Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 1 By Mike Kojima If you have been following my series, on MotoIQ you have been getting a step by step education on the theory of suspension. Due to overwhelming demand, I have decided to take a step back from the theory side of things and give some simple and practical advice on how to set up a drift car due to the literally hundreds of requests I have gotten on this. 2011 Formula D Champion, Dai Yoshihara's car has some really exotic parts in the suspension but much of it is off the shelf stuff that anyone can buy. As most of you probably know, my normal drifting job is setting up the chassis to make Dai Yoshihara’s Discount Tire/ Falken Tire S13 do its thing on the Formula D circuit.

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For the pros there are a lot of tricks and engineering going into making those cars go sideways, changing directions and maneuvering with lightning fast precision with the performance envelope of a road racer and drag racer combined. Matt Powers is an example of what you can do with the basics done right. All of Matt's suspension is off the shelf stuff that anyone could buy for a modest price.

Matt's driving skill and Costa Gialamas's set up skill was good enough to take Matt's low buck program all the way to a 6th place in Formula D ranking. Being what is perhaps the fastest growing motorsport, Drifting is getting ever popular on the grassroots level. Although your local drift day can sometimes attract hundreds of enthusiastic beginning drifters the scene is lacking for a large part even a basic knowledge of how to properly set up a car for drifting. Walker Wilkerson was runner up for 2011 Formula D Rookie of the Year Honors and was voted Fan Favorite. Walker is one of the only competitive 4 cylinders engines in pro drifting running an SR20DET. Walker reads MotoIQ and uses our basic set up!

Although we do some extreme high dollar secret tricks on the pro cars, the grassroots drifter can get 80% of the way there by getting the basics right. Proper basic setup will make the car easier to handle in drift and speed your learning curve. Unlike most grassroots motorsports, many people in the drift scene are seemingly oblivious on how to make their cars work better, being more conservative with things like stance, ride height and flushness as the street lifestyle aspect of drift culture is very strong. Matt Fields is also a MotoIQ reader and one of the top privateers in pro drifting. His car uses all basic off the shelf stuff. At the pro level, we really don’t care how the car looks, just how it works and if you care to advance yourself in the art of drifting as a driver, you might want to think in the same way as well.

For those of you that want to get better through making your car easier to drive, we decided to write down some basic low cost guidelines on what it takes to set up your car for drifting. Formula D Rookie of the Year Odi Bakchis owns Feal Suspension and is a suspension expert himself. He uses a very basic setup that is well dialed in. Odi can do stuff to make your low dollar coil overs work a lot better. Give him a call. The point of all of this is that the basics done well can see you all the way into pro competition.

I still laugh when I see that Hellaflush pic of you lookin' hard Mike. I can vouch for the awesomeness that is Koni/Ground Control/Eibach coilovers. Not that large, well known companies collaborating together needs my vouch, but they are amazing kit none the less. @Supercharged111: who are you talking about exactly? Steering knuckles that correct steering geometry are getting increasingly popular in pro drifting.

Off the top of my head, I can think of four companies that have produced knuckles in the past and at least another two companies that are developing knuckles that correct roll center as well. The days of outer tie-rod spacers and extended ball joints are slowly becoming numbered. @OMG: Nobody that I'm aware of makes an aftermarket knuckle for an AE92. I think my best bet is going to be getting friendly with the guys who made the spacers. I don't recall which cars had them because I don't have the pics that I thought I'd taken, maybe they're on my other camera back in the states. They attached to the bottom of the factory knuckle but optimized the lower control arm's geometry, the tie rod geometry, gave quicker steering response, and left the option of altering ackerman on the table which would be more than enough rope for me to hang myself.

I thought they were a pretty slick idea, Atlanta was my first Formula D event and checking out the cars gave me quite a few ideas for my own car auto-x/HPDE-mobile. Hey Mike, I had a question. What's happening when sliding in a corner and the front checks up and the car straightens. This is bad because one, the car stops sliding, but more importantly it's a safety issue on banked turns with a wall.

It was never a problem in my 240, I've noticed it on my corolla. I understand it could partly be due to the short wheelbase/low yaw inertia making it snappy. But what causes it to snap back in the first place?

The rear end suddenly regaining grip, or is it front end related? Gotta be one or the other. Front: -3* camber, a little toe out, guessing ~*5 castor. Rear: it's a corolla! Chubbs, There are many reasons you don't want to lower your car more then 2'. Bump steer, Roll centers, bump stops, wheel contacting the body, ect. Shorter bodied coilovers will allow for more travel before the shock contacts the bumpstop.

What you ideally want to do is find the stock ride height whether its another car or putting the stock suspension back in your car. With shortened shocks, do not go 2' lower then that. Abunai, Jack your car up, put a zip tie around the shock shaft and bottom it out on the top of the shock. Lower the car and let it settle at ride height with weight(driver). Baixar Video Mc Martinho Historia Real 3gp. Jack the car back up, measure the distance the zip tie has raised up off of the top of the shock.

This will tell you how much droop travel you have at the shock. Droop at the wheel will be different, just apply your motion ratio to find wheel droop. Bump is a bit more difficult. Pm me and I will explain.