Now, how bad is it? Does it damage your axle's? suspension? what do you all think?

 

It cuts the life of yout tires ....

 

tires smires
its alright.. my tires already are pretty much bald. im savin for some 18"s and new tires i cant wait.. but my question still continues, c'mon guys, gimme some thoughts

 

for the most part, it should be ok for the car
just dont hit anything
btw, fwd cars dont drift, they sorta do this pathetic sliding thing...

 

I know, its a gimp drift on the max.
my friend is crazy though, he tries it in his astro van.
i swear that thing is going to tip over soon

 

its more like..drag your *** with the e-brake slide but stay away from curbs!..ive seen a nice 240 end up with a reallly bad wheel wobble due to drfting into one.

 

nah nah.. Westminster Mall Parking lot at 2am
there is Nothing around, a little eerie really.
there's no way i would want to damage my baby

 

Its fun, fun, fun!!!! Dont knock it till you try it. Give drifting a try and then let us know what you think. Not that you should unless you really want to...

 

Nothing compares to power over RWD drifting. FWD drift = ghey!!

 

heheheheh its fun when the road is a little wet. i think it might put a little more stress on the chassis and suspension parts then was originally attented from the manufacturer but for the most part it should be ok. rally cars and circuit cars have stiffened chassis and frames to help make the frames stronger.

my friend use to pull some crazy *** drifts in his 86 celica. he would do it while he was mountain racing. so it can be done with a front wheels drive. just requires alot more effort but they don't look as cool as a AWD or even a RWD car. have fun and stay away for any obsticles.

oh and dirt roads are the best

 

you can drift in a FWD car, just u cant do them one after another, like rwd or awd. theres no real way for us to swing our rear around short from pulling the ebrake, and most of us dont have LSD either, which helps a LOT.

 

get some crappy a$$ rear tires and pump up the air to the max pressure set, take it out and yank the e-brake!!!

 

BWAAAHHAAAAAHAAAA. There'e no such thing as a four wheel drift, it's called oversteer.

 

Just be careful. Me and my friend were doing this on a dirt road in his altima and he did a lot of damage to his suspension cause he hit a large hole.
Good Luck,
Paul

 

yeah make sure there are no ruts in the way.

 

ohhhhhh so basically passing a old couple on the on a canyon road and seeing there faces throught the front window as there jaws were droping to the floor looking out the drivers side window. his celica GT all side ways on a turn with a bank on it while passin gthem up cause they were driving like 20 mi.s per hour. tires screaming was not a drift ok...... my mistake

oh btw the celica is now in a junk yard it seems he drifted the car right into a mountain.

 

what's with all the people saying you can't drift a maxima???? you guys must have stock suspensions

when I adjust my AGXs and tire pressure for autoX I have experimented with all kinds of combinations... I can set my car up to drift every single turn and I can hold the drifts very well.

 

i suggest u read my post again. my first 7 words states clearly, YOU CAN DRIFT IN A FWD CAR. and dammit, i dont think anyone said u CANT drift, u just cant drift LIKE an RWD or AWD. what happens with most FWD cars that drift, they do this powerslide thing that looks like its drifting but it doesnt really do what a drift is meant for. Drifting is so u can enter a turn at higher speed than if u follow the line through the apex, and by having the car "out of control" u can hold a higher speed through the turn and exit with a higher speed all while looking kool in the process. can a FWD car drift on a turn, YES, can it do 2 turns consecutively, POSSIBLY, can it do it through an entire mountain course as well as a RWD or AWD, NO. And to be able to control drifts that well, LSD is almost essential, on a RWD car thats about all u need to drift, power and an LSD, on a FWD u need to tune the suspension and set it up JUST RIGHT to even be able to come close to RWD drifters.

 

I really only break the rear out with the help of the e-brake when it's icy/snowpacked out, and in safe enough areas. True, it is fun, but even if I hopped a little or something of that sort on dry/wet pavement trying to keep a slide going, the anger at myself would far outweigh the pleasure

 

Four wheel Drift = Oversteer

 

FWD= means front wheel drive...
4WD= four wheel drive..

 

depends are you talking about maximas in particular ?
the CV joints can't take regular burnouts well.

 

 

You obviously haven't seen skyline videos

 

I hate to sound like a pos but what is drifting? Sliding in effect into a curve? Just reminded me of a time we took this kids escort out in the rain in a pkg lot and were doing 180 degree pkg brake turns at 50 mph. Now that was fun

 

u lose control of ur car during a turn, with oversteer, and have no traction through that turn, but all while actually BEING IN CONTROL of the drift. On a RWD car, u would go into the turn, pop the clutch, and get the rear to come loose, and before the rear comes around entirely and ending up doing a 180, u would control the throttle and countersteer, so that the rear never comes all the way around, but enough so that it doesnt fully get traction until near the end of the turn.

 

I don't doubt you get the rear end to kick out on your Maxima, but with FWD, you can't throttle steer with the rear tires. It's completely different with FWD. I could steer the rear end of my Z28 all day with my right foot. GM really knows how to setup the RWD on the F-Bodies. Mustangs on the otherhand are twitchy and slow to react. You're pretty much at the mercy of the car.


Dave

 

heheh in english now......j/k

a drift

example: in a movie in a case scene when the cars make these crazy @ss turns where the whole car gets all side ways sliding around turn. then as they finish the turn they keep the car under control.

gives you more speed around a sharp turn.

hope this helps

 

I think you will find it bad when you hit a curb or a rut and invert the car.

 

and the award winning Jun Evo.

 

Actually, most of the time in hard surface conditions - this does NOT hold true. In Road racing, a finely balanced 4 wheel drift means the car is at or close to its optimum balance and hence helps carry highest speed around a corner. Getting a car sideways (oversteer OR power slide) almost always scrubs away precious corner speed, but increases the "wow" factor. Having to counter-steer mid corner ro correct a slide really slows you down. Of course all this goes out the door when it comes to off-road conditions.

 

i never tried drifting.

 

couldn't agree more. the sliding effect in the movie are always bad. but that's because the bad guys or the cops never know when they gonna turn (an act), so that's ok.
for a road car, drifting are sometime desirable to go fast around the corner.

for those don't know drifting, the best example of drifting is those little car with big strange spoiler on top sliding all the time on dirt circuling around the oval track that you see on TV (don't know what it's call). the rally race kind of not a good example as the they are off road and sliding all the time.

 

guys relax it was the easiest way i could of think of to explain what a drift is without using a bunch of crazy @ss confusing sentences.

 

Nothing personal dude.Your explanation was really good. I was just trying to clear a common mis-conception that sticking the tail out was a really fast way to go around a corner.

 

A slight oversteer combined with AWD helps...

 

sweet machine.

 

1. kindly borrow trays from local mcdonalds, burger king, hardees, wendy's
2. place trays on ground and drive over them (back tire)
3. pull e-brake
4. drive and take turn..WHEEEEEE
5. return trays to respective place you got'em from.

 

correction

***** 5. Return REMAINING PEICES of trays to respective place you got'em from.


REMAINING PEICES *****