Has anyone got any good settings for drift?

[Hollidog]

Ive been practising drifting on Tokyo drift for about half an hour, a track that i was very good at on shift 1, and am totally useless. I have my moments for sure but I cant seem to even keep the car going in straight line much less initiate anything with any success.

Im using an RX7 FD with 80% work progress and only about 450hp. Its on the street/track tires.

Im looking for a setup for this car or any car really. I have the cash to spare on modifying anything and Im level 14 so I think I can purchase most of the cars.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[todd_10]

I've spent heaps of time on my Silvia S15 trying to get it up to a decent standard drift wise.
One thing I found helpful was taking the Silvia that you're awarded when you first start the drifting challenges, and loading up it's tuning settings.
Take note of the settings (spring rates, camber, gear ratios etc.), and apply it your RX7, see how you get on that way.

It gives you a pretty good build example of what you should be altering to change it from a racer to a drifter.
I found it really helpful when building up my Silvia...

 

[pascalf1]

I've completed every Drift even with the Sylvia that was givin to me and the only adjustment I did was this :

Rear tire pressure to 45 and front to 55.

I've felt an immediate change in the way the car drives under drift. It's a very "safe" setting, but you have to manage de throttle well because the rears are gettings used up a lot.

With that setting and that car, I breezed through Drift events no problem on hard.

The only exception : Ebisu Tougue...what a nightmare...good luck on that one.

 

[Hollidog]

Thanks for the responses guys.
I know a bit about drift tuning from GT5, so what I like to do is go out stock see what can be done and then make set up changes to suit. The thing with this game, though, is that the tuning menus are all in relative terms. How much negative camber is 17? Its so disappointing because this game has such good tuning options, just the way you tune it is so strange.

Anyway, I played around with the settings a bit, left the steering lock as it was, moved the brake bias forward, and significantly stiffened everything up. I was quite shocked to see just how street this car was tuned, very soft from the factory, and Ive been in RX-7s, and there is no way they are that soft. Anyway, applying my knowledge from GT about what suits my style I made the set up considerably stiffer, about three notches more on the front settings for all the suspension and about 2 notches more for the rear. I find that having the front slightly stiffer than the rear makes the slides much more manageable.

So after I did all of this, I went and practiced on the Hazyview 8, a circuit that I forgot about from Shift 1, set the laps at 20 and off I went. I managed to get my personal best per lap up to 229.
This was also when I noticed a bug in the game, I played a couple of these 20 lap events, and the first time I played with one opponent and it was set to same class, so I was drifting against an R8, which was very odd. Anyway, the first time I raced it the guy got a score of about 2XXX, meaning that he averaged about 100 or so points per lap. Then I finished and won easily by a thousand or so points. But then I went and played again, with the same amount of laps and only changing the time of day to night time. Only this time, the guy only posted a score of 120. Which would have only been equivalent to one lap by the standards he set last race, even though the race distance remained unchanged at 20.
Very odd indeed. Then I went to London Millennium because I remembered that track too only to see that they had changed it. And the same thing happened, it was a 20 lap event in the dark and the guy had only posted a one lap score, instead of a 20 one. So I won that event easily too. As well as getting a personal best of 1197. (So close to 1200)