Honda civic review, the first FF on the site!!! introducing the eg6!

Hmmm dosent this car look familiar? It should because since the movie "The Fast and the Furious" street racing and honda civics have been growing in popularity. Why? Lets find out. Nobody should do street racing and it is extremely stupid and dangerous. However lets not relate hondas to that. Anyways since the movies appereance every highschool kid got hooked on civics, however none knew the true value, or should i say almost none do. You see, most civics are beat up, riced, and driven by morons. It gives civics a bad name. However the strong points of this car is that its extremely affordable, impossible to miss, fuel effecient, extremely light, and has a aftermarket miles long. In my opinion this is a great car but dont know why honda never makes a RWD hatchback. That would be absolutley perfect. The renault clio sport 16v is a perfect sports car, too bad they arent in the states. Anyways moving on. The Si version of this civic has 170hp with a sohc vtec engine. Whats vtec you ask? acctually many cars have vtec, including some cars that would never come to mind including ford, the ford escort zx2 had vtec as an early car. vtec stands for variable valve timing and lift electronic control. Most "Honda ricers" will exclaim that the vtec makes more hp, acctually it dosent. Since the honda has a high rev engine like the 4age motor, it has nearly no torque at low rpms. Meaning launchs will stink dreadfully. vtec is a valvetrain system that alows the engine to obtain more effeciency at low rpm and high rpm. This helps improve the rpm range, especially the low torque issues. This car weighs around 2,250lbs. It is a pretty low weight. This car has a front wheel drive front engine layout. It is not possible to drift these types of cars, FF is my least favorite layout. This car is good for autocross cause of the stability of a FF. It can also be used for rally racing but AWD is perfered. Overall its a good car, make sure though, when you own one not to be rice. Other wise ill eat you with my chopsticks :D just a little jokes folks, and no im not asian.

Ford Mustang GT 3rd generation review

Hmmmm V8+5 speed+RWD=WIN! This car called the Ford mustang has been in production since 1964 and is still on going, why? because this car is that great. If it wasnt it wouldnt be in production now. Now lets go over the specs.
FR layout, 5.0 V8 engine with 225HP, it has a weight distribution of 57% in the front and 43% in the rear. This makes some wild oversteer. and with the torquey V8 anyone can drift in this car. The 3rd generation mustang is the lightest of all mustangs everproduced. It is also the smallest mustang to date. it weighs about 3200 pounds. which is a little heavy compared to some other cars but no where near really heavy. This mustang dosent have a huge aftermarket but has enough to get you through. The mustang has a pretty good suspension with progressive rate springs, sway bars, and quadra shocks. The 1989 mustang was the 25th anniversary mustang and had a few changes such as 25th anniversary logos and a new 140mph speedo replacing the humble 85mph speedo. This car is pretty cheap and can be picked up for less than 3,000 if you look hard. This car is deffinatley a gem. However finding a good 5speed is hard as alot of mustangs are wimpy automatics. This is not what we want, of course. So if you happen to find a good condition mustang thats five speed......pick it up and youll know you made a good choice. Drifting this car is about using the power over technique. Throttle control is crucial in drifting this car. Heres a video to show you some inspiration

First gen Nissan 240sx review

So this time around ill be reviewing the most sought after car for drifting, next to the ae86 of course. So, what makes this car so popular you ask? lets go over the facts shall we. The model we will be going over is between the years 1989 and 1994. This is the first gen 240sx. This 240 came as a fastback, coupe and convertible. The engine in the 240 was called the ka24e and the ka24de. Alot of these 240s, chasis code "s13", were manuel. This car is also RWD and is relativley cheap. That is the main reason as why they are so popular. They also have a wide aftermarket, with plenty of parts. The ka24de was the new engine that had 15 more hp total of 155hp, than the previous ka24e engine with 140hp. The D in ka24de stands for the duel in dohc or duel over head cam valves. The ka24e had SOHC and the ka24de had DOHC. This is the main difference between the two engines. The 240 also had an optional LSD (limited slip differential) and HICAS, which is basically 4 wheel steering. This has some advantages and disadvantages, it provides smoother lane changes during highway driving, but is not good during things like drifting. In 1992 the convertible was introduced. All convertibles were originally coupes and were converted here in america. All convertibles came with an automatic transmission. 1989 and 1990 had the body style of the pig nose 240sx. and it also had the ka24e engine. < the pig nose above. later in 1991-1994 the sleeker s13 came into production and the s13 with the ka24de was revealed. This s13 (see first picture) was called the by many people the chuki s13. The nissan 240sx is identical with its japanese counter part, the 180sx. Everything is almost identical except for the engines and the badging. Unfortunatley we didnt recieve the engine the japanese market recieved. They got faster turbo engines. Overall this is a good beginer drift and autocross car. I personally like it but am discouraged from it because everyone who drifts or likes drifting has a 240sx. Also there are many fanboys around the 240sx. This car is the civic of the drifting world, thats why a like my miata. ;D

