Sliding, I wouldn't consider what I did drifting, but a friend of mine owns a restaurant and has an empty lot behind the restaurant that's bigger than a football field. The other day I had seen it completely empty and asked him if I could do a few tricks and he agreed to it. So I tok TSC off..and..well..I was sliding ALL OVER THE PLACE. I'm gonna see if I can borrow a video camera from a friend and record a tape soon.

 

hi. i dunno if someone already brought this up somewheres but i dun wanna read thru every message in the forum so anyways. ya i try drifting my eight and i do the shift lock and clutch kicking and it works well and all but i wanna start doing more proffesional drifts. the long drifts with hard angles but the thing is. . .the ebrake. the best drifters say to use the ebrake in a drift to keep it sideways and with a good angle but with my car the ebrake like. . .doesnt lock when driving. i need a way to make it lock the rears. can anyone help?

 

^^ I agree, our e-brake is pretty weak..I was using the Cut the wheel, gas, gas, gas, cut back, SLAM GAS and slide....I have an auto and it works for me..

 

well 3 of us rx-8 member, me, hyiung and azmee went to drift with the KSOC members on an open space with huge car parks for exhibition.
hyiung's car is Type S 6MT, Azmee one is 4AT, Mine is type E 4AT. everyone off their DSC and drift, Azmee's car drift fine, Hyiung's car drift fine too. but mine couldn't drift. what might be the main problem? Tires? or ECU tuning? we drift using 1st gear. azmee & another experienced driver tried my car and found that the car is going front but not side ways. well ... anyone got this experience before? DSC is off and we can feel it. just that its not drifting.

 

i am using 225 / 45 R 16 i think this "More grip in the rear vs the front can cause you to experience understeer, hence you won't ba able to oversteer." is what happened to me.

 

Quote from rx8Maine:
""OK, back to the original subject.

I am not a fan of "drifting" per se, but I would like to be able to get the back end out at the skid pad to practice the recovery, which I have heard is very touchy in this car.

I was at a skid pad event last year with my STi and an older couple was playing with their bone stock RX-8 and could not control the oversteer. When the back end stepped out, it was a spin every time. I don't want to discover that problem for the first time on the track at speed in a corner with a lack of runoff. I never asked them how they were getting it loose, but it seemed liek they were getting power oversteer in second at low speeds.

I added -1 degree of negative camber up front with 7 degrees of caster and know for a fact that the car will try to step out if I lift in a corner, but WILL NOT POWER OVERSTEER in second gear. It is glued. While that is a good thing, I wish there were a way to get it uncomposed so that I can learn how to recover it. The problem with using a throttle lift to induce oversteer is that it is too short lived. The car will either skid to a stop once sideways, or will immediately hook up if I add throttle back in.

Any suggestions?""

my car has same synpthom

 

you guys start a drifting thread and don't hit up drifter d???

i'll just chime in with a few things: 1) tho the 8 comes with an LSD, you NEED an aftermarket LSD, 2) we have a parking brake, not an e-brake - it sucks and cannot be used like the e-brake in my S13, 3) boost does wonders... heh heh.

dd sends...

 

Thx man~! the LSD info really helps. i feel better now.

 

Pics of teh car?

 

more than likely you are running too much rear camber ...

 

^^ when I had my car aligned I think the factory rear camber was -2.0

I let it out to about -1.5/-1.6 or so to help balance it out a bit.

 

LOL are you serious? sorry, i didnt read the thread, but once i got to this post i was just in disbelief.

 

Drifting is cool and I would love to learn how to drift. But it is by far one of the more exspensive car hobbies. If you wnat to be good your going to have to go through a lot of tires and unless your sponsored unlike most of us you don't have that kind of cash to spend. Plus I like totry keep my car in control not try to manipulate it when its out of control. I'm road course all the way.

 

hi guys, glad to know of so many others that are into drifting and are drifting in their 8s.

I have a dilemma, I am comtempting on the new RX8 6AT (with peddle shift). I am quite worried I will have hell lots of problem drifting in the 6AT transmission and that the gearbox might give way sooner as compared to a 6MT transmission. Some of u guys might ask, why a 6AT ? The spouse thingy of coz

any pointers to share ?

 

Get a new spouse.

 

tell her she has to learn manual to drive or she doesn't drive at all!

 

I do reasonably regular days on a skid pan and -2 is WAY to much rear camber. 1.5 is about right. I have some video I am putting together of the day we had yesterday. WIll put it up when I am done.

Cheers

Andrew

 

Andrew,

Look forward to seeing the video!

dd sends...

 

Here ya go. 1.5 min but 40meg :-( sorry cant be bothered converting it. WB is my wife and I and the VR is MissyK.

http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/videos/Skidpan.mpg

Cheers

Andrew

 

Very hard to drift in a car that has very little torque. The AT has a torque convertor which reduces the AT's torque even further than the MT. I reckon it would be a better idea to teach the better half to drive manual

CHeers

Andrew

 

does a sentra count ?
ask chrism how I drift onto Onramps !!!

 

If it was offroads stuff I might be interested, to much of this lately:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...94-661,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...94-661,00.html

 

I'd recommend buying some stock tires off of this site for cheap and get to a drift day. It doesn't cost as much as you would think. Most of the people there are cool and will teach you all kinds of stuff. The car drifts descently well stock too. 1.5 rear feels pretty good too.



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