What is the Best car to drift in.

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If I have a limited budget what sort of car do you recommend that I get as a drift car? (I guess I'm after cheap parts and reliability.)
 
fair S13 silvia/200sx 's go for a grand on ebay. check local scrappys n stuff for cat c's and d's as these have mostly light cosmetic damage and need things like bumpers and headlights etc, stuff you may already be planning on changing.

also the AE86 (hachi roku) corolla is a great drift car, but expensive to buy these days, most live in ireland.
 
my personal choise would be any rwd nissan as their are quite a fiew and most parts are inter change able eg my mates s14 bumper fits my r32 skyline and even the tie rod ends from the skyline fit the s13, cefiro and laurel
but the best drifter i believe from nissan is the cefiro with manual conversion as it has the perfect balance of weight to controlability meaning it will continue going sedeways once outside the bend and will straighten up unlike the heavier cars like the laurel and toyota supra
although for a beginner a silvia or 200sx is probably best because it is lighter and easier to controle
i woulde not go with a 180sx unless you have a little more money as the engine needs to be blown before it has sufficient power to drift properly (although are fantastic fun once blown)
 
350z are good - what about a lexus it is possible to get a Supra Engine in a Lexus so this would make big power. There are also a number of supercharger conversions about for the Lexus.
 
the toyota alteza or lexus arnt as good as the nissan silvias there not as balanced + u dont need to spend as much on the set up as they are more common in the drifting scene so parts are also more available all u need 2 du is the suspention shim the stock lsd and fit urself a st of rims and ur set then u can start giving the powerplant a fiew more hoarse
 
I did get an A3! Trouble is it's FWD so not very good for drifting. The 4WD a3 may have been a better bet as this can be made RWD with a different box/driveshaft/Diff etc. Still probably too much hassle.
 
Porsche 924 or 944. These things are amazingly balanced with engine up front and the gearbox in the rear axle. you can drift them forever and it is sooo difficult to over do it and spin it. Great fun :D
 
Mid engine & rear traction is not my favourite choice for drifting - the weight is a little to well balanced for my personal taste.
 
The only mid engined car I have had any real driving experience with is a Toyota MR2, and they a too snatchy for a drifting car.

You can slide Volvo 360's round quite well too. I'm suprised that no one has said MK2 Escort yet.
 
drift car?

toyota mr2,s are great at drifting, but look out for one with a l,s,d, i have one for sale if youre interested, 95 (m) silver 18" alloys and usual import spec, let me know,
 
2nd Gen RX7 is a pretty good drifter. Can be picked up for a song too.. just beware of the mileage. Try and buy with a rebuilt engine.

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I really respect the AE86 - it's amazing an older car built for everyday use is so perfectly setup for drifting! Have you seen the Initial D movie - the star of that is as AE86!
 
The MX5's are really nice - very good handling the only problem is a lack of power but you can get a supercharger kit that addresses that.
 
Drifty 200SX? Great.

MX-5? Great also.

But so is a RWD Skyline, a 350Z, a 300ZX, Lamborghini Gallardo....

If you're learning, you need a Sierra you do.

Remember, you WILL stack it at some point. Maybe you'll just damage a rim... bad enough on a sexy Nissan, not an issue on a tramp spec Sierra. Throw on the spare, and pay a visit to a scrappy for a new steelie.

And if you do more damage? you'll be really upset if you cave in your rear quarter on your sexy 200sx.. your tramp spec Sierra didn't even cost you £100, and even I can swallow that as a lesson.

Once you can do it, then get yourself something sexy, like the aforementioned 200SX.

Just please don't go slamming on a monstrous wing if you don't need it, thats tartiness for tartinesses sake.

And if you can drift well in a tramp spec Sierra, you'll look really cool in a proper drift weapon :D

Good luck in your slidey exploits!

