Well there is a lot of people asking about 2wd drifting one once being me trying to 2wd drift. For everyone out there just to get this clear, yes you can "sort of" drift 2wd but its not fun at all and very hard. RC drifting is suppose to be fun, when you drift 2wd 9 times out of ten your going to fail. It gets very boring very quickly so why do it? If you want to do it go ahead but why buy a $80 ( AUS ) toy when you can buy a hbx lancer or skyline for the same price?

4wd rc cars on the other hand are a lot easier and a hell of a lot more fun. You can control the drift, no practice needed ( well not much ) and well all around better. 2wd drifting isnt really drifting, more tailing out, you cant get it fully sideways is what im trying to say. Its kind of on the border of spinning out but still got grip, only the back is sliding not the front 2 so your just whipping out the tail not sliding sideways.

2WD Drifting:

Not Controllable

Hard

Boring

Cant do consecutive drifts ( one after another )



4WD/AWD Drifting:

Controllable

Easy

Fun

Can do consecutive drifts




See the difference?

I just made this to clarify that yes you can sort of drift 2wd but its not fun, it's hard, and boring.

Thnx for reading!

I hope this gets stickied so it can help people and stop people asking questions and making threads asking about 2wd drifting lol.

cya later everyone!

From Brendon.v

Yes the HBX Lancers and Skylines drift fine.. thing is, Because there not a "Main stream" Brand and are a Clone.. people dont have any faith in them...

Hell I drift one and love the fact that it drifts better then a Drift King and costs just as much as one, with the benefit of being rebuildable with TL-01 parts....

exactly. A Drift king is about the same price and non upgradeable and also if you break anything it has to go in the bin.

Go the HBX's. I've got a brushless in my dumped on it's guts monster truck and one in my Skyline and thought about drifting out the front of home, how do you think the truck would look sideways?

Sweet... any thing that goes Slideways is cool!!!

I have a RWD R/C and my AWD drifter I may have to experiment.

it also depends on the compounds/ ground you're driving on. In the giant garage at Lexus Service center there's a "non-slip" epoxy floor. With my 2wd cars (bandit vxl and Associated L3) they drift amazing. Not just overstearing, rear whipping but, controlled driving... breaking the back out in and around posts and holding her sideways for as long as you want.

I agree, in typical terrain and circumstance... 2wd cannot out perform 4wd vehicles in drift "control". But, there's something to be said about skill with driving rwd vehicles whether on a track, drift, drag... whatever.
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I've been experimenting with RWD for years... the main hurdle you have to overcome is the car's propensity to hook the tires on something and spin you out/knock you out of the drift. (AWD pulls the other three wheels when one hits an obstacle, maintaining more stability). Otherwise, as Justin has noted, controlled slides are actually pretty straightforward, provided you know proper (1/1 style drifting) technique and you practice a bit. Good RWD buggy drivers are, AFAIK, quite adept at sliding their cars around the dirt track.

Going straight with a RWD when you have no traction is definitely tough. Furthermore, with AWD you can transition between grip and drift without much thought or effort, but with RWD you have to be really, really good to tap the throttle a bit extra right at that transition point. If you miss that point the car will stall/stutter, and it just looks bad.

All this said, I think everyone interested in drifting should try it sometime. It really opens your eyes to how much you still have to learn about controlling an RC car.

i found it impossible to drift with my F103GT, when i had it.

it was hard enough to drive with foam racing tyres