Drifting in mountains???/

[monkey5]

Is there any gd place to drift in the mountains in LA, can't think of any? it drifting at the best way to improve or the worst way? can a stock suspension handle it??? i'm pretty much broke after repairing my car...so wat minor tuning i need to get prepared before i take off? plan to ask my friend's s13 to flim me while he is at the back...

[Grip Gambler]

no sorry were all posuers here, you should go to drifting.com and talk to those hardcore guys.

[Slappy]

don't know much about L.A., but as far as a stock suspension, i've been drifting my stock 240 for a year now, just to get the "feel" of getting sideway's and being able to control it. only now do i know i need a susp. upgrade. only upgrade your car as your skill's progress. remember, it's not an image, it's an art form that become's your life stlye. i would'nt suggest practicing on public mountain road's to anyone, it can get you, or someone else's love one killed. do what my club and i do, go find a old industrail park or something where your not gonna hit anyone or anything and practice, practice practice. don't fill your car with a bunch of ignorant mod's . each part you put on your car should be done one at a time, so you can see if it's an improvement or not. drift on..........

[floppycheif]

Wow. . . . . . . . . . .

[azncorruptedo17]

no sorry were all posuers here, you should go to drifting.com and talk to those hardcore guys.

ahahahahahahahahah...

thats gotta be the funniest i've seen for a while lol... yea goto drifting.com... lots of people there "touge" at 15mph

[hamsterball]

LA is where it's at =P

you have all the good mountain highways to drive on around there...

Don't bother going to drifting.com to ask, because they're going to tell you the same thing I am.

No.

Unfortunately, it's stupid to post spots online, so I'm not going to tell you where we go (since I'm in socal).. so please don't ask, because I know at least one dip**** is going to post where the spots are at.

It's bad because not only you, but everybody are seeing the location/name of spot, makes it easier for newbies to go up there and die, and it really ruins the spot when people crash or die.

Also, you are probably total noob for mountains, since you're asking about DRIFTING in them. Especially in SOCAL.

driving in the mountain is a totally different way of racing. you have to know what you're doing before thinking of drifting up there.

people usually GRIP up there, but there are a few drivers that know the road and are good enough to be able to drift through a few turns here and there.

And you definitely can't just start out there and drift there immediately. you'll fly off the side of the cliff. it is NOT the best place to learn your car (although many people still choose to learn their car there), and people DO **** up all the time.

my friend recently crashed (on a grip run).. got blinded by HID's behind him, forgot to turn his rear view mirror away, and went down the side of the cliff. Life saved barely (it could have been much WORSE but he got lucky), car totalled. liability insurance. Life sucks.

sorry to say, but you're probably better off doing quick 3-minute parking lot sessions...

[monkey5]

after what u said, i guess busting parking lot runs are better than see the big gates up in the sky.... i know this may sound ridculous but is laguna scea open for everyone????? or do i have to pay to for laps

[sixxdeuce]

Driftingtouge can make your car look like this:

I wouldnt recommend risking it if you are broke like you say, because people usually break stuff up there.

[hamsterball]

Driftingtouge can make your car look like this:

I wouldnt recommend risking it if you are broke like you say, because people usually break stuff up there.

Seeeriously... lol...

I think my tie rod or some other front suspension piece is messed. (i hear a *TUCKKK* noise from the front left when i take a parking lot sharp left 5mph turn.

Blew my radiator up there as well, that wasn't the touge's fault.. mine because i didn't notice my car overheating til after the run, and it blew the radiator (thankfully not anything else).. lol.. on the friggin mountain.we had to get some friends and push the car downhill and to a nearby residential neighborhood. hahahah (imagine driving a 240 while it's OFF, on a mountain road. lol)

hrm.... body damagewise.. nothing much really.. i haven't had a BIIIIGG crash.. but lots of **** ups and one time when i actually went into the wall/side of mountain.I kind of like side-sweeped into it basically.. like, the front of my car started to point towards the wall and it caught traction and went towards the wall (not head on but with an angle).

