Here is a strange question, I was driving up one of our curvy highways in hawaii and i decided to punch it going around a few corners, and it seemed to drift kind of easy,


has anyone ever set up their 01 or other year to drift?

what stuff did you put use to put on your car

 

Drifting a fwd? Frifting?

 

its not so much that you were drifting as you were powersliding, most likely due to simple tire slip. i do the same sometimes running redlights taking turns in intersections. drifting requires RWD and some skill. you were just going fast with some not good tires

 

WTF???? .........

 

HAHA! I know it sound like they're making the public streets their own autocross.

 

that's called understeer, not drifting

 

Fixed!!!!!!!oneoneone

 

Do you get it going 90 and then yank the ebrake?

 

maximas can't oversteer

they can only snow plow into things

 

Fixed AGAIN!!!!!!One

 

 

Sorry man, you can't drift a FWD. I can get a nice four wheel slide out of my Max (rear breaks loose when the front does) with the following - FSTB, RSB (set as low as it'll go), Tokicos - set 2 front, 3 rear. I also run a funny tire size - Yokohama 215/50/R17 (yeah, it's a little skinnier than stock). It's alot of fun, but you gotta watch it - a four wheel slide can put you in a ditch in a hurry.

 

You guys don't know what you are talking about. I can drift all the front wheel drive cars in Need for Speed Underground.

 

Things seem to be a bit different in Hawaii ...

 

my max oversteers, but i have a few more suspension mods then most, and its not like cool bada$$ slide but the rear being just heavy and stiff

 

this thread sucks

 

 

haha i hope thats a joke....

 

Actually, not quite true...if you know what u are doing and have the right setup, you can indeed induce a Max into a controlled oversteer condition.

I run a RSB and run the rear tires about three lbs softer than the fronts and I have several times induced a nice, easy, highly controllable (with brake pedal modulation) rear wheel slide or oversteer when turning into a corner while using some rather sizable 'trailing brake'. Obviously the 'slide' corrects when u apply power and unload the front end and inversely load the **** end, but bottom line, yes, you can oversteer a Maxima.

 

Oh no, Galos on the wine again ...

 

 

do you guys have any idea how silly our cars look taking a turn that hard? they look bad enough stock hauling @ss with the rear all sagging

 

Maybe yours looks silly with that sub in the trunk...

 

You do not need a RWD car to obtain oversteer (drifting.)
The maxima is a terrible example, but I have gotten it to oversteer autocrossing.
Here's the setup:
VERY high rear tire pressure to reduce traction and ensure zero tire roll over.
Moderate pressure in the front tires to ensure traction.
Enter the corner too fast for the normal maxima rotation.
Just before understeer has a chance to ruin your run, let of the throttle and tap the brake to tranfer all the weight to the front wheels. The front will bite and turn in. With the reduced weight and reduced traction, the back will break loose and swing arond.
When you apply the gas again, the back catchs and you go.
Of coarse, this took a few times to get right. The maxima wants to understeer like a pig. That' why I don't autocross it anymore.

That's how you create oversteer in a heavy a$$ FWD car like the maxima.

 

i dont think that is drifting either since you are being pulled around the turn. drifting needs RWD period... drifing is a controlled slide with more of the momentum of the car being perpendicular to the car than parallel

 

Wait for snow?

 

uhh....no??? yea i know my box is ridiculously heavy but first of all, i don't have a very good idea at what my own car looks like driving around, so i obviously base it off of other 4th and 5th gens i see driving around. in fact, i think the 4th gen's trunk sag is even WORSE than the 5th gens. but seriously, 5.5 gen GLE's look terrible stock when they're accelerating.

 

Mine doesnt sag...or roll..or dive, BUT I also run coilovers

 

FF's can drift also. They do it in japan.

 

It's certainly not the same as the "sport" of drifting. However, it is a serious oversteer situation in which you have to counter steer to keep the front end living up to it's name. The result is a sideways slide of the back wheels. I call that drifting through a turn. Everyone else in G-stock called it a miracle.
Not nearly as much fun as taking an s2000 through a mountain road sideways, but still drifting.