you can powerslide with no countersteer?

that sounds like a spinout......

or do you mean during a turn you break the rear end loose, but only enough that you have traction again as the car straightens out, so you only have to straighten out the wheel, and dont have to counter at all? If so thats a pretty weak ass powerslide

 

It's actually ~85 hp less than an S, and it has MORE torque which happens MUCH lower in the powerband. And then there's the chassis.....

 

yes thats what i mean..but its not weak....i go in pretty fast....its all about timing yOu just got to know when to punch it and your car will correct itself

 

i find the S2000 to be very easy to drift. I can get a good amount of angle out of it.....the key points are to use the vehicles dynamics accordingly.

 

What?

Snow has it's pros and cons.

I go searching for open intersections, or long sweeping curves and with the snow on the ground it just makes enjoying drifting a bit easier to initiate.... It provides very graceful control and with the lack of traction allows you to learn and try maneuvers like the flick or double feint entrace in a much slower and graceful speed. It's not near as fast as drifting on dry pavement.

 

Just an fyi, I mess around drifting late nights in an industrial park and some empty upstate NY backroads. One big improvement I have found are the toe control arms. These make the rear slide out more progressively and predictably. I also installed an AP2 subframe and control arms. This makes the rear more stable (less oversteer) but makes drifting easier to control. Drifting is good driving practice--- anytime I've gone over ice/snow/etc. and started to spin, it was easy to correct (hence I didn't over-correct) and not scary at all. Justy make sure you keep the car in good running order and have money for tires.

 

LoOlL back roads are a great place to practice late at night but tOnight i almost hit a deer.....that would have been really bad

 

i was driving one time and a deer ran into the road from the left side - its head hit my mirror and i kept driving - if i was 2 seconds later it would have been a head-on collision.
-Chris

 

It's hard to any type of drifting in this car. I've done it three times, and one of those times I spun out pretty bad. Nothing big, but a 180 is still bad. The car's just not designed like that, nor could the power be transfered like that. Both the AEM car driven by Stehen and The RSR driven by Alex are down here and have extensive mods to the suspension and engine, and like stated above, the AEM car had to use an FD steering rack to increase turning radius which is not that high on our cars. I've seen it done way better than I've ever drifted in this car, and they weren't overly modded S2K's, but I guess if you practice enough and get some of the tuning characteristics down, it's not impossible to do a clean drift in our cars, but probably not anything that looks D1 or anything. Good luck and watch any moving objects or even anything not moving (i.e. Mountains, guard rails, curbs)

 

The FD steering rack would definately help.

I am able to keep a nice drift as long as I don't try to exceed higher angles than the steering wheel can recover from...thus the reason why the Professional drift S2000 cars have swapped in the FD steering rack, because the steering radius doesn't provide enough opposite lock to recover from a large opposite lock drift to be competitive in a drifting exhibition. (My S2000 is still on stock supension) Initially I've done a few 180s in the attempt to get more and more angle. I'm more aware of the limits of the steering wheel so as long as I stay within these limits, drifting the S2000 isn't that bad.