Can you turn a Racing Car into a Drifter?

Question

Well I have a 1996 Monte Carlo,and i'm really into drifting,and i'm trying to do something that no1 really done before,which was turn an american race car into a Drifter,and i thought i'd keep my Monte Carlo budget about $25,000 and just start turning it into a drifter and take it to the races.

Answer 1

If you want to turn a racing car into a drifter you must first get a race car.

A 1996 Monte Carlo is a family car, and not a very good one at that.

You can not turn a front wheel drive car into a drifter. With enough money you can turn it into a rwd car and then drift that, but you would be better off if you started with something less shitty.

Answer 2

yes you can turn your front wheel drive Monte Carlo into a drift car. Although you should know that while you can drift a front wheel drive car or any car for that matter, it's much harder to sustain the drift in a front wheel drive car than in a rear wheel drive car. Without going into tremendous detail about how to drift, sustain the drift and what the car is doing while drifting, take a look at the types of cars regularly competing in drifting competitions.

If you check out Formula D competition, 99% of the cars are rear wheel drive and american cars are not that rare in drifting competition. Mustangs, Corvettes and even a couple Vipers are regular competitors on the drifting circuits.

My advice to you, and I'm sure there are 20,000 people who will agree or disagree with me is to use your budget and buy a rear wheel drive car. Some of the more popular drifting cars are Mazda RX-7, Toyota Supra and of course the Nissan 240SX here in the US (Nissan Silvia everywhere else.) Make sure that you budget can handle the massive ammount of tires you are going to go through!

That being said, if you are new to drifting and high performance driving/racing, the single best thing you can do is spend your money on track time and first learn how to drive the car correctly. That means learning how to drive the car at "the limit", proper cornering and braking techniques and learning how to quickly and consistantly drive the racing line around a track.

Once you can practice, understand and consistantly drive a car around a track at high speed using the proper techniques, by all means, move on to drifting. Many of the same techniques apply and your transition into drifting will be much easier.

Of course, be safe, don't drift or try to drift on public roads, and above all good luck and have fun!!

Answer 3

Definitely can if you want... though I am not sure I'd call a Monte Carlo street car a race car. Alot of the above has some good information, though I don't know if I would use the term "throttle steering" to describe power-on oversteer as throttle steering is used to specifically describe controlling a car between oversteer and understeer while under lateral load. In this case oversteer is normally induced by lifting the throttle, while the combination of feathering back on the throttle and slip angle from the turn combine to induce oversteer. This is a cornering technique very useful for quickly getting through some corners, it doesn't have much relevance towards drifting.

Answer 4

you wanna talk drifting.......
NASCAR in the early days. In fact Ralph Earnhardt was THE master of the powerslide. Same principles, tires, proper car set-up. Old Porsches were designed to waggle their tails through turns, just with a slight tap on the brakes, with the rpms cranked, and the wheel slightly turned will get the car breaking loose, and you bring it back in just by using the accelerator.

There was the F1 race in Monte Carlo in the rain back in the early/mid nineties, when I think it was Shumacher racing on slicks, not rain tires, sliding his car around the track in one of the greatest driving performances I've witnessed.

Today's drifting is more about showing off, it just looks cool to watch. Like the NBA

Answer 5

you can turn your car into capability of drifting. you just need to make the adjustments to your car. drifting is a technique more requiring driver skills thank anything. here is some info for you about drifting. have fun but be safe it can be dangerous!:)]
To the common person, drifting looks just about the same from any angle, they see a car sliding sideways like it was in an action movie car chase and the general consensus is that it looks cool. But we all know that there isn’t any magic “drift button” that anyone can press to make your car gracefully slide around a turn with no effort. There are several techniques to initiate a drift, and a seasoned drifter will mix up these techniques depending on the situation, without a second thought. Let’s go over a few of the basics first.

Note: The techniques described below can be dangerous and should only be attempted at a racetrack with professional supervision. None of these techniques should ever be attempted on public roads. Don’t be a bonehead and get hurt or hurt someone else. Also, remember that your car must be set-up properly before you attempt any of these techniques at a racetrack. In other words, we can’t be held responsible if you damage your vehicle!

E-brake Drift: The first, and probably easiest, drifting technique is pulling the e-brake or “side brake drift,” as “The Drift King” Keiichi Tsuchiya would call it. An e-brake drift goes like this: you come into a turn fast, you don’t need to be at your top speed, but you need a reasonable amount of speed, downshift to second gear and as you go into the turn step on the clutch and pull the e-brake. Don’t lock the e-brake, just hold the button and yank, this should get the rear sliding. Once you have the rear of the car sliding, come off the clutch and gently start to step on the gas while counter steering to take you through the turn. This technique can also be used to fight under steer.

Shift Locking: : Usually when you’re downshifting at high speeds you want to match revs for a smoother transition through the gears. When using the shift lock technique, you downshift without matching revs. For anyone who has downshifted without rev matching, you know that the car will “catch” and jerk once you put it into the lower gear. Shift locking is using this motion to initiate a slide. Come into a corner fast in third gear, then brake, and downshift to second without rev-matching, start your turn-in just as you come off of the clutch, this will upset the rear and cause you to slide. Once you’ve gone that far the rest is as before. Gently come back onto the throttle and counter steer accordingly to take you through the turn.

Throttle Steer: This is one of the easiest techniques to learn and probably the most commonly used technique among beginners. Drifting with the throttle merely involves flooring it as you exit a turn using the car’s power to get it sideways. This is good for beginners that aren’t quite ready to come into a turn at high speed. With this technique you don’t have to enter the turn too hot, but you can still slide the car as you come out of it.

Answer 6

The basic upgrades you need to turn your car into a drift car are Tires, Suspension, and a Limited Slip Differential.

The Suspension and LSD are especially important.
I suggest JIC FLTA2 Coilovers.

Good luck!

Answer 7

any car can become a drifter... its just that u would put more of a steering, braking etc system into that specific car... but basically with a drifting car or any car for that matter; u just to need to noe ur car and its capacity.

Answer 8

so long as you have the right tires, and the right skills, yes. any rear wheel car can drift

Answer 9

why would you want to? drifting is stupid. Get into a REAL racing series that requires talent.

Answer 10

you can drift anything, all you need is the balls to do it, my mate can drift his work van fully loaded with his tools