Chris_C wrote:Has anyone of the drift boys started looking at final drives yet? 1.7 or a 2.0 on a 1.4CVT diff would be mental I'm thinking of doing it on Fake atm, but I don't want to loose MPG on motorway cruising, might do some maths for it.

The problem with drift cars is they already are very low geared due to tyres is very low rolling radius.

So would the higher diff ratio just make them uncontrollable then?

You'd be revving the nuts off to get moving at all. I think the point is that with a taller diff, there'd be no need for the tiny wheels.

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James

Getting sideways is the easy bit on my car with the koni suspension, you just need the correct tyres for it. Staying sideways is the hard part, so a welded diff or some kind of LSD would do wonders.

Has anyone driven a car with a welded diff as a daily driver? what happens during normal parking and u turns ect? I'm seriously considering it for my car, but it needs to be driven daily, which includes the wife driving it too occasionally, so i wanted to know what to expect.

dalahare wrote:Has anyone driven a car with a welded diff as a daily driver? what happens during normal parking and u turns ect? I'm seriously considering it for my car, but it needs to be driven daily, which includes the wife driving it too occasionally, so i wanted to know what to expect.

Certainly not something I'd do. Especially if the wife is driving it too (unless she's some sort of drift queen!)

Just buy another 300 for your daily driver - they're cheap as chips

dalahare wrote:Has anyone driven a car with a welded diff as a daily driver? what happens during normal parking and u turns ect? I'm seriously considering it for my car, but it needs to be driven daily, which includes the wife driving it too occasionally, so i wanted to know what to expect.

Seeing Nev's car, I think it's safe to say no... He was fine with it, as he was used to it, but a 1.7 on wide tyres that goes sideways without trying could result in intresting moments when your wife boots it round a corner!

Yeah i've been seriously considering it recently, going to "driftschool" at Silverstone on thursday so i'm going to see how I get on and then take it from there. I don't think i'd be happy doing it if anyone else drove the car though and it will skip around doing low speed manouvres (apparently you get some funny looks so it must be noticeable) but i'm not really that fussed as my car is bloody uncomfortable anyway so its not going to make it much more impractical!

foggyjames wrote:You'd be revving the nuts off to get moving at all. I think the point is that with a taller diff, there'd be no need for the tiny wheels.

cheers

James

The reason for the tiny wheels is to keep the body as low as possible to the ground. The low gearing is the added bounus

Is lowering really all that important? I mean I saw a Shogun getting seriously sideways today

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James

There was a VDub transporter one the track before me at Haynes too... weird as you like to watch

He was also they only one out of the '60s surfer wagons (spacewagon??) and the transporters that could get to 30 in less that 30 secs by the looks. To think I was gonna get one! Although it would be useful for kite/wakeboarding, although not as good as the heated seats I bet