i do not own a car, but used to be a car freak and dream about
drifting, had a malaysia friend my "sifu" he had an old mr2 SW20
which he will just try drifting on. on one of his virgin drifting
attempts he tried to drift his car on a (empty road) he didnt
counter steer in time and because the MR2 engine is placed
relatively behind in the car chasis thus seems to have a heavier
momentum for the butt of the car to swing out, he lost control and
did a spin onto the oncoming lane, thank god it was an empty road!
on that super old car, which he bought for 20KRM
(i was so jealous)
eventually he said he gave up drifting, said it was an rich mans
sport.tires will burn out, stress on the driveshaft. need to firm
up the suspension and add torsion bars and stuff to experience
properly. so he went to a new thing quarter mile racing! lol.
anyway want to see crazy drifting or learn, theres a famous
drifter, the drift king keiichi tsuchiya (thats how its spelt i
think) he has a series, "the drift bible" teaches you all sorts of
drifting on each specific types of stock cars. Rx7 180sx rx8 mx5
s2000 etc. i think torrents can be found.
in fact he has i think over 10 different ways of drifting, from
hand brake, to hard braking drifting, going into the turn at great
speed (power over), theres even wierd ones like a clutch jump where
you down a gear without slowing down causing your wheels to
momentarily jerk (propably bad for transmission) and thus losing
traction (i think only for rear wheel driven cars though) also
there are techniques of making your cars drift by staying inside of
a driving line then back out to the proper line before a turn
making your car unstable thus inducing a loss of traction (im not
sure if this is right, i know its called kansei drifting or
something) and crazy ones such as jump drifting and using grass
outside of the road to drift your car!!! these ones ive seen on a
website though not by KT pioneered by some european country)
sigh only wish singapore had a proper place for motorsport culture
and to drift. and if cars arnt so EX!! i only riding motorbike
cant live the dream 