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Originally Posted by 328FTW
If you are serious about drifting I can get my rally car into some good slides with the 4agze. The basic setup is a locked diff with some slightly harder springs. I found the backend swung much better and easier when I wound a lot of tow out onto the back wheels to quicken up rear response and make it swing but anything over 130kp/h and would sway and wander back and forth badly but I got the balance right in the end.
I can't hold slides for long just because I lack the power to keep a locked diff lit during a slide but when I get the turbo working that will change. Personally I think you would be better off building a car from a shell, you can take almost any RWD shell and put whatever you want in it and set it up for drift, nissan turbo engines in old BMWs, V6 turbos in old datsuns that sort of thing and it would be much more competitive.
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thanks alot for the info, I don't know too much about suspension modifications, I was thinking harder springs but I wasn't sure, thanks for letting me know! ^_^ as for holding a slide, yea it is kind of interesting, it rained in my area this morning and the roads were a little slick. Needless to say I slid out once or twice since it was my first time driving this thing in the rain. and it snapped back really quickly.
As for the wheel base and power issue also mentioned, i've seen corolla's drift just fine, and they have the same wheel base. Granted all their weight isn't ontop of their rear wheels, but still it is possible, it's just about finding the right combination of weight control and braking technique (i hope, and none of which I have yet XD)
anyway, quick question for you guys.
It doesn't happen all the time, just once, maybe twice a day. I'll take the car out of gear when I'm decelerating, and instead of returning to idle, it goes past the idle point, drops to zero and dies. Any Ideas? (it starts right back up once I turn the key btw)