I hate accidents

[Dori Dori]

I ate the wall at a competition in south Florida. Aint no thang but a chicken wang though...i was back out drifting later that day and did another drift event this past weekend. It comes with the sport although I'd rather not have concrete walls next to me on every turn. Meh... Here's a pic for you kiddies.

[greazymule]

i think everyone has crashed atleast 1 s13.

[574-240sx]

Finally some more people who have had accidents drifting. I thought I was alone with posting a accident pic of my car. Dori Dori and greazymule glad to see you bath are still drifting after your accidents.

[bcar240]

i think everyone has crashed atleast 1 s13.

true dat

[bcuz]

OUCH!

I havent wrecked a car yet (**crosses fingers**)

[naha_music]

you mentioned that your friend didn't have very much driving experience, so i'm assuming this goes the same for you. i personally would not recommend trying to drift until you get a better feel of driving and your able to get better driving reflexes. also drifting can be extremely expensive, something always seems to break everytime i got out drifting, thus putting my car out of commission a few weeks everytime. having a seperate daily driver is highly recommended.

[BuLLeTdrift]

actually i got experience, and i could use more (who can't?). hes younger than me, so thats why he is less experienced than me. yes drifting is expensive...i'm about to buy those megan racing coilovers, so hopefully i'll have more control. Merry Xmas every1. peace

[accel junky]

Wrecking is inherent in drifting. Expect it and get on learning from it.

[greazymule]

Finally some more people who have had accidents drifting. I thought I was alone with posting a accident pic of my car. Dori Dori and greazymule glad to see you bath are still drifting after your accidents.

yea i as actually in the comp that dori dori crashed at. he had by far the fastest entry speed there, 3rd gear haulin *** with ****ty tires in the rear. the guy went balls out and competed more after the crash only to crash again. he's a beast! haha

[POS VETT]

The thing is, it's obvious how unpredictable drifting on the streets is. In drifting, you are inducing the car into an unstable position. It is like the way ABS brakes work, increase the brake line pressure and wheels are locked up but if you decrease it, the braking power is not optimized. The curve looks like a very peaky mountain.

It's the same with drifting, that peak is very narrow, but you have to be able to stay within. Too slow and the car regains traction, too fast and it becomes unmanagable, i.e. yes, you will crash (into cars, people, buildings or other objects).

If I were you, I would find a local autox. Although an autox course is not the best for drifting, it provides you with a safe, controlled environment for you to screw around. Worst you can do is to plow into a bunch of cones. This way you will know the limit of your car without the hard consequences.

Really, take it off of the streets. Ain't fun crashing into a soccer mom minivan or wrapping your car around a utility pole.

[574-240sx]

The thing is, it's obvious how unpredictable drifting on the streets is. In drifting, you are inducing the car into an unstable position. It is like the way ABS brakes work, increase the brake line pressure and wheels are locked up but if you decrease it, the braking power is not optimized. The curve looks like a very peaky mountain.

It's the same with drifting, that peak is very narrow, but you have to be able to stay within. Too slow and the car regains traction, too fast and it becomes unmanagable, i.e. yes, you will crash (into cars, people, buildings or other objects).

If I were you, I would find a local autox. Although an autox course is not the best for drifting, it provides you with a safe, controlled environment for you to screw around. Worst you can do is to plow into a bunch of cones. This way you will know the limit of your car without the hard consequences.

Really, take it off of the streets. Ain't fun crashing into a soccer mom minivan or wrapping your car around a utility pole.

Boo. call the police.

They don't let us drift at AutoX anymore and thats why we take it too the streets. I have gotten kicked out of a few autoxs. I would much rather do it the legal safer track way if that was possible were I currently live. I stick to going out in the early morning with friends and playing in industrial parks and the usual parking lot where we do have permission from the owner.

[eliterit]

just thought i'd share

i did get damage at a local drift event with cones. Hit four of them dead on at the same spot in the fender all at once.