Car reviews|Racing|drifting advanced drifting techniqies

Well we covered the basic drifting techniques before, now lets go over the advanced techniques. before we continue lets refresh, first we had power over, then ebrake and finally shiftlock. Today we will go over feint, braking and liftoff. Lets start with feint. The feint technique is used when your cars weight simply wont shift, to enable it to shift thus causing the drift you use force which is called the feint. Lets say we have the 60mph left hand turn. going full speed we brake early to about 70mph with a good distance in front of us, then we shift left then wuickly right, at this point we should be close to the corner entry, now we once again shift the car quickly back to the left causing the momentum to quickly rock back and forth, once you turn left into the corner, use your accelerator to continue the drift. Use the ebrake if you want just a little bit to get that extra angle. while doing this try to get as close as possible to the apex while countersteering. Doing this should get you to do the corner nicely. The end result will be a profesional looking drift. If youve done the ebrake technique and practiced with it you should be used to the back end of the car out, once your used to that this technique will be very easy to learn and basically be secound nature. This was acctually the first technique ive ever atempted and is one of my favorite techniques i use today. Another advanced technique that also shouldnt be too hard is the braking technique. Thie technique devolps from the shiftlock. If youve practiced the shiftlock you should be able to get the braking down. With braking you enter the corner fast the amount of braking you use is very important, if you slow down too much youll lose the speed to get the momentum into the corner, if you go to fast into the drift will stop short because youll have to slow down midway to avoid a crash. Anyways while goin into the corner at a good speed brake and downshift, the downshift adds a big factor to the drift. which shifts the weight then steer into the corner and accelerate to maintain the drift, this goes in conjunction with the counter steering. Lastly is liftoff, this is a very hard technique but with plenty of practice can be done. This technique is advanced so if you dont get it your first time dont worry just try again. This technique uses speed and momentum, however you dont use your brakes to inititate the drift. Lets say theres a 80mph turn, go into the turn at about 100mph using full throttle, then suddenly and quickly let off the throttle and steer into the turn the car will suddenly lose grip in the rear, dont panic as it does feel different. Just countersteer smoothly, dot overdo the countersteering otherwise the car will change direction to the other side causing a spin. now while countersteering youll be overspeeding about 90mph, use your brakes slowly making sure you dont lock up the tires, if too much pressure is applied youll either A)spin out or B) stop the drift. Now just use the brakes to slow the car down to the desired speed, in this case 80mph and slowly accelerate out of the corner while straightning out the wheel. Well thats it for today, try these out in a safe enviornment. heres a video to demonstrate