luckily the car was fine. JUST scratches on the front left fender and part of left side of front bumper.. but now that i see sixdeuce's side scratch, i don't think mine is really that extensive. i got lucky.(the side of the mountain on this one was kind of like.. dirt and rocks. i don't know how to explain it.. kind of sandy)

Another thing to know is.. you WILL crash, whether it's a horrible crash (understeer to side of the road and down the cliff drop. NO guard rails on the one i run.. booo )or a small bruise with wall contact... something will happen.and i guarantee **** ups as well.but your **** ups will slowly and slowly dissapear, and become replaced with tiny marginal errors that you know how to correct.

also, if you're on a budget and almost broke like me, run your car stock i've had a stock car (except VLSD) for about 6 months running up there.. things still broke, but hey it was cheap. $100 for the radiator, $5 for the thermostat.. etc..

also it's better to learn how to become delicate and precise, with slow gradual movements with a stock car... because you have so much body roll and suspension flex that you have to be careful with your movements in order to prevent shifting the weight incorrectly.it's also easier to recover from **** ups than it is with modified suspension (whether it's springs/shocks or coilovers).. particularly oversteer (when your car's WAAAY sideways)..

but of course with time you'll want to move on and upgrade... so you can do that when you're ready. (for me, im' ready.. just not financially lol)

so if you're serious (seems like you're kind of scared by our posts, that's reasonable. the mountain scares me too.. it scares everybody).. you know what to do.

[gogg]

Yes there are tons of mountains here in Louisiana. Come find us out there every night.

[RPS13drifter05]

HELLO im new to these forums i have been a long time member of DRIFTING.com first of i'd like to say stop bashing on a KICK A $$ forum! the members on there are the same as they are on here they want to learn new things about cars/drifting/driving it doesn't matter what forum they are from! there is no reason to bash other fourms i have yet to see anyone on DRIFTING.com bash this forum or anyother... well except a few honda fourms :-) so lets try and keep it to the point on what the question is all about.......BTW drifting.com has a few US pro drifters on there that are more than willing to help! i am glad to become a new member on nico and plan to stay so plz just watch what you all say!

[sdtouge]

i went for a little cruise threw some mountains today, i just got my car together after being broken for 2 months so i had to celebrate.

be careful after the rain because where i was it was flooded and loose gravel etc.

[azncorruptedo17]

HELLO im new to these forums i have been a long time member of DRIFTING.com first of i'd like to say stop bashing on a KICK A $$ forum! the members on there are the same as they are on here they want to learn new things about cars/drifting/driving it doesn't matter what forum they are from! there is no reason to bash other fourms i have yet to see anyone on DRIFTING.com bash this forum or anyother... well except a few honda fourms :-) so lets try and keep it to the point on what the question is all about.......BTW drifting.com has a few US pro drifters on there that are more than willing to help! i am glad to become a new member on nico and plan to stay so plz just watch what you all say!

its just sarcasm buddy, theres a bunch of people in drifting.com that think initial d is teh **** game to learn drifting on. so relax buddy.

yes they have us pro drifters but they all say the same damn thing. don't learn on the damn mountains.

besides i can just ask tony and chris since they are at c2powerhaus/k'sfactory working on the cars

[accel junky]

Mountain driftin, wow that sounds pretty risky. Are you getting good?

[drift into a curb]

Just don't drive like an *** and you'll be okay. Take it slow. I've been up to certain canyons a long time and it's always something new. I don't understand how some of the guys drive as fast as they do in technical courses. They will go as fast as the guys that go on high speed runs, in excess of 70-80mph on the twisties.

It seems you don't have much money to work on your car, so I would be really careful. Save up for emergencies. If you don't do your own work, start doing it, so you can save yourself some money.

[Slappy]

do you have to do EVERYTHING the japanese do.it's just dumb to copy thier every move to make your self look cool or so you can say to your self, hey, i'm a "touge king".

it's so lame. touge is very dangerous , thier are inocent people out there that don't deserve to have some DUMB KID smash into them cause he seen some guy on a option video doing it.. it's just as bad as them dumb *** ricer street racer's.....all for image, with 0 driving skill.

be a little original will ya, for christ sake. yes i do drift, but either at an event, or at the closed down industrial park, and the only person that will get hurt is me, and it will be my fault.

use your brain a little and stop wanting to be so japanese, but, i'm prolly wasting my time with this. so, don't kill any body i know when your out there acting the role of the TOUGE KING.

