General Drifting Chat {Today's topic: Your most wanted Premuim car/track for DLC}

[D-Max]

I know £2000 is actually quite cheap, it only gets cheaper as you get older due to the NCB, otherwise you'll be paying around £7000 for insurance without your NCB. I'm 17 now and reality is, I probably won't be able to even insure a car until i'm 20 odd because filthy chavs think it's okay to drive/crash their saxo's. All payed for by their doll money.

1.1 pug 106, old clio etc.. get a parent insured and you as a second driver. i have a mate, 18 paying £1200 for a 2.4 fiat stilo gp shumacher. A very fast car! affordable because his dads the main driver

 

[Jesus]

1.1 pug 106, old clio etc.. get a parent insured and you as a second driver. i have a mate, 18 paying £1200 for a 2.4 fiat stilo gp shumacher. A very fast car! affordable because his dads the main driver

I can't be a named driver because none of my family drives, plus I won't have any money for it anyway as I'm going down the university route. Bad times

 

[Stavingo]

Yeah, P plater rules are crap though, only having 4 demerit points

Meh, better than nothing and can save you on some petty fines.

 

[Powellx235]

Jimmy its either that or buy a carvan, as their comercial their alot cheaper.

I'm pretty sure my parents wont insure me on their licence as they did with my big brother and he drives vans for my father and he crashed twice in 3 months, (one wasnt his fault. a car ran into the back of him. the other, the taillights werent working on the car infront and it suddenly braked, but theirs no proof)

Anyways, I saw a mk4 supra TT over here!

 

[ps3dan101]

I'm insured on a 1.3 mk2 golf , if you can try and get insured on a relatives fleet buisness insurance , I'm on my dad's companies fleet insurance so it only costs £1000 and I'm the only driver on the policy

 

[nk4e]

Has anyone heard from that member who wrote a article about the drifting forum?

 

[Powellx235]

I'm insured on a 1.3 mk2 golf , if you can try and get insured on a relatives fleet buisness insurance , I'm on my dad's companies fleet insurance so it only costs £1000 and I'm the only driver on the policy

We don't use a fleet policy. If you have to claim in one vehicle it affects the whole fleet..

 

[Stavingo]

Has anyone heard from that member who wrote a article about the drifting forum?

lol nope, can I have a link?

 

[nk4e]

lol nope, can I have a link?

link

 

[Stavingo]

Never even saw it pop up anywhere, wonder what happened....

 

[zedfonsie]

I Prefer 2 way lsd. Problem is gt5 doesn't let you have an option to have a 1 way 1.5 way or 2 way diff when you buy it, you kinda gotta guess.

Welded are ok if your on a budget and don't mind the tire wear and that screech every time you turn.

 

[Powellx235]

Locked is 60/60/60,
1.5-way is 30/60/60
2-way is 5/60/60

I allmost allmost use 2-way, (5/60/60) cause its not as snappy when countersteering on a wheel.

 

[monsterGAUZ]

Locked is 60/60/60,
1.5-way is 30/60/60
2-way is 5/60/60

I allmost allmost use 2-way, (5/60/60) cause its not as snappy when countersteering on a wheel.

I know so much about cars and played GT for so long but I still don't get GT's way of setting a diff and what people mean with 1 way, 1.5 way or 2 way...

I know it has something to do with how much lock the diff has but everybody tells something different...

 

[Powellx235]

Well I'm no expert but I know the basics, and the effects.

The torque setting has to do with how much force it takes to lock the diff. If the car has around 400-500hp you would put, 30/60/60, because if you put 5/60/60, it wouldnt lock fast enough/properly. anything over put 5/60/60 cause you have the power. Anything less, not definately 60/60/60, but if the car is shallowing out, or its hard to get it out, you keep raising it until you find it stepping out easy enough.

But be careful, the more you tighten it, the harder it gets to transition.

 

[monsterGAUZ]

Well I'm no expert but I know the basics, and the effects.

The torque setting has to do with how much force it takes to lock the diff. If the car has around 400-500hp you would put, 30/60/60, because if you put 5/60/60, it wouldnt lock fast enough/properly. anything over put 5/60/60 cause you have the power. Anything less, not definately 60/60/60, but if the car is shallowing out, or its hard to get it out, you keep raising it until you find it stepping out easy enough.

But be careful, the more you tighten it, the harder it gets to transition.

Mmmmkay thanks

 

[The OG TomKat]

Alright everyone LISTEN UP the time is almost here for the First Ever "Kush Drift Cup". It will be going down on 9/11 so i need ALL team submissions in by 9/5 (private message me here on gtplanet for your entry). i hope to see a good turn out thank you.

 

[SPANK]

Thanks for the speech! lol

 

[The OG TomKat]

anytime spank. you need a speech call me i can rally troops.

 

[SPANK]

Thanks! 👍

 

[ps3dan101]

I've always though the same about diffs as you Powell , but I'm not sure , I'm gonna experiment tomorrow to see if I can get my head around it

 

[Knight Spirit]

Well I'm no expert but I know the basics, and the effects.

The torque setting has to do with how much force it takes to lock the diff. If the car has around 400-500hp you would put, 30/60/60, because if you put 5/60/60, it wouldnt lock fast enough/properly. anything over put 5/60/60 cause you have the power. Anything less, not definately 60/60/60, but if the car is shallowing out, or its hard to get it out, you keep raising it until you find it stepping out easy enough.

But be careful, the more you tighten it, the harder it gets to transition.

Cheers powell, never really understood that...

 

[The OG TomKat]

so im thinking of starting a thread saying Do Not post a thread saying looking for a team or tune set up just search. maybe the mods will see that and pay attention. what do you all think

 

[SPANK]

It wont work

 

[nk4e]

so im thinking of starting a thread saying Do Not post a thread saying looking for a team or tune set up just search. maybe the mods will see that and pay attention. what do you all think

Linky

Because the mods are only human and can only monitor when they're on. If no one is on when you report, nobody will respond.

We're only human. Consider that over a hundred new posts enter the queue during peak activity periods every five minutes, we can't see everything.

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While I agree that off-topicness and duplicate posts are a problem, they're a problem everywhere, not just the drift forum. The suggestion for minimum number of posts has been brought up before, specifically for the Marketplace. The problem is: A minimum post requirement would just encourage more spam. Something we had to crack down on in the "Introduce Yourself" subforum, where certain members posted simply to boost their post count.

In other words, there are no easy answers, except perhaps a two-minute IQ test to be taken with every post. Which would be problematic. Simply continue to report problematic posts and we'll deal with them in the usual way.

We could always enforce the new user to read the guide and just post a link.

 

[The OG TomKat]

yea i just read that right after i posted it

 

[Jesus]

This very old school video helped me understand how a diff worked



Basically, when there is a lot of torque going to the diff, the gears in the diff will become closer together under the stain and then lock the wheels.
I think.

 

[Powellx235]

today's topic: Corvette: ZR1 or Z06?

I bought a Z06 earlier, put in my ZR1 tune, tweaked it a bit, and could not believe how stable yet nimble it was!

 

[ps3dan101]

I hate both corvettes in drifting , there to powerful and to fast. But in real life ZR-1's are so nice had a good look round one a few weeks ago

 

[fcpmarcus]

ZO6! I find myself using it way more than the zr1.

 

[hyC]

Z06 no doubt ! =)