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Drifter C01

3,835 P7VDS  1.5 years ago

My first drift car

This car is made to easily drift. Ive never tried making something like this before so any tips are really welcome!

I'll explain my thoughts when designing here. If you just wanna drive you can just skip this!
The rear suspension is stiff sideways while the front suspension will easily absorb shocks from all directions. This way itll be able to easily slide the rear sideways while staying stable. It has a medium amount of downforce fully on the rear to keep the rear wheels pressed to the road for more controlled drifts.
I also added some small rear vertical stabilizing wings to be able to control the slippery rear at higher speeds.
The front wheels are pretty grippy, but not too grippy sideways to avoid getting shocky movements before spinning out which keeps the car more controlable especially at sharp high speed drifts.
The brake balance is almost fully forward to keep the momentum on the not too grippy rear wheels to immediately get sliding again after braking
The engine power is pretty high mostly for fast acceleration which is slow because of low forward rear grip. This is compensated for by even lower rear grip. This took some balancing.
It has a big camber on the rear wheel and smaller one on the front wheel mostly because the front wheel because of different suspension. The front wheels roll outward because of the fitted suspension.
Finally the front wheels have inward toe (toespoor in Dutch, dont know if i used the correct term in Enlish) for sharper steering and the rear wheels use outward toe (Dutch: uitspoor) for more stable drifts

Controls:
Pitch - accelerate
Yaw - Steer
Brake - brake

As you just (didn't) read i thought about it a lot and decided to try myself first before analyzing drift cars from the community.
Literally hours went into testing it. Hope you'll enjoy the result!
Thanks for downloading, let me know what you think by upvoting and leaving a comment, and have fun!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 12.7ft (3.9m)
  • Length 23.3ft (7.1m)
  • Height 6.7ft (2.0m)
  • Empty Weight 1,262lbs (572kg)
  • Loaded Weight 1,394lbs (632kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 109.1lbs/ft2 (532.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 12.8ft2 (1.2m2)
  • Drag Points 946

Parts

  • Number of Parts 97
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 543
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    Still no?

    one month ago
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    First drift car last car… ever

    7 months ago
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    Please come back…

    one year ago
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    @P7VDS?

    one year ago
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    Where have your gone @P7VDS?

    1.3 years ago
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    DORIFTO

    1.5 years ago
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    3,835 P7VDS

    @FarrowTECH thanks! Its mostly made to be functional with low part count. I didnt spend too much time on the looks, but felt like a drift car deserved an over the top RX7 type look with a huuuge splitter. I kinda liked the alternative building style too!

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    5,850 FarrowTECH

    An oddy satisfying way to make a body. Love it mate

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    Me like

    +1 1.5 years ago