How hard is it to drift a Maxima? A friend of mine invited me to go with him and his friends to a track out in Palm Springs. I know that being FWD isn't going to help, neither is having an auto. But does anyone have any ideas on how to throw a Maxima sideways?

 

I really wouldnt reccomend it on dry surfaces, If you really want to, use the ebrake at higher speeds, that will help, but you wont be able to carry a long drift at all. If you live near snow, well then find a big parking lot covered in snow/ice and have fun, with hardly any friction you're less prone to damage anything, plus you can do plenty of long drifts.

 

 

You can drift it from the front for about as long as it takes to slam in to something. Oh wait, that is not drifting it is called understeer like a ****.

 

Pretty damn hard without a tight suspension (to reduce the bodyroll of a heavy Max) and a huge rear swaybar (to counter the moderate understeer of a nose-heavy Max).

 

Ebrake and some real crappy tires???

 

you could turn the motor the motor the right way and make it power the rear wheels. then you could drift all the time

 

Buy an old impala or Monte. Run her at your local 1/4 mile dirt or clay track.
Then post "exactly when are you not drifting"

 

You can drift a Maxima, but not like the ricer's do it. On the track, I was able to get my car into a four wheel drift a couple of times.

 

Having grippy front tires, non grippy rear tires, soft front springs, stiff rear springs, and an RSB set as aggressive as possible could make the max drift. I have drifted unintentionally around entire corners of a road course (i've got one on video actually, its pretty wild) at like probably 30* to the racing line when I was out at the road course last with bald rear tires. It will never drift like a RWD car but you can get the back end out very significantly. The difference is that in the drift cars they do it under power, in the max you do it only under deceleration and through a corner, as soon as you hit the gas you end the drift.

 

um i wouldn't recomend it, and it will be 2x harder sence your an auto. Good luck .

 

Thank for the input. I know the Maxima isn't for this type of driving but I figure, why not have fun until I buy a S13 next year.

 

coil overs on the stiffest setting possible. turbo and a 5 speed. crappy tires and light weight rims. that is the only way it would be ACTUAL drifting

 

steal two trays from mcdonalds, back up on them so they are on your rears,set your ebrake and have fun

 

thats called tray sliding. although fun...not drifting. taco bell has better trays

 

that reall works???
how long does it take for the plastic trays to melt to your tires???

 

they dont melt to your tires. all the heat builds up on the underside of the tray, and YES it works, i got a vid of my buddy doing it (in a maxima) on my comp. the trays eventually fall of, especially if you turn too hard

 

you should put that on here. i wanna see it

 

lemme get it, and see what format it is...brb

 

its a WMV and i cant host that on imagestation...ideas?

 

I guess you can drift a Maxima by going in reverse and some creative driving.

 

wtf is a drift on maxima? someone show me please...

 

who can host this viiiiiid. its is pretty funny, and its relatively short

 

did it going into college once. un intentional. wet out, rear end slid out, whipped wheel to the right (left turn) and just waited for it to come back around.

Arg, sorry I cant really help you SXN, I really want to see it though.

 

geocities says its invalid, and image station doesnt take that type of movie....suggestions?

 

www.we-todd-did-racing.com

 

ok well, i used that link...and im not 100% sure if this will work. if so

check out maxima "drifting" here

 

also, please save if to your comp instead of steaming. the file is tiny (really tiny) so dont kill the bandwidth just d-load it

 

Holy ****! How bad did you hit the curb?

 

haHAHAHh the video is funny. i want to try now.

 

save the tray trick for a parking lot

 

that's not a drift. that's more like "lost control".

FWD does NOT drift. period.

 

You can drift a Maxima....Look up the true defenition of drift, not the ricer style drift.

 

plain and simple drfiting a FWD car is simply a cool way to tell your friends you lost control around a turn and recovered... FWD drifiting and this thread are

 

"yes!!!!!! that was awesome"

"you're, you're crazy man"

 

 

look at what i posted i said a maxima would never "really" drift. i thought the video was funny, and it IS funny, that is the point. Your just mad happyricefob because i made fun of your instant noodles

 

WOW, that was absurdly cool

 

you can do it in the snow and rain all the time w/ ebrake, i was able to get a goo 50-60 degrees this snow storm going about 30mph, it may sopund stupid but once you get the hang of it, its very controllable. also i was driving at about 100mph and took a slight turn, i felt the tail slide just a bit, scary as all hell, thats what made me try it again

 

Um yeah. Nice thread. Considering you have to be on the gas to drift and not SLIDE, forget it in a fwd car/maxima/whatever.