Vettes drifting?
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Vettes drifting?
Hey guys,
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
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Originally Posted by abnormal_vetter
Hey guys,
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
I pretty much did a little of it as I was accelerating thru oversteering
..... but not anything like these other guys.
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Originally Posted by BT-01-vette
If you live in NJ or close to it, look into Raceway Park in English Town or your local track. Etown has a amature drifting nights about once a week.
Anyway, I like to practice in a large parking lot in the rain. Less friction = less wear on the tires. It IS alot of fun! In a dry lot, I'll practice it when my tires are about to get replaced.
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Originally Posted by abnormal_vetter
Hey guys,
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
I went and saw some illegal street drifting last night and i'm absolutely hooked! what a great racing technique! my question is, is it possible to get a corvette drifting at all? C4 or C5? i have been reading posts regarding japanese cars and they say you can jump straight into a nissan 240sx and go for your life. i love that whole fast and the furious sub-culture guys, with those turbo's and extreme body kits but i'm just TOO much of a vette nut to buy one of them! which vette is best? is there a vette drifting group in the US? what mods do you have to do? any ideas/info/pics would be great?
thanks for this guys, greatly appreciated.
It's one thing to get the back end out and it's another thing to keep it there. I would think the C5, with near 50/50 balance, would be great candidate. I never did it intentionally but a C5 is a farly easy car to recover once the back end gets loose.
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Originally Posted by mikes99corvette
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ok i took my vette to a big parking lot in the rain and was playing around the vette can drift but its not has easy the car lieks to be straight and will lose the back if you goo to far but it drifts ok nothing like my friends 240 that thing just loves too goo side ways lol - the main thing is practice i notices the more i doo it the better and longer the drifts are but the vette is just not the car to do it with- buy a 240 my friend got one for $800 have your fun in that -
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Originally Posted by Darkness
And I'm pretty sure some of those cars are front wheel drive.
Really?
I thought that the car must be rear wheel drive?
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I've never been a drifting fan and don't understand the point of wasting good tires or throwing up rubber on your paint, in the amounts drifting does.
Sure you waste good tires in drag racing but not like in drifting.
I guess being from another generation, I can't except a new style of racing, at least not yet.
Sure you waste good tires in drag racing but not like in drifting.
I guess being from another generation, I can't except a new style of racing, at least not yet.
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Originally Posted by Shylor
I've never been a drifting fan and don't understand the point of wasting good tires or throwing up rubber on your paint, in the amounts drifting does.
Sure you waste good tires in drag racing but not like in drifting.
I guess being from another generation, I can't except a new style of racing, at least not yet.
Sure you waste good tires in drag racing but not like in drifting.
I guess being from another generation, I can't except a new style of racing, at least not yet.
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Originally Posted by Jserman
drifting a vette is cake... turn your traction control to off and go play....
Not that I would ever do or try such a thing. I always obay they speed limit too. 
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One would think the C5 does not make a good candidate for drifting because of the nearly 50/50 weight ratio and the tire widths/traction. Remember, the C5 was engineered for it's agility, excellent straight line accealleration and cornering ability. If the car is sliding (drifting) then it's not exercising good agility. There may be other varibles involved, but at this point I would say no to drifting.
The Vider makes a good canidate because of the extreme offset of the weight distribution ratio and poor cornering ability. How many major NEXTEL cups and Le mans races has it own???
The Vider makes a good canidate because of the extreme offset of the weight distribution ratio and poor cornering ability. How many major NEXTEL cups and Le mans races has it own???
