Which TIRES do you use drifting?

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Which tires and HP do you use?


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Comfort hard all the way, comfort medium are an option depending on power.
I bet people with sports tires are playing with a controller. Sport tires = no links and rather short slides. Mixing tires type is wrong (no matter what you can say).

Needless to say all the best drifters use comfort, I have yet to see an interesting drift video with someone using sport tires on something else than Tsukuba or autumn ring with a car that does not have billions of hp (it's easy to take corners in 5th on 2nd-3rd gear corners).
 
This is a disgustingly old thread! Haha.

It's interesting to see how the tyre choices were so varied though. I think it must've been the advent of competitons that got everyone on here to switch to Comfort Hards.
 
Its more because of their consistency.
When I first got the game I started with sports tires (as there no info on what tires to use), and they sucked. You could drift on corners but long links were out of question or at the expense of either using 12542hp or keeping speeds slow (because tires won't spin otherwise). CH gives a much better feeling and are more natural to how a drift is done.
 
I mainly used comfort hards because that's what the "cool kids" used, but found comfort mediums more enjoyable... until they killed my wheel because of overly aggressive steering inputs.

Beware.
 
Comford hard ? Racing soft on rear with my subaru 22B is the best drift car. I voted for it !

Edit : Kidding, of course CH!
 
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Awsome to see these old threads. I don't understand why people use it again but its better then making a new thread.
 
It doesn't matter how much horsepower or how heavy your car is.

If you want to tandem with others, you gotta stick with Comfort Hards all around.
I use a wheel and I think anything over comfort medium for drifting has way too much grip.
You'll end up snapping back into a corner.
 
But that depends on how much horsepower you have in your car, I know a guy who used to use Sports Hards all round in his Z32.

All personal preference but to be on a fair playing ground you go CH's all round.
 
I agree with Frozzy. Grippy tires (at least for me) makes me work even quicker, which I'm not down with if I'm twin-drifting with a friend. It messes up my line compared to Hards where you can go easy on everything.

Also, I always thought having a drift car with ALOT of power made the car drift slower since all of that power is wasted spinning the wheels. Vice versa with extremely low HP cars too.
 
450hp is enough to drift most tracks except Fuji D1 line.
Even the big roundabout of CRN (cape ring north) is driftable with such power (but you have to be accurate with the line).
 
Warren4649
450hp is enough to drift most tracks except Fuji D1 line.
Even the big roundabout of CRN (cape ring north) is driftable with such power (but you have to be accurate with the line).

I can do the fuji d1 just fine in my z32 with 417hp
 
Well I tried with a 448hp Supra and most of the time I lost the drift.
But it might also have been the setup (stock turbo, stock gearbox).
 
Warren4649
Well I tried with a 448hp Supra and most of the time I lost the drift.
But it might also have been the setup (stock turbo, stock gearbox).

I've also seen it done in a Trueno
 
CH on everything from my 200hp Trueno to my 500hp RX7.

When I was learning, I looked up some tunes for my S15 RM, and I found one with comfort softs but I couldn't make it work, and I went to Mediums, and to Hards, and I kept spinning on hards but mediums would give me snap back. After a little more practice, hards were the way to go, and that RX7 slides like butter...but rarely spins.
 
Someone needs to explain to me why comfort hards can't be used on higher powered cars, or be fast :/ I can set a 1:10 on Tskuba in my 544bhp viper. I don't really see tire choice as a proper way to make the car behave as you want it, tuning is the right way to go.
 
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Someone needs to explain to me why comfort hards can't be used on higher powered cars, or be fast :/ I can set a 1:10 on Tskuba in my 544bhp viper. I don't really see tire choice as a proper way to make the car behave as you want it, tuning is the right way to go.

You spoke the truth!
 
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