Can anyone drift well with their 7 ?
 

plz share ur experience on this.

Re: Can anyone drift well with their 7 ?
 

Um... is this a trick question.....??? :rolleyes:

You should be asking if anyone can't drift well in thier RX-7 ;)

I can drift well in my RX-7, thank you.

Oh yeah. I don't have that much experience drifting, but the cars are well suited to. Theres also very few places to do it here, dre_2000 knows that.

I have a LSD, so when I try to drift, I am usually very successful! Except for today when I was showing off to a 'Stang GT I just smoked and almost died! Pratice makes better!

Alot of times i try (im still learning) I end up fish tailing all over into oncoming lanes of traffic...But im getting better.

-Daryl

ya, 7's are built for corning so they drift very well, I am preatty good, but still have a hard time every once and a while. remenber I am talking about drifting, not power sliding.

Try going to an empty parking lot late at night and pratice. But watch out, cops get mad about that! Trust me, I found out the hard way!

My NA i can get to drift just a little. I need a lot more power to make a long drift. Unless Im on a gravel road then watch out, 16 years of driving(drifting) Texas back country dirt roads :D I was drifting on them when drifting wasnt concidered a sport. And if anyone says drifting a 72 Ford LTD doesnt take talent hasnt driven one. yes that was unfourtunatly my first car.

I drift in my cars all the time when going on the curve in the dirt road that goes to the garage/barn. there is no more grass left ;> Escort, RX-7's, 750 Honda, 626, even my dad's cars.

All I do right now is drift because every road is covered in snow.

I just learned how to string two drift turns together without gaining traction on a S-Turn in a back road. Purists will say that true drifters must be able to string several turns together without gaining traction, sometimes 6 or 7 turns back to back. I'm am pretty happy I finally learned how to do it, I would always do the first drift then either my tires could get traction or I would spin out. The best place to learn a basic drift is a big parking lot at night and preferably while its raining or just after so your tires don't squeal so loud.

gee wally. i wish i could drift. i always almost kill myself after i spin off on ramps or onto oncoming traffic.

Well you shouldn't do it in traffic! Like I said, practice in a parking lot.

I agree. Parking lots rule. It is almost as if the Rx7's were designed for drifting. If you are having difficulty it is the driver. not the car. Just about everyone in this forum learned to drift in a big parking lot, including myself. Follow their advice. Most importantly when drifting : ACT RESPONSIBLE AND BE SAFE!!!!!!!!!

I find my FC a total pain in the ass to drift.&nbsp The balanced chassis and low polar moment make for a really twitchy system when trying to drift.&nbsp The turbo non-linear power delivery just makes things worse.

Now, my Hachi (even stock) is super easy to drift, due to it's linear power band and lightness! :D




-Ted

Hachi is short for hachi rokyu? I would have thought that a nonlinear powerband would only really mess up the exit of a drift, because your rpms are fairly constant during entry and the actual drift. If they aren't, that just means you didn't enter at maximum speed, right?

Yep, Hachi Roku or AE86. :)

Drifting has a LOT to do with throttle steering.&nbsp If the power band is not linear, it just makes it a lot hard to throttle steer...



-Ted

Not a lot of things come close to the saticfaction of a smooth clean drift. On the race track you're not going fast enough if you're not drifting or sliding through each corner. I'm very lucky to have the opprotunity to race. Guys pratice in parking lots and take it easy on the street. If you want the ultimate thrill you can't beat an organized race. Join the SCCA. check it out at [url]www.scca.com

that is just INTENSELY unfair you own an FC AND an AE86 >=P I can't wait to move to Japan....

There are LOTS of corners where drifting is "not" the fastest way through. :p: But to each, his own :D

Yeah, but I'm still not satisfied...
I think the ultimate trio would be to add the S13 SR20DET, which I'm working on trying to find right now! :D



-Ted

I nearly bought an S13 200SX Turbo when I couldn't find an RX-7 I was happy with. There's quite a few of them over here, but the earlier CA18-DET version is more common than the SR20-DET and cheaper. Personally I think these are a a par with the 7 for performance, handling and looks, but I really wanted a rotary!

I think the next question should be:

How many of you deliver Tofu in the wee hours of the morning?

Ted, I fully expect you to respond "Me! Me!"

:p:

Man the countless times I drifted. Very hard in the rain for me. As soon as im on the highway turning onto another highway doing max of 80 I will start to drift slightly. Its so fun because the car is so predictable. I can control how much angle of the drift I was merely by using throtle and steering. But I have accedently got sideways once and did the most awsome drift ever. It was in the street. I was coming to this T section to turn left but going to fast in third gear. I turned in sharp but I saw this car pull out of the side road and startled me. In a panic I shuved the steering whell hard and was in a 45 degree angle full throttle in third.. Turned really sharp and ended up in the middle lane of the two. Eased the steering wheel back and the car got traction right when I was perfectly streight between the two roads. Weeee.

I try to drift, but there are no good places around here to do it. I have a backroad that I go to often that would be ideal, and is usually deserted late at night, but I'm not willing to risk it.

Drifting in the FC is fun, but drifting in the WRX feels better. The WRX has more grip though, so you have to drive it faster to get it to slide.

I tried driving the FC around corners at speeds like I do in the WRX and I spun out. I was in one of my "safe" zones though, so I merely spun off into some grass. I'm very careful about where I do stuff like this.

Power oversteer != drifting

You don't need a lot of power to drift, you just need to know how to balance the weight and momentum of the car. You can pull long drifts in underpowered cars without smoking the tires off.