snow drifting......

[markv]

have any of you guys gone snow drifting?

any tips you wanna hand down before i total my legacy gt?

[d1giPhux]

make sure you do it in a wide open place.. and make sure there are no objects around! You've never gone snow drifting? Its not that hard man.. just be careful! :cool:

[markv]

well no ive done it with my jeep but thats not fun cuz u can't accelerate as good with an automatic tranny....

now i got a subaru ( got it in feb. 2006) so i've had no snow in new yokr since.... im going nuts!!!!

but yea ive snow drifted just not with my subaru yet..... i presume it will be a lot of fun!

[StatGSR]

just take it easy till u get used to the car. and remember odds are good your brakes arnt going to help much if your flying at something, so learn to be creative with your steering and throttle control.

[Wiscon_Mark]

1. Don't do it in snow over 1 foot - you'll muck up a lot of places with snow, and you'll have a lot of it trapped in your rims (which leads to a rough ride on the way home).
2. Turn into the skid, give gas. Never freak out and hit the brakes. Give yourself plenty of space too.
3. Start out slow, get yourself used to skids before you actually start drfiting.
4. If you have an automatic, lock it in D2 so you get some power to the rear wheels, otherwise you won't get much drifting action.
5. Don't linger in areas where the owner of the parking lot would have a problem with it - cops can nab you if they're called about it.
6. Enjoy!

[markv]

thanks a lot guys,

also thanks for the tips mark, yea i got a manual tranny, and from the looks of it, its not gonna snow much this year in new york, but thank a lot guys

[GrassyKnoll]

people should film some vids so I can upload good stuff to www.driftNH.com (http://www.driftNH.com) :)

[Plays_with_Toys]

2. Turn into the skid, give gas. Never freak out and hit the brakes.


Give it gas if you want to sustain the skid and slowly come out of it while changing the direction of motion of your car. If you really want to get pointed back the way you were heading, back off the throttle and steer the way you want to go. Sometimes correcting the car towards the direction of its momentum is not a good idea, and a longer power slide would be beneficial.

My biggest advice, do it in a parking lot you know. Nothing sucks more than finding a curb/pothole you didn't know about. Curbs can disappear from view in snow. And yes, if you have a bumpy ride at 40mph + its probably snow built up in the wheels. Stop and get it out, or if you still have stock wheels, you could probably brake hard (thus heating up your brakes and your wheels) which would melt the snow off.

[Wiscon_Mark]

people should film some vids so I can upload good stuff to www.driftNH.com (http://www.driftNH.com) :)

I've got about 3 minutes of footage.

[markv]

ima make some good vid ......fudge... i forgot......

ITS GOTTA SNOW HERE FIRST!!!!


oh mark, where do you have ur footage at?

[Wiscon_Mark]

it's sitting on my video camera right now...my heatshields rattle like a mother on it...I'm tempted to just delete it.

[shazapple]

Don't use your ebrake. If you do, only small blips. A bit of weight transfer and a lot of throttle will get you sliding.

I let a friend try and he just wouldn't let go of the ebrake :mad: Damn FWD drivers

[Wiscon_Mark]

Oh, yeah, ebrake is a bad idea - you can fry your center diff if you overuse it.

And it's not necessary with a 50/50 power split.

[Plays_with_Toys]

Mark upload the damn video. :lol: You've been telling us for weeks that you were going to do a new exhaust clip.

[Wiscon_Mark]

...yeah, but it sounds like shit...freakin' rattle :oops:

[Reason]

...yeah, but it sounds like shit...freakin' rattle :oops:

So what, we all had rattle at one point. I'm sure you not the only one on here that his heat shields rattle. Post them up kid!

[d1giPhux]

My heatshields rattle a bit.. and im damn proud! You shoulda heard my other leg.. haha rattled like a mofo.. i took some metal wire though and wired them tight so it wouldnt do it anymore.. worked for a bit.

[MoclovFlop]

I should up load the video of me doing zero-axis donuts..... ah the fun of a rear LSD :twisted:

[Wiscon_Mark]

...worked for a bit.

Not very long though. Trust me, I've tried strapping mine down too :lol:

Okay, so the outside clip of me drifting through the Wal*Mart (old Walmart I should say, it's completely abandoned) parking lot wouldn't come out for the life of me (video was all blurry). The heatshield rattle is horrid, but the exhaust tone is good otherwise. So I scraped together what I could to give you an idea of sound, and I did get a little bit of sliding in ;)

It's low quality...I could've done the orginal quality...2.43 GB :lol:

Enjoy:
http://media.putfile.com/Interior-vid

[Wiscon_Mark]

haha, just realized that I wrote stromung (midpipe) when I meant Stromung (hi-flow cat) :lol:

[StatGSR]

yea e-brake = clutch in.... but personaly, the ebrake doesnt do much more than mashing the gas.

[Wiscon_Mark]

Clutch in doesn't help the center diff any...

[95legacy]

Just had some decent snow the other nite here to drift in, hopefully get a lot more this weekend, got to find a really nice lot though to do some serious drifting in, was just doing figure 8's the other nite around two light posts at low speed, was really fun though. Freaked all my friends out because they've never seen that before apparently.
Peace,
Kyle

[Suby00GT]

Just turn to the side and give it some motherf'ing gas!!!!! :twisted:

[Brockley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y37VH2QEJec

crappy short vid... but it was fun!!!

[rougeben83]

go in straight line.
turn wheel
Mash gas
????
Profit!

Seriously. just do that a couple of times and see what works and what doesn't to get your powerslide where and how fast you want it to.

Oh yeah, you can practice 180 handbrake turns too :lol: :grin:

[Plays_with_Toys]

btw, you don't need snow to get sideways, snow just makes it easier....

http://media.putfile.com/legacy-exhaust-42

[pdawg]

Well it finally happened. WE GOT SNOW IN NASHVILLE. :wav:

So now my car is no longer a snow virgin. Did some donuts in the mall parking lot on the way into work. :twisted:

[markv]

you guys are getting me really anxious, we haven't had any decent snow up here in new york....im so pissed....

and on the news this morning they sed the stupid ground hog came out of its whole.......this sux

[pdawg]

on the news this morning they sed the stupid ground hog came out of its whole.......this sux

But what did he see or not see?

[markv]

he didn't see his shadow.....if he doesn't see his shadow he comes out and it means that spring is gonna come 6 weeks earlier......

and if he sees his shadow he gets scared and goes back in the hole, and then we have 6 more weeks of winter.....

[warrior]

Having a rear sway bar really helps drifting.. especially the 22mm I got!!

We got snow and it's amazing, sometimes a little scary when I'm driving normally and don't want the back end to whip around but I can do a 180 just by turning the wheels and pressing the gas, its great!

[Navig8r]

I can tell ya he didnt see any f%$#in' snow, thats for sure!

BUT.. it is snowing here right now... I'll take what we can get.

[d1giPhux]

i just got back from some sweeeeeeet snow drifting! might make a video later just for shits and giggles! w00t! soooooo much fun now that its snowing pretty hard here!

[markv]

YESSSS!!!!

WE FINALLY HAD SOME DECENT SNOW LAST NIGHT....!!!! went snow drifting for the first time with my legacy gt.!!!

I had so much fun!!! I realized that when I hit about 6k to 65k rpm and then shift to 2nd as im turning the drifts get better, faster, and crisper!!!!!

thank you all of you guys that gave out the tips, you helped me a bunch!!!!!

i hope it snows more today or whenever, so i can hopefully make a video!!!!!!! PEACE OUT