Zimmy580

so i got a budget of about 300 bucks for a drift car right now someone said to look at the mst ms-1d rtr which is 290.00 comes with everything too sounds good but hard to find info on what ppl think but anytways would like ppls opinions on what i could do to start out beginner drifting with this drifter and also upgrade it to for when i get better at drifting thanks for the time

ThePanda

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for hard core drifting, check out drift mission. You will probably get more info on there, there is a drift thread one here, but i haven't seen it getting very much use.

Big Trol

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I've been checking out the Sakura D3 drift thread over on the electric on road forum, looks like a pretty good place for information too.
I know some of the guys around here don't buy purpose built drift cars. They convert TC cars to drift.
It looks like a matter of tires, springs, and suspension set up. Gives them more options on the same platform.

ThePanda

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I Bought a Ta05 vdf dedicated drift car, and it easily out drifted my standard ta05. I did get bored with it pretty fast though.The standard rc cars don't have the balance needed, so if you plant to stick wit drift, go with a dedicated drifter.

any car can drift, dedicated drift cars just do it better.

Big Trol

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Thanks Panda, that's good to know. It does look like fun, I don't see one in my near future though.
I was just sharing what I've seen around here.

theblitzkidd

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Well I will agree with the driftmission,com idea, If u want serious info about drifting....all o can sugest is a Sakura or Tamiya 05 but they have much more as far as opinions on other drifters and so on, good luck

chr15730

I have an HPI Sprint 2 Flux that is awesome for drifting. there are also many carbon fiber and aluminum uppgrade parts made for it.

ThePanda

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I had one, could not get it to drift well at all, and yes, i locked both diffs with 500,000 wt oil.

the balance is not good, and at slow speeds, to get the rear to hang out, i had to give it the beans, where as on my center front motor drift car, the back would hold out all day.

by the time i upgraded it with all the "bling" i would have just bought another VDF or VDF2 car.

theblitzkidd

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With the s2 I believe it is the suspension, I think the guys at DM were recommending some aftermarket shocks that were supposed to make it more stable, but for an otb drifter I don't think the s2 is that bad, just when it gets done to extreme performance, it is not top of the line