Powerslide question

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Is it possible to powerslide a front wheel drive car?

How about a 4 wheel drive car?

Just genuinely curious is all.... :cool:
 
Yes, but not anywhere nearly as well as in a RWD.

In a FWD car, just lift off the throttle when you can feel it understeering and your backend will step out and you'll have yourself your very own mini powerslide that, but will just evaporate when you touch the throttle again :)
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In a 4WD car, i think you have to flick the steering to unsettle the car first, then hammer the throttle to keep the slide going - this leads to a bit of a bigger powerslide, but still fairly mini iirc :)
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Slide yes, powerslide no.

Powerslide = continuing or provoking a slide by applying power.

Try and extend a slide by appling power in a front wheel drive car and the likelihood is you'll just get plough on understeer.
 
Gaygle said:
Yes, but not anywhere nearly as well as in a RWD.

In a FWD car, just lift off the throttle when you can feel it understeering and your backend will step out and you'll have yourself your very own mini powerslide :)
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A power slide is getting the **** end out using the power of the rear wheels. Sliding the back end of a FWD car is just a slide as it requires no power as you've stated.
 
4wd would surely depend on power/surface too... The EVO in that vid is not only fairly powerful it's on a very slippery surface.
 
Vonsteve said:
4wd would surely depend on power/surface too... The EVO in that vid is not only fairly powerful it's on a very slippery surface.
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Correct - that's why you'd need a bit of speed and as i said you'd need to flick the steering. :)
 
My Jag has 4x4 but with a 60/40 split to the rear, so it can slide but takes a slippery surface like ICE.... or wreckless driving, but it can be done!
 
tbz_ck said:
Is it possible to powerslide a front wheel drive car?

How about a 4 wheel drive car?

Just genuinely curious is all.... :cool:
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Marf said:
Slide yes, powerslide no.

Powerslide = continuing or provoking a slide by applying power.

Try and extend a slide by appling power in a front wheel drive car and the likelihood is you'll just get plough on understeer.
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Depends what you view as a power slide, for most people "sliding" an FR/MR (or even some AWD) cars is seen as drifting, so no you can't drift an FF car.

If however your idea of a powerslide (and very few people nowdays view it as this) is just e-brake turning then you can do it in FF and AWD (though AWD prefers it over FF obviously). But nowdays most people agree that e-brake turns in an FF is not powersliding (as Marf said).


As for flicking steering wheel, there are soo many different techniques to drift/powerslide ...
 
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Yes, yes and yes.

4x4s powerslide very easily, even discoveries (check out Tiff doing evasive driving in a disco on fifth gear - crap tv but good skills).

FWD is just a case of lift off oversteer to get the rear end out and then using "Mad Skills" or talent to keep it there with a mix of throttle and steering input (check out Lewis Hamilton on the 2nd to last corner of the TG test track). Obviously not all fwd cars can do it without tweaks to their setup or a large degree of driver talent. Most FWD standard cars are designed to understeer as it's far easier to control and less brutal an experience for the average driver (myself included).

But, as previously stated, far far easier in a powerful rear wheel drive car. Hammer the gas, steer in, lift off, correct and hammer the gas to steer. Or with enough power (and a correctly setup car) you can just powerover (no need to lift off).
 
Brando said:
FWD is just a case of lift off oversteer to get the rear end out and then using "Mad Skills" or talent to keep it there with a mix of throttle and steering input (check out Lewis Hamilton on the 2nd to last corner of the TG test track). Obviously not all fwd cars can do it without tweaks to their setup or a large degree of driver talent. Most FWD standard cars are designed to understeer as it's far easier to control and less brutal an experience for the average driver (myself included).
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I think some people don't know the difference between a power slide and a plain slide.

lol @ most FWD cars are DESIGNED to understeer.


Brando said:
But, as previously stated, far far easier in a powerful rear wheel drive car. Hammer the gas, steer in, lift off, correct and hammer the gas to steer. Or with enough power (and a correctly setup car) you can just powerover (no need to lift off).
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That actually makes no sense. You don't power on then lift off. Usually you'll flick it in and hold the power until your slide is where you want it to be.
 
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i didn't know what a powerslide was until i played Gran Turismo and used the Viper GTS, and then an NSX

FR - harder to control, but looks better
MR - elegant slide
 
bledd. said:
i didn't know what a powerslide was until i played Gran Turismo and used the Viper GTS, and then an NSX

FR - harder to control, but looks better
MR - elegant slide
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erm... FR should be easyer to control in 99% of situations due to the weight distribution, hence pretty much every D1 car using front engine rear wheel drive setup. Infact there was a guy who tried to use an NSX for a season but gave up on it cause it wasn't controllable enough iirc
 
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