hmmm can a 260hp rwd car drift. HMMMM

Back in Black

 

People get too used to driving these front wheel drive pansy cars that they forget what a rear wheel drive car can do with some power. Sorry just getting a little tired of people asking this question. Just because the G is from japan doesnt mean it drives like a honda.
6MT coupe

 

I autocross mine regularly. Obviously, you have to turn off VDC. The car tends slightly towards understeer, but power-induced oversteer is very easy to come by... and easy to correct, as well. The platform is very forgiving. I haven't spun-out at all yet, always been able to swing the tail back in line relatively easily.

It's not a sporty sedan, it's a sports sedan. They don't call it the 4-door Z for nothing. [img]/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/img]

2003.5 G35 Sedan Desert Platinum/Graphite Premium/Sport/Aero/Nav/Winter

 

I am a new to RWD cars as this is my first. How do you recover from a power slide in the G? I know in FWD cars with the understeer you just brake, but I heard with RWD you actually have to accelerate so the rear tires have more grip. Is this true?

 

Ease off the throttle and steer into the turn. If you apply more throttle to driving tires that have already lost traction, regardless if it's FWD or RWD, you'll get nowhere (except tire smoke).

<font color=red>2003.5 Garnet Fire/Graphite G35 6MT Sedan</font color=red>
Premium Package • Navigation • Winter Package • Aero Package • 350Z intake duct • Stillen high-flow airbox

 

I tried to playing around with a non sport loaner I had the other day. It sure did not like any efforts to try and drift. The backend would comeout and kept comming. No smooth envelope. As soon as you exceeded the limit, the fun was over.

Now with my sedan with the Cusco bar set and the Z suspension, the car is extreamly neutral, I can drift all day long, I can steer the car with the throttle with ease. Drifting isn't really my thing, but I've never passed up the chance on freeway onramps either.[img]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Ivry 6mt sed
Crawford Pleneum
Injen CAI
22" resonator
Cusco sway bars
350Z springs&struts
Enkei RPM2

 

Pardon the newbie....

Can someone explain what exactly a 'drift' is? I believe it is 'sliding laterally', correct?

Thanks,
Drew

 

That's right, its 'sliding laterally' while taking a turn - exploring the limit of adhesion without going far enough over the limit to lose it.

 

Ryoken,

How do youd do Autoxing the G?

John
03.5 G35 14.6 @ 95
02 Maxima SE 14.5 @ 95 (Wife's)
87 Mustang GT 13.2 @ 107

 

Well, considering it's my first year at autocross at all, not too bad. The car still has more skill than I do. I'm currently running around 5 seconds behind the WRX's and Integra Type-R's that lead the field (though I do beat a few of the WRX's that have equally sucky drivers as myself). I started out 8 seconds behind them at the beginning of the year, so I'm improving a little bit. I think the car is capable of hanging with them with some better tires. I, however, need lots of practice. The course changes every event.. but it's usually a 65-80 second run for cars in my class.

2003.5 G35 Sedan Desert Platinum/Graphite Premium/Sport/Aero/Nav/Winter

 

That's cool. I would imagine the G would be a lot like my mustang with the understeer being my biggest problem auto crossing. We do courses that are just over a minute and except for one modded WRX I can hang with all the all wheel drive guys in the stang...

Good luck at catching them.

John
03.5 G35 14.6 @ 95
02 Maxima SE 14.5 @ 95 (Wife's)
87 Mustang GT 13.2 @ 107

 

I heard Pestilence was able to get his G to drift. Unfortunately he drifted right into a curb and it cost him bucks deluxe.

04 Sedan. Desert Platinum, Premi Pkg, sport tuned.

 

I beat a Cobra at the last event. Though, he was a new driver. [img]/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Actually, my G doesn't drift so much as it wags its tail back and forth a few times when I take a corner too hard.... [img]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

2003.5 G35 Sedan Desert Platinum/Graphite Premium/Sport/Aero/Nav/Winter

 

That's the TCS, wheter or not you have the button showing it's off...as we all know it never is...the wagging is the car correcting itself...which is a lot better than my GT which would correct itself in that case by spinning around to a stop...though one time I did a full 360 in an decreasing slalom, and caught it and kept going like a stunt driver...it looked the *****, but of course it killed my run time-wise.

John
03.5 G35 14.6 @ 95
02 Maxima SE 14.5 @ 95 (Wife's)
87 Mustang GT 13.2 @ 107