Powersliding with AWD

[richcurl03]

Is it possible to avoid damaging the differentials when powersliding / drifting an awd car? I drive an 08 STi if that helps...

[RyanG]

don't do it?









seriously.. why bother? It may damage stuff, but you wont know till it happens. If you can't afford to fix it don't break it :)

[Renegade_]

It puts stress on everything, so yeah stuff wears. Things breaking though usually I've seen coming... Where are you powersliding though?

[richcurl03]

In all honesty, this powersliding I'm talking about is not going to happen. My STi is my only car, so it's really just a (really, really fun) daily driver. I can't afford to do mess with it like that. I had no plans, just was wondering.

[Honduh]

it helps to try power slides in reverse.

[R22B]

Very very interesting...

[MJSWRX]

Weld the center diff and call it a day lol

[CleanNeon98]

You can do it in the snow and rain, but in the dry I think there will be too much resistance on the drivetrain from the car wanting to grip.

[EACH IT]

Just wait until your tread wears down on your tires, then get a good tune. I tear it up in forward or reverse....jk
I can get all four loose if I want to though, now that my tires are worn. When they were new, forget it, give it gas and it went like crazy.

[CleanNeon98]

Yea when a car is designed to grip and you want to make it lose grip, it's not easy to do, in most cases involves a lot of power and backwards engineering.

[EACH IT]

I can drift and powerslide my car, I just need an open space the size of a football field to do it.:o

[peteyturbo]

Anyoce can drift grassroots style yo!

[MuddyREX]

Drifting in the grass, what?

[EvoColin]

Just a little flick and rip the e-brake and you're freefalling.

[JerseyTuscani]

I know a certain white STi driver that drifts better with his STi than some people with RWD cars...lol

[richcurl03]

I know a certain white STi driver that drifts better with his STi than some people with RWD cars...lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfA9yECZiE&feature=related

yeah videos like the one I linked above make me wonder about STi's drifting/powersliding

[OPZ]

Ah if only I had a drive train that could handle that and not snap like a twig.

[Midnight Ryderz]

yes you can do it just dont do it all the time and change yoru fluids often and you will be fine and don't push it to hard either

[OMGz Turbo]

I know a certain white STi driver that drifts better with his STi than some people with RWD cars...lol

i know of a white STi that used to do donuts on 95

[180sxDrifter]

sounds like if you have a white sti then your all good haha

[ndubz]

Just do it in the rain or snow, or if u really cant wait, find an open field of grass. Ive done all 3, but I pray for snow cuz that is deff the most fun :)

[z32 outlaw z]

Whenever it snows, I wish I had an STi.

[Paul]

so wait does that mean im good at driving?

[wrxrex]

hahaha not at all Paul

[nrgotenk]

Ken Block yo!

[Soon2bG60]

Random question but if you were to drift a AWD car.. wouldnt the front wheels pull the car forward, causing it to be a really fast drift?

[Subie_sleeper]

Just a little flick and rip the e-brake and you're freefalling.

Not the best idea with AWD if it's a DD. Center diff doesn't like it. It works like a charm though. :)

[DocWalt]

Random question but if you were to drift a AWD car.. wouldnt the front wheels pull the car forward, causing it to be a really fast drift?

It will be fast compared to a RWD drift.

I've drifted my car, in the dry (by accident, had to let off the gas on an on ramp, and it kicked out, and I just kept with it) and in the wet (on that day it snowed 8 inches or whatever, I was out douching around on my summer tires).

[///chrism3]

i heard the white sti kid also is sexy as fck and its swp...sooo i heard

[Red3KGT]

i heard the white sti kid also is sexy as fck and its swp...sooo i heard

Idk bout all that but if you fast forward to about 1 minute in you'll see some sick STi drifting from that kid

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Philly-Drifting_689865.htm

[///chrism3]

i belive the kid said that deff wasnt his best drift day as he wasnt tryin to wreck his tiress lol

[thefro526]

i heard the white sti kid also is sexy as fck and its swp...sooo i heard

Yo that kid with the STI can out drift 90% of the drifters on this site.

I seen him tearing up the streets, it was ridiculous.

He also had 3 passengers.

Madd JDM.

[240terror93]

Was he going through a school zone? Or maybe a hospital crosswalk?

[phate1229]

I never had a problem getting the back end out in my sti with the DCCD set all the way back, pulled the transmission and differentials apart at 30k after me having it for 20 and it all looked good as new.

[R22B]

http://r22b.com/photosold/index.php?album=2005-wrx&image=DSC00470.JPG

There’s my car after power sliding in a muddy field.

Field: Sand Island in Bethlehem. It was around 9:00PM and the only reason I did it was because it was foggy as hell and you could only see ~100’ so no one could see what I was doing.

But to be honest, I enjoy a muddy field much more than snow because mud doesn’t melt off =).

[faces240]

welding the diff makes it easier to break it when one tire grabs...

[phate1229]

yeah that's not really an option on an awd, we were talking about center diff issues and if you weld a center diff you better be on dirt or snow because you'll break axles and driveshafts after wearing the hell out of your tires.

[faces240]

ha ha, i just noticed my name says tri-state training wheels. thats pretty funny. anyway, i have a welded diff in my 92, its great for launches, i never tried to drift it though. stage 3 axles work great, but i would hate to test them out by drifting... lol, never broke anything yet.

[vi3tsi06]

so buy white sti and powerslide it haha

[Fujito]

There should be some aftermarket support to strengthen it.

The Evo has the same problem, so there are now aftermarket pins available since those are what break first. I don't know about after that, but the pins were the initial problem.

[wsirianni]

i know that people have welded wrx diffs before for drifting http://www.clubwrx.net/forums/transmission-awd/53799-converting-awd-2wd-rwd-w-pics.html