Anyone else enjoying the wet & greasy roads?

[V8 EOL]

There is a 2 mile or so section of road I finish my daily commute on. It is open, twisty with lots of slow speed 90deg corners where you can easily see the exit.

I can not believe how much fun the Monaro is. The joy of power sliding out of a corner is amazing... I am not talking Tiff 90deg style drifts, perhaps <10deg but even so I just find it immense fun.

The second thing is about how controllable it is. IF you do step out a bit further than you had wanted, just keep your foot where it is and turn slightly in further. Sooo easy and controllable.

Winter is bringing in a whole new world of Monaro ownership I am really looking forward to. Who needs superchargers and dyno charts anyway...

[caspy]

Slide on!!

[baz7175]

Living on a hill the morning stint from the driveway onto the road normally results in some spinnage or sideways action (even when not even trying to at all thanks to the local farmers who spill their gunk all over the place)...

[VXR_Daz]

Slippery roads aren't a problem in a 0.1L Astra!

[Twin Turbo]

I'm sure Bovvered's wife would disagree!

Be careful out there

[308mate]

daz said:

Slippery roads aren't a problem in a 0.1L Astra!

I imagine just getting out of the driveway is difficult with a 100cc engine....

PB

[BO55 VXR]

I wish I knew how to "power slide", I'm sure I would enjoy my car much more.

Any ideas of "drift/power slide" type training events (in south-east) - preferably using someone elses car

[willisit]

Check out Lotus' driving days (expensive) or Silverstone. I'm doing their crimbo special (I hope) that lets you play in a single seater, Exige or rally car for the day - and I bet powersliding is part of the training...

[baz7175]

Or just do what many do and find a large abandoned carpark with a decent surface and just teach yourself, take the car to the edge with the traction control off and then start to gradually progress beyond that limit and through plenty of mistakes you'll come to grips with the basics involved in hanging the tail end out and giving enough opposite lock to leave it hanging while powering on through the corner

[BO55 VXR]

baz7175 said:

Or just do what many do and find a large abandoned carpark with a decent surface and just teach yourself, take the car to the edge with the traction control off and then start to gradually progress beyond that limit and through plenty of mistakes you'll come to grips with the basics involved in hanging the tail end out and giving enough opposite lock to leave it hanging while powering on through the corner

Yeah, but its my tyres using that theory.... I'd like to get some basics done first, wasting someone else's then move onto that

[BO55 VXR]

willisit said:

Check out Lotus' driving days (expensive) or Silverstone. I'm doing their crimbo special (I hope) that lets you play in a single seater, Exige or rally car for the day - and I bet powersliding is part of the training...

Me.... in a Lotus

[VXR_Daz]

BO55 VXR said:

willisit said:

Check out Lotus' driving days (expensive) or Silverstone. I'm doing their crimbo special (I hope) that lets you play in a single seater, Exige or rally car for the day - and I bet powersliding is part of the training...

Me.... in a Lotus

Lotus Carlton would do!

[BO55 VXR]

VXR_Daz said:

BO55 VXR said:

willisit said:

Check out Lotus' driving days (expensive) or Silverstone. I'm doing their crimbo special (I hope) that lets you play in a single seater, Exige or rally car for the day - and I bet powersliding is part of the training...

Me.... in a Lotus

Lotus Carlton would do!

Ah, you have a point there.... Yummy

[huffy]

Seem to recall there are some drift clubs/events which may help? sure one or more of the Pistonheads crew actually does some/runs some - just off for a lunch appointment so can't check now but seem to recall an "event" no too long back.

[V8 EOL]

BO55 VXR said:

Me.... in a Lotus

I went to my local Lotus dealer and tried a new Europa out for size. I knew within 2 seconds (when my shoulders were 1/2 way over the seat next to me) this car wasn't for me.

[VXR_Daz]

I tried a VX220 which I would imagine is the same size. I weighed a lot less then too but I couldn't possibly have fitted

[ringram]

I posted a couple of good drift links before, there are about 10 ways to get into drift, using power, brakes, steering etc to kick it in.
Do a search on google and go play in a big (private) car park one sunday.

[baz7175]

This is where having a set of aftermarket rims on, standard brakes and standard rims available comes in handy

Just hit your local tyre fitter and get your hands on some old part worns that he's going to launch - hey presto 2 sets of rears ready to burn the life out of...

Or the other option (for those not looking to thrash their pride and joy to within an inch of it's existence - find an old scrapper to learn in - plenty old RWD's out there for buttons, Sierra's, Carltons etc). That way you pay a few bucks for your car to learn in before you put it to practice in the big beastie

[VXR_Daz]

Were Sierras RWD? I always thought they were FWD

[baz7175]

Plenty of them over here in NI appear at the diff and drift days, not sure if it's maybe a particular spec or above, but plenty of them here...even an old Volvo...loads of options out there if you fancy welding diffs too...