How drifting SHOULD look.

zornyan said:
So a 800 quid mx5 isn't a cheap track car? Again it's the Internet that creates bollocks of you need a gazillion bhp to have a track car, in fact e36 and mx5s are some of the biggest budget track cars, the mods are similar as to what we do for drifting. Just instead of spending money on lock kits they spend money on tyres and brake pads.
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You were talking about £50k plus cars. Now you're talking about budget track cars. I take your point that you can make a budget car look good, but if you intend on using it for events like Jumanji Nights, where it will likely get wrecked, why waste the money on making it look smart?

I agree that taking off the headlights and body panels for an event can make a good car look worse, but taking a car that is slammed on its ass and not removing a low front bumper is asking for it to get mashed. It's a waste of money. Money you could use to get more seat time. That being said, there is always a balance that can be reached to get the best of both worlds. My 200 will look smart and will run well. My missiles will be mashed for fun.
 
chrisyboi said:
Struggle posted a pic of his old one, looked the balls and not exactly bank breaking.


I don't know the dudes name (think it's Alex??) but he runs bdc and has a 14 with yellow graphix down side. His car is pretty much stock 14 bodywork but looks the absolute tits! And simply because he has the wheel fitment and ride height bang on.
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It cost me £15K that car, it broke my fukin bank. ahahaha. Didn't stop me giving it more death than world war 2 though and stacking it big time constantly.

Also just to correct you there. Thats Bladix. He has a full kit with front and rear fenders and also the spoiler. It has a fair amount of work done to it.

Infact a very similar amount to the majority of other cars in BDC. The difference is Bladix has discovered these things called C spanners and knows what to use them for. Drives it all the time on the road too. Best looking BBC car this year.

Zornyan:

My point is if you give drifting everything you've got you DO hit things LOTS. Its mediocre fun and makes for brilliant viewing. And thus makes the drift scene proper crackin. Remember the aim is to get as close to objects as possible. If you ain't hitting that shit your not giving it your best.

And trust me when you go on a track day and aim to have bigger balls than tallent its a right laugh.
 
My point is though hitting things is not a requirement of drifting, infact the opposite is true, I drove my cars plenty hard, harder than alot of people, infact I would be going into corners harder and faster than most bmws/jars whatever purely because I had fuck all power, massive flick and foot flat on the floor.

but I also managed to avoid hitting shit all the time, because I didn't get ahead of myself.

If this means I'm not going to be winning bdc pro in 6 months who gives a shit? I do this for a fucking laugh and to be able to drive home without a smashed up pos car at the end of the day is a goal of mine.

Hell there's plenty of people that attended these drift days in better cars, that would be smashing the shit out of their cars, and generally they were actually pretty poor drivers that couldn't maintain a chosen line.
 
Mate, buy a snazzy Jap car like a 200 or similar, slam it with hench aero and go smash stuff so that its worth while spectating at a drift day.

Do it for Jesus. Jesus loves smashed aero.
 
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not giving any fucks.

I need more lows tho, I got this....
 
I've got a snazzy jap car, my e36 is a recent purchase as a clean daily. Only because my 200 is more of a track focused car and I don't wanna ruin it by putting miles on it.
 
Very cool video, That track looks the tits as well. Get what you are saying about uk cars, and you know i'm not that fond of the BDC
'Hanging off the handbrake' driving style but they are not the only guilty party in that matter. Education is what's needed really, either that, or mandatory rules for 2015 to connect a battery live terminal to the wand to discourage the gayness.
Also drift trains are where it's at for visual excellence! 2 car battles are boring to watch
 
What? So because I don't wanna put another 10-15k a year on provably one of the mintest s13s around that's gay right? Because I'd rather use a comfortable quiet but still fun e36 right?

For reference my s13 isn't actually finished yet, and with the roll cage I would spend 10 minutes looking like a retard getting in and out of it all day long.

Sorry but some of us have common sense and your attitude is exactly what Is wrong with people.

Just because you call everyone and everything that actually makes sense gay means your obviously an awesome person.....
 
zornyan said:
Just because you call everyone and everything that actually makes sense gay means your obviously an awesome person.....
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I hate to say it but hes right, not driving something because you dont want to put miles on it is retarded.

