INTERESTED IN CAR DRIFT

    01 Things to do Before You Begin Drifting

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   Set up a cone in the middle of a safe area of tarmac. Drive up to the cone and rip the handbrake in an attempt to do a 180 degree handbrake turn. Practice this until you are no more, and no less than 180 degrees from when you started.
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   Learn how to counter-steer by ripping the handbrake from a speed of 30–40 mph (48–64 km/h) (anything less will cause an inadequate amount of momentum to get you around the cone) and trying to control the car to a destination until the car stops.
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   Increase speed of each of these things until you are comfortable
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   Try to do the 180 cone too.
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   Yep, you read that right, an LFA drift car. Yoichi Imamura had this one-off creation commissioned for various D1 GP demonstrations. In place of the high-revving V10 is a more powerful and reliable TRD NASCAR motor, which sounds especially sacrilegious, but there are rumours that this particular LFA’s original engine was wrecked by floodwater. And in any case, it’s hard not to be impressed watching the world’s most expensive drift car being hooned around like it’s an S15 missile.
6. Rear-wheel drive, a engine in the front and affordability are usually the key credentials for a successful drift machine. Daigo Saito obviously didn’t get the memo.

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   Just like Imamura’s LFA, this build will make some supercar purists cry out in horror. But on closer inspection, the level of craftsmanship that has gone into this car is astounding. Everything is custom, from the Ikeya drift steering arms to the ‘Daigo holes’ in the Perspex windows. Daigo hasn’t finished the development of his car yet so expect to see more of this machine in the coming years
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   3. Porsche 993 GT 2

   If there is one car that seems totally inappropriate for professional drifting it would be the Porsche 911. Thanks to the likes of Chris Harris we know the German machines can hold some serious angle, but in the super competitive world of Formula D all that weight hanging out over the back seems like a distinct disadvantage.

   No matter; that didn’t put off Jon Kane from JIG Magic, who converted his 1996 993 RS into a full-blown GT 2-spec drift machine. By the end of the 2008 Formula D season the car had certainly proved the doubters wrong by winning legions of fans and securing a podium position at the New Jersey round.

   The whereabouts of this car are now unknown but it was last reported for sale back in 2011
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