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m3ta1head

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Ok, not really :crazy: but I try.

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Winter is too much fun! :laugh:
 
How fast were you going? I only go about 10-15, I wish I had a huuuuuge open space to carry alot of speed through a corner. It's always fun gettin the ass end to swing out with the gf in the car haha goodtimes.
 
Bah, you guys drift at slow speeds. You need a winter beater that you don't care about and a big empty parking lot...

30-35mph drifts are way more fun... :)

My poor winter beater hates me right now. The e-brake cables are stretched way out now... :)
 
99Mystique ATX said:
My poor winter beater hates me right now. The e-brake cables are stretched way out now... :)
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I have a simple salution. Don't use the hand brake. There's no need to use it to get your car sideways. But most people tend to use the brakes when they should use the throttle in the start of a turn. It baisicly goes; brake before the turn, ease of the brakes, as traction becomes available again turn out, let the car start rotating out of the turn, turn in, apply throttle, let the car start rotating into the turn, countersteer and feather the throttle accoringly. Make sure you try to apex late and power out of the turn. You have now just saved your handbrake cables. Enjoy
 
99Mystique ATX said:
Bah, you guys drift at slow speeds. You need a winter beater that you don't care about and a big empty parking lot...

30-35mph drifts are way more fun... :)

My poor winter beater hates me right now. The e-brake cables are stretched way out now... :)
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you are just lucky i am not there with my winter beater.. or i would be scaring you with how close i can get to the polls...
dude i think it is a good thing i am not there with both of us having winter beaters now..LOL
 
Goumba said:
I have a simple salution. Don't use the hand brake. There's no need to use it to get your car sideways. But most people tend to use the brakes when they should use the throttle in the start of a turn. It baisicly goes; brake before the turn, ease of the brakes, as traction becomes available again turn out, let the car start rotating out of the turn, turn in, apply throttle, let the car start rotating into the turn, countersteer and feather the throttle accoringly. Make sure you try to apex late and power out of the turn. You have now just saved your handbrake cables. Enjoy
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Or you could just buy a RWD car and do real drifting.
 
99SEsport2K4 said:
How fast were you going? I only go about 10-15, I wish I had a huuuuuge open space to carry alot of speed through a corner. It's always fun gettin the ass end to swing out with the gf in the car haha goodtimes.
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10-15, grandma? I'm doing 15-20 in my Grand Caravan aproaching my driveway at 90 degrees! A wood block under the release handle to avoid a ratcheting e-brake pedal works wonders! :laugh: My three year old daughter loves the reverse "bootleggers".
 
I personally like getting sideways in my contour. I don't call it drifting, but it is fun. My car is kinda built to go sideways however.
 
michael.lavander said:
10-15, grandma? I'm doing 15-20 in my Grand Caravan aproaching my driveway at 90 degrees! A wood block under the release handle to avoid a ratcheting e-brake pedal works wonders! :laugh: My three year old daughter loves the reverse "bootleggers".
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I've had my share of close calls and learned but sometimes I will go 20-25. Not alot of parking lots by me so I stick to neighborhoods. I'm smart enough to be safe with my surroundings but dumb enough to do it while parking kinda next to others. My new thing is 180 parallell parking. So yea the slower the speed the better but enough to get it loose. I bet I could slice an apple mid corner like Clarkson tried to do....only I could do it over and over again. I have been trying to teach myself full out ice driving, but we only get 2 ice storms per year and its gone right away. That stuff is very unpredictable, most of the time I use too much ebrake and do a 360, it's best with unsuspecting passengers.
 
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CarpePoon said:
Essentially yeah, unless you want to call controlled skidding drifting. Most people dont like it when their back end losses traction. Hell, Grandmas do it more often than teenagers in snowy parkinglots
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Isn't drifting pretty much a controlled skid:shrug:? I'm pretty sure they purposly control skid the vehicles at drift events.

Aaron
 
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