drifting C5 corvette

[etazbaz]

Hi im a newbie drifter. I have been auto-xing for about 3 years now, but what really puts a smile on my face is driving sideways. I would like to know if drifting a new corvette would be a good idea. i only do the aggressive stuff in empty parking lots, but find myself pushing the car at least 10-20 times a day on the street. It's almost getting predictable where i can carry a conversation and drift at the same time, but every now and then the car mught do something that I wasn't anticipating and then I realize that this grasshopper has much to learn. Any tips would be much appreciated.

[rsbousquet]

a new corvette is the last thing i'd drift waaaaay too much power for yourself, the thing is heavy for it. i dunno, and tires are forkin expensive too! i've seen a track vette smack a wall and just scrape the paint but you know what? the reactions have been worse than if someone totals a little old car. that's not a car you wanna wreck, insurance, especially afterwards, would be WWWWOW

but um good luck? lol don't do it, i'd had ot see a thread next week 'totalled my vette goin sideways'

[etazbaz]

yeah i agree the vette is pobably not the best machine for it. im actually thinking about buying a 240sx and gutting and modding it. it will be a auto-x/ drift car only, i will not use it to commute. at least everybody here thinks the 240sx is the schiznit. as a matter of fact i saw one go down the highway today that said for sale and were asking $1000 for it. it looked like it was a little banged up, but that doesnt concern me. and i know that at least it runs...lol. i wonder how much i would have to spend on a 240sx to make it driftable. it would have to be a manual trans for sure. thanks for the reply. actually i wouldnt call what i do in the vette drifting, it more like power sliding, and it is all too easy to do. i never touch the clutch, just give it a little gas and the back end is more than happy to step out.

[rsbousquet]

making a 240sx driftable is easy. you don't need much... my friend has a plain ka24 240 with lsd and that's it.. has rims and stuff but stockers are better for tinkering.

so maybe pay some dough for an LSD and.. i'd say sway bars. dunno what else is 'necessary'...

[okitrazsliders]

what is a lsd.. i am in japan and i drift the shit outta my silvia and i dont have this lsd.. but sway bars help out a-lot. get some stiff ass shocks so that she dosent roll from side to side. sway bars help it but if you dont have the shocks she is still going to lean and leaning is bad you take a chance of rolling over and over and over. so just be care full with it.and put the vett back in the garage bubb you dont wanna wreak that thing..

[Uncle Max]

We had a Z06 at our event and he looked pretty good.

[flylwsi]

LSD. limited slip differential.

why wouldn't you be able to drift a vette?

you guys are seriously funny.

it's heavy. so you offset that with it's big power. and it's big grip. and out of the box ready-to-corner attitude, and you can drift one easily.

just b/c it's not a 240 or ae86 doesn't mean you can't drift it.

geezus.

you don't think drift tires are expensive?

when you get into it, the REAL hardcore drift drivers are using expensive, sticky, drift specific compound tires. and they go through them. fast.

not cheapo tires. so it's no different with a vette.

or any other domestic rwd piece.

i'd choose a zo6 for it though. not hard at all. and all of the correct pieces are there.

[etazbaz]

i think what some of the guys were saying was that it may not be a good idea to learn how to drift using a vette. it would sting a lot less if you wadded up a 5k car instead of a 50k car.

[flylwsi]

learning drifting is one thing.
learn in a big parking lot with nothing to hit.

there's the end to that one.

my point is that there's no disadvantage to drifting in a vette, it's got all the stuff that people add to their cars anyways.

[etazbaz]

agreed

[Uncle Max]

I didn't think the Z06 was that heavy either. I thought it was like 3200lbs.

But yea the guy at our event had a stock Z06 with I think a racing seat.
He runns SCCA so it wasn't modified because of the class he ran in. But yea he was pretty goodd. It did seem to plow but so do s13's. He had the power to keep it going around the big sweepers though.

Looked sweet.

[89Turbo944]

Z06 not a good drift car. Get something cheap. You blow a tire and mess a rim its alot of money. Go throught the classifieds and find an old corolla for 1000 and drift that.

As for the 240sx, you should do heavy modification to it to make it a good drift car. Just cause you have sway bars and stiff shocks dosent mean its a good drifter. You need drif specific shocks for it. The angles of alignment are alot diffrent for a drift car then a street car. O and drifting kills LSD's.

I tell you this from first hand experiance. Im in a non offical drifting club. I have seen super low 240sx's with sway bars, and stiff shocks flip over cuase the suspension was not set up properly. Also i have seen LSD's burn up. So unless you have lots of money stay away from drifting.

[flylwsi]

zo6 isn't good why?
b/c it's expensive? that's your only reason that you noted... so?
you don't need to do much modification at all to make it a good drift car.
same for 240s.
the vette already has a great start, and you can easily adjust camber just like your 240s.

you've seen 240s flip over with really stiff/low suspensions... really?
where was this?
were they on flat, solid ground when this happened? or did they go off the track? come on. make a little sense, b/c that doesn't...

you've seen lsd's burn up.

what exactly causes it to burn up? all you're doing is spinning it really fast, so it's not going to "fry".
it's going to wear out quicker, but not anything really abnormal.

you say to go cheap?
tell that the apex and their rx7, or the other d1 cars that are just as expensive (after they're built) as a vette, if not more.

think about it.
the mods that you need to do to a 240 to drift are already there in the vette.
i'm not going to repeat what i said, b/c it's posted above.