What is drifting?
How can modifying your suspension benefit the performance?
How can modifying the engine benefit the performance?
Drifting is a sport found around the world, gaining most of its popularity around Asia its began to spread across the world through D1 competition. Drifting is an art of being able to skillfully handle your car traditionally rear wheel drive cars where you break traction in your rear wheels and slide the car around multiple tight corners. This requires years of practice to master this skill, often building your cars for years and perfectly tuning and modifying the car to match your ideal control. Drifting is a sport globalized around the world taking many forms, using many different forms of vehicles.
Many car enthusiast debate back and fourth the most important factors of improving suspension on a drift car. their is many different aspects that can be modified to benefit the car but overall the two key factors are coilovers and sway bars. First off coilovers help lower the car and damper the adjustability and flexibility the car has. Coilovers also help stiffen the shocks and control the overall balance of the car keeping it flat and in full control around corners. Sway bars are often looked down upon but they keep the car stiffened in the front and control in the front allowing for more angle in your drift. Using a good adjustable sway bar keeps you from loosing angle and breaking other suspension parts in your car.
Another important aspect to drifting is having the right performance from your engine. You need to have enough torque and power to be able to get your tires to break traction and maintain a drift with speed. Their is many aspects to building an engine, countless upgrades and various ways to get this power. But one thing many cars flaw is a proper tune, you need to tune your engine to preform correctly and vitalize all the parts together. You cant just know all the parts you must know how they all work together to build a proper drift car.
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