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PART 1: Basics of Drifting

Drifting is a common way of driving on Forza. There are many drifters on Forza and many Drift "Clubs" have been organized on Forza. When your drifting you should pretty much only use RWD (Rear-Wheel-Drive) cars. It's also recommended that you use Japanese cars to drift with, as it's a Japanese sport. However, there are many european and american cars that you can successfully drift with. You should NEVER Drift with an automatic transmission. If you try to use an automatic transmission you will push out too many RPM's when you go around the corner and you will be unable to Upshift or Downshift while your attempting to drift around the corner. On to your FIRST DRIFT CAR!

PART 2: Setting up your First Drift Car

For your first drift car, make sure you have about 80-90,000CR set aside for it. Next, go buy a car. Your going to buy a "1992 Nissan Silvia CLUB K's" which is a Nissan Silvia S13. Here are the parts your going to put in the car.

Engine and Power
Race Intake
Sport Exhaust
Race Ignition
Street Fuel System
Street Cams and Valves
Street Engine Block
Race Intercooler
Race Turbo Kit
Stock Powertrain (RWD)

Platform and Handling
Race Brakes
Race Springs and Dampers
Race Anti-Roll Bars
Race Tramsmission
Race Clutch
Race Flywheel
Race Driveline
Race Differential
Race Weight Reduction

Tires and Rims
Sport Tire Compound
Tire Width - Front: 225/25R20 Rear: 245/25R20
Rim Size - 20"
Rim Style - Any style you want try to keep it light

Body and Aero **Can Be Anything BUT Forza Brand**

PART 3: Setting up your First Drift Car

These are the settings I recommend for beginning drifters, but feel free to mess around with these settings.

TUNING:

Tire Pressure
Front: 30
Rear: 34

Gearing:
Final Drive: 3.56
1st: 2.94
2nd: 2.15
3rd: 1.69 <<< LOLOL 69
4th: 1.36
5th: 1.08
6th: 0.96

Alignment
Camber front: -0.3
Camber Rear: -0.5
Toe Front: +0.5
Toe Rear: +0.5
Front Caster: +6.0

Anti Roll Bars
Front: 24.50
Rear: 13.80

Springs
Front: 153.4
Rear: 376.4

Ride Height
Front: 4.5
Rear: 4.5

Rebound Damping
Front: 10.1
Rear: 4.6

Bump Stiffness
Front: 9.5
Rear: 4.7

DownForce
Front: N/A
Rear: N/A

Braking Force
Balance: 65% Front
Pressure: 140%

Differential
Rear Accel: 70%
Rear Decel: 70%

PART 4: Drifting with your Car Specifically

Drifting around Short Corners:
1. Come at the Outside of the Corner in High 3rd Gear (Between 7000 and 8000 RPM's)
2. Start to Turn into the Corner, as if your Going to Drive Around it Normally
3. QUICKLY Press the Handbrake (A Button)
4. The Car will turn into the Apex of the Corner as if it's going to Spin-Out
5. Turn the tires in the opposite direction of the Apex -- So if the corner turns right, your car will be facing the right, which forces you to turn your tires to the left to keep the car from Spinning out
6. Keep the car perfect position, so that the car drifts through the whole corner in the same position. If done successfully, it will look really smooth, and looks like your car is sliding around the corner with ease.
7. Kinda tap your wheels in the opposite direction throughout the drift, because if you hold them in the same position, the car can wipe out without you knowing, or your can go back to normally, ending the drift -- Once you get good at drifting, you can turn the wheels in the same direction throughout the whole turn without having to "tap" the wheels.
8. Your car will pretty much automatically straighten it's self out at the end of the turn, but if it doesnt, let go of the gas, and turn into the opposite of the corner you were in, as if you were still drifting, but not using the gas.
9. If you messed up the Drift, your probably moving very slow, so downshift to 2nd Gear once your out of the turn.

Drifting around Long Corners:
1. Come at the Outside of the Corner in High 4rd Gear (Between 7000 and 8000 RPM's)
2. Start to Turn into the Corner, as if your Going to Drive Around it Normally
3. QUICKLY Press the Handbrake (A Button)
4. Once the Drift Begins, Downshift to 3nd Gear
THEN Follow the rest of the steps from "Drifting around Short Corners" excluding #9 because you most likely won't' lose much speed drifting around long corners. If you do lose alot of speed drifting around long corners, the drift is most likely done, and you will be unable to get back into the drift at a slow speed.

PART 5: Where to Drift and Where Not to Drift

There are many places you can drift, but there are also places where you can't drift. I will show you examples of where you can drift for short corners and long corners, I'll also give you an example of what a short corner looks like, what a long corner looks like, and a corner that would be TOO short.

Time to go test drive your car! Go to you cars, and select your drift car, then go to test drive. Go to the track "Sebring International Raceway Short". This track will give you an idea of which corners are long, short, and TOO short. This track has 9 corners... or 6. The first one is a long corner. Refer to "Part 4" - "Drifting Around Long Corners" of my tutorial to see how you should drift around long corners, then give this one a shot.

That's a great long corner to practice drifting around because you have quite a bit of room, so if you mess up, you wont ruin your car. After your done with that corner, there will be a short straight away coming up to a corner that is TOO SHORT. YOU CANNOT DRIFT AROUND IT. You might be able to slide around it at a slow speed, but even then half of your car will be off of the track, so it won't even be good. And there is not even enough room for attempts. If you try to drift around it at normal drifting speed, you'll just fly into the wall.

Then you'll see the 3rd, which is very short, almost too short, but you can drift around it at a respectable speed. The 4th Corner isn't much of a corner. It's short, and only about a 30 degree turn, but you can drift around it. The next corner is the same thing, and I'm not even sure if those are concidered corners. Then corner 6 (if you include the last 2) is a short corner, that appears to be long. But trust me, it's short. Then another, "wanna-be" corner like corners 4 and 5. Then corner 8 is a short corner, but it's easy to drift off the track so be careful, then a long staight away (fun for drag races), coming up to a very long corner. For this one, come to it in 5th gear, at about 7000rpms, and drift around it until your about one third away around it then, downshift to gear 4, then when your about two third's around, downshift to gear 3.

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There, that track is to get you an idea of Long corners, short corners, and corners that are too short. However, I don't recommend practicing on this track.

You can pretty much drift on any track but the 2 best and easiest for beginners are: Suzuka Circuit East, and Tsukuba Circuit Short.

Well, I hoped this helped some beginner drifters out there. Feel free to ask any questions, and I will answer them, or if your a good drifter, feel free to answer their questions.

also, if you follow everything I told you in this tutorial, post some pictures of your S13 drifting, or if your a beginner drifting with a different car, feel free to post pictures too!

-PS MY OLD NAME WAS Whacko_Jacko_x