89sxRCR wrote:This isnt about the initial D stuff but its related to the story: who the **** awnsers "you wanna race" with "you wanna drift?" sorry but that seems stupid to me.
Lost_To_A_K-Car wrote:I have an Audi with the 1.8T in it, same engine AFAIK. It's faster than the 240, but not much faster. It's not implausible that SpeedDrift won, but he shouldn't have been able to hand the VW its *ss. If he did, it's attributable to driver error, not car inferiority.
The speed limiter is much higher on the VW/Audi, so it'll eventually outrun the 240. That doesn't matter most of the time, though. Most people run out of balls before they run out of car.
I've had mine for more than two years, and I've never heard the blowoff valve. I'm skeptical of SpeedDrift's assertion that he did.
I'm also with 89sxRCR on the lameness of responding to a race challenge with 'wanna drift?', and the stupidity of doing so on a public road. Life isn't Initial D, and there's no one out running a push broom over the road for you or looking for hazards. Believe me, nothing will ruin your day faster than a gravel patch at the apex of a turn, or a double-parked car just outside your line of sight.
And Dog help you if you run someone over while screwing around like that. Vehicular homicide isn't the kind of charge you can just pay a fine for.
Man, I must be getting old.
SpeeDDrifT wrote: Do you have any idea what time of day or night this took place? What part of town? no you don't.....you are too quick to judge. however i do admit i got caught in the adrenaline and normally would not drift under those conditons.
i don't appreciate ANYONE telling ANYONE on this board that what they do is dangerous...and stupid. don't tell me or anyone else that we are stupid for being a Drifter? sure people can be dumb for doing under the wrong cicumstances...i made the mistake a drifting a corner with no spotter. tell me that that was not a good decision. i'll accept that. you try to attack me.....i'm not hearing it.
Lost_To_A_K-Car wrote:Originally posted by SpeeDDrifT "]here is a quote; k-car, that i found amusing.
and then you typed this.
>Funny, my wife just uncomfortable noises when I throw the car around
if you drive you car like you say you do....
Ayup. Did I specify where I throw the car around?
Smell that? It's the odor of your point evaporating.
Come on up to RI sometime, and I'll show you some great sweeping turns on highway interchanges and other closed roadways. They're perfect for doing the kind of driving you want to do, without the risk of hitting a busload of orphans.
89sxRCR wrote: On a track, when people learn to drift, they spin out CONSTANTLY in the beggining. You learn through working out your failures. You get maybey a fraction of the time on the street, and crashing is not an option. There is no instructor telling you what you have done wrong or need to work on.
89sxRCR wrote: And thats what I explained... When you go to this "completely abondoned industrial area" to learn do you have actual races in drifting? Sounds like u just go with friends and spin donuts or something. And yes we do have industrial area, i have been out when i was young and stupid to watch the street drags. And let me tell you your never alone, there are always unexpected truckers, security guards, police...
89sxRCR wrote:I never mentioned parking lots, i mentioned industrial areas. And there ARE security guards, no business leaves absolutely no one there after business hours. Security guards call police...etc etc. Yes truckers use parking lots, where do you think they sleep? They often park thier truck and sleep inside.
Well that is ALSO funny because every drift video i have seen takes place on a TRACK (not a parking lot) and it is an actual race, yes, invlolving times. yup.
89sxRCR wrote:I never mentioned parking lots, i mentioned industrial areas. And there ARE security guards, no business leaves absolutely no one there after business hours. Security guards call police...etc etc. Yes truckers use parking lots, where do you think they sleep? They often park thier truck and sleep inside. Well that is ALSO funny because every drift video i have seen takes place on a TRACK (not a parking lot) and it is an actual race, yes, invlolving times. Go ahead and play in your utterly deserted city, where no cops exist at night, and no one calls in that a bunch of ****s are ****ing around in a parking lot, and businesses leave everything unguarded. I dont know the situation, right?