And drifting does chew cars up and spit them out regardless of how good you are or how little you hit, but having a capable car and not using it because you dont want to damage the paint/aero/tyres is not the choice of Chuck Norris, put it that way.
 
zornyan said:
Sorry but some of us have common sense and your attitude is exactly what Is wrong with people.
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If any of us had some common sense we wouldn't be bothering with drifting.

And for the record Ed's (Struggle) attitude towards drifting is exactly what the majority lack these days. A middle ground between "here's my £300 BMW that I'm going to smash to shit" and "here's my concours S14 that I'm going to polish and enter into a shown n' shine comp".

It doesn't cost much to make a car look cool, in fact the majority of people have all of the ingredients in place already. They just don't know how to execute it all. Driving hard doesn't cost anything.
 
Hold on a damm minute. My s13 is a track focused car, I intend to have it road legal and drive it. But because I don't want to put tens of thousands of miles on a car that's cost me neigh on 25k to build is stupid?

I fully intend to track the car regularly and attend the odd drift day. But why should I have to use it as my daily?

The miles comment was purely that it's not intend to be used daily at all and would be silly too (possibly dangerous too as you shouldn't drive a car with a roll cage without a helmet on)
 
The beauty of drifting, is if you actually DRIFT nobody sees the car up close and static, and it's amazing how fucked cars can be and still look amazing from 20ft away static or 10ft away moving.

My car is smashed to bits, every single panel, compared to normal road cars it's a write off, but you can't tell unless standing next to it studying it.

Same as the ones in that vid, I bet they're nowhere near as tidy as they look in the vid.

Same as Jap D1 cars, and so on. People imagine them to be mint, as they look it. But up close they smashed to bits and covered in tarted up repairs from top to bottom, which is all you need.

Same as rally cars, and tbh same as most race cars too. Good mechanicals, but bodywork is only mint from a small distance.

The people who are the daft ones are the ones who really believe these cars are mint and try n make their own like it, and then are afraid to use it after incase they get damaged.
 
zornyan said:
Hold on a damm minute. My s13 is a track focused car, I intend to have it road legal and drive it. But because I don't want to put tens of thousands of miles on a car that's cost me neigh on 25k to build is stupid?
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Dude, read what you wrote again, I may have got the wrong end of the stick but it gives the impression you arent going to drive it anywhere other than to a track and back. For me thats like buying a £2K Savile Row suit and only wearing it in the house, on your birthday each year so you dont ruin it :wack:

Fast cars need to be driven fast, drift cars should be drifted, fixing it is an avoidable part of owning it. No point in having toys if you dont play with them :thumbs:
 
I believe you have got the wrong end apologies but I'm writing out as best I can :)

I was trying to explain that I do own a more awesome car for serious / heavy work, but even my more "budget" car is still clean.

I agree there's no point I'm babying a car (hence why I don't do the concourse or show n shine thing)

Anyway moving on.....
To me half the cars I see at bdc days etc look like a cross between scrapyard challenge / destruction derby cars. Which is one negative but as pointed out the constant use of the fucking handbrake is boring!

I mean even on here, half the bloody time when someone puts up a thread asking for "essential mods " the replies are " bucket seat shit cheap suspension and hydro hydro hydro"

Or when someone puts up a thread asking for advice drifting most of the replies go "yank the wand more"

Seriously? It's slow and boring.

One word of advise is actually talk to people with experience, in person I mean. I'll always remember
My very first drift day at Norfolk, I did a couple laps and was struggling so asked malx to come out with me.

He literally got in the car, started going round the track and booted it, pointed at the handbrake and said "don't even fucking bother with this"
 
who cares, get on with it :D

I think the main point is, everyone should build a nice car and give it death :smash:


Personally I prefer my cars to not look wank up close, but it just means a little longer in between drift days until its fixed again... lol.

KEEP IT FUN!
 
For some people, a cheap BMW with ebay suspension, a welded diff and weak offset/stock wheels is a way in to the sport. It's all that can be afforded. People seem to forget that it's all about the fun! In fact, the end credits of that vid even say KDF, Keep Drifting Fun. Arguing on forums about "My car's cooler than yooouurs." is gayer than Alan Carr, playing my little pony in a pink tutu
 
I'm not going to say I did'nt enjoy the video. It was some cool ass cars skidding.
The after comments in the thread are what kills UK drifting for me, I thought we were on a drift forum so we could talk about getting better at drifting and going to drift days.....
well thats what it was 7 years ago, shits changed in the 2 years of real world I'v been living in, I better get back to painting my car and then going and drifting it!
 
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