Edmunds - Drifting the RX-8
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Edmunds - Drifting the RX-8
Found this article on Edmunds... Drifting in the RX-8.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=105313
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=105313
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I did not finish the whole thing (and don't get me wrong...thanks for posting) but I'm just not very interested in drifting. If someone gave me free tires and a car to practice in...then it would be a hoot, but for me to get involved with it...just does not make sense to me.
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"The RX-8 may be the hardest rear-wheel-drive car out there to drift."
Funny, compared to autocrossing a BMW 540i or Honda S2000, I find the RX-8 way more tail-happy. But then the partial/full throttle technique they described to drift an RX-8 is exactly what I tend to do in an autocross.
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Funny, compared to autocrossing a BMW 540i or Honda S2000, I find the RX-8 way more tail-happy. But then the partial/full throttle technique they described to drift an RX-8 is exactly what I tend to do in an autocross.
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Originally Posted by rx8wannahave
I did not finish the whole thing (and don't get me wrong...thanks for posting) but I'm just not very interested in drifting. If someone gave me free tires and a car to practice in...then it would be a hoot, but for me to get involved with it...just does not make sense to me.
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Originally Posted by dmp
I wonder if they turned off the traction control? Wouldn't that be a riot...if they left dsc/tcs ON???
lol!
lol!
Also, they were too stupid to swap the rear tires, and they don't seem to understand the concept of downshifting.
And then there was the guy who made a RHD 240SX just so it would look "J-spec."
Overall, I feel I am stupider for having read that article...
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what a bunch of idiots. They claim they dont really know how to drift.....and then they beat on the RX-8 for "not drifting well enough". Im not into drifting at all with my car, but people should not just critisize the equipment if they dont know how to use it. Its like a golfer complaining that his hockey stick doesnt have the proper curve.....what the hell does he know???
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Hey you know something, I don't know how to drift for s*** but I do it around corners very well in my 8. For someone like me not knowing much about it, I'd have to say that the 8 did most of the work.
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Originally Posted by GotBass
Did he say well worth a hundred bucks? Does he knows he ran through $400 worth of potenza.
and as for the actual potenzas, thats no real loss there
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fun to read since the article was so POORLY done...but the pro was right 'very hard to drift' well drift properly that is for most people
Whoever said the DCS or TSC was on was right...they would have mentioned it in the article...they didn't so either they had a base model by chance or they are too embarrassed for not picking it up .
Whoever said the DCS or TSC was on was right...they would have mentioned it in the article...they didn't so either they had a base model by chance or they are too embarrassed for not picking it up .
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Originally Posted by dmp
I wonder if they turned off the traction control? Wouldn't that be a riot...if they left dsc/tcs ON???
lol!
lol!
The RX8 is very easy to drift if you want too.
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i know its only 1 of the 6 methods mentioned in those drift king "instructional" videos, but you can initiate a drift in the 8 useing the "power over" technique very easily. never tried the e-brake method (in the 8), but obviously that worked, as that was the only way the ed-dumbs writer could get the car to drift, as that is the easiest way to start a drift, even for ham fisted beginners (like the writer).
haven't tried any other methods in the 8 either, mainly because there are no good places to do it legally and safely, and i don't really feel like thrashing the tires like that.
haven't tried any other methods in the 8 either, mainly because there are no good places to do it legally and safely, and i don't really feel like thrashing the tires like that.
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the old e brake technique can make a honda *** drag(they seem to call this drifting) it will make a minivan drift more or less.
and bigOlundH, your pretty wrong as the 8 does not drift "easily" the rx8 drifts fine, but the suspension is made for gripping and the car is not balanced properly. but its definately not a good choice, a FC would own it in stock configuration(i can vouch as i have both an 8 and a 7 and both touge and track drift.
and bigOlundH, your pretty wrong as the 8 does not drift "easily" the rx8 drifts fine, but the suspension is made for gripping and the car is not balanced properly. but its definately not a good choice, a FC would own it in stock configuration(i can vouch as i have both an 8 and a 7 and both touge and track drift.
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