What's your current learning focus?

[CrazyHawaiian]

The off camber turn at HRP. Damn you off camber I hate you!!

[Aeain]

Heel-Toe Down Shifting.

[Drifterlunchb0x]

I also agree that you should learn how to just drive the car first before trying to drift. Tooo many 16 yearsolds crash because they dont even know how to drive a car right let alone try and drift one. There is a kid out here who is half way decent at drifting but he cant grip a road to save his life. Iam practicing initiating earlier...and at higher speeds. well once the new motor and suspension work goes in i gotta first re-learn my car LOL

[Craftsman]

Drifting while eating peanut butter sandwiches and talking on the cell phone at the same time...

Matt.

[BenR]

I'm working on the most difficult part. Finding sponsorship.

[Velvet]

My current learning focus is realizing that "Playstation Drifting" is not real. When I get a car, I'm just gonna practice driving without thinking much like I could in PS2 lol. If I wanna get sideways its doughnuts in a parking lot so I can feel more comfortable when the tail end gets out when I do move on to drifting...

[Craftsman]

Originally posted by Velvet
My current learning focus is realizing that "Playstation Drifting" is not real. When I get a car, I'm just gonna practice driving without thinking much like I could in PS2 lol. If I wanna get sideways its doughnuts in a parking lot so I can feel more comfortable when the tail end gets out when I do move on to drifting...

Hey, man... Playstation is where I learned how to drive... I learned the racing line, entrance speeds, passing, etc... There are so many things that are better learned in simulation than in reality... And I learned that I will suck at driving no matter how much I try (some people just driver better than others).

Matt.

[malcolm]

I even fabbed up a brake pedal extension to make heel-toeing much better.

Dude, why wouldn't you make an extension for the gas-pedal? You never put more than about 30 lbs of force on the throttle, but you can three times that on your brake pedal (or more if your power-booster happened to fail). I always went the uber-cheap way by simply bending the throttle pedal over towards the brake so it's nice and close.

[jasonaries]

re: to stuff...

RE: trying to keep license.

Yeah, I try to "throttle" my speeding tickets to limit them to 1 every 18 months. I'm long overdue. I'm surprised that in recent weeks I didn't get busted at least once.

Re: DMV

I'm lucky - there's a DMV office in a small town near where I work. I routinely make it in and out during my lunch hour. I just modify lunch to be from 11 - 12, instead of 12 to 1.

Re: not having enough money

Yeah, I'm attempting to upgrade my fleet and shortcut the time it takes to improve my collection by selling my gold SR-5 to purchase another GTS. I give it a 10% chance that both transactions will go down, but I thought I'd try.... So, I know the feeling of not having enough money to do everything at once. Wish I could just buy the GTS and be done with it.

[SaintDrift]

I'm learning mechanical things as of right now. I just ordered tuning software for my E-Manage. My car decided to take a crap. I'm thinking about just ripping the turbo off and seeing if it runs. I'm almost positive it's my piggyback though. From what I learned, during the first 180 seconds of a coldstart, the ECU is in closed-loop, which means it's taking no sensor readings or limited sensor readings. That's when the piggyback is able to act on the ECU. At first I thought something was wrong with my o2 sensors.

[EVL-TE]

Practising my wet-weather braking drift at the moment due to my LSD being half-worn, it's easier to drift properly in the wet, heel-toe, how much to counter-steer and when, initiating high speed drifts and initiating drift "before" the turn.

Need to replace my front shocks though, kinda bad when the car floats around.

[Craftsman]

Mine is learning the traction circle in kart cars. I suck...

I know the line and the technique. I ran 28s when my friends all ran 25s...

Matt.

[93180sxredtop]

im working on left foot breaking like perry

[nedinic]

yea im 16 lol just got full license when you drive around thinkking about drifting, its kinda scary...to tell the turth but ill try soon + its my mom's car and im messing that up....


back on topic..

[GRiDRaceTech]

Originally posted by malcolm
Dude, why wouldn't you make an extension for the gas-pedal?

I did that too.

After my drift day, I have to say that not tank-slapping is my new focus.