From D1 in Japan on a veeery fast track, 4th gear stuff, amazing shit, sooooo fast, faster than most of us could drive it normally, and they make it seem easy, only 30secs long each, great quality too.

Cool to see how they all drive different too.

Watch them in FULL screen, pic quality is good enough for that, and the RX7 one especially is nuts in that view, looks like a game of Ridge Racer or summat, hardly seems real its so nuts!

Kazamas S15- Check out the sequential box
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-YF5YrkTJWs

Ken Nomuras Blitz R34- Check him near the end of the vid waving at someone out the window while drifting at 100+ in 4th
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJyMx-c3-8

Daigos Chaser- Sound nearly gets me semi'd up, lol
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyqsH9SbAE

Masaos RX7- Sounds mental, and sooo responsive, nothing like a piston engine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1HjOMHpZI

Hibinos AE86- NO thats NOT the standard engine That genuinley looks frightening, lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cje8jbKdQ5Q

Tezukas Bee-R R32- Check out the massive bangs on gearchanges and rev limit
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IctMl9xMGKU

The DrooP AE86- 1.6 20valve on Throttle Bodies with Nitrous. Fucking BRUTAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lvpweuPfAQ

Suenega in a RWD Impreza, a 2door badass looking one too
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBbChwVT7I

Tanaka in another RWD impreza, newer shape one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hCRO8gIGmXc

Kumakubo in the last of the 3 Team Orange RWD Scoobies-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFEdlb9DTbQ

The Legendary Ueo in his AE86- Not much power so foot to the floor the whole run
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aV07ugmo6NA

Inose in another mentalist sequential box S15-
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjYU6i8ktM

And finally, Kawabata in yet another mentalist S15
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B-FIM5pEs

 

 

The DrooP AE86- 1.6 20valve on Throttle Bodies with Nitrous. Fucking BRUTAL


No video?

 

one thing I'd love is a sequential shifter Only trouble is they cane standard boxes (aparantly) Can't imagine my gti-r would enjoy one

 

there is now rad

 

As if by magic

 

Cool as fuck and proper skill.

But,

Is he really moving at over a ton? It seems to be just all wheelspin and he's only been moving for a few seconds? What do you recon the actual speed is, or is it deffo that?

 

That one seems even faster

 

Didnt realise so many drift cars ran sequential boxes. Loved that Chaser and the full on factor of the AE86

 

They are amazing but this video is the RX7 again

 

Ueo in his AE86

it looks like what i do(not the drifting!)lean forward cos its not quite fast enough

awesome skill tho.

I WANT A DRIFT CAR

i pm'd the guy with the sileighty just incase it hadnt sold stav,but it was getting picked up today

 

SteveC- They have speed camera etc round the track, you see on the full DVDs the speed, it will be 85-110mph there id guess.

Patsy- Sorry, im dumb, its this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cje8jbKdQ5Q

Dov- you HAVE a drift car, its in your sig, a LOT of people on here have perfectly good drift cars!

 

Fantastic, like I said, proper skill

 

i have tried lately stav but it just doesnt go sideways like it used to

 

I was just gonna say, The dov aint no more

 

That is fucking crazy I love those old Corrolas, my mate had one set-up for drifting and although it had standard power it was suprisingly easy to drift.

 

the sequential boxes they use are proper ones, proper race dog boxes, not some pony ikeya sequential add on for a standard box

 

them cars are just unbelievably fast.

 

Yeah, they properly silly quick.

No "normal" weight (ie 1100-1200kg 2litres, ie the stripped 200SX's, Scoobies, etc etc) are much under 500bhp, some 600+

The bigger cars like the Chasers, Skylines, etc etc are usually 600+

And then you got the 86s which are anything from 170bhp to mental power ones like Hibinos one which is as powerful as most the 1200kg cars but weighs more like 800!

All the cars barring the AE86s run 255 wide or wider semi slick track tyres (ie R888s or similar), Nomura R34 ran 275s last time I saw the car in the flesh, and that was 2 years ago.

You can see in the vid of Hibinos car for example, they run normal ratio boxes, and he has full grip when doing the run up to the beginning of the drifting, but is in 4th gear within about 6seconds!

