R33 Skyline As A Drift Car

[s13-steve]

Hey guys,

I have been thinking about entering some drift events in my R33 lately but just wanted to know what they are like as a drift car.

I have previously drifted my old S13 Silvia which i found quite easy to slide around and transition as it didnt feel anywhere near as "bulky" as the R33 does.

So what are they like to slide? and is it worth me maybe just selling and buying an S13 instead?

Below is my setup - please let me know if you think this would be effective for a bit of fun:

- C's Short Shifter

- Pedders adjustable camber bushes

- Greddy FMIC

- Tein Superstreet Coilover suspension

- Whiteline heavy duty front and rear swaybars

- Whiteline Front Strut Brace

- Rear Strut Brace

- Apexi cold air induction

- 3in Xforce TBE

- Apexi Neo AFC

- Greddy EBC

- Work Emotion XC-8 Charcoal/Bronze 18in wheels with centre caps

- Bosch fuel pump

260rwhp (193rwkw)

Here are a couple of the very few jap drift videos i have found with R33's sliding for your entertainment

Cheers,

Steve

[istdercollen]

here's my buddy doing his thing is an R33. he has 386HP however. but in the end it will drift some and then some more.

[Birds]

Remove HICAS, go nuts.

[alr33x]

yeh hicas lock bar and whats the go with your diff? standard one will be fair useless either go ghetto and weld it not great for daily driving or get a 1.5 or 2 way

[s13-steve]

yeh just the standard viscous LSD at the moment - i might take it out and get it shimmed, that worked fairly well on my S13.

only other thing stopping me is this is a mint clean SII R33, almost seems like id be spoiling a nice car

[istdercollen]

honestly you would be. Every car that I've seen that's often used for drifting winds up smashed.

[On Edge]

it will do the job if you know how to slide

[evan b]

Hey buddy looks like you've got some good suspension so my addvise would be just to shim your diff as id say you'll find the factory lsd a bit slopy, for my car I pulled the 0.8mm shim out and added a 1.49mm shim (I think from memory) which I baught from nissan and its a good tight diff but not quite locked. id say this would be your chepest option I see someone added some part numbers for shims here on skylines australia just do a search im sure you will find it.

[Deano 1]

Hey buddy looks like you've got some good suspension so my addvise would be just to shim your diff as id say you'll find the factory lsd a bit slopy, for my car I pulled the 0.8mm shim out and added a 1.49mm shim (I think from memory) which I baught from nissan and its a good tight diff but not quite locked. id say this would be your chepest option I see someone added some part numbers for shims here on skylines australia just do a search im sure you will find it.

+1

[GUN_METAL_GTR32]

yeh just the standard viscous LSD at the moment - i might take it out and get it shimmed, that worked fairly well on my S13.

only other thing stopping me is this is a mint clean SII R33, almost seems like id be spoiling a nice car

get a 2 way

dont worry its just a car. if u wanna slide u have to be prepared for the possibility of not taking ur car home.

[Peter89]

cons

-heavy

-front suspension lacks lock

[SoFreshSoClean]

They get commodores to drift dont they? R33's are lighter than those for sure!

[Peter89]

would depend on the year. VL/VN/VPs aren't that heavy.

but compared to s chassis cars, there's a big difference.

Edited July 31, 2010 by Peter89