Today I test drove a 93 blue touring that has 42k miles. The owner, who happened to be a Stanford student, took the FD for a spin with me. I didn't drive it until he drove me to a place where there was a track with some nice corners. Then we changed seats. At first, I was pretty careful when cornering. But after a while I felt like taking the FD to the limit, so I did. At one point I didn't release the gas when I was turning (maybe I floored it a little bit instead), then the rear broke loose? I'm not really sure (perhaps I wasn't aggressive enough to spin out, but I did feel something). Also, the tires squeaked when the rear seemed to break loose. After feeling the limit, I don't think it's easy to lose control over the FD as long as I'm not too aggressive, am I right? If I do get aggressive when cornering, how should I handle it? Anyway, I had a great ride.

 

sorry but that's not a drift, that's called a "power out" slide, which in most cases is caused by oversteering and then giving it too much gas before the exit of a turn.

drifting is manually and purposely getting sideways BEFORE the apex of a turn and leaving the apex straight not the other way around contrary to what most people believe

 

Your right...absolutely right. I drifted once in my FD, and was really surprised as to how easy it was to swing the *** end around. I mean...**** it was effortless. I haven't power slid yet though....but one day I will.

 

Could you read my questions?

 

i had a similar experience in my fd recently. i just got it and before having this wonderful car, i drove a mercedes benz desiel with 80 hp/problally around 50 hp in real life which weighted 3400 lbs. it was also a auto so going from that to a 255+hp (problally around 280-300hp) manual car was kinda strange to say the least. in any case i was going in to a corner pretty fast and let off the acclerator with out getting on the clutch and the rear kicked out pretty fast. its pretty scarry going on a uphill turn and slidding out at 50 mph (note: it was only my 5th time driving the car). it was raining which problally contributed a lot to it. well as to your question, in the dry, i think RX-7s are totally awsome as grip goes (i have never yet broke the rear end loose but it early still) but watch out in the rain, its fricken scarry, the weight to power ratio is way too much for my tires to keep up with.

 

by the way, im not saying i was drifting or anything, just telling an experience...

 

so how do you handle it when it starts to lose control

 

mightyslash, i don't know how much experience you have with road racing or autocross but this is what I do:

Before the apex of the turn, what you basically want to do is slow down before the turn just so that you don't understeer the car while going in the turn. After the apex of the turn you can step on the accelerator and give it gas, this is usually the quickest way around the track/turn, provided you have the correct line (out in out) and drive smoothly without jerking the steering wheel and applying the power to the ground correctly

of course for each type of turn, this will be applied differently but this is the general idea.

hope it helps

 

what i did was i turned right cuz i was making a left turn and the tail kicked out right. i came off the gas and applied the brakes softly. As i remember it, the tail did a small wag and then it hooked back up. this happened to me 2 days ago just to let you know. i think i must have slid about 20-30 feet before the tires hooked back up. i almost went into the side walk but missed by about a foot or so. just watch out in the rain, and accelerate or matain speed, don't brake hard, pull hand brake or lift off the gas and have the clutch out like I did or you may go slidding!!!

 

FD's are better suited for gripping. With that said

It's fun to get a lil squirrely with the FD, just be very careful. The car isn't that forgiving for driver error (the 'snap' back when recovering from oversteer can be brutal if you mess up) Dont wanna hear about any more decommissioned 3rd Gens