any first gen guys into drifting? Does anyone know any sites with more information regarding drifting a first gen? I enjoy doing it every now and then, but I also would like to keep the car pretty flexible. Meaning I want to be able to drive it on the street, go to track days/auto crosses or go to drift events.

I hope this thread is in the right spot

 

Yeah I've attempted it in the first gen and l tell you it is very hard compared to a S13 its not hard to get it sideways but its hard to keep it there and really be in control. But its possible the biggest difficulty is the steering system in a first gen it makes the car really hard to correct and you have to be spot on. If you are serious about drifting I would say a rack and pinion conversion is necessary. But Id go for it every car has its difficulties and the FB would probably be good considering its similarity to the AE86 in size and weight.

 

Waste of gas and rubber IMHO.

 

let alex pheiffer drive it... all you need is an LSD, and a little power and these do really well

 

First gens have great balance, and with a few mods slide quite well. Good shocks, springs, and LSD will get you going, then its seat time, seat time, seat time.

400# front springs and 250-275 rear is a good compromise between street and track.

A stock LSD will stand up to quite a bit of abuse, shim it up to ~100-120ft/lb of breakaway torque.



Isaac

 

Right now I have the stock LSD, modded stock carb with nice plugs. It will chirp 2nd better than I ever expected from this small amount of power. It breaks loose around corners when I do it correctly. So far, the car is out driving me. I havn't had enough seat time to be able to slide it correctly. I have a set of 400# springs. I installed them on the stock shocks but things were out of control with those. So until I get a set of shocks I am sticking to the stock suspension.

here is the car in question.
In the video you can see the previous owner's wiring mess. There is a little box with jumper wires all in it and a positive lead from the batter hooked up to it. It's bolted to the strut tower.

 

and one last picture to show off the 25 year old paint after I detailed it

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmorefield/5504677809/

 

Your garage has a parquet floor? Swank!

 

are you going to summit point this weekend for drift nirvana i will be there im drifting a 1st gen too

 

Crown royal shift boot is classy.

hahaha

 

I decided to not enter any drift events quite yet because I don't want to make a fool of myself.

 

Nothing ventured nothing gained........

Everyone starts somewhere.

 

^^+1 just go no one cares if you can slide yet some ppl will give you pointers if your cool about things but most of all just go fun it's $150 all day sunday to drive or just go watch others and talk to some ppl

 

hey post up a pic of your first gen that you took to summit point. I think I saw it in a video one of my friends posted up.

 

Alex has driven my car at Evergreen. He had his hands full with my FB and a LSD that had failed.
Do yourself favor and spend the money on KAAZ or OS Giken LSD.

 

i had a bone stock 84 gsl still with the rats nest i found it to be incredibly easy to slide the car practically drifted itself
but i had spent alot of time in the car practicing and there are always corners you think you got and then dont never hurt the car though just went into the raspberrys occaisionally