:edit: And in the wet, even a 1.6 Sierra will drift like a good 'un. Trust me, that's how I learned....
 
the supra is a rwd drive car i think and thats got -plenty of engine power so with a few tweaks here and there with uprated suspension and the like you have a ready to drift car which looks the bomb. but to be honest it will always be the nissan 200sx for me.
 
seeing that drifting came from japan i am happy that the best drift weapons come from japan. its not good when something becomes a pawn in the giant commercial workings of huge corporate companies from countries such as america. which by the way have a better drift scene than britain which i find a crying shame. :(
 
Drifting is still a sport that is accessible to many drivers and ameteur teams. Im sure it will end up commercialised like F1 with big money winning the prizes but lets enjoy it and campaign to keep it REAL!
 
thank you xavier. but waynne is right. drifting shall end up with the big corporate machines sucking the life from it. which is of course where amateurs come in. it is after all amateurs who become pros. and it is the divers not the company that makes the sport. F1 drivers become greedy but if drifters stay with their street roots then it will always be fun and unpredictable. look at ken nomura is it not his own garage that most parts and repairs come from?
 
Commercialisation?

For me, the D1, EDC and all that do nothing but good for the sport, we all need someone to be throwing dough at the sport to help get awareness up.

However..... as far as I'm concerned, the little 'uns are what'll keep drifting going.

It's all good watching Nomura and co. with their £20,000 drifters doing it proper, but people need to know that it can be done on a proper budget.

Example? My Nissan Silvia S12 Turbo owes me about £130.

Get something RWD (can people please stop suggesting FWD stuff? Thats just silliness. If he wanted something to handbrake turn in, he'd have asked), properly cheap, weld the diff and find somewhere to practice.
 
of course drew, the hardest part about the whole thiing is getting somewhere to practice. i mean there arent that many wide open spaces around that are flat enough to learn how to drift on and i would never consider learning on the road. just too risky. what may be possible is that if there are any unused airfields around then a group of you can get together and just clear the place as much as possible. airfiled usually mean large flat wide spaces away from heavily populated areas.

commercialism is turning sports into very lax operations. i know that this is a car forum, however i must bring up the point of cross country mountain biking. now that it is an olympic sport, tonnes of money is being ploughed into it and yet there are only two riders worth mentioning in the whole of the world cup series for britain. everything else is going foreign. what drifting requires is the new people who are bringing the talent and new theories and ideas to the drift world. perhaps one of these talented young drifters can get round a corner using a method that allows him to keep a much faster pace. everyone is heading to perfectionism, however if too much money is ploughed into the sport then people will begin to think that they have made it and therefore will not push forwards towards development of pre-existing ideas. without the money people will keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible in their vehicle.
here ends a rant.
TTT
 
no it is fwd and crap for drifting, almost impossable, and deffinatly not good for learning.

i would go for something like a bmw 325i or something to learn in.

you get get them for as little as 5-600 pounds
 
Well, I've seen a nice 316i on Ebay. That should be fine, should it?

But I'll also keep my present car for every day driving and will aim to do some tuning to it as well :) That's under the condition of getting that new job ;)
 
Power is not that good on the 316 but an engine swap can sort that. Get a locked diff and you will have a good basic drifter there Nightcat.
 
as waynne says there is not much power in the 316i, if i were you, i would get a 320i as it has a nice bit of power and basically, you need the power to spin the wheels to push the rear out, without that power it will go out, but only for a short while and will be v hard to keep it out if it does stay out at all.
 
waynne said:
:lol: The 200SX is a fine car. It's a shame there are no really good british cars that are RWD!
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old TVR's, triumphs, ginneta's, lotus, there are probably more but i cant think of any atm.

i for one would like to drift with a TVR, it would take a LOT of skill but would be very satisfying imo
 
steve09 said:
old TVR's, triumphs, ginneta's, lotus, there are probably more but i cant think of any atm.

i for one would like to drift with a TVR, it would take a LOT of skill but would be very satisfying imo
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I'm sorry to say, although good cars they do not compare to 944. And you can get a 944 in a reasonable condition for under a grand now :love: I'd love to take a TVR out though as well :lol:
 
Nightcat said:
I'm sorry to say, although good cars they do not compare to 944. And you can get a 944 in a reasonable condition for under a grand now :love: I'd love to take a TVR out though as well :lol:
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umm,,,, i was responding to the post waynne said about old british cars as the 944 is not british, german, althou a good car, not very british now is it :p
 
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