Drifting my 2004 Subaru WRX for FIRST TIME
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I was just asking, it looks like your just e braking in a parking lot. I know thats still drifting, but if you watch any Top gear vids tiff doesn't do it like that. They just use a pendulum effect to swing the car sideways. You talked of weight transfers, well, I was just asking how you were doing it.
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Originally posted by johnnyvee
I was just asking, it looks like your just e braking in a parking lot. I know thats still drifting, but if you watch any Top gear vids tiff doesn't do it like that. They just use a pendulum effect to swing the car sideways. You talked of weight transfers, well, I was just asking how you were doing it.
I was just asking, it looks like your just e braking in a parking lot. I know thats still drifting, but if you watch any Top gear vids tiff doesn't do it like that. They just use a pendulum effect to swing the car sideways. You talked of weight transfers, well, I was just asking how you were doing it.
The videos I shot are in a parking lot, but they are from an actualy Drift Event at Englishtown, NJ.......
The pendulum effect you are talking about is the "flick", i can do the flick, but
1) i have not perfected it yet (i still dont know the correct speed, angle and al lthe other stuff to do it at will)
2)my carisnt powerful enough to keep the drift going (if im able to use the flick) because of my big and not so light wheels.
3) i just started and hopefully will get better.
and when Tiff did the flick, he was in 3rd gear and then downshifts to 2nd.... i barely have enough speed to get into 2nd in the courses at the Englishtown Drift Event... maybe that could be a cause.... nto sure... but I will update as soon as I figure out what else im doing wrong or not doing.
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Mmm, careful with the e-brake initiating the drift. Pulling up the e-brake all the time is not good for the center differential (I assume the car is a WRX). Oh yeah, and what you refer to as a flick, Tsuchiya prefers to call it a feint. But to each his/her own. A lot of rally drivers prefer to call the interia drift "Scandanavian Flick" after the Norwegian driver who used it frequently on snowy stages.
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Originally posted by Impreza01
Mmm, careful with the e-brake initiating the drift. Pulling up the e-brake all the time is not good for the center differential (I assume the car is a WRX). Oh yeah, and what you refer to as a flick, Tsuchiya prefers to call it a feint. But to each his/her own. A lot of rally drivers prefer to call the interia drift "Scandanavian Flick" after the Norwegian driver who used it frequently on snowy stages.
Mmm, careful with the e-brake initiating the drift. Pulling up the e-brake all the time is not good for the center differential (I assume the car is a WRX). Oh yeah, and what you refer to as a flick, Tsuchiya prefers to call it a feint. But to each his/her own. A lot of rally drivers prefer to call the interia drift "Scandanavian Flick" after the Norwegian driver who used it frequently on snowy stages.
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have you purchashased an uprated swau bar, onmy old wrx I had a whiteline. With just springs (whiteline as well) and the not so sticky stock tires, it had a much better turn in. The car would oversteer with just a little throttle pressin. I have since tried tons of tires, but the most fun ones are always the cheap ones. The high speed stuff is sketch, but the parking lot fun is a ton better. My STI likes to understeer alot, so to avoid this I have to use the center diff in the farthest back position.
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I spun my car a few days ago downtown in the rain, that humbled my drifting, right quick. Have you ever really blown in on the road? Everyone on the street walking around was talkin crap. I looked like such a dip----, the wet really messes you up if your used to dry streets.
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this is my first Sube so i got this questions.
doesnt our cars have a LSD in the back?
Viscous Coupling LSD ?
cause i hear people say that we dont have an LSD ?
please clarify, thanx!
and more "drift" videos on its way!!
doesnt our cars have a LSD in the back?
Viscous Coupling LSD ?
cause i hear people say that we dont have an LSD ?
please clarify, thanx!
and more "drift" videos on its way!!