MG ZS Pro Drift car

[Southside_ZS]

Bit random using a front wheel drive car for pro drifting?

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

[stamford]

Can't find any info on that car, can't be fwd as I cannot see how you could get it to drift like that. Maybe you can but I can't see it myself.

[Zippy Saloon]

I really can't see any point in drifting....

[Dave ZS-X]

its rear drive, as the car turns into the first corner if you look carefully you can the smoke coming from the rear tyres.
I have seen a vid of a front driver drifting , was a honda civic iirc. Dont know how he was doing it, must be a combo of handbrake and throttle i spose.

[Dave MGT]

Re-united with the power of 300 stampeding stallions
Turbo Powaaaah FTW.

Not got your old beast back have you Dave?

[Mr ZS180]

Being a drift battle at a track (supposedly pro drift?) it would have to be rear drive.

Front drive cars cannot officially drift. They can slide whilst maintaining drive through the front wheels until the rears grip again but to drift you need to be controlling the car sideways and be able to decide when and where you want the drift to end and this is where rear drive comes into play. Throttle control keeps the car sliding, come off the throttle and it straightens and grips. Even 4wd cars arent classed as drifting when they go. They too are sliding.

If you have a tight track with left, into right, into left etc you can make an FWD look like its drifting with constant use of the handbrake to swing the back end in the opposite direction before it straightens and gains grip again. I used to do this in an old Rover 620 I had and was eventually able to hold a slide in it at 80mph but its not controlled like in a RWD.

Regarding the vid, to be able to drift like these cars do you need to have at least 300-350bhp, so it would be very interesting to find out what is under the bonnet of the Z. I killed my 200sx drifting because the 180bhp was such small power that it meant absolutely caning the engine to keep the wheels spinning, obviously doing the bottom end in!!!

[Dave ZS-X]

Not got your old beast back have you Dave?

ha ha ha, unfortunately not, different car.

[zsserbia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP23IWQx0A&feature=related

Mr. Needam how to...

Can't see no point turning a zed into rwd, it would be like turning a battle ship into a floating battle tank lol