Dumbass kids that cant drift, dumbass me for giving them my 7
 

I let my younger bro and his friend take my 7 out for a spin.... what do they do?
Crash it of course!

Nothing too bad, they hit a wooden pole and put a dent behind my passenger door and fucked up my front alignment and scrapped the shit out of the wheels...
they're gonna fix it so im not too worried. just goes to show... idk what but it shows something... dont give out your 7 i guess.

I'll have pix up real soon.

I had a saying back when I sold motorcycles:

"friends don't let friends ride their bikes"

this goes equal for nice cars.

i dont let ANYONE drive my 7 but me..

:AA:

^

well i used to let my girl friend drive it to teach her to drive manual but only in parking lots, this kid had a good rep to drifting so i thought it was in good hands, turns out he's never drifted without power steering.... plus he knocked over a street sign so im hoping i dont get cops knocking on my door cuz someone got my license plate, that $150 for the street sign, about $700 for reckless driving, and im not sure how much for hit and run.
i know the first 2 cuz iv had them while power sliding in a front wheel drive Impreza. the car no longer exists, maybe parts of the interior in other Imprezas...

that just plain sucks. imo the gsl se drifts pretty easily. you gotta be as stupid as hell to not be able to drift in it. you can pitch it hard and still recover.

I've let my sister and my ex girlfiriend drive my car before. They were too afraid of damaging it, knowing the wrath that would bring, to do anything stupid in it.

i dont even let my wife drive my 7's or my 8....i may be stingy bu my cars stay the way the are. if someone other than me is driving my car, i'm in the passenger seat like a dogon driving instructor!

And you let them live?

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First mistake: trusting someone who "says they can drift"
Second mistake: not putting the fear of the wrath of you into them before taking it
third mistake: letting your dumb ass brother and his friend drive your car.

My room mate drives my car. He knows that he will be replacing anything that he damages through driving the car recklessly. He also knows that he cannot afford to crash it because to get one in the same shape he'll have to spend thousands of dollars. My dad will drive my car, because I know he drives like an old man. My sisters think my car is a death trap, and I don't think my brother would ever want to drive it.

after my cousin crashed 3 of his cars (asleep at the wheel... or so he says).. i decided not to let him drive my car.

fuck. i barely trust myself enough to let myself drive my 7. let alone anyone else.

i've let a few of my friends drive it and honestly i don't trust any of them with it, they're too rough, just because its a rotary it doesn't mean it can hit 40 million rpm :icon_no2: but no damage, i did let my ex drive it one time and she about hit a civic head on, so i made her stop and get the fuck out

Simple solution:

Require an application and test drive process with background check to borrow your car.

I doubt anyone will want to go through the trouble.

Perhaps hire some acting extras to create a line up in order to get said forms. You know, just in case.

there are two things in this world that you don't share... your woman and your car(s)

naw they can have my girl. stay the fuck away from my car!!!

I've only let 4 ppl drive my car. my ex, my bro, my dad and my old boss. they all know there would be hell to pay if theres one scrach on the car


^^^^^hell ya, that the only way to go

I barely let anyone else ride in my -7... no one else has driven it in over 10 years. That was the lst time I 'tried' to teach my wife to drive stick... 'unfortunately,' that didn't 'work out.' Muahahahahah!

excuses are like assholes. everybodys got one. Powersteering doesn't make that big a differnce. I personally like manual steering.

The real story is the kid didn't think your car had the balls that it did. does this kid have his own car? Or is he drifting in his moms car?

I've let my brother drive my FB thus far and thats it. My FC was only driven by him, my ex, and a friend. I let everyone drive my TA when I had it, and they were usually too scared of it to do anything stupid (it was pretty quick)

hee probably drifts his moms front wheel drive aveo lol :icon_no2:
if anyone is going to trash my car it is going to either be me or god lol.

I'd rather lend you my girl than my car cuz I know where she's gonna hit at I don't know where the car's gonna get hit.

You better have that thing ready to catch sum 2nd gear scratches soon!!! I will be in Cali in less than 2 weeks!!!!

I'll let people drive my Jag, Jeep or Mercedes but they will never drive my toys!!!

soo any pics yet?

he drifts front wheel, well powerslides.... he has an acura legend

LOL ff.. no comment. rwd is completely different.

he doesn't drift, he e-brake slides. you, along with him, are a couple of tools.

I only let people with good morals and deep pockets drive mine, that way I know its cover if something happens. lol

https://www.rx7club.com/picture.php?...pictureid=7167
can see bros prelude in back
https://www.rx7club.com/picture.php?...pictureid=7168

https://www.rx7club.com/picture.php?...pictureid=7169

e-brake slide and powerslide is the same fucking thing, and fuck you, people fuck up, it doesnt make anyone a tool

Thats gonna suck to repair......
And they're not really the same...... one (e-brake) your just pulling the rear locked up wheels with a front wheel drive, ...... and the other (powerslide) your frying the rear wheels off the car and drifting your course........ so one you actually slowing yourself down and the other you are accelerating and ruining your tires more efficiently... :) not creating a flat spot on your tires..... so it's actaully not really drifting.
Why do you think all you see in REAL drift comps are rear wheel drive cars and only rear drive cars...... Just throwing that out there, I'm not starting any fights or choosing sides..... :)

... powerslide implies power not brake... they are not the same.
has he driven a rwd before? i wouldn't let anyone drive my car unless they have driven an fr or mr or rr car before

*scratches head*

e-brake slide: when a person driving a FF car pulls and holds the e-brake, locks the rear tires, and slides the car around the corner.

powerslide: applying lots of power to a rear drive car (muscle cars do this best) around a slow corner, causing the rear tires to spin, and you slide around the corner. normally used to pull a quick u-turn.

drift: entering a corner at a decent rate of speed and using a flick, a quick pull of the e-brake to initiate the slide while using the REAR wheels to power through the slide, or simply overpowering the tires while at speed to slide the vehicle around a series of turns while trying to impress a panel of judges.

drift is a little bit more complex, but basically you covered it.
anton, yes people make mistakes. hoping you learned from his, and yours.

