Help with drifting.

[GTOne2Three]

I wanna learn to drift.

I am using a DFGT, and my main drift car is an early 90s RX7 efini. I tried putting soft tires in front, and hard in rear. Also adjusting the suspension aswell. I made the front springs softer than in the back.

Problem for me, is when I drift, I try to correct my car, and I end up violently swinging the opposite direction.

 

[SFX_Adavicro]

Im currently learning on the DFGT and am just now starting to understand what Im doing and why Im doing it. I also have been using that car as one of my learners, so feel free to add me on PSN and I can try to help you as best I can.

 

[Human-D]

I wanna learn to drift.

I am using a DFGT, and my main drift car is an early 90s RX7 efini. I tried putting soft tires in front, and hard in rear. Also adjusting the suspension aswell. I made the front springs softer than in the back.

Problem for me, is when I drift, I try to correct my car, and I end up violently swinging the opposite direction.

use hard on both front and back. make both suspensions stiffer, try dat

 

[SFX_Adavicro]

use hard on both front and back. make both suspensions stiffer, try dat

Im finding some of the stiffer suspension setups to be a bit more unforgiving and twitchy on the wheel, Ive really been liking a medium or even a slightly soft setup. It could just be me, though, but I would definitely agree to comfort hards both front and rear, 101%.

 

[saleenf5]

well what you described would be called snap back (right? atleast i call it that) an you can change that by adjusting your front toe an camber.

 

[SFX_Adavicro]

well what you described would be called snap back (right? atleast i call it that) an you can change that by adjusting your front toe an camber.

Or your technique...

 

[jgancherjr]

Okay man I'm gonna tell you how to burn it up just starting out, first of all forget those D1 cars. Get you something 4 wheel drive with descent power, my personal favorite is the Hyudai clix concept, fully tune the car with everything but when you get to the turbo use the mid range turbo, not the high rpm turbo (the second one) use comfort soft in the front and comfort medium in the rear, set aerodynamics down, go to your drive train, in the 4wd adjustment set it to 90% rear, on your LSD in the front set it at 5,5,5 in the back 17,23,19 your suspension in front going down will be 0, 10, 5, 4, 3 and in the rear 0, 9, 4, 5, 4. Camber and toe front 0.6 and 0, rear 0.6 and .15, your brakes in front are 0 and rear are 9 when you go to race leave your driving line on and abs on 1, everything else should be off, use a manual tranny, when you kick it sideways if you start coming to far around down shift to correct and if your not sliding hard enough shift up also with 4wd it is a lot harder to loose control, enjoy!

 

[SFX_Adavicro]

Okay man I'm gonna tell you how to burn it up just starting out, first of all forget those D1 cars. Get you something 4 wheel drive with descent power, my personal favorite is the Hyudai clix concept, fully tune the car with everything but when you get to the turbo use the mid range turbo, not the high rpm turbo (the second one) use comfort soft in the front and comfort medium in the rear, set aerodynamics down, go to your drive train, in the 4wd adjustment set it to 90% rear, on your LSD in the front set it at 5,5,5 in the back 17,23,19 your suspension in front going down will be 0, 10, 5, 4, 3 and in the rear 0, 9, 4, 5, 4. Camber and toe front 0.6 and 0, rear 0.6 and .15, your brakes in front are 0 and rear are 9 when you go to race leave your driving line on and abs on 1, everything else should be off, use a manual tranny, when you kick it sideways if you start coming to far around down shift to correct and if your not sliding hard enough shift up also with 4wd it is a lot harder to loose control, enjoy!

The amount of things that I completely disagree with in that statement is truly staggering.

 

[jgancherjr]

The amount of things that I completely disagree with in that statement is truly staggering.

Try it out

 

[Bobalob]

worst new drifters advice ever. start with a low powered FR car and PRACTICE. 4wd drifting is for idiots.

 

[Bobalob]

if your suffering from crazy snap back you are dropping off power too quickly (or too much rear grip). think about raising and lowering your rear wheel speed gradually. it's pretty difficult at speed with a controller because your steering is **** compared to a wheel.

generally softer suspension = more grip, making rear softer will make car feel understeery but cure this by steering with throttle

 

[x_psychosniper_]

if you still need help learning to drift i can help send message to x_psychosniper_x on psn and if im on ill help im in aus so dunno your time zones but just hit me with message

 

[daltonlm]

Okay man I'm gonna tell you how to burn it up just starting out, first of all forget those D1 cars. Get you something 4 wheel drive with descent power, my personal favorite is the Hyudai clix concept, fully tune the car with everything but when you get to the turbo use the mid range turbo, not the high rpm turbo (the second one) use comfort soft in the front and comfort medium in the rear, set aerodynamics down, go to your drive train, in the 4wd adjustment set it to 90% rear, on your LSD in the front set it at 5,5,5 in the back 17,23,19 your suspension in front going down will be 0, 10, 5, 4, 3 and in the rear 0, 9, 4, 5, 4. Camber and toe front 0.6 and 0, rear 0.6 and .15, your brakes in front are 0 and rear are 9 when you go to race leave your driving line on and abs on 1, everything else should be off, use a manual tranny, when you kick it sideways if you start coming to far around down shift to correct and if your not sliding hard enough shift up also with 4wd it is a lot harder to loose control, enjoy!

Wrong... just get a FF, set it up properly and start your fishtail praticing TODAY!




Seriously now...
I don´t think that the hardest part to learn how to drift in this game is about handling and techniques, at least for the most basic links and corners. What the newbies have mroe dificulty is how to set his car, since he doesn´t never got a properly set car for drifting, so he cant know how is his learning curve, and vice versa. The best thing is know someone that use similar devices than yours (wheel in ur case) and prepare the device settings first. Second ask to this friend any car borrowed (via gift or posted on his profile), then buy and build the same car to yourself. Just after that you can start to train ur skills and notice how is ur learning curve.

Yesterday some dude asked to the lobby to analyse his technique with his FT-86. Wasnt necessary not even 10 seconds to realize that his setup was all messed. So i added him and asked him to copy the setup of my FT 86, witch was on my profile. After that he did thank me, saying that now was much easier. Ok, he didnt turned into a top notch drifter just because of a car, but i can say that his perfomance got better at least 60% (60% of a freaking bad hability stills bad, but its 60%!).

 

[jgancherjr]

worst new drifters advice ever. start with a low powered FR car and PRACTICE. 4wd drifting is for idiots.

Well Let's drift, PSN: jgancherjr

 

[jackman454]

When I got my DFGT, I thought I would be able to drift instantly
I had the same problem, the car would slide, and then snap in the other direction
It took me weeks to find out the key it to find out how far you need to counter steer, and then smoothly turn back to center, you should only tun the wheel 200 degrees at the most when starting, and then gradually build up angle