Can you drift a focus?

[Spatakula]

In highschool, we had METAL lunch trays. Those things would last forever with tray slides.

-spatakula

[CrUziN4L]

Originally Posted by FORDSVTPARTS

LOL, I didn't know you had decent pictures of the tray.

We need to get you some steel plates to do it with, or if you really want to show off use magnesium just make sure you have a couple good fire extinguishers on hand.

yeh magnesium would be a lil hairy...maybe sheets of metal with magnesium beads/inserts. Hell get some wheel dollies, remote lockers on the wheels wired to a button on the shifter....u can really put on a show

[ClintB1321]

i cant drift my focus...but i can drift my miata

[ZX3autoxtasy]

Originally Posted by FORDSVTPARTS

LOL, I didn't know you had decent pictures of the tray.

We need to get you some steel plates to do it with, or if you really want to show off use magnesium just make sure you have a couple good fire extinguishers on hand.

Steel doesn't work. It'll last a ~bit longer than plastic, but unfortunately, it'll burn through fast. And it costs money.

Back in my wonder years when I first got my license, a friend of mine and I took our Mini out and his Integra out and did it. It was sweet.

...the Mini hated it. Like literally. All the check lights came on, started flashing, and the car just stopped. We had to wait 5 minutes before it would start again. Nothing was wrong with it, I just think the TCS and ABS systems couldn't contemplate driving around for a minute or two with the rear brake locked out.

[CrUziN4L]

Originally Posted by ZX3autoxtasy

...the Mini hated it. Like literally. All the check lights came on, started flashing, and the car just stopped. We had to wait 5 minutes before it would start again. Nothing was wrong with it, I just think the TCS and ABS systems couldn't contemplate driving around for a minute or two with the rear brake locked out.

mom's Santefe does that in the snow, ABS goes absolutely nuts, AWD wants to cry....and it will just lock everything up till u stop

[o2_designs]

LMAO...

Perfect reason there why Nu-Skul may not be as good as Old-School...


BTW Steve, I still have that tray. Its above my door, along with all my euro and old car plates. haha. I had to keep it. I lost the other one

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I wrote this how-to acouple months back for mnfocus.com on how to drift your Focus and leave flat spots on your tires
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So this is a how to on how to add sweet JDM flat spots to your new winter/all season tires. Its a bit risky, but if done right, could have some sweet benefits.

First off go to a fast food restaraunt. I prefer Wendy's because its based off of a white girl. $2.14

Now that your there, you can eat there if you want, but you don't have to. Just grab acouple the food trays they give you. Don't worry about stealing them. You bought them with your food. Its optional to give them back.

So, grab the trays and head back out to your car. Place them behind your rear tires and back up. You'll hear a crunching noise. Thats ok. Once your back tires are placed on the trays, as in the words of
BowWow, "Rip that ebrake".


Pull it up all the way. It needs to be up all the way.
Now your set. Put the car in reverse back out of your parking spot. Aim it staight and floor it. Now your Drifting!!! Once you get to the corner of the parking lot, you'll really need to let the ass swing around and floor it...The ass of the car may start to swing pretty good now...


It takes some skills to really master this technique. But just keep going. About halfway around the building you'll start to smell burning rubber. Thats a good sign. That means this how-to is working. You might get some weird looks from the Drive-Thru employee looking out the window to see what the noise is about. Just give them the shocker and keep going. Then they know whats up.

Now you should almost be around the whole building. Now is a good time to release your ebrake. One precaution is you'll loose the trays now. They will stop moving. Since they are actually Wendy's trays', and I lied about buying them, you can just leave them. And why would you want them? They are useless anyway now, they have a big hole in them since, guess WHAT!!?? They burned thru and now you have flat spots on your tires!! WootWoot!!!

That sums it up. Pretty easy.
**One note, if you under estimate how slippery the trays are at first, and almost hit a guard rail or fence, its not mine, nor BowWow's fault. You take responsibilty, or try to sue Wendy's since they left trays in their parking lot and you hit them and slipped.

[belacyrf]

Originally Posted by MrBirdman330

Try left foot braking techniques. Anybody can pull an ebrake slide.

Left foot breaking is only to adjust car balance, not to get your ass end out.
Left foot breaking is a race technique, not a "style" technique. For drifting, E-brake is the better solution.

