To start out drifting i would stick with the open diff. Tighten your handbrake and try not to burn out your clutch or crash, no need for big budgets or welded diff's when your learning, and by the time your able to connect corners you could've saved a enough for a cheap locker etc , open diff just means faster drifting
Probably some of the worst advice posted on here with such confidence.
lol.
Dont waste your time with open diff's, there is no point, it wont make it 'easier' if anything, it'll make it far harder. You wont learn this way. You NEED some form of lock on the rear, be it from an OEM torsen/helical setup, to a Open/Viscous welded, or a 1.5/2 way. No way in any way shape or form should anyone be even entertaining the idea of using an open diff for learning..
As for the handbrake, again another relatively pointless thing to do when learning, I believe this comes from the ownership of s-bodys though, where most rely on the handbrake to enter corners etc, where as this simply isnt the case. The last 2 drift days I have done no handbrake was used at all and we were linking/twinning the whole track all day long. Same goes for Pete the Russian.
This is the problem imo for new people. They buy 200sx's, make sure their handbrake works good, then just lazy arse slides into corners on the wand.. when really, you should be using the weight/clutch to enter the corners FASTER and use the handbrake/footbrake (If at all!) to adjust.
People need to get out of this way of drifting, its become a classic 'BDC UK' style of drifting now and it looks awful.
