I've gotten in the habit of showing off my drifitng skill so whenever
I have friends in the car, I show them in parking lots or going into
a neighborhood or something.

Well, yesterday, while going about 35-45 mph, I took a hard right
to get into a neighborhood and pulled my e-brake and not only did
I drift, but I drifted into a 540 spin and my engine shut down and
everything. It was a very scary moment for everyone in the car,
scared the hell out of me too. I never had THAT happen before.

So, no more drifiting for me. Screw that... haha...

Car is fine though, just a terrifying moment.

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Drifting in a civic? roffle copter


You call pulling and ebrake and sliding - drifting? Unless you can maintain control of your slide, you're not drifting, but being a BAD NAME. I don't see how it could be possible to drift in FWD car.

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It is possible to drift in it, and most of the time I do keep control,
but this time I messed up a little, heh...

Anyway, I'm new to all this car stuff, so help me out, be a good fellow, and explain to me what drifiting is so I don't keep misrepresenting the art.

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drifting is when you slide the rear end out in a RWD, then apply power to keep the rear end out all the way through the corner. a true drift isnt possible in a FWD car like a civic. e-brake slides are fun, but its not drifting. and its hard as hell on your car.

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you were sliding...

youve never seen a video of drifting?

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Nah uh, can you direct me to some?

So, what I was doing was just e-brake sliding? Man, my friends seem like gurus to me and they told me it was drifting... oh well, thanks for the clear up.

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take everything peopel say with a grain of salt. most performance shops have a few drifting videos. an di think ive seen them in Best Buy too.

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Oh wow, I saw some drift videos...

Yeah, I was just sliding, lol

That is really neat though, I didnt realize you could get such tight turns by doing that.

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If you like drifting, then I would definately recommend watching "drift bible" . I'm not a big fan of drifting as a competitive sport, but that video is amazing. The drift king demonstrates and discusses different techniques of drifting. His cars included a silvia, MR2, AE86 GTS and something else that I can't remember.

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yo i wuz doing some mad sick drifting on my CR125 tha otha day back on da trailz, you know how we do yo. that s**t was m f'ing tight dawg.


LOL I'm just playing ppl, just trying to get a laugh

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