FF Drifters

[Drifty]

Hi this is just a quick poll:
Has anone tried to drift in a FF car?
And if So do tell about your experience.
I myself have done it once or twice in my 97DSM

[Drifty]

oh yeah empasis on "TRIED"

[2strokebloke]

I fooled around with my '82 toyota, but it's not like I went to a parking lot or anything and just tried to oversteer. The Renault I currently own can go pretty sideways with left-foot braking, but it lacks the "natural" oversteer that my toyota had.

[1viadrft]

I tried it with my SpecV... I was going really fast and E-Braked it way too hard and spun-out....I don't like it much (FF drifting) but I stand by those that do! FF is fun in ice, snow, and gravel though! Try it!

[zerogt86]

i havnt drifted my accord, although i have made it oversteer afew times.

[Soyo]

yea my rx-7 can really drift, so ha

[Drifty]

soyo thats a FR of course it does (damn i wish i had it though!)

[Suislide]

just a warning. the second this thread gets out of hand, it's locked. keep it civil, and if you have nothing constructive to add to the topic, don't bother posting.

on topic: yes, i used to fool around in the snow and dry with my '91 Chevy Corsica winter beater that i had last year. i could get that thing pretty sideways, and have actually got video of it, but don't know where to host it.

[mike5721947]

ya put some crappy tires on and spray down a parking lot with water and put 2 lunch trays under the 2 rear tires with the e brake on and floor an turn!!!

[Layla's Keeper]

My buddy Derek and I created an oversteering autocross monster out of a $500 Geo Storm. Fiddled around with the rear toe, ran self-shaved tires (cheapo Falkens, as I recall), tightened up the hand-brake cable to take out the slack, ran about 5 extra pounds of air pressure, zeroed out the rear camber, and welded up our own strut tower braces.

We could whip that thing around on its nose no problem, and it was a lot of fun to sling it around sideways in the school parking lot after everyone had left.

But, we have since moved on. I'm fiddling with Weber carburetors and ANSA headers on MG's and he's dropping SR20DET's into 240SX's.

[drftk1d]

^ Drop a sr20 into a MGB.

[Layla's Keeper]

Like hell.

If she does receive an engine transplant (which will be if I decide I don't want to pay for an aluminum cross-flow cylinder head) the engine will be an aluminum block V8 ranging in size somewhere between 215ci and 410ci.

I am not paying for a new engine to only gain 200cc's of displacement.

[Bunta]

Do you have a cross flow head, LK? Just curious.

[Layla's Keeper]

Wish I did, but the cheapest one I've found is from Brittek.com at around $1,800 bare, $2,100 assembled.

And then there's the cost of intake manifold, linkages, carbs.......

Honestly, it's a whole lot of effort. Though the prospect of 200hp out of my little OHV 1800cc four is pretty cool.

[Bunta]

woah, I just noticed you already said you didn't in your above post. Sorry.

I'd go with the cross flow. I mean, try resisting temptation to spend an extra $1500 while plopping the aluminum V8 in there... A Sebring/Lemans clone GT with a cross flow head? That just about makes me wet. Do you have the 'C' hood/grill yet? Or the headlamp covers?

You'd murder me if you saw the '67 GT somebody bought from the shop I hang out at for $4k. It was PERFECT. To this day I hate myself for not buying either that or the Mini cooper 'S' that was in there.