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I went to my first Drift show yesterday!! Holy shite was it fun!!!! I took a lot of pics of all the cars that were there too so I will get those posted later. My battery died during the drifting so I only got a few pics but WOW, I think I am in love with drifting. And maybe I will have to convert the TSX to rwd like they did to that s2000!

 

i'm not too big of Formula D, but i admit it takes skills to run.

 

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There they are! Let me know what you think!

They had the SKyline there!! suhweet

 

Nice pics Steph....that skyline is hawt

 

Nice pics and cars and of course the rice!!

 

That FD is incredible, I got to catch the formula D event in wall, NJ it was well worth the trip.

 

They converted a RWD S2000 to RWD

 

Thought they were fwd? not too sure then why they said that?

 

I'm wondering the same thing

I wonder how much that mod cost

 

I thought it was RWD but then they announced that they made the car into RWD so I thought I was wrong and it was FWD.

I must have misheard what car

 

nice pics

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the same.

Road racing (F1, SWC, Grand-Am, etc.) > Drifting (Formula D)

 

I think it takes wayyy more skill to do dual drifting than dual straight line racing

 

Road racing does not equal straight line racing (did I even mention straight line racing in my last post?). I do think that drifting takes some skills, but going side ways is just a form of style. And to win in drifting, it all depends on the judges (i.e. the decision is somewhat subjective). In road racing, to determine who the winner is is basically who crosses the finish line first. I personally don't care about this style. I care about how fast I can take the corners to get faster lap.

 

Ok last time I checked I didnt quote you so stop assuming I did
Yes drifting judging is subjective but thats what makes it fun!
Its crazy when the cars are going around a corner side ways and passing/nearly hitting each other!

 

Come on...read every single post above. Who else would your earlier comment direct to? It's very obvious.

 

Ok you little brat if you want me to be very critical you made the mistake in the first place. You did write "road racing" and I made NO COMMENT towards "road racing" I said in reference to straight line racing, yes there is a difference and you pointed that out, but I never said anything about road racing, I was clear when I said
Originally Posted by stphy32
I think it takes wayyy more skill to do dual drifting than dual straight line racing

I wasnt even going off your quote, or I would have quoted you like I do others. I was working off the topic of what we were talking about

so can you just calm down

Thanks

 

Yeah this event was a lot of fun! I think the RS-R event last year at Route 66 was a little better, but it's just plain fun watching drifting events. I have a nice pic that my g/f took of the nissan with the red tire smoke that I'll post later. My crew Deceptions Motorsports was there, but we only had 3 cars in the show. A silver M3, silver accord and carbon GTI. My CRX is still out of commission!

I had a chance to buy a clean Corolla (AE86) for cheap a while back. The owner was even going to throw in an uninstalled red-top japanese motor that he never got around to dropping in! Unfortunately i didn't have the cash at the time. dammit!

 

Brat??? Wow...I wonder who is the real brat.

 

Does anybody on this site have a sense of humor?



vwong

 

Those are alot of nice pics! Thanks for sharing.

 

that was nice but for $2000 a set, no thanks

Can the red smoke leave any coloring on the rims or does it not really do any damage?

 

 

At the RWD conversion on the S2000.

Looks like a pretty fun event.

What kind of camera is that?

hopes its not a Canon

 

Go eat your popcorn somewhere else

Troublemaker

 

Oh how did I know one of you craz-o's would have to mention something about my photo taking ability
Thats why I never post pics cuz you guys always hatin on them

No its not a canon, LOL, its a sister company of Sharp, dont remember the name, anyways. Im not a photographer so take it or leave it

 

Stand down solider. There's a reason I asked what kind of Camera it was and didn't come out and mention anything about your photography skills. Did you stop and wonder why?

 

For real. $2k for a set of tires??? ouch!!! I think that's why they were outlawed for competition. Since it's not mass-produced, and affordable for the public.

I don't think it leaves any coloring on the rims, no more than regular rubber that could be rubbed off. It just looks like there's red rubber mixed in with the regular black compound from what I saw on some of the used tires. But i'm probably wrong. =P

I wish I woulda gotten to see more demo runs. That's what was so cool about the RS-R drift festival last year. Kinda disappointing that Gushi was driving a ford this year cause he was really good in the Nissan last year.

 

I guess I why, I just know I see tons of you all always talking about cameras and critiquing each other... makes me nervous to post!

I still luv you dom

 

Me? troublemaker?

 

The camera sucks.

 

HAHA I know, I got it cheap off ebay, its supposed to be like 7 megapixels, who knows, I dont read manuals, so I dont really know how to work it that well lol

 

On drifting: I agree that the judging system seems overly subjective. There were a few runs at the Chicago event where both drivers made really amazing runs, and so the judges' choice of the winner seemed very arbitrary. Also, as to the whole S2000 thing, what the announcer was trying to say was that a stock S2000 is so perfectly balanced and poised that the team running the S2000 had to, basically, fuck up the suspension in order to get the tail to come out. In other words, a stock S2000 is too capable to drift. This is another weird thing about drifting.

Anyway, I took some pictures too—somewhat more drifting and less rice than Stphy's. Maybe I should post them?

 

Enjoying the shade under our tent
Waaaait! Is that finally the pic of you you promised? Or am I late (as usual) to the party and would have missed out on some previous pics you'd have posted?

 

this coming from the guy who went road racing in 19 inch volks.



just kidding buddy.

i couldnt resist that one.

:troutslap <- the florida fish man.

 

Ugh... I am too lazy to upload all of these pictures one by one on Photo-bucket.com. You guys get the idea from the other posters.

 

yo I uploaded all those pics lazy guy!