Worst drifting experiences...

So, what was the absolute worst thing that has ever happend to you guys while drifting? What was the damage, how much did it cost, did you hit anyone else, etc. Me? I don't even have my permit :bloated:.

I've messed up my alignment pretty bad hitting curbs a couple times, but I've been careful enough to fortunatly not broken anything important yet.

Wasn't me, but a friend who saw me drifting my MGB and decided to try it with his Dad's wire-wheel MG Midget.

Smacked a curb with a rear wheel and sheared the axle and hub through the spokes. It was a $130 wheel.

I wasnt drifting but my friends were trying to say I was:rolleyes:
I was turning an extremely sharp turn and there was a litte bit of sand on the street.

When I was turning, the car slid straight into the curb.

Bent my control arm and tie rod,

broke my tension rod,

and blew my tire.The rim ony got a scratch but nothing really bad.

I picked up another control arm and tension rod at a salvage yard for $50.Didn't replace the tie rod,just beat it back into shape.

I also bent the bolt that connects the sway bar to the control arm,got another one with an extra control arm for $10:biggrin:

Came around too much and went up over a curb halfway onto the middle median. Didn't hurt nothing, but felt like a complete dumbass to everyone behind me as I backed my car off the curb and back onto the roadway where it belongs. :dupe:

For me.... Smacked my '97 Camry into a mountain. No grip on the tires, and understeered. Car was totaled :icesangel ... got a new 2003 Camry in it's place. ('85 Corolla-Don't take it out much, gotta fix it up a bit..)

the only thing i have done is worn down a few pairs of tires. my explorer slides like nobodys business when you jump on the gas. it kicks ass.

Understeered into a traffic light going about 30 MPH. Braked too hard and made my all important front wheels lose traction. Plus I was using that stupid e-brake. $2500 in damage, but it's all good now.

Last week in the wet. I was street Drifting with some mates in an industrial area at 3 in the morning. I came around a corner completely sideways and had it under control until boost came on, the rear wheels went completely nuts, I lost control of the car and came off the road into a pile of rocks and dirt. I really need to get used to the power of an external gated turbo car. Anyway the damage wasnt too severe and it's just a good excuse to make the car a Onevia sooner that planned. The good news is that the Drift was caught on digital camera so I will try and get it up for you all to have a look at.

can i have your S13 front end? :biggrin:

Hehe, well I live in Australia so it might be a bit hard getting it to you. A friend of mine is turning his 180 into a Sileighty so we are gonna swap front ends. The damage on mine is not too bad and I have a Nissan aero front bar on it too so it looks cool.

I want to see the video :D

Originally posted by BOOSTD
Nissan aero front bar

that's exactly why i want it. :biggrin:

me + 1980's Alfa Romeo Spider + Farm= drift gone pretty nasty and the Spider in a fence- oddly enough no real damage to the Spider:bigthumb: probably about US$10 of repairs there:icon16:

drifting down a mountain, completely sideways awesome up until the point where i over correct to steer out of the drift and end up at the bottom of a hill. $1700 worth of damage to rear suspension alone.

i was in a fwd and on enclosed rural streets my only problem was i forget my seat belt so when i popped the E i went my upper body flew into the passenger seat i got up in time to hit the brakes right was i knocked down a cemented concrete mail box (never knew those things were hollow) very ashamed of myself but didnt cost a thing since i was throwing away my bumber anyways

Ahhh my worst experience? Lets see... I was leaving my neighborhood and making a left onto a 3 lane road that at this time of the day was very empty. There was an apartment complex on the right side of the road I was going to turn onto. So, I reved it hard approaching the intersection. About halfway through, I noticed that not only had the apartment complex been running its sprinklers, but one of the heads was obviously broken, and had soaked the intersection. Lets just say I did some free landscaping, when I lost all traction and ended up in outside of someone's apartment. So, I was a nice guy, and left a couple "marks" in their front yard as I sped away.

worst experience? well I was showing a friend how to drift his dad's old RWD volvo. Then we got into a empty parking lot. He really began to enjoy drifting, but he wasnt controling at all, but who cares, there is nothing to hit... At least in a bidimentional plan... But then there was an Audi TT that was near us, and he wanted to impress the driver, so he got at 50 mph, started to drift, but even with opposite locking, the car was still sideway, so he braked, and steered even more, what made the car go immediatly in the other direction. And because of all the body-roll, it made the car flip over! ahahah! Fortunatly, volvo have really solids cages, so we were not ingured.

His dad was so sad, he was polishing piece of carburator he bough in a salvage yard to replace it in the engine. Fortunatly, he bough an other one that is exactly the same and he enjoy reparing it with the pieces of the one that flipped over.

I used to have a lot of fun when I had my 92 Miata. With it's super-short wheelbase, I'd done a lot of accidental 180's, especially in the rain.

The worst in that car though, was done by my brother. At the time we shared an apartment together, and the night after I installed a cold air intake on it he came home from a night on the town (aka drunk) and decided to take it out for a test drive. He was used to driving his fwd Neon, and according to him while going around a turn in our neighborhood he hit the gas to kick out the rear end, and it took him by suprise. He said it fish-tailed back and forth about 3 or 4 times before slamming him head-on into a tree. In the end, it cost his insurance company over 5 grand, and it cost him a car for over a month, cause I drove his while mine was in the shop.

One of my favorite quotes still has to be what he said to me after he got back home: "If it makes you feel any better, I think I fucked up my thumb."

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I was asleep when he decided to take my car out. :angryfire

i was in a fwd and on enclosed rural streets my only problem was i forget my seat belt so when i popped the E i went my upper body flew into the passenger seat i got up in time to hit the brakes right was i knocked down a cemented concrete mail box (never knew those things were hollow) very ashamed of myself but didnt cost a thing since i was throwing away my bumber anyways


Hmmm? drifting and no seatbelt/multi-point harness? Sounds like a good combo to me. :loser: