Drifting...(in the snow)

So he drifts and all wheel drive car?

 

No he drives the EVO on time attack night and we just watch on drift night

 

Hell yea. AWD cars are the best to drift. Like I said before I had three Audis before I bought my truck and AWD Manuel is the $h!t. It's the best of both worlds. Front wheel drive drifting (J-turn) you have to cut deep into the turn from the beginning because the front wheels will pull you towards the outside of the turn, where as rear wheel drive cars have to start more towards the outside of the turn because the rear wheels will push you towards the I side of the turn so if you start to close to the inside you'll end up spinning out or going off course. With the Audi you can start on the inside or outside and the 40/60 spilt or 50/50 (depending on the year) will either pull you out of the turn or push you in depending on how hard you turn into the turn an how much gas you give her. AWD on dry road is a bit of a different story though lol. Rear on dry is preferable. At least IMO haha.

 

Some may say it is stupid to drift (in some cases, it is) but hear me out...

When I was learning to drive, my father took me to a big empty lot in a snow storm. This IMO is the most effective way to learn how to drive in snowy/icy conditions. He said to me: "Here are the keys (to his old 2 wheel drive Ford Ranger). Go nuts! See what a vehicle can and cannot do in snow and ice." So I did, and I learned.

Even to this day, on the first big snow storm of the year, I Still go to a big empty lot and get back the feel for it. Not only do I feel this makes me a better driver in bad conditions, it is fun as well to do a bit of "drifting". Just make sure nobody is around or light poles for that matter...

my 2 cents...

 

When I transferred to a snow area, I found an open snow covered area and practiced braking, turning etc. Also took my kids out when they needed to learn how to drive in the snow. Now, if you are doing spins, donuts etc. just.....that's different and you probably shouldn't do that.

Ray

 

When I transferred to a snow area, I found an open snow covered area and practiced braking, turning etc. Also took my kids out when they needed to learn how to drive in the snow. Now, if you are doing spins, donuts etc. just.....that's different and you probably shouldn't do that.

Otherwise, you might end up in a joke:

"It was snowing heavily and blowing to the point that visibility was almost zero when the little blonde got off work at Wal-Mart. She made her way to her car and wondered how she was going to make it home. She sat in her car while it warmed up and thought about her situation. She finally remembered her daddy's advice that if she got caught in a blizzard she should wait for a snow plow to come by and follow it. That way she would not get stuck in the snow drift. This made her feel much better and sure enough in a little while a snow plow went by and she started to follow it.


As she followed the snow plow she was feeling very smug as they continued and she was not having any problem with the blizzard conditions. After quite sometime had passed she was somewhat surprised when the snow plow stopped,the driver got out, came back to her car and signaled for her to roll down her window. The snowplow driver wanted to know if she was all right, since she had been following him for a long time.


She said she was fine and told him her daddy's advice to follow a snow plow when caught in a blizzard. The driver replied that it was fine with him and she could continue if she wanted, but he was done with the Wal-Mart parking lot and was going over to Kmart next."


Ray

 

I do it all over the street. I is frum Kanada eh. I know all aboot the snow eh.

But seriously. Parking lots, roads at 2am, its all fun and games until you hit a curb ... then it sucks.

 

Yup.

 

Nods.

 

This sounds like bad idea...

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxheCe6kmc

Not me...

But they almost everything on YouTube heh

 

He did it right at least, thought he was going to clip that light pole a couple times though.

 

I've done it. But not anymore. Not since I've started paying for stuff myself. Like repairs.

 

Not me, but used to do the same thing working in a truck yard at Fed-Ex. http://youtu.be/6XHoJkMHZno

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FahTtpen4Q

 

I dang near drifted off of a dirt/gravel road in western Utah a couple weeks ago. Thank god I was in 4hi at the time. The nannies may have kicked in, I don't know, I was doing about 60, so I couldn't hear if the servos were kicking in. It was a frontage road along I-70, didn't expect to see a 90 degree turn on a frontage road, usually they're straight as an arrow.

I guess I should thank the nannies (and being in 4hi), because the rear end kicked out pretty good and I was braking as hard as I could under the circumstances. Don't want to take a 90 degree turn on a gravel road at 60 mph. And thanks to the Utah DOT for grading that road so nice and smooth, would have been in hell today if it was rutted.

That would have been one of my stupider mistakes over the years, but the truck handled it nicely.

 

It's great practice for when you actually need to know how to drive, just don't be retarded about it and do it around traffic, go ahead and bust up your own ride, but don't put innocent ppl in harms way

 

when i first got my license years ago, i took my 1993 Toyota truck out every storm with my friends trucks. the only bad thing that ever happened was i blew thru a set of tires rather quickly. i got used to driving in the snow and holding a drift very quick.

now, i am older and wiser, i value my tires and truck more. i still like to go out and play, but much more low key.