This drift season is officially over ....Now time to beast the car up for next season. Anyway I drove my T2 during the season, but on stock suspension. I have decent power, but need to get the suspension correct. Anybody that drifts their T2 please give me some advice on what setup to get. I want to know what setups people are running and how it is doing for them.

Thanks

 

I am running the Tokico 5-ways with SUSTEC GF210 springs. To be perfectly honest, I hate the suspension setup. I drifted an FC with Hypermax D coilovers, and it was a completely different car. No drama, no snapping, just a nice transition to the slide. I plan to get coilovers now.

 

i have heard nothing but good things about the Tein super drift coilovers, i dont have them on my car but a couple of friends who have them on their FCs said that theyre great. i plan on getting them for my car.

 

My friend and I ran the Zeal V6 coilovers with race springs (10k front and 8k rear) on our drift car for the last two seasons. Great coilovers. No problems whatsoever. Smooth transitions and easy adjustability from drift to track sessions. They're a little more expensive but definitely worth the money.

2 seasons, ~30,000 miles on them, and no leaking, creaking, or breaking.

Both the Zeals, we used the Cusco Zero2Rs. Great suspension setup also, but they were getting old and had many miles on them. Getting Cusco coilover rebuilt was very hard because of the repair time. We couldn't afford having no suspension for a month or two.

Zeals turnaround time would fairly fast. 2 to 3 weeks if you have problems or need rebuilding.

 

for the basics get rid of dtss its so much more predictable and easier to drift with them...

 

drfitng is dumb. sell yor car, and buy a gun to ill yourself. with a K

rx7's wherent ment to dift. get a piece of junk with pizza cutters with horrible controle like an ae86.

 

you're right they are not meant to "dift"


I've heard nothing but good from the tein drift setup
Id say go with those also
but thats based on what i've heard not what i've tried

 

That was by far and away the most intelligent answer ever. At the advice of someone that doesn't even have full command of the english langauge, I intend to go "ill myself. with a K"

 

http://fc3spro.com/TECH/DRIFT/dori.html

you have many ways to go.

the tein drift coilovers are basically the tein he's...

 

also look into various chassis bars to stiffen things up! i have a CP racing 4pt front strut bar and love it!! i also have the rear steer elmimnators wich helped a lot, Suspension Tech. Sway bars

this winter ill be getting coil-overs (not sure which ones yet though...) and Secret eliment steering angle spacers (FC's steering angle isnt the greatest to say the least), Energy suspension Bushing kit a GOOD ALIGNMENT, S&W Chassis Roll cage, Signal bucket seat with G-Force 5pt harness, Tanabe Sustec Rear Under Brace Nagisa Gacchiri Support (Fender Brace) MAZDASPEED Lower Arm Stiffener Mazdatrix performance Sway Bar End-links and Rear Camber adjusters! this should feel pretty good on the track

 

Where thows coil overs and your setup a progressive or linier spring?

Also was your method of style power over, e brake or did you body roll into your drifts?

 

When I drove the car with the Hypermax Ds, I used power over on a left sweeper, left foot brake on a tight transition, and a feighnt on the right sweeper. Body roll on that car was pretty much non-existant, although you could shift the weight a little.

 

forget ae86's this is not inital D

FC's have the best setup for motorsports.

anyways on on the drift setup

eibach sways, with tein ha's. wide offset in front 4neg degrees camber, shitty offset in rear.
two clicks from stiff in front and stiff in rear.

 

Thanks guys.

I love traditional motor sports, but drifting is so much fun .....I thougt this was initial D?

 

Could you please tell me a car that was specifically designed to drift here on american shores?

There are none and thats why you make one your self and it is not always as much the car as it is the driver anyways. Ever seen the FF Falken Civic Drift car you could definately say that this car is not desinged to drift or "drag its butt" but it does quite impressively.

 

wheel base geometry , turning moment and overall weight balance...

the very thing thing that makes the FC3S a 'poor' candidate for drifting is what makes it VERY good for Touge or time attack.. Investly what makes the S13 a very good drift car makes it a **** poor track car. That being said you can DO both with either, and their are some very good pro D1 drivers driving FC's as well as very good time atack cars that are 'S' chassis...