Car drive train layouts, for racing, drifting, and everyday use

Do you know the differences of front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, all wheel drive, mid engine rear wheel drive and rear engine rear wheel drive? If you dont let me explain their advantages disadvantages and plain uses. lets start with frontwheel drive or FF for short. FF is when the front wheels move the car around and only the front wheels. Now when your racing this can be good and bad, for the good FF causes understeer which is basically the exact opposite of sliding. FF is good for rain racing because it wont slip like a RWD or rearwheel driven car. Its also good for racing because its easier to push the car as it dosent have the tendency to spinout. However because it causes understeer some turns are harder to turn for FF cars. Another thing about FF cars are that once they recieve to much horsepower they literally become undriveable. When they get to say 400hp it will be nearly impossible to turn a corner at the speeds when it had 250hp. in other words too much horsepower for FF cars will lead to a slower lap time. This is why most FF cars are under 250hp. acctually most are around 200-210 (sport FF cars). RWD or Rearwheel drive cars were popular back in the day and are no longer popular because they are not as useful in traffic as FF cars. This is because they have a driveshaft that connects to therear wheels, this adds weight and other things such as cabin room space. This is why many cars are FF today. However if you notice most race cars of today are RWD or FR for front engine rear wheel drive. This is because you can have as much horsepower and still mak turns. However once again too much will enable you to drive slower around corners. the limit to this power is around 500-600hp on road cars. You must have very grippy tires to be able to take it into the corners at the same speeds. However the limit is even higher for racing cars as they have slick tires. ill get into tires another time but just know slick tires have alot more grip than road tires. anyways with slicks you can be around 600-700hp and have very good cornering you can go higher in horsepower but it will ruin the balance of the car and make it more likely to spin out. With FR you can drift unlike FF cars. FR cars achieve the optimum between under and oversteering. But most of the time it will oversteer slightymore. What happens when you combine FR and FF? you get AWD which is all wheels turning. There are many complicated systems of AWD including subarus symetrical AWD. but the important thing to know is that AWD will most of the time cause a bit of understeer compared to FR. However if proper tunning is made and the driver knows the car well oversteering can be achieved, it is hard to maintain the oversteer though and is ussually started by using a technique called the scandavian flick, ill get into that another time aswell (wow theres alot to talk about huh?) AWD cars are very stable in the rain snow dirt or anything you throw at it. However the downfall to these cars are their weight, because of the extra machinery the cars weight increases by 100-1000 pounds depending on the type of system. Another layout is called MR for mid engine rearwheel drive. In my opinion this is the best type of car layout. This layout has the engine right in front of the rear axle, meaning more weight is on the turning rear wheels and some weight is in the middle of the car. This means that the normal oversteery RWD is now balanced out because of the extra weight on the rear wheel tires. This extra weight causes the car to grip the road better. These cars can also oversteer but it is ussually hard to control because the moment is increased. You see when you drift a car or turn the weight shifts to the rear of the car, this is why your head is pulled back when accelerating. Anyways if your turning left the weight is in the rear left because the engine is already in the back it adds to the momentum making it tricky to drift, you have to be very delicate other wise youll most likley spin out. The downfall to this layout is that its very hard to race in the rain, i mean its hard to drive in the first place so when you add rain to the mix youll be sliding every where. Dont let that discourage you though, with plenty of practice ths can be overcome. Lastly there is RR or rear engine rear wheel drive. These cars are not very popular but a famous one that you may know is a porsche. These cars are also very tricky to drive but if controlled right is very rewarding. The engine is behind the rear axle, because of all the weight back there it can cause super oversteering which is hard to control. Driving a car like this at the limit feels like driving in ice, you feel as though your car will break loose at any given secound. But these cars can be driven really fast if you have enough practice, my motto is practice=perfection the more practice the better youll be, its better to have a stock honda civic with alot of seat time than a ferrari with around 1-2 hours of seat time.

Car Reviews|Racing|Drifting explanation of site

every thing you wanted to know about sports cars. Did you ever want to learn about affordable sports cars so you can own them? Do you know the difference between awd, 4wd, ff, rwd, mr and rr? if you don't then read on! This site will have plenty of that and more, including car reviews car techniques and many other things based on sports cars. We will also discuss the mechanics and the physics of cars. And for the gear heads out there, we will discuss car setups as well! I would also have racing and drifting because we all love that you know. You can also use this site to discuss things about cars and ask question about the cars and discuss. This site will have the ins and outs of sports cars. Many of these cars will be drift able. In the site we will also talk about how to drift, how to race, how to shorten your lap time and many other things as well! Well also talk about where to practice, where to find tracks and where to race! hopefully you'll enter the site if your interested. Thank you for coming to my sports car review site. If you have any questions please let me know and email me at supralover19@hotmail.com, or leave a comment.