So wait, did any of this come to light prior to you handing over the keys?

Little dick sucker's ill beat ther asses..:icon_no2:

when iv done it it was always a combo of a e-brake and powerslide..... we've never done it your way. i used to "drift" FF cars and the way we did it was build up a decent speed, rip the e-brake and release and get a slide going while giving decent gas and we'd get decent controllable slides going. you may have to give a second or third rip to help change directions but you never keep it locked. its pretty popular over here. you kind of use the momentum or "power" of your weight and speed to whip the rear around and it works out pretty good.
sounds like he tryed that in a rear wheel which produces the power in back. its a retarded mistake and we both will learn something from it. sounds like he didnt know how it worked. and iv learned alot from my FF car crash, except mine was learned in my FWD Impreza after flipping it on the roof.:icon_no2:
guess russians learn the hard way.:lol:

to me thats more of a burn out than a powerslide, im not all on the technical terms for these but thats what i see it as. iv always seen it as using the cars power(momentum) to slide the car around, and yes incorporating the e-brake. but im not going to start a war over some stupid terms.

and i apologize for losing it earlier, just dont appreciate myself or my fam members being insulted.

You MUST be JOKING... I'd NEVER do ANYTHING like THAT... :angel:

When used to change direction 180 degrees, that's properly called a "bootlegger," or a "smuggler's turn."

Midwest slang for it when I was young and stupid was "pulling a brodie," probably named after the "Brodie Knob" that rodders used to put on their steering wheels to make it easier with the old low-rate manual steering boxes.

You can't really drift a fwd. they will slide. I've taken my old car over a hundred around a corner with no use of brake's Just gasin the hell out of it. you can control a slide pretty good. But you cant drift a fwd. its just not the same thing.

drift-to inter a corner at a high rate of speed and spinning your rear tires to angle your body. its a rwd thing.

Burn out can be done with either one but fwd drive burn outs do look a little on the gay side. a burn out consists of powering your drive tires to spin rather than catch traction.

a power slide can be done with eather. usually not a high speed activity. its sorta like pulling a brodie or flipping a bitch. also would be considered a fwd drift. can be done with brake power, or car power. It has no where near the control of a real drift though.

ouchhhh sucks i had a couple close calls in my fb spun out and ended 5 inches away from the guard rail :( too close.

same here. once, when i first got the car, going about 80 in a 25, i saw the stop sign, applied brakes... Car spun a 180 and stopped backwards, just barely missed the curb. I had warped rotors which caused the brakes to lock up at different times.

second time, coming down a wet hill at about 35, was kind of tired, used brakes instead of downshifting. started brake drifting, i just tried to apply the brakes and stop the car, backwards again haha. good thing no other cars were there! but yeah, when i'm drifting or just powersliding around a corner i rarely ever spin out.

Why do I get the impression that "drifting" nowadays is just updated movie-driven slang for "skidding?"

I just don't get it. You say you loaned him your car after you were told that he "drifts real good"? I would consider that a very good reason to deny him the car.

And based on the above, it almost implies that you loaned him the car specifically for the purpose of drifting on the streets.

What I really don't understand is why you are surprised by the results of the choices that were made... All I can say is that I hope you learned something from all of this. I've made enough stupid choices in my past that I am now a certified genius. :)

Now see, to me, that isn't drifting either. Pulling on the hand-brake or "overpowering the tires" isn't what drifting is about. The slide should be initiated only by shifting the weight off the rear of the car. I believe there should be a horsepower limit and banning of hand-brakes ("e-brakes") in cars that compete in these so-called drifting competitions.

I don't let ANYONE drive my car apart from my brother, who also owns an RX-7.

Agreed, the term has become too much of a common word, misused 90% of the time.

In truth, I probably rarely ever drift. just low speed sliding, kept alive by throttle control.

I guess I'm just too afraid of the police!

i don't drift but the way i see it, you CAN'T "drift" a fwd, you can lock up the wheels and slide and hope your skills are good enough so you don't spin out. Power sliding is just a transfer of weight in the car caused by taking a turn at a higher speed than normal/required and being able to control it. and Drifting is the art of combining both, requires the guts of powersliding to take the turns at higher speeds, the skill to transfer the weight off the back wheels into the front, loosing traction, control speed, momentum, defy the laws of motion, hope you can control it, and looking good while doing it lol

i love power sliding, its so much fun just the feeling that the car is in breaking point all through out the curve that one wrong flick of the steering wheel and it will have you upside down in a ditch...i've also tried drifting and man, my hat is off to those guys, too much shit to keep in mind, controlling the gas, steering wheel, clutch, gear, rpm, taking care of the car, pleasing the crowd and still be able to keep in mind when the next turn is coming up...too much man, hopefully someday i can learn to do it.