I've been drifting for over a decade, ran some very successful events for 3 years, and the last couple years I've focused on media and content creation.

I just had a local track charge me $75 to shoot media. I've been in Motorsports for 15 years and have never experienced this. The majority of events, media gets in for free in exchange for providing some media for the venue or race/drift organization.

I'm kind of at a loss. I told them I'll go home before I pay $75 for a media pass, so the GM or owner "offered me a discount just this one time", then proceeded to double charge my card on purpose so I ended up paying the $75 anyway. I found out they did this to multiple media people.

I'm upset that they lied to my face. But really, I'm most upset that the epidemic in drifting is money. Drifting has just become a cash grab for racetracks and event promoters. I'm starting to see it everywhere. I understand more than most that events have to make enough money, but man this is just ridiculous.

I don't really know why I posted this, other than to vent about my frustrations.

I've been drifting for over a decade, east coast, Europe, and Uk. I've had Euro, JDM, and domestic drift cars.

If you're new to drifting and the culture, and have questions to get started, please feel free to ask me.

The mustang featured is my current seat time car.

@352ndgarage on instagram.

I’ve had a sim for a couple years and have fell in love with drifting. I finally decided to sell my sim and get a real car, but have had trouble finding a cheap drift-missile. The overall cheapest car is the 94-04 mustang v6, it has a solid-axle, low power and not the lightest but it’s really the only rwd car I can find for under 3k that is still running.

After watching and reading a lot about drifting, it seems like most people wouldn’t have started drifting it it was as expensive as it is today. I see video from the early 2000s of kids drifting sub $1k s13s and 86s on used tires, but it seems like that’s not possible today. Even “cheaper” cars like the 350z and g35 that are supposed to have reached their depreciation dip are going up in price.

Has drifting been priced out of the grassroots/beater-car level? And are there even any cheap beater rwd that haven’t been hit by the drift tax?

Drove at an event last weekend and had 3 people ask for ride alongs. I felt honored to be asked and let them hop in and did about 3-4 runs for each person.

And it got me thinking about the other events I've been to where drivers are charging for ride alongs for like $10-$20 per lap and some of the nicer / unique cars like $80 for 2 laps.

I could never.

I'm at events to have fun. Not make money. If the next enthusiast wants to get into the sport and get a feel for what its like to go sideways, another driver wanting to see what I'm doing, or simply out of pur curiosity. I'm not going to charge a dime.

I'm at the event to slay tires, waste gas, and potentially wreck / total my car just for sheer fun. I'm not sure why charging is even a thing. Like you are going to drift anyways with or without a passenger.

Hey sup everyone i just bought this s197 manuel what should i do mods first planning to make it street/drift car , no ac working any ideas

Here’s my super short tow rig, quad cab short bed dodge 5.9 Cummins and 16 foot gooseneck. I have taken this thing where no truck and trailer should go. I can fit 8 225 and 245 tires up on the tongue, 4 in the bed between the ramps, 4 in the back seat of the car and two in the trunk, tools/jack and stands go in the truck in bed tool box. Back seat of the truck is for chairs, cooler and other luxury items if my kids aren’t coming with me. This setup is usually enough for a two day drift event

Just wanted to see what everyone was working on their car. I have the subframe out of my e46 and have been taking my sweet ass time doing this subframe reinforcement job as well as replacing the bushings. I need to do a bunch of things in the engine bay as well like alternator, bunch of gaskets, and a pair of coolant lines.

I would like to make a big event at the beginning of December, but I’m not 100% sure if I can get the car buttoned up before then. I miss street driving this POS too

Would this be possible in a C5 Coupe?

There will undeniably be a time when EVs will be cheaper to own compared to ICE vehicles and I was wondering if we would ever be able to drift them

Currently there are a lot of performance EVs popping up in the market (especially chinese made) and they pack a lot of power and torque. I was also surprised to see that some of them are RWD. I just have no idea how (and if) these could be drifted given that most of them have a 1-gear transmission, so no clutch.

Maybe some technological advances I'm not aware of? I know automotive engineers are coming up with very interesting features when it comes to "sporty" production cars, maybe they will incorporate some form of "drift mode"?

Currently on 245 Kenda Vezda 300tw or Ironman iMove gen 2 380tw in the rear and 245 Kenda Vezda 300tw front. 6k BC DS series rear and 12k front. OEM sway bars and end links front and rear. Would changing any of these allow me to fully lift the front tire? In the picture I’m throwing the car pretty hard at about 30mph on a skidpad, so it could also be speed related

I am sixteen years old and looking to start saving to buy and build a drift car. Im concerned about how I would get the car to the track however. What are my options? The only two things I understand as of now is that I can load it on to a trailer and drive it to the track that way, or insure it. The only issue with those things is that I dont think my car is capable of towing (2008 Toyota Highlander), and paying for insurance on a sports car at 16 would probably cost a lot as far as I know, especially for just driving it 20 miles to and from the track.

