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Has anyone pulled off a PERFECT drift with the S2000?

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Old Apr 16, 2002 | 01:01 PM
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wait till it rains one evening and find a large empty non-obstacled parking lot - always a great place to practice and you'd be surprised what five minutes every so often in that parking lot will help you do.
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Old Apr 16, 2002 | 01:25 PM
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I think it's quite feasible to perform a drift in the S2k. I've done a few in an empty parking lot before with many of my friends as spectators. Like someone mentioned already, you have to anticipate the car's tendencies and movement before they happen, not react after the car has made a sudden change.
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Old Apr 16, 2002 | 03:10 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by StormBringer
[B]On my parada's I have a little trouble but with the stock S02's I could rarely get it down very smoothly.

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Old Apr 16, 2002 | 08:45 PM
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I know what causes it, the paradas just make a little more noise then the S02's and they break away a little easier then the under 3000 mile S02's. It has only happened once in a while and I have to be really overly aggressive to get that effect but it still happens every once and a while.

Really check you tire pressures. If you increase them to over 45 psi or so when fully hot you get a great increase in slide but at a huge decrease in daily drivability,
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 10:41 AM
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Originally posted by autechre
... a perfect drift ...
as good an oxymoron as they come
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 10:53 AM
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Originally posted by Luis


as good an oxymoron as they come
How so?
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 10:55 AM
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What's the name of the website that has a good description, including pictures, of many advanced driving techniques, like drifting (of all sorts), heel-toe, etc.? It's something like drifting course, drifting corner, something like that. Pretty good starting point.
Anyone, anyone, beuller???
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 12:41 PM
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Originally posted by autechre
How so?
Because, while drifting looks cool on the outside, it's not the fastest way through a turn.
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 01:40 PM
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I don't know if I have pulled the "perfect drift" but I know how to control and anticipate power oversteer after many attempts. I have used the power oversteer technique on a clover leaf (exit ramp). The Ramp is slightly downhill with a off camber right hand turn that ends up being about 270
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Old Apr 17, 2002 | 02:49 PM
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i did it once in this HUGE empty parking lot.
rainy day, pretty cold. and i had only about 50% or so tire (s02) thread left.
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