a good spring and strut combo for drifting

[driftiteasy0113]

hey yall,i was wondering what is a good spring and strut combo for drifting with a decent drop. i am going to be putting these on my track car. please give me feedback from experiences,thanks

[driftiteasy0113]

c'mon yo!!

[IanS]

There is no such thing.

Any strut/spring combo will be modeled around the factory strut body length, this means lowering the car will drastically reduce included travel.

Drifting requires very high spring rates, and you will not find any good "lowering springs" with the necessary stiffness. Even if you do find a stiff enough spring, you will need to pair it with a very aggressively valved damper, which you will not find in an OE style strut, which will leave you with an ill performing, bouncy suspension.

You should get coilovers, especially if this is a "track car". Spend the money, do things right, or you will just be another fanboi.

That being said, you can drift with a strut/spring combo, there is just no guarantee how long they will last.

[driftiteasy0113]

ya makes sense. i wish i had enough for some megans or something.was hopin to drift this event on the 18th with decent suspension.oh well

[crackler]

Or you could get Koni Yellows, have them shortened and re-valved with ground control sleeves with what ever spring rates you want. But by the time you have gone through the pain and trouble, you could have bought a decent set of coil overs.

Ian is right though, an OTS application with lowering springs are going to yield less than desirable results for your intended use. Unless you get regular Konis, and G/C sleeves in a spring rate that won't kill the shocks. Not sure what the OTS shocks are valved for(A call to Koni can quickly answer that), but I bet you could get close to a drift set up. For some reason I seem to remember thinking that Koni yellow's can take up to 500 lb springs. I could be wrong though. And I can't remember what that equates to in the K scale.

BTW, My Koni Yellows are valved for 1000lb springs and are several inches shorter than the stock shock, and it is the same style shock as the OEM unit. They are the "race" OTS units from Koni.

[crackler]

BTW, you don't need coil overs to drift, or any thing other than stock suspension. With the stock suspension, you have to be a lot smoother, and understand that the car may not be able to do the same things that the other cars running can get away with. It will force you to be a better driver starting out on the stock suspension. Since the car will be far less forgiving to ham fisted inputs, then a proper "drift" car would be.

I say, take your suspension money, and put it towards some driving / drift schools. You should tighten the nut behind the wheel before you do anything to the car. Just my .02 YMMV.
Modified by cracker at 9:45 AM 9/28/2008

[driftiteasy0113]

BTW, you don't need coil overs to drift, or any thing other than stock suspension. With the stock suspension, you have to be a lot smoother, and understand that the car may not be able to do the same things that the other cars running can get away with. It will force you to be a better driver starting out on the stock suspension. Since the car will be far less forgiving to ham fisted inputs, then a proper "drift" car would be.

I say, take your suspension money, and put it towards some driving / drift schools. You should tighten the nut behind the wheel before you do anything to the car. Just my .02 YMMV.

ya that is very true.i was just wondering though because my struts are currently blown on my track car. so i wanted to see what yall's opinions were

[240lookis]

drifitng on stock suspension epecially with 15ish years and a lot of miles on it would suck.

[adrianfromthecastle]

drifitng on stock suspension epecially with 15ish years and a lot of miles on it would suck.

but do-able! lol.

my buddy was able to get his stock single slammer cam sideways with his open diff!

probably not as fun as let's say welded and coilovers... but definitely a learning experience.

I say, take your suspension money, and put it towards some driving / drift schools. You should tighten the nut behind the wheel before you do anything to the car. Just my .02 YMMV.

I don't think I've ever heard of any drift schools or anything around here... but for the most part, just sign yourself up for a track event. Theres always the experienced drivers that will help you out and give you pointers on throttle control and driving lines (at least at the beginer events).

[IanS]

I say, take your suspension money, and put it towards some driving / drift schools. You should tighten the nut behind the wheel before you do anything to the car. Just my .02 YMMV.

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[adrianfromthecastle]

Somebody has been reading Sport Compact Car.

I heart SCC.

I used to have a years subscription to SCC... it had nice articles and cool pics. I've been reading a lot of GRM lately though... good stuff.

[crackler]

Somebody has been reading Sport Compact Car.

I heart SCC.

Umm yeah, not really.

Not really for sure what that fish wrap has to do with spending money on schools, but what ever.

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