Hey, i know this has probably been asked before, but what is the best way to drift and powerslide in an AWD car. I know how to do it in a RWD, and after the drift starts in an AWD i can do it, but what is the best way to induce the drift. I have heard that pulling the e-break is bad for the diff because it gets the wheels spinning at diffrent speeds. If u cant do it by pulling the break, how can u?
go on youtube and type in rwd sti, you'll find some STI's that are good at drifting. A friend told me they take out the front drive shaft or something. same with evo's, look for rwd evo on youtube as well
Your newb-ness is very evident Shawn07sti. As stated earlier, watch the F&F Tokyo drift special features and listen to how many breakages they went through with their RWD Evo. The cars weren't meant to be RWD.
i don't know about other years, but my '07 sti's dccd allows anything from a locked diff to 35/65 on a sliding scale. you can bias the car at several different increments between the two extremes. i've found that the ability to lock the diff can be very advantageous in deeper snow. usually, i just use the automatic setting which determines the best possible distribution of engine power.
As a side note, the amount of power my car can put out can easily overwhelm the differential, which then allows a significant amount of it to go to my spinning rear tires (since they quickly become the path or least resistance when cornering sharply). This can create a very effective 'drift', although i haven't exploited this at very high speeds for the simple fact that i don't want to crash my car. My uncle is a mechanic, and he explained to me the type of differential that subaru uses allows this by means of its mechanism. i'm not sure if this applies to non-sti or not. can anybody shed some further light on this?
After we get done doing the HPDE events at the Circuit we always go out and slide around. Drifting in a WRX is not that hard, or dangerous. Just don't do it on the street. Granted, the tires I slid on where a set of Hankooks that had a traction rating of about "We're as sticky as a greased pig". Sliding in a controlled environment, good, sliding on the street, fail.
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