Drift cars and gearboxes

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I have a whole bunch of drifter buddies.

Basically : get something used to bang around in. Get used tires, lots of them.

Buying a new car to drift in is .. well .. probably not the best financial decision. It's also really hard to do with that car if you put decent tires on it. It drifts well stock because the grip is fairly low (thin tires with mediocre grip = easy to toss, wider sticky tires = not enough power to push through with that low torque engine).

Good candidates are the ever-abused S13s, S14s, original 86s, S2Ks (these are starting to get to pretty good prices!), etc.

There are some other possibilities, but they're more tempermental. E36 and E46 M3s (or even 330s), Porsche 944s, RX7s (rotary hell), 300ZX, etc. I also know someone who tries to drift with a MazdaSpeed Miata, but the short wheelbase makes it tough to get the balance right.

IMHO drifting is usually the absolute worst way to go around a curve, but I can't say I haven't done a lot of dumb things with cars. I'm never lowering a car again, never doing DSM again, never doing AWD again, etc. I have basically a long list of stuff I'm done with.