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Originally Posted by Harris
I'm going to ignore the comments on the "FF drifting is not real drifting" and say something about how drift on an FF car from my own experience.
First off, in order to drift successfully in an FF car, you need a really wet surface. So if you're in the snow or rainy region, count yourself lucky.
The amount of time you hold the e-brake depends on how tight the corner is. You have to be at the correct speed and have enter the corner at the right angle to be able to execute the drift correctly.
As you turn into the corner, put your foot on the clutch and quickly pull the e-brake and let the tail-end slide. Let the foot off the clutch a little after you've begun drifting. In order to maintain the slide, give short blips to the throttle to keep the car in a rev range that will give you the right amount of torque. Start countersteering a little before approaching the corner exit.
Because you're in an FF car, you need to remember that grippy tires will not help you drift, so make sure you get really slippery tires and slap them on. Having power going to the front tires makes it difficult for FF cars to drift, so getting it right will take some time. The timing of the drift procedures depends on what car you have and what kind of handicaps it has by default. The drift procedure I prescribed is from my experiences on a '93 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon. YMMV.
Personally, I do this every winter, and its a lot of fun. However, I don't like the whole drifting scene that is spreading in the United States these days, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. If you are serious about drifting, I would recommend buying a RWD car, because its just that much easier if you begin with the "right"-wheel-drive. Another good thing would be that you buy/download/borrow the "Drift Bible" DVD. Tsuchiya did a good job with explaining how to drift, what to expect when drifting with certain kinds of cars, and what maintanence you should do to a car if you are to drift it every so often.
This is probably the one and only time I will ever talk about drifting. So there you have it.
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You can't drift in a FF car like lets enter a drift contest and win sort of way but you can certainly get oversteer can control it sometimes in a pretty neat way to watch sort of way.
A race or hot street suspension tuned FF car is set up to oversteer in lift throttle conditions or with trail braking. So you come into a turn, trail brake and the rear will start to slide or rotate as racers call it. The rear end will pitch out and help the car point towards the apex without over cooking the front tires. As the attitude of the car gets about 30 degrees sideways, you can simultaniously flick a little opposite lock and give it full throttle. The car comes out of the oversteer and rockets out of the turn. This is pretty spectacular and is not lame like ass sliding with the parking brake, etc.
You can do it on any sort of tires, even soft compond race tires.
Its the fast way around in an FF car. A stock FF car will usualy just plow and understeer, wearing and overheating the front tires.
Mike