i learned by doing it. i just went in a parkinglot with my friends 89 240 and started kicking the clutch. you learn eventually drifting is not so much initiated but controlling. its easy to get the car loose its the proper countersteering you have to work on. too much ull understeer like i did almost hittin my "clipping point" i set up a cone:p or too little and there wont be much angle to play with. dont use the throttle so much. get used to the feel of being sideways. before i actually start practicing i do circles both directions to get me a feel for it. try and keep them wide maybe two cars parked side by side and try going around them. i dont use the ebrake either. i hate it. it works i just like the feel of feiting around a building and kicking the clutch. wow ive never held my concentration this long ha. well thats my adice. hope i helped

 

seat time at a track.

 

http://www.stockton99.com/schedule.html

 

You could gladly show the lady how to take the thing apart and shim it......***.

Fluid changes are the lazy mans fix. So is cutting up beer cans or brake cleaner cans to make shims out of but raising the break away torque is a better fix than changing the fluid alone and it's FREEEEEEEEEEE!

 

fixed

 

Damzil and I both agreed that since she just purchased the car a round the house fluid change is in order. So since she is going to change out the diff fluid might as well skip on the LSD additive because the clutches are so worn out anyways.

Just something temporary until she figures out what she wants to do with the car... fix it up and sell it or fix it up a lot and keep it. If she decides to keep it then rebuilding the LSD seems like a good Christmas present for her

So please don't call me names as name calling is never warranted. Thanks.

 

So you're saying you're too lazy to do a FREE mod to make the diff lock better?

K.....

 

I just attended "Drift Nirvana" at Summit Point Motorsports Park in West Virginia and had a blast on the skidpad...

Eileen, don't be afraid of looking bad, there'll be noobs there that will be worse than you.

I thought I was gonna take that cake home by sliding my frined's 1989 GTUs off the track and into an 8 inch deep mud puddle (It was raining for most of yesterday.)
Turns out that there were plenty of people, even experienced drifters that did that.

One guy took his exhaust almost all the way off, and another guy took his rear bumper off in the same mud puddle. I got off with a pretty much dirty car.

The rules were as follows, 5 mins of track time and GTFO for the next driver. Or if you need the tow truck to get you out of the mud, you GTFO... Multiple driver cars, swap drivers.

My buddies and I were all piled into an RX-8, occupying all four seats and playing "Chinese Fire Drills" when it was switch time.

There was one fool there in an Oldsmobile Intrigue... FWD, Automatic... And an E-brake that you have to put your left foot on to apply and then hit it HARDER to release...

But the idea is to go out and have fun... Forget looking good.


I've got the bad habit of either not getting the drive initiated right, by speeding up around the curve until I start understeering or applying TOO MUCH power to initiate the drift or during the drift and spinning a complete 180 or 360.

If you can drive the car home, consider it a good day... I saw a couple people that needed a wrecker, including an unnamed member of this forum...

He probably coulda made it home at very low speed; with a trash bag for a driver's window; after having climbed in the passenger's door... He had smashed up the ENTIRE driver's side... Door wouldn't open, fender crushed into the wheel, and front suspension was nicely bent.

$20 for a day worth of freestyle drifting and a chance to chat up a bunch of car enthusiasts... Hells yeah.

 

^ Sounds like you had a blast! Damzil and I gotta go out to W. Virginia sometime lol.

 

This thread is awesome. I'm in the process of building a sbc/t5 swapped 2nd gen drifter... Hopefully have it running in 3wks lol I can not wait to get it sideways. I know just a bit from some muscle cars. I think a lot of the thoughtful advice given so far is good, start small and safe and get track time and forget who's looking. Some clutch kicking and power on oversteer will have a grin on your face thats worth a lot more than what other people think!