Best advice.. Drifting

[TRL_Andromeda]

For the most part I agree with you, for the weight I usually try to keep it around 50/50. I do the same for tires, comfort hard in the front and comfort soft on the rear or mediums depending on the car and track. Back in gt5 I used to be horrible at drifting and could barely get bronze, I started watching the top 10 players replays. I noticed they had a lot of camber and were running CH and CS, after a lot of trail and error I now gold the drift trails and usually finish in the top 1000.
This is how I usually set a car for drifting, front: comfort hard rear: comfort soft or medium, the suspension I only change camber to F:10/R:10 sometimes I run a lower front camber. Transmission I reset it and lower max speed and only adjust final gear to fit me, I only mess with the individual gears if there is to much bogging in between gear changes. For the LSD, I turn acceleration up to 60, and for AWD cars turn the torque split to 10-35/75-90. Depending on the car I will use all power upgrades, and I usually do all weight reduction upgrades. Depending on how the car feels, I try to make the weight balance around 50/50 and if the car has downforce, lowering the rear down force helps.

Yep, that sounds like the right way, in my opinion.👍
Apart from the torque split, I have never come across a car that benefits from anything other than 10:90, unless its a drift trial on a rally track.
And also I always lower the front downforce to a minimum. Only once have I benefited from having front downforce, and that was when the event was PP restricted, so the car had not enough power, even with CH/CH.
Because of the downforce, racingcars usually is best to run with CH both front and rear. Only exeption is the deltawing.

 

[SilverSE102]

Yep, that sounds like the right way, in my opinion.👍
Apart from the torque split, I have never come across a car that benefits from anything other than 10:90, unless its a drift trial on a rally track.
And also I always lower the front downforce to a minimum. Only once have I benefited from having front downforce, and that was when the event was PP restricted, so the car had not enough power, even with CH/CH.
Because of the downforce, racingcars usually is best to run with CH both front and rear. Only exeption is the deltawing.

Yeah, you're right about the torque split. I use more torque on the front on the rally drifting events (snow and dirt). I'll have to try lowering the front downforce to see if it helps me, thanks for the tip. :tup:

 

[wedjim]

I have never done a drift seasonal and likely never will. I've tried a few times off line and it feels unnatural to me. That means it would require lots of effort and practice. But to me that's like practicing to get good as smash up derby.

My hearts just not in it. I'd rather race. #myunpopularopinion

To each his own.