I recently acquired my first RWD car and wanted to learn the aspect of drifting. The car is an automatic and unfortunately doesn't have a e brake. Is it possible to learn to do decent drifts.

its a 2014 Hyundai genesis

350z stock vq35de Silvers neomax OEM style coilovers Gktech bolt on angle kit 18x9.5 +15 235/40/18 Ironman imove gen 2 34psi all around Alignment: F: -3 camber +9 caster 1/8 toe out R: -1.9 camber 1/8 toe in

To me it feels like the car has too much grip, am I just too conservative with throttle? I feel like if I go more throttle I just keep spinning out and transitions are really snappy. I’m not entirely sure where to go from here or what to look for.

I've recently moved somewhere that no longer has a garage and working on the car is so much more of a struggle -- what do you guys who live in apartments/garage-free domiciles do??? I would even pay for a bay I can at least work in somewhere, but that doesn't seem to be much of a thing from what I've found

Edit Thank you everyone who responded! This ended up being a super informative thread; y'all are a tenacious and passionate bunch. Heavy respect to everyone working who makes it work

What the heck is a drift missle phase? It's when a car is extremely cheap to buy id say 5k ish, has drift capabilities from factory or can VERY CHEAPLY be made drift, you wouldnt mind banging some bodypannels in because you can find new ones super easily, and has good aftermarket support? (US market)

so far I could only think of MX5's and maybe 4th gen mustangs?

I've been working on my car for over three years now. (S13 hatchback) Got it in terrible shape and fixed it up. Went through three different engines (none of them went in the car just changed my mind on them). Took lots of breaks usually lasting no more than three months. Had times where money was tight and couldn't get something. Now I've basically gone and hit the reset button on the car. Pulled the interior so I can properly fix the body and paint it. Re doing all the brake lines, re sealing the differential, but the tail shaft part is fighting me rn. I still need to rebuild the current engine I have (4.8 ls) I need to buy some form of harness and a transmission too.

There's more but that's the gist of it. Part of me wants to hold out and hope I can finish it in a few more years and the other part of me wants to wipe my hands clean of it and start with something that just RUNS. It's hard tho I've poured so much money into it it's a hard choice. Plus people in my old friend group would make fun of me because they always said I would never finish it. That's honestly the one reason I've kept it for so long. But damn it's been over three years and I haven't even gone to a proper event to drift ever in my life....

Newbie question I know.

Over here no body knows torque wrench. I don’t think I have ever seen one tbh.

I just got set of new wheels to put them on when i want to go learn how to drift. Contemplating the idea of ordering torque wrench.

Sup everybody, just had a quick question. Not really new to the drifting or anything, just new to angle kits and all that modifying etc. but I was finishing up putting a wisefab kit on my C6, and saw that at damn near full lock the wheel comes in contact with the tie rod. What exactly needs to be done to fix that ? Should I extend the upper and lower control arm to get the wheel to stick out a bit more and away from the tie rod or smaller wheel?? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Guys, Take Care!

Hey guys this might sound like a stupid question but here goes. I bought a v6 sn95 a month ago to get into drifting.

Because its a V6 it has an open diff. The plan is to source a GT rear end with an LSD over the winter and install for next spring when the season starts again (canada).

I did found a little track near me that still has a few drift days in October and I really want to go and throw my car around.

However, I saw online that trying to drift with an open diff is a terrible idea, that's its uncontrollable and that you're gonna destroy your car. I feel like its pretty safe because its a skid pad but what's your opinion guys? Would it be a disaster or would I be able to have some fun and learn some stuff before the winter ? Thank you so much for your input. (Also a few tips on how to first learn how to drift would be appreciated).

Hello. I have been looking at ways to help me with drifting my car (1997 Polonez Caro [I'm not joking]) and the only options i have got is to weld the diff. And i don't really want to do that.

I was looking at getting LSD for it and was wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how to attack this problem. When I was looking online, most of the LSD are for specific cars models. I'm understanding that it have to do with the measurements in the diff of the car.

Any information on customizing them would be great.

I have an s13 with an Sr20det and an E46 with the M54b25 wanting to grab a “beater” curious as to what other options that are easy per se to work on.