mentioned this is not wise on the street for safety reasons. As for legal reasons, cops will see this as "failuer to control" and give you a nice little ticket for your trouble.

 

Guys, he's not drifting there!

He's obvioulsy playing in the slip angle threshold of his tires.

Somethings you all should be confortable doing without thinking about it, for your own safety...

People should learn to drive instead of scooting around...

 

Is the thread title not... "Drifting into the turn?"

To me, that implies you've begun your drift before entering the turn.

Now I have no probs playing with your car, and letting loose, but I don't usually initiate a drift before the turn on city streets.

 

No, *thats* wrong. Drifting is slower. Its a proven fact that if you drift, you'll get slower times. Go to a go-kart track (or, if you're brave enough, do it in your real car *NOT ON THE PUBLIC ROAD*) and time yourself. You'll find that "gripping" the turns is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than drifting through them. Sure, drifting may feel faster (hell, you're going freaking sideways!) but it certainly won't be once you get a stopwatch involved.

Now, in rare cases, it might actually be faster. Tight turns with very little grip (e.g. ice or dirt) would benefit from "proper" drifting. But, again, this is an exception and NOT the norm. Why do you think rally drivers drift but formula 1 drivers don't?

 

Read the OP's first and second posts. You'll get a more realistic perspective of what he's trying to say...

As for the timing of throttle, know that I'm close to full thottle before I hit my apex at the track. It's a different, yet safe, way to go around a corner.

The kid isn't racing, not showing off, just doing things right for a change!

 

Lawy'dU is actually closer to the correct in car behavior at the track than you seem to think. F1 driver are ALWAYS sliding in all the corners...

And at the corner Go-Kart place, you HAVE to drift the kart as the rolling resistance from a "regular" tight turn will overload the engine and drop the rev out of the power band...

Anyways...

 

But he said this "Very often now when I am turning ninety-degree turn I make the back come out on me so that the car straitens out right into the turn."

To me, he's saying that he slides the car out before the turn so he can go straight into the corner?

I understand what you're saying, I usually have the throttle pegged in the apex, but I don't slide the car before the turn???

 

You should try it!

We'd need more details from neeferea to know the exact timing of his maneuver. But he doesn't sound like he's ***** out driftin throught that corner.

It sounds to me like he's just adding some rear wheels steering to straighten the corner exit. It's a good thing and one of the main reason people like RWD (usually). It's how a RWD sport car should be driven.

 

Different people have different driving styles. Check out this vid for example (hosted by Martin Brundle):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6qi1MbTo-o

Although the OP calls it drifting, what he is describing resembles actual driving techniques. But how close the OP is to the legit technique, vs being reckless & stupid, who knows...

 

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I see F1 drivers slide coming out of corners, as their cars struggle with traction... but not necessarily sliding through the corners. You always want to still be within the limits of your tires.

http://www.f1blog.org/some-page/