Are people dumb? They are just as popular to drift as a fr car. Im just venting sorry but doesn't it annoy anyone else to hear such things? still dont believe me?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lOehPKsbVaU

 

I'm guessing you mean,
MID-engine / REAR-wheel drive cars right?


MR cars are absolutely driftable.


Whoever says they can't... well... you pretty much know they have
no clue about automobiles.

Although they can,
MR cars are way more difficult to sustain and maintain drifts.
The extra weight in the rear gives the driver a harder time to not let
the car spin around.

I'd get all technical, but I only have 1 minute to spare before I go work.

But you get the picture.

 

Vehicles with severe oversteer tend to be unforgiving when one gets the tail hung out too far.

Neutral or understeering chassis with rear drive are easy to 'drift,' tail heavy cars that oversteer swap ends so fast there is almost no chance to catch them.

(...getting even slightly 'tail out' in my old Porsche was just an interesting way to back rapidly into the hay bails...)

Tomas

 

the only problem with drifting RR cars is that all the weight is in fact in the rear. This causes the oversteering to be more pronounced because more weight is farther away from the center point. With a skilled driver though, it shouldn't be TOO much of a problem

 

ya, mid engined cars just require more care on your entry and you must take care not to use too much angle because in fact as you all have said, it will eat you alive because your weight is in the rear. Ive driven a friends mr2 and we screwed around in our fair share of parking lots and stuff and its just another style of driving to get used to, its not harder just different. i used to own a 240sx that i used to have major fun with to drift and stuff and its the same concept with a mid engined car just slight adjustments in style. It just annoys the crap out of me when people say it cant be done or whenever someone says "oh they are soo stupid for trying to drift an nsx or mr2 etc." No commen sense to look at the physics of the car or anything. =)

 

Drifting in a 911 were the best times of my life. Turn into a left hand corner, flick it a bit to get the tail coming around, catch by turning into the drift, steer the rest of the way around the turn with the gas pedal, now you will scrub off some speed, come to the end of the turn and floor the gas and you are going straight into the straight or setting up for the next turn.

 

Yup, the 911 was a whole lot more forgiving than the 356, especially at speed. It was a lot better in the 356s to just try to track without hanging it out.

I used to watch a lot of folks back rapidly into the pucker brush when they let 'em get just a little bit out of line. The 356s can round a corner a little tail out, but the line was so thin that it was usually best not to even try - it took a LOT of work, and the slightest change in surface or line could mean driving in you rear view mirrors at high speeds.

Tomas

 

Tomas...I think the difference was that the 911 had the power to enable you to throttle steer. It's hard to belive that my 356 Normal coupe was 60 HP. That left you with no margin of error.

 

another kool video with my other baby in it =) well not mine cause mine is red but you know what i mean http://youtube.com/watch?v=iyw22Xs__6Y

 

Hey Tomas, my dad owned a '62 356 B a couple years ago. He sold it before I learned to drive, sadly.

Not a great post or anything, just thought I'd throw that out there.

 

(I was still young when I had mine, and I only kept it long enough to realize that there really wasn't any way I could afford to keep a '59 Porsche Speedster running if I flogged it. It was MGs after that.)

Tomas

 

i just got officially thread jacked