fwd drifing techniques

[doberman_52]

What are some good front wheel drive drifting techniques? I like to screw around in my 90 buick century (beater car) to learn a few new things, but I want to get more advanced in drifting

[drdisque]

there are no fwd drifting techniques because there is no such thing as FWD drifting.

Also, you can't even use the techniques that people claim are drifting because your buick doesn't have a hand brake.

[doberman_52]

i was curious and saw a post by a moderator sayin that it is possible, i know that u just cant powerslide though

[civic542]

The only FWD technique there really is, is using the e-brake to initiate the drift then use the gas pedal to control the drift. Any other drifting techniques require a RWD car. Good luck!

[drftk1d]

you can do 4 wheel drifts in any drivetrain

you can't, however, do drifts that make you look like a D1 star

[S13Driftfiend]

seeing FWD DRIFT anywhere makes me sick. it almost pisses me off. all it makes me think of is 16 and 17 year olds pulling the ebrake in snow or rain or even dry pavement and calling it drifting. when he says drifting... i cant imagine hes tallking about going to the track and making good lines and transitions. yanking the ebrake to go sideways for a second around a turn isnt drifting imo.

[doberman_52]

well i am now looking at getting a rwd car and turning my buick into a enduro or street stock racer

[silvia15]

sell your car, buy a cheap 240 hatch, pull the e brake and hit a curb.

[doberman_52]

looking to buy one soon

[drunken monkey]

i used to run a peugeot 106 ralleye and getting the rear end to slip into line was pretty easy.
However, I also agree that it isn't really a drift, more of a slide of the rear end as the front keeps pulling. It is still however, oversteering, just not in the traditional sense.

[turtlecrxsi]

Originally Posted by drunken monkey

i used to run a peugeot 106 ralleye and getting the rear end to slip into line was pretty easy.
However, I also agree that it isn't really a drift, more of a slide of the rear end as the front keeps pulling. It is still however, oversteering, just not in the traditional sense.

Used to be pretty easy in my crx when I had the back up a tad higher than the front. I'd just downshift to second break traction and go sliding through a hairpin, yanking the wheel left or right while controlling the gas and brakes. I rarely used the e-brake. But yeah fwd drifting is pretty lame. I just did it for shits and giggles occasionally in the mountains.

[drunken monkey]

never needed to do that (shift down) in the 106.
i'd just go into the turn/corner as fast as i figured i could go and IF the car wasn't going in as tight as i wanted, all i did was back off the gas for a bit and the tail would follow nicely into line.

[doberman_52]

what is the exact term for drifting, is it power sliding or just sliding, and getting sideways as much as you can with out loosing it?

[VR43000GT]

I have commonly heard it reffered to as a controled loss of traction. But like most things that can be debated.

[doberman_52]

Quote by: SL3000gt
"I have commonly heard it reffered to as a controled loss of traction. But like most things that can be debated."
Thats what i have always understood it as, being that, you can drift in a fron wheel drive, iv been down by the river and have gotten my buick at some nice angels around some decent curves, my friend who also drifts thought it was pretty decent compared to him, i have also seen videos of front wheel drives drifting so it is possible, cant power slide but can ebrak, and rear wheel drives also do that to. my conclusion - fwd drifting IS POSSIBLE