A lot of em run under 1minute laps round Tsukuba, and that is mentally fast for any car, even a 4wd.

 

They seem just sooo smooth and stable drifting at those speeds great clips

 

Was gonna ask how much power, because at the short sprint to the first corner they all seem to get to 4th pretty quick, close ratio box or not!

Do these guys crash more regularly than say, WRC drivers? How do you imagine a WRC driver would get on if they entered a drifting comp against the top drifters?

(Sorry for all the Q's, not too clued up on drifting, but VERY impressive!)

 

Like a SPAZ i messed up again, put the Ueo vid twice instead of the Inose S15 one...

Check out what gear is is in as he initiates the drift... 5th
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjYU6i8ktM
He properly flying

EDIT- Just realise i fucked up again, messed up the 2door Impreza one, its this one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBbChwVT7I

ALSO, FUCK! I didnt watch it in full screen before, MUCH better, esp the RX7! Looks properly unbelivable, like a computer game, wouldnt think a real car could be like that!

Chez--

A lot of the top Jap drivers are SuperGT (ie GT racing, LeMans stuff) drivers as well as drifters, but usually were drifting first, as most japs grow up doing it for fun like boyracers fanny about in the UK.

No race/rally driver ive ever seen has been able to jump in to a drift car and be good, Tiff Needell (whos famous for drifting and is ex-F1 and GT Racing) tried the other year and got his ass totally kicked in the UK, and the Jap guys are on another level to them.

Any driving talent is an advantage, but as its an alien concept still it takes some practice to say the least. I dont think any pro race or rally driver could just jump in and do it, and enough try.

There a few pro race drivers who compete in EDC in the UK, but they get beat by the normal folk mostly, and the only one who does well is the one who had been drifting more of his life than racing.

About the power, heres the enginebay of Hibinos AE86, so yep, 450bhp+ by looks of it! In an 800kg car!

 

Cheers for the info pal!

One thing for next year is to deffo go to a round of the EDC and maybe get an old shitter of a sierra to have a go myself. Prob make a tool of myself, but will have fun doing so!

 

Fuck EDC (well dont, its mint, go there too), if you wanna see amazing shit, get to Teeside in May, ProDrift (ie the Irish series) are doing a European series next year, and Rd2 is at Teeside.
Amazing cars there, better than EDC.

But yeah, get a shitbox sierra, and get out there going mental, you will crash, lots, i do all the time, but its only way u learn!

 

that last AE86 sounds the absolute tits. PROPER N/A power

What do they rev to? sounds like 9k or something

 

Top spec AE86 engines rev over 11k.

No idea about them, prob 9 like you said at least, dunno.

 

This is SICK.....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ndZvav97o

Sounds rude when its on the limiter. Stupid amount of power!

 

i dunno, cars to big and laggy for a slow track like that,

its an AWESOME car tho, this vid is when its on a track that suits it more...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0gv4wJSMg

still nothing compared to the top cars in the videos i posted mind, anyone can do smoke, its the speed that takes the skill.

 

yeah, just watched that.

Then it stacks! Doh.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CRuOcMBdL4M

 

PMSL @ commentary

 

lol! made me laugh.

The japs love it dont they! What makes me laugh is, matey dont give a fuck after, and just laughs at what he's done. thats a proper hardcore motorsport attitude

 

Unlike in the UK, If someone was to "overtake" someone, they get out and wallop them one while in-car

 

spoilt brat, posh cunt racers

 

That was fucking hilarious (if its the guy @ the vauxhall day you're talking about).

One post made me laugh for ages:

"What's in the bag?"

"Probably food."

 

I remember that.

 

rwd imprezzas properly give me the horn

 

jameswrx

Can't run a sequential shifter on a standard box - will mash factory synchros in seconds...

 

WHY has this thread been moved to this spazzy room nobody looks at?

You can, but still need to use clutch. They widely available.

 

Every box i've ever come across has pissy little teeth on the synchros - the speed the shifters operate at will mash them to bits - even on clutched shifts from what i've seen of them...

Not saying it can't be done - just from the cars i've spent most time working on...