Welcome To My World

I have two hobbies. First, I play bass for our underground band and I do recording and little bit of sound engineering. Second, which I spent most of my time, is I drift cars. I have attended drifting school in Florida last summer and I been drifting ever since. And in this section I would like to share my knowledge on drifting.

Table of Contents

1. What is drifting?
2. Double Clutching and Heel toe Shifting
3. Drifting with your car

What is drifting?

Drifting can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. However, it is most exciting experience you will ever get in driving. Drifting is when car turns very sharp curve in high speed causing a vehicle to exceed its tires' limits of adhesion, exhibiting a lateral slip, resulting in an oversteered condition.
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Double Clutch and Heel-Toe shifting

Double Clutch

1. You are driving down the road in third gear for example, approaching a corner and preparing to shift to second you need to brake with the left edge of the ball of your right foot as usual.
2. Depressing the clutch with your left foot the shift lever passes through neutral as this happens you release the clutch pedal out again half way, thus setting the mechanics of the clutch assembly in motion again.
3. Then fully depress the clutch to complete your shift into second.

Heel-Toe shifting

The technique involves combining the double clutch method with a second technique which is heel-toe shift that keeps the engine RPM at a level to match the next gear to be engaged.

1. Begin the downshift as before, using the left edge of the right foot to brake. Depress the clutch and shift into neutral.
2. Now, as you're half releasing the clutch, swing (or rock) the right edge and heel of your brake foot over onto the gas pedal and squeeze it gently to bring up the engine RPM. With experience you'll get to know how much is enough.
3. Then depress the clutch and complete the shift into second. The plates should have been spinning from your double clutching and the engine RPM, which dropped while you were shifting, was brought back up to the level needed by the next gear ratio. Everything just slipped together without a murmur, and there was no forward weight shift or unwanted acceleration of the car. Swing your right foot fully on to the gas, and you're off down the straight.

Before you hit the road please practice these technique at home in your drive way so you won't hit anything!
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Drifting with your car

There is many types of drift techniqes but I will explain two most common used drifting E-Brake Drift and Powe Over Drift.

Please remember: Only attempt this in an area which is safe for drifting not on the public road!

First E-Brake Drifting

1. Come into the corner at a high speed. Turn the steering wheel in the direction of the turn very fast to transfer the weight to the front wheels.
2. Heel-Toe Downshift to get your vehicle into a gear low enough to pull you through a drift (2nd gear).
3. Turn your wheels sharply into the turn. By the time you finish downshifting and turning your wheels, you should be at the apex of the turn.
4 Hold in the release button on your E-Brake and pull up your brake sharply, then quickly release (e-brake is held up for only about 1 second). If using a RWD car, clutch in while pulling your E-Brake. If using a FWD car, keep on the throttle while pulling your E-Brake.
5. When you feel the vehicle's rear end kicking out, immediately counter-steer the wheels to face straight with the road. Your vehicle will pull in the direction of the front wheels, as long as the wheels are still moving. Keep on the throttle. If you press the brakes or let off the throttle because your vehicle is in an extremely over-steered condition, you will spin out or leave the road.
6. When you wish to straighten out your car, after completing the drift, let off the throttle smoothly and straighten out the wheels as your vehicle kicks in line behind the front tires.

Power Over Drift

You can perform this techniques with Auto transmission but I wouldn't recommend it.

1. Enter a turn at any speed. The power-over drift is based on horsepower so it does not necessarily need much speed or rotational force to perform.
2. Turn your wheels sharply into the turn, and get on the throttle enough to cause your wheels to lose traction. The cornering force of the vehicle combined with the excessive throttle will cause your vehicle to over-steer.
3. When you feel the vehicle's rear end kicking out, immediately counter-steer the wheels to face straight with the road. Your vehicle will pull in the direction of the front wheels, as long as the wheels are still moving. Keep on the throttle. If you press the brakes or let off the throttle because your vehicle is in an extremely over-steered condition, you will spin out or leave the road.
4. When you wish to straighten out your car, after completing the drift, let off the throttle smoothly and straighten out the wheels as your vehicle kicks in line behind the front tires.
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These are some of the basic techniques of drifting so have fun and always buckle up! Seat belt saves life.