How to Drift Using Techniques.

These techniques are the fundamental basis of drifting. These techniques are the originals that were used when drifting was no more than something to pass time. To use the following techniques you will need practice and patience. Enjoy.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. These are Clutch-based Techniques...
   Shift-Lock Drift - While approaching a turn, you downshift quickly dropping the RPMs to slow down the drivetrain. Then you release the clutch, causing your back wheels to slow down immediately and lock-up, losing traction.
   Clutch-Kick Drift - While approaching a turn, you hold the clutch in, increasing RPM to max and downshift. Then release the clutch causing the horsepower to surge to the rear wheels & lose traction. The Basic Drifting Technique.

2. These are Brake-based Techniques...
   E-Brake Drift - You enter a turn and pull the emergency brake to lock the back wheels. You steer the turn while the back end swings out into a drift position. This is also A Basic Drift Technique.
   Braking Drift - You enter a turn and apply regular brakes to push the car's weight to the front wheels, causing the back wheels to rise and loose traction. Combining previous braking with shifting you can hold the drift with out the back wheels locking up. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
   Long-Slide Drift - On a straight-a-way approaching a turn, at high speed (Up to 100mph/161 kph), you pull the emergency brake initiate a long drift and maintain it until you turn. Which at that point you can combine with another technique.

3. Other Techniques...
   Power-Over Drift - You accelerate into and through the entire turn to make the rear end swing out as the weight shifts on exiting the turn. This Tech requires ALOT of HORSEPOWER!
   Jump - While entering a turn, you bounce the inside rear tire over the inner curb shift the cars weight to the outside wheels and induce traction loss, initiating a drift.
   Feint Drift - You steer the car to the outside the turn on the approach, pushing the car's weight to the outside wheels. You quickly steer back into the turn. After the car's suspension kicks, the weight shifts quickly causing the rear end to flick out and initiate the drift.
   Sway Drift - A sway drift is alot like a Feint Drift except that it uses steering to maintain the drift. Once the car starts a drift, you use steering to maintain the form of the side-to-side drift.
   Kansei Drift - While entering a turn at high speed, you let off the accelerator suddenly causing the weight to shift to the front wheels, initiating a drift as the rear tires lose traction.
   This one however is one that im sure people with quite alot of experience have used... The Nitrous-Drift...let me explain this technique is one that is VERY HARD to pull off. (And Im sure there are a few lucky ones out there saying ive done it...ya lucky.) Anyway while aproaching a turn using one of the techs. above...IF you slow down more than you wanted or needed to, {if you have your Nitrous system set to velocity, rather than duration (Short vs. long bursts)} then this is perfect. As you slow down in the curve or turn tap the Nitrous button on your steering wheel as you reach about 3/5ths of the way through the turn allowing only a portion get through the cables, but it will be enough to create a burst out of the turn.

4. And this ones just for tracks that have dirt surrounding the track.
   Dirt-Drop - The driver would drop the rear tires off the course into the dirt which helps initiate a drift, maintain speed to hold a drift through multiple turns or increase the drift angle during a single turn.

Tips & Warnings

• Try these techs on a road that does not have traffic away from towns and population or in abandoned parking lots.
• DO NOT TRY THESE TECHNIQUES ON ROADS WITH TRAFFIC! IF A COP OR PEDESTRIAN TURNS YOU IN ITS JAIL TIME...NO EXCEPTIONS!
• DO NOT THINK YOU CAN PULL THESE TECHS OFF RIGHT OFF THE BAT. PRATICE IN SLOW SPEEDS UNTILL YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE AT HIGHER SPEEDS.

[MercianPrince]

on 3/23/2008 I love the picture. Nice.