Car steering wheel after attempting to drift

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Laxus

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so I was trying to drift my car (2008 Infiniti g37s). It's an automatic transmission so I was just trying to rev my car in first gear while turning. As I was turning I turned the steering wheel as far as I could fast counter clockwise. The wheels were completely facing the left but my car was still moving like it was a normal turn. I didn't manage to do a drift. Afterwards the steering wheel was became very hard to turn at low speeds practically undrivable. I've never heard of someone's rack and pinion or power steering pump getting damaged from drifting which is why I'm asking here. How did I damage my car from that and why was my car unable to drift. Ps I also had VDC control turned off.
 
LOL you failed hard and fucked your car.

Maybe you got lucky and just threw the aux belt off the power steering pump??
 
Lol I didn't buy it, it's a hand me down from my dad. Why he bought an automatic I'll never know...

So how can I prevent this the next time I try to drift? And how do I not under steer lol
 
Turning your steering wheel full lock and giving it throttle from stand still will not be drifting. Closest you will get to drifting with an automatic is to drive in an empty parking lot, get to speed, then hopefully if the car has enough power you will be able to overpower it by just flicking it into the direction of the curve while giving it throttle. At that point you will start carching it with opposite lock. This would be more of a powerslide than drift, but closest to the real thing still.

You could take it to a track and do what I mentioned all the way through. You just wouldnt have any fun because of how limited you are without key components such as clutch kick or handbrake initiation and you can rarely drive the whole thing in one gear.
 
Gotcha, thanks for the info man it's actually really helpful! My car has 350 ish horsepower and 270 lb ft of torque so hopefully it will be enough.
 
How did you fix the stiff steering?? I literally did the exact same thing you did but in an automatic Audi A4 2009.
 
Laxus said:
so I was trying to drift my car (2008 Infiniti g37s). It's an automatic transmission so I was just trying to rev my car in first gear while turning. As I was turning I turned the steering wheel as far as I could fast counter clockwise. The wheels were completely facing the left but my car was still moving like it was a normal turn. I didn't manage to do a drift. Afterwards the steering wheel was became very hard to turn at low speeds practically undrivable. I've never heard of someone's rack and pinion or power steering pump getting damaged from drifting which is why I'm asking here. How did I damage my car from that and why was my car unable to drift. Ps I also had VDC control turned off.
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traction control may prevent drifting —I'm not familiar with your car but some cars have the power steering pump and the braking fluid connected so aggressive steering at aggressive speeds combined with aggressive braking may have caused this issue
 
Interesting.
Some modern (and not so modern.. Lexus 450h) with electronic steering actually limits steering input based on vehicle speed and steering angle requested. It is designed to stop over correcting after a slide.
 
Laxus said:
so I was trying to drift my car (2008 Infiniti g37s). It's an automatic transmission so I was just trying to rev my car in first gear while turning. As I was turning I turned the steering wheel as far as I could fast counter clockwise. The wheels were completely facing the left but my car was still moving like it was a normal turn. I didn't manage to do a drift. Afterwards the steering wheel was became very hard to turn at low speeds practically undrivable. I've never heard of someone's rack and pinion or power steering pump getting damaged from drifting which is why I'm asking here. How did I damage my car from that and why was my car unable to drift. Ps I also had VDC control turned off.
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My mechanic in Las Pinas told me that my car has a power steering leak so I bought an original power steering repair kit. I've had the repair kit done several times already by different mechanics and the last one I think was at servitec. My friend told me that it happens over time so it's understandable. The problem is I am not confident with my mechanic at Las Pinas since this will be the first time that he will be working on the repair kit of my car. The reason why I am not confident with him is because he already made a mistake working on my car. My gas pedal got stuck at times. Good thing Autotech saw it right away and made proper adjustments. To his credit, this mechanic from LP installed my primary and secondary clutch and so far no problems (hopefully) I was told that this type of repair requires precision or is "maselan" and would take the whole day. My dilemma is whether to have it done by my mechanic in LP or at servitec. The problem is money is tight right now so I cannot make costly mistakes. Labor with my LP mechanic is P1,800. Labor at servitec is P3,200.
 
Saddened said:
Turning your steering wheel full lock and giving it throttle from stand still will not be drifting. Closest you will get to drifting with an automatic is to drive in an empty parking lot, get to speed, then hopefully if the car has enough power you will be able to overpower it by just flicking it into the direction of the curve while giving it throttle. At that point you will start carching it with opposite lock. This would be more of a powerslide than drift, but closest to the real thing still.

You could take it to a track and do what I mentioned all the way through. You just wouldnt have any fun because of how limited you are without key components such as clutch kick or handbrake initiation and you can rarely drive the whole thing in one gear.
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mans has never seen an AU ford falcon automatic drift. welded diff, hydro and away you go haha
search up archerfield drift park / luke fink on youtube hes got heaps of videos on auto falcons drifting
 
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