i wana start driftting so what car should i start with and whats the setup

first thing id do is decide nitro or electric...then decide what company you like..then decide what models that company offers that fit your needs...then after you find a car that fits you .. learn to drive it and tate turns fast..once you get good at normal driving and you can manuver the car pretty good and your pretty confident you can put the car where you want ,when you want..come back here..and well help you out with setting up your car to slide

I've been reading this Drifting forum for about a week and have seen the difference between the real way to set up your car...and the cheater way and I've decided I want to go try it this weekend if its dry.Now,I don't have any extra money at the moment to go buy cheaters,or hard compound slicks for the back to set it up right so I have to figure out something.The HPI X-pattern radials I have that came stock on the car are fairly hard and I bet I could use those and put the HPI Super Radials (sticky as hell) in the front and get some drifting out of it......Or,I work at a machine shop and we have this really hard rubber that can be put on a lathe,and I have a spare set of aluminum rims and could just make my own tires to fit em.I'd like to try the hard rubber stuff but it might be alot of work for nothing so,I'm not sure what to do yet.I'll let ya know what happens when I figure out what to try first.

you got an ss..thats what i use also...when i drift i use the stock x-patterns thats came on the car front and back..i stiffen up the rear suspension(big spring spacers)...and i move the shift point to 4.5 out..thats all i do and i can drift around any turn i want..i can do it in 2nd gear too..its really easy to set up the ss to drift..if you want you can add some negative rear camber so there is less tire touching the ground in the rear..it helps but isnt necessary..ive tried just about every setup with my car and i found the way ive just described works best with my ss for drifting and high speed grip driving

Are you running the stiff ass black springs and stock shocks? I got a set of threaded aluminum ones with softer springs so I could just put the black ones on in the back and crank the preload down and that should work pretty good.I'm also gonna try the other option of cheating with a set of Delrin tires just to see what happens but I imagine I'll just spin out everywhere and overheat my engine,probably like driving on ice.

I saw a pic of that drift conversion chassis and I could make one of those but not the center dogbones so I won't even try,I'll see what happens with the drifting first.Thanks for the help and I'll let ya know what happens