[monkey5]

well, i decided that hitting the tracks is the best method, mountaind were pretty much a bad idea, after seeing my friend's s13 dented his fenders against the rail. but where is a gd track????? its hard to find one?? irwin dale speed way???????

i know i'm get flame for this......but is laguna seca near LA??? can i even go in for runs????

[Slappy]

dude, thank you for taking my advice, did'nt want to hear that you rapped your car around a tree or telephone pole and killed yourself or someone else.

as far as a track, if you live in CA, there should be ton's of **** out there, event's, track day, etc. man, your lucky to live out there. we don't have **** here on the east coast in MD.

again, be safe.

[azncorruptedo17]

theres alot of events out here... DDAY, JUSTdrift is i think in AZ? and some other private drift events up in the frisco area. But there are enough ddays here in Socal. As for the touge, only a few know about the touge runs in LA, thats so that it doesn't get infested with noobies crashing and causing mayhem up there. Only way your gonna get access to the location is if someone thinks your good enough to go up with them. good luck, 1 mistake and you will die. just had to say that so don't say nobody said so.

[beefcakext]

ya dude try izuza canyon i go motrocycle riding there all the time and its usually empty. Be carefull though because i crashed my bike there this christmas. there are some realy tight turns if you take a right over the bridge. Its a great ride so i asume its a great drive im to chicken to take my car out there.

[nab911]

Mountain driftin, wow that sounds pretty risky. Are you getting good?

Lol, either he gets good fast or hes going to stop... forever

[azncorruptedo17]

Lol, either he gets good fast or hes going to stop... forever

true dat yo... but if you get lucky... i met a few people at the shop who touge, they are pretty damn freaking good running on cut springs and stock motors. When i mean good i mean wow consistant. They brought us to a nice place where there was a nice *** corner that goes into a parking lot up in one of the mountains. Really cool place, probably the only time i would touge is at that location because its pretty far from cliff side and 2 parking lots on both sides of the turn/road. Heard its better in the day when you can actually see. You should just cruise mountain places first and see if you can find places that you can park at and do a few runs on. =] much safer and better practice than trying to do a whole touge run and end up going off the cliff. =]

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[574-240sx]

ahahahahahahahahah...

thats gotta be the funniest i've seen for a while lol... yea goto drifting.com... lots of people there "touge" at 15mph

Touge parking lots right?

[senioritis]

[senioritis]

man thats way too dangerous

[CaoBoY]

rumor has is that the famous drifter X was drifting in the mountains and lost control and he fell down the mountain, does anybody have any other info on this? he was supposed to be at d1 in irwindale, but he's not going to be there now...even pro's lose it up in the mountains

[monkey5]

do pros do it in the mountains for the thrills are to improve their skills that badly. cause i don't see it fun anymore in such dangerous environment. i know u can enjoy the wind when u fall

[CaoBoY]

i think a lot of those guys started in the parking lots and mountains...but you just gotta remember, they are just like us...so they would probably say the same thing, learn how to drive your car good before you go to the mountains and drift them...you have to know the road before you go crazy slideways also...go take a drive up there, and see all the skid marks....and look at the ones that hit the walls, and look at the ones that go off the mountain...i know theres a couple of places were most of the cliffs dont have guard rails...and theres apparantly been a few people that have either gone off, or real close to, the mountain...thats some scary stuff man....i wont even drive my car fast up there in the hills yet...just because i dont trust myself.

[senioritis]

too much initial d for everyone

[CaoBoY]

too much initial d for everyone

you never have/wanted to do a mountain or canyon run? i would love to do one, but its just too dangerous..and not just because i have seen intial d, i dont want to race against anybody, just run through the mountains...its fun, i just dont trust myself with the car yet. (FR newb)