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ok i want to drift my mk3 been joking around alot about it with projectrb26dett but seriously how would i go about setting the car up to drift any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated :confused:

oh yea theres also going to be a v8 underthe hood with atleast 600hp so some serious ideas are needed here :D
 
I dont see why you bother David... Sure you'll be able to drift it with some work, but you'll never be able to keep up with me! 240's are made for the sport and even in my dreams im running around all sideways. YOU SHALL NEVER OUT DRIFT ME! MWAA HAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA! :D :cool: :p
 
Some nice stiff adjustable coilovers, a couple of sway bars, some Neovas...naw j/p, some good tires, and idk what else. Im performance oriented, so Im not too savvy with creating a drift car. Sorry lol.
 
TurboDreams954 said:
stiffen up the suspension and weld the diff. and bam drift car
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WELD THE DIFF?!?! Dude! the Turbo MK3 comes stock with an LSD! He doesn't need to weld the Diff!
 
wow a bunch of n00bs (except for altezza girl shes the bomb)

a 600hp car isnt that great to start out with since alot of what real drifting is is throttle control, the more power the harder (not always but 600hp is in that range of really difficult) it is to control and to learn with that your gonna probly end up in a wall. We have said it before and we will say it again and again SUSPENSION FIRST!!!!

drifting is not about power its about balence. power can help but only if the car is balenced enough to benifit from more power and MKIII is not right out of the box. its heavy cumbersome and generally not a balenced car but it does have a good suspension set up from the factory its too soft and underdampened stock but you can always fix that. Coilovers are a very good choice as a first step I would suggest Kei office XT's for it. Increadable coilovers from what i have heard but very expensive but they sound like they are worth every penny. then you want to replace all your old rubber bushings with polyurathane or solid heim joints.

tires are very important especially on a heavy car that is prone to understeer like the MKIII you will need really good grippy tires up front and in like a 245/40/17 that would give you enough rubber to controll the under. Now any other person i would tell them to put **** tires on the rear but you are differnt for having more power than brains. Your gonna need even bigger tires on the back like 275-305/40/ 17s just to get traction, plan to spend a ****load on tires.
 
altezzagirl said:
Im performance oriented, so Im not too savvy with creating a drift car.
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So you're saying drifting is not about being performance oriented? Interesting.

Anyhow, this forum is filled with subjective information. Everyone has their own idea and opinion. The trick to drifting is to use what you feel comfortable with the most. If you setup a car for waaaay too much oversteer, the car will be close to unpredictable, highly unstable and really hard to control. So just because you want to have a maximum slip angle, doesnt mean you have to keep increasing your oversteer to the max.

Truth is, you have LSD already. That's a very good plus. Start sliding the car as it is and see how you like it. Try to get used to it, then see how you like it. Does it oversteer too much? Or does it understeer? The first step is to work with what's free.

You can change your tire pressures to create more/less oversteer. Also, by disconnecting your sway bars (depending on which one) you can also achieve more/less oversteer. Fine tune it to your liking and see what you would like best. Balance the car to your liking, to what makes it easiest for you to get sideways and hold it there. Remember everything you do compromises something else. It's just a matter of working with what you have.

Here is one common misconception and where a lot of people lose a lot of time and fun. Dont go all out modifying your car. Use your money in your skills... such as tires, events, etc... improve yourself instead of improving the car. In the long run you will have more experience and more fun, instead of just putting money on the car and not having anything else to spend on events.

After you've experienced everything I mentioned above, you should start looking into suspension as your first modification. Jeepster118 drifts a car with less than 100whp and he does an amazing job at it. Assuming you already know the basics of suspension tuning (what causes oversteer/understeer) you should look for the springs/shocks (or coilovers) whose spring rates match what you would want best. A stiffer rear end would usually cause more oversteer so you might want to try something like that.

Concisely, your car should be setup to your liking. Beyond that it's all practicing and having fun.
 
thanks for the info but i am also going with 600hp because that was the original idea for this car befor the thought of drifting it but thanks for the suspension info yall have supplied for me
 
rwdrift said:
So you're saying drifting is not about being performance oriented? Interesting.

Here is one common misconception and where a lot of people lose a lot of time and fun. Dont go all out modifying your car. Use your money in your skills... such as tires, events, etc... improve yourself instead of improving the car. In the long run you will have more experience and more fun, instead of just putting money on the car and not having anything else to spend on events.

After you've experienced everything I mentioned above, you should start looking into suspension as your first modification. Jeepster118 drifts a car with less than 100whp and he does an amazing job at it. Assuming you already know the basics of suspension tuning (what causes oversteer/understeer) you should look for the springs/shocks (or coilovers) whose spring rates match what you would want best. A stiffer rear end would usually cause more oversteer so you might want to try something like that.

Concisely, your car should be setup to your liking. Beyond that it's all practicing and having fun.
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couldnt have said it better my self I heart you erick everytime I try to explain something is makes no sense and then you come behind me and say what I wanted to say.
 
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