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KristianAE86

KristianAE86

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Hi
.. My name is Kristian & i´m from Sweden.

I´m thinking of attending the D1 Finals at Silverstone on the
3rd of October.

I´d like to get in contact with any AE86 drivers out there who has drifted at Silverstone before please !

So.. Anyone here who has driven their AE86 sideways at Silverstone - please contact me soon.

Regards/
.............Kristian _ Sweden.

email: kristian.hesselmark@swipnet.se
msn: kristianae86@hotmail.com
icq: 130096688
 
:wave:

Ive driven on it before in both my AE86's, since day one. Im crap in my Trueno, i felt i did OKish last year in the Finals in the Levin, came 5th. So, yeah, whats up? :)

Paz
 
Paz said:
:wave:

Ive driven on it before in both my AE86's, since day one. Im crap in my Trueno, i felt i did OKish last year in the Finals in the Levin, came 5th. So, yeah, whats up? :)

Paz
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Hello Paz...

what i´d like to know is... the drift bit on Silverstone...
what gears are you using there ?

My car is very near stock engine wise...

45 km/h first gear
85 km/h second gear
125 km/h thid gear
175 km/h forth gear

Is there a map of Silverstone you might help me with & the radius of the curves & what gear in every turn - please ?
 
Kristian,

In the wet, it is a piece of piss.... 3rd gear all the way round, very gentle inputs at medium revs, easily linkable with a little concentration, delicate touch and feel. You can use second if you want a touch more control/margin for error and want to show off your engine tone. I prefer to save the fuel.

In the dry, more commitment is required, entering at mid-top revs in 3rd to get enough speed to carry the drift through. A shift down to 2nd may be somewhat advisable to link the straight chicken tandori style and to enter turn 2.

Full on bootful through turn 2 in 2nd and try to gain enough speed to snatch 3rd on the transition before the final right hander. Don't go in too early or you will die out since stock NA hachi can't rely on 400bhp to push you out of difficulty.

As for gearing, I feel that the stock 4.3 is a little low and a 4.556 or 4.778 would put you in the powerband easier, but that is just my opinion from how I drive it.
 
guys, bear in mind the gearing is very different on a corolla.
how much power are you running Kristian?
 
Kristian,

Having done 2 events at Silverstone last year in my AE86 with a pretty standard engine....I must say that when they wetted the surface I was able to hold a drift pretty well through the long corners, but in the dry I really struggled.

Although I've seen James W pull off some funky drifts in the dry and Pazza do quite well...........it just needs much more commitment and speed in the dry than I can manage !!

The first corner needs 3rd gear, the 2nd corner 2nd gear and then up to you whether you want to use 2nd or 3rd for the last corners.

Cheers

Si
 
my engine

James said:
guys, bear in mind the gearing is very different on a corolla.
how much power are you running Kristian?
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thank you very much for your input guys.

so simply said - it´s a FAST drift track then !?!?

I´m running a 100% stock 4-age with the following mods :

TRD headers,
twin HKS mushroom filters
2" homemade exhaust,
japstyle 5" sport silencer (VERY LOUD)
stronger NGK sparkplugs
silicone sparkplug wire´s
twin fuel preassure regulators

with stock 280000 kms rear axle & stock T-50 transmission

Engine revs to 9200 rpm

EDIT :

- sorry - 8200 rpm - NOT 9200

...../
.....Kristian
 
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I've been there Kristian. I attended the 3rd round of the championship and finished 4th in the professional category. However, I was pushing my car to the absolute limit, and had big trouble holding the drift in the first and the last corner. I had the highest entry speed of the day, entering the first corner at 64mph. I had it floored from the start and all the way through the first corner, and only on my last run was I able to drift it more or less properly. The next corner was second gear for me (stock tranny atm) and was pretty straight forward. The entry to the last corner was ok, but halfway through I would hit the revlimiter and struggle to hold the drift. I didn't have enough power to run third gear. However, I do run quite good tires. Good for control, but a bit to grippy on fast corners...

EDIT: I'd rather attend the Drift UK event or the Irish D1 final if I were you...
 
I'll talk about what i used to do in the Levin, as in the Trueno i enter the first corner in 4th due to short gearing/pinion so the gears will be differant.

As mentioned, Silverstone isnt a good track for AE86's, its a struggle to drive it well as Fredrik suggests. In the black Levin i had stock 4.3 gearing (and a touch more power than stock, AE92 head w/ about 130hp) and i'd enter the first corner in 3rd, second corner in 2nd and the final corner i could slide through almost perfectly in 3rd again. The last corner is simply too long for second, youre on the limiter and not making the radius you need. You just have to use the straights to gather as much speed as possible really. On stock gears if i still had them, id attempt all of the corners in 3rd. I think the second corner can be taken in 3rd if you take it very fast and use the whole of the track (Out-in-out style race line)..

Basically, speed is Key in an AE86. Once you get used to the blind entrance to the first corner, take as big a runup as you can and use the momentum to get yourself down to the second corner with a transistion possibly, or preferably (IMHO, not the judges) in one big drift. Thats gonna take some doing tho!

And your suspension needs to be HARD. 45-50psi in the rears, full stiff on the damping and hard spring rates are pretty much essential from my experiance.

Good luck :)

Paz
 
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