[ClintB1321]

Originally Posted by belacyrf

Left foot breaking is only to adjust car balance, not to get your ass end out.
Left foot breaking is a race technique, not a "style" technique. For drifting, E-brake is the better solution.

to drift, i just do the turn into the skidpad as streets at max speed...nail the gas right after turn in...which equals drifting 65% of the whole skidpad in a stock power miata

[belacyrf]

LOL yea... in a stock powered miata, just turn in utilizing all your grip, and nail the gas... not enough power to send you in a roundy bout, but just enough for tons of fun!

[AAA'S ZX4]

Back in college my friends and I set up some tandom "drifts" with fast food trays in one of the empty parking lots . I dont know why but I always found that the wendys trays last longer than others.

[CrUziN4L]

Originally Posted by AAA'S ZX4

Back in college my friends and I set up some tandom "drifts" with fast food trays in one of the empty parking lots . I dont know why but I always found that the wendys trays last longer than others.

trays r one thing, tandom? now thats just recklass

[jinstall]

With a tight enough rear swaybar on a Focus you can make the rear end step out without using the hand brake. If you try hard enough you can even do a 360 in a focus wihout using the hand brake.

[o2_designs]

Originally Posted by jinstall

With a tight enough rear swaybar on a Focus you can make the rear end step out without using the hand brake. If you try hard enough you can even do a 360 in a focus wihout using the hand brake.

I'm running the Steeda 28mm rear bar...and yes, if you don't watch out, that bar will make you look stupid...

Pics at a autoX were the bar bit me on a corner...obviously the slide was already started when the pics start...lol



BTW, not one cone was hit, but you can see the last cone came pretty close to being slaughtered...

[Justin04]

Originally Posted by jinstall

With a tight enough rear swaybar on a Focus you can make the rear end step out without using the hand brake. If you try hard enough you can even do a 360 in a focus wihout using the hand brake.

actually you barely need a really stiff sway bar to get the Focus rear end out. I had only the SVT suspension on my old car and my focus got pretty tail happy going through a slalom.

[tallguy2.3]

I've gotten the back end loose with R comps and KW V1's on a track (PIR East).

[marcusfranz]

i no this thread is a little old but... i can say this it may not be a drift but dirt roads can be fun...
http://s479.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=DSCF0759.flv

[Redlight]

Originally Posted by marcusfranz

i no this thread is a little old but... i can say this it may not be a drift but dirt roads can be fun...
http://s479.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=DSCF0759.flv

dave.

[jinstall]

Again this sliding, not drifting. 4 wheels drifts are the best.

[tobytheplatypus]

Originally Posted by Justin04

actually you barely need a really stiff sway bar to get the Focus rear end out. I had only the SVT suspension on my old car and my focus got pretty tail happy going through a slalom.

i have a stock 2000 lx.
doin 80km/h on the highway in a snow storm, was transitioning back to the outside lane. straightened the front wheels (i may have crossed the snowy centreline at too great an angle) but the back kept going. kept the wheels goin straight down the highway as the back end switched from right-to-left and back (i was slowly letting my speed go down and the..amount of fishtailing? was getting less and less). ended up just nickin a snow bank in front of a guard rail (no scratches or dents!) and was able to keep driving. pulled off the highway into the gas station. someone followed me in to see if i was ok, and told me it was one of the wildest things theyve ever seen (they just saw tailights goin backing and forth).
also, i find if i pull the ebrake while turning in the snow, i can get the back end kicked out and keep it like that for a good 30-40 feet. i did it all winter in the parking lot at work (swing into the empty part, go sideways, straighten my wheels and slide into a parking spot. got alot of funny looks for some reason...)

[j20000]

[SVT04EAP]

Originally Posted by zetecgt

dave.

x2, lol

[Focusfre4k]

omg let this die.

[COCHYN]

Yeah you sure can drift a FWD, for quite a while in wet too. I get the a$$ end of my RS out on the local track quite regularly, but a little more difficult with very sticky tyres

[Spatakula]

Lol. You guys are stupid. Of course you can drift a focus. Everybody knows that.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/D...Ford_75660.htm



-spatakula

[Spatakula]

Originally Posted by j20000

Right turn fail.

-spatakula