[rudeboy]

man. i've been doin this thing called drift for 3 years now.i loved my first chassis. black and clean. now i have a crappy red rb powered hatch with a zillion zip ties and billion dingswhen i play i always play rough. after this crash and the purchase of another chassis, i bought a diff, and got some serious practice in

[rudeboy]

just to be sure this was all clear,open diff, freshly rebuilt KA, bone stock suspension(except for strut bar) and open exhaust, 2 months of drifting and thinkin I was the man. what makes it so stupid is i was the next block up from my house. and my whole intention was to take a quick spin around the block.here is a pic of my girl cleaning it the day before the crash.

[Dano]

it seems like every time someone says 'one more time,' thats the death sentence for their car.

thats the truth 110%, ive seen it happen time and time again.

as for your question bullet, every situation is different for every1, you just have to HAVE ....AND... USE common sense, bottom line...

-Dan

[midnightsliding]

i have wrecked alot, everything from curbs and bending rear suspension liknks and lwer control arms, im on my 2nd subframe now, i have broken wheels, my car has been into a lot of ditches,everyone makes mistakes its just that you learn from them and try not to let it happen agine, im still on my first car , and im thankful for it too.

[dal2kvvisp]

Around where i live, theres a road that a lot of my buddies use to race, its pretty perfect; super wide 2 lane road, big sweeping turns u can take doing 100+ with the right suspension setup + driver skill and it goes on for over 30 miles, but it has one major flaw at night, animals. I was showing one of my friend's this road, and him being a 4x4'er hadnt been in any cars that were good for anything but a straight line, or going over center dividers, and me having a 92 240sx coupe with a pretty decent suspension setup ( KYB adj shocks, Eibach pro springs,F+R strut bars and sway bars, and bushings ) was showing him my little "rice rocket" as he called it was a little better than the average civic or integra around here

so i was haulin on this road, like ive done many times before, but at nightime ( i know its stupid but i figured if i knew the road well enough that would be good enoug... wrong) and im doing 80-90 arond a long turn, and BAM allofasudden theres a deer standing there looking right at me not to far away from me, and having dealt with similar situations before, i swerved to the side instead of slamming on the breaks ( gotta love 4 wheel lockup) my rear end totally slides out going at about 70 now, and out of the corner of my eye i see my friends eyes as big as baseballs, and looking for something to hold onto. then i countersteer and thankfully regained control without much trouble. cool story right? ironic part is a few months later my parents front me some money for a s13 Silvia front end for a christmas gift, spend 4 days putting it on due to me being a perfectionist on fitting everything on, and im driving the scenic route to a family christmas party, and taking a turn casually, i hit a sudden dip in the road i hadntt noticed before somehow, and my rear end slides out again and i coutersteer casually but due to bald tires, loose it and slide into a gaurdrail, going about 35 gaurdrail is higher up so it slides right over my bumper and cleaves right thrrough my headliights and radiator and bends everything up, in the end totalling the car.( first and last accident with the car...) just trying to emphasize how important tires are, now im driving some POS automatic :::GASP::: 87 celica while i look for my next 240

[OHH]

i know the feeling of crashing it sucks. As a matter of fact my wife said "you are done with cars no more drifting" then it changed to "your done with cars if it happens again". of course that is not the case as I love cars I will never be done with them. I am thankful only a replaceable item was hurt and I basically figured out what went wrong and I wont do it again.

heres the after math of my crash.

my tires were bald I was showing off (bad thing to do), there was a little dirt and debris on the road. the rear slide off the road hit a ditch which flung the front around the front dug into the ground and the rear of the car flipped over the front and then it rolled twice. The front wheel was pushed through the fire wall. trashed everything in the front suspension except my coilovers, my fmic was toast and so was my ecu. but thank god (he was definitely with me that night) no one was hurt. lucky for me i found a 240 the day after I wrecked this one for 50 bucks


Modified by OHH at 10:22 PM 1/15/2005