dkwasherexd

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I wish we had a tracks like these in America... just get so close to that wall and missle tandem.. looks so much fun. at one point I didnt give a **** about my car and it was becoming a missle car.. Sometimes I thought I wouldnt be able to drive my car home from events lol..My fc is immortal...I restored it back to normal looking... I really want to build a missle fc later on.. You know have a missle toy that you just go super buck wild with...and not care about how it looks




sick *** vid.... dunoo if u guys seen it yet...
http://vimeo.com/4636484
some other cool vids..
http://vimeo.com/5059286
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2lf...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRGhtn4Vw4


whos down to build a missle car?? or have I just gone nuts?? I want to go in hot 3rd gear , ride the wall and make wall paint mix into my paint,ding my exhaust pipe and dents and more aero destruction. This is the only way Il find true happiness!!!

burtoncr

Wait, your car isn't a missile car?

2slow4stock

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^^ lol

Tatakai

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it's basically a missile car. everytime you make it pretty, it self destructs.

i'd love to have a missile car. exactly what a beat to **** 240 is good for.

Turbo II Rotor

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Drifting gets gayer every day.

dkwasherexd

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i guess my car is a missle car lmao.. damn,... nvm, what was i thinking

NoPistons!

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Then quit.

You take it too ******* seriously anyway.

leftcoastdrifter

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missle status like that white 240 in your vid link? that things *** end is so smashed it's retarded. i agree with Tatakai, that's what POS 240's are for

Ranzo

The cheaper route is to just quit caring about your car altogether and drive it as hard as ****. If you hit the wall then hammer it out till it rolls again and keep going. Buy a truck and trailer.

Gene

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Two questions:

What's missile drifting?

Why do you have a rear wing for downforce if the whole point of drifting is to make the rear slide?

Also you might enjoy this quote: "Nothing is going to happen on the track that will improve the looks of your car."

burtoncr

Ranzo can probably confirm this, but a missile car is a term I believe coined by Japanese drivers, typically good ones who have a competition car and major sponsors. They have their bad *** car and then they buy these "missile cars" which are just super basic drift cars for cheap so they can smash them into the wall / other cars and not care. The point is so they can practice drifting as close to each other and the walls as possible without caring about the car. It's not a new term, but all the sudden Zilvia figured it out (someone probably saw it in a Drift Tengoku) and now all the fan boys are using the term to describe their junk cars so they sound cooler.

As for wings on drift cars, they are 99.9999% for looks. That not to say you don't want grip in a drift car, in fact it's the opposite. Many higher hp drift cars are searching for grip just like track cars. More grip allows for higher speeds, more angle, and more control. But drift cars rarely see speeds necessary to make wings effective.

Awesome quote, who said it?

Tatakai

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in Japan, the professionals in their off-season will drive bone stock cars with coilovers and a LSD, and not give a flying **** about the cars aesthetics. bumpers are ruined, fenders crushed, rear ends crumpled.. as long as the car still drives its still driftable. imagine playing bumper cars with drift cars



the more grip you have, the more speed and smoke you can achieve. a spinning wheel will not move the car anywhere without at least some grip between the tires and the ground.

Sindregutt

Huge rear wings are greeat for lifting tire smoke! Looks better! =)

leftcoastdrifter

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not really true, there are drifters out there putting huge angle on their wings to provide lots of down force at their given speeds. it all depends on preference and speed. there is a japanese pro drifter who drove a FC with the thing almost straight up and down because of the FC's inclination to pick the *** end up on throttle lifts. the super angle of the wing created a lot of down force and drag i'm sure, but hey, it worked for him.

Ranzo

you guys got the idea on a Missile. Its just a piece of doo doo car that may or may not have parts on it and you take it out and just try **** or see how well you can keep up with other modded cars and if it falls apart just leave the ****** at the track and catch a ride home.

Wings...... They do actually have a purpose for lots of drivers. Rhys Millen ran a big one that was adjustable on the GTO it was clear lexan so to not be noticed. First thing people need to know is that Yes you are trying to "slide" the rear end but you need traction in order to carry speed and to have control. If you run doo doo tires in the back then you are still a beginner.......step it up.

Anyway Missles are fun because you can let your friends drive it and enjoy watching them mess up getting used to the damn thing.

Gene

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Wings don't work when pointed sideways relative to the airflow

dkwasherexd

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wings do help, alot. Even simply attacking hard on the freeway onramp Ican feel my car gripping it nicer than before. Before the wing the rear end would kickout just barely flooring it. Plus, Ive tested my car with and without the wing at Inland drift plenty of times, even at top of 2nd gear I can feel the difference.. Like one test I did was, I had 205/40/17 in the rear and 215 fronts, the car would just oversteer like a bitch, I bolted my wing on and set it at max angle dowforce and it dirfted as if I had 225s in the back.. Heres the video to prove it.. 205s in the rear... 215 front.. just some junk used tires I matched up collecting..oneside michelin, one side falken..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc9LkoJTJko
for drifting you want grip, I dont get why most people think you need less grip.
For me the wing works and looks cool so its a keeper.. for some its gay, but eh who cares

burtoncr

Yes, but it works for him because he hits the speeds necessary for a wing to produce down force. Like I said, most drift cars do not hit those speeds (ie amateur level).

Better tires in the rear will help more in both high speed AND low speed corners than a wing.

afro88

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At the speeds neccesary for a wing to have any effect it's unlikey the car will see 90 degrees in relation to the corner. It may not be fully utilizing the wing but the wing does see some air flow.

Ranzo

I want to put a big gigantic *** wing on my car just to **** people off....

TerribleToast

Pretty cool video, good to show people who want to get into any kind of motor sport. I'm glad the local tracks don't have walls right next to the racing surface!

afro88

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I think 90% of what most people who drift do to their cars is just to **** people off. I'm not excluded. It's comedy.

dkwasherexd

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i want a gigantore wing like haraguchis...

leftcoastdrifter

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your forgetting that the good spoilers are angle adjustable and that you'd match the wings angle to your speed to maximize downforce? even if your only doing 20mph, if you had a wing on you could make a certain amount of downforce. if it came unbolted mid run, wouldn't it fall off backwards? yes, because the air moving over the car and spoiler would be pushing back against it. wings work if you know how to use them.

illdrift

Couldn't quite find an article i read a while ago with mad mike trying out a wing on his then 20b fd, i think it provided too much downforce at the time and he ended up taking it back off for the rest of the competition round.

They lightly mention the topic in this article, attempting to reduce traction so that the car can drift 4th thanks to a broken gearbox:

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009...adventure.aspx

Missiles sound great you're left with atleast 1 working/running car to go back to when it all turns to ****