Whew, just finished up Zao.
I'm STILL waiting for my S engine levels higher than 4.
I have boxer, rotary, and v engines up to level 7, I think.
I use a bug-eyed Impreza for Night racing, and an NSX NA2 for drifting. The impreza simply because I have higher level boxer parts than anything else... well except for V parts, and they're in my crazy NSX. I can tell the NSX is a drift machine, it's just SO SO SO wild. Any tuners out there have some settings to tame it?
Also, I'm having troubles still with the outside rear of my car touching the outside of the turns on a LOT of my drifts. What am I doing wrong?
I try to find a reasonable speed entering the corner, aim for an out-in-out line on the turn, tap the brake to shift the weight then either coast around, or gently try to accelerate to keep the car in a slide. I either hit the turn perfect, or hit the outside with the outside rear of the car, then take the next turn way too tight and hit the inside wall because I'm overcompensating
Also, does anyone have problems with the game having really slow load times sometimes? Several times I've had to save, completely turn of the PS2 and restart because the tracks would disappear while I'm trying to race. I can usually tell it'll be a problem on the first race. If I make it through that, it'll play fine for hours, I guess I just get a bad boot sometimes???