HighestCaliber07

Hey I just thought I'd share a little trick I taught myself so the rest of you might have some fun. If you have a tiptronic shifter in your RT, as your coming up to a turn, drop it down in gears. Bring to first (engine braking will slow you down) and let off the gas until it revs high and starts to slow significantly, then punch it. If you do it right, you can drift your AWD car. its nothing sideways but you are sliding. My friends were impressed that I could slide an AWD car. Give it a shot

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Richard

That sounds pretty cool. Even before I opened the thread I was thinking, "You can only drift with a RWD vehicle." If someone has a digital camera maybe you can film it and upload it in the video gallery.

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Texas_Cali

If it's "nothing sideways" it's not drifting ****. you need a RWD car to truly drift, all you did was increase the risk of screwing up your ride. That was a dumb thing for you to do putting you and your friends live on the line considering the caliber has a high center of gravity. But more importantly you could seriously screw up your engine.

Plus it's more of a front wheel drive because it's not all time AWD and i doubt you spun the tires enough for you to activate the AWD.

SebringLXXXi

always in the negative you can drift with any car, but what about FF cars. it's been done. in fact there is a professional drifter on formula D and all he drives are hondas ie civics and hatches and if you screw any thing up it would the tranny, or tires, not the engine

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Texas_Cali

Last time i checked using the engine to slow down wasn't good for the internals....but whatever it's not my car to screw up.

HighestCaliber07

yea, i realize its not true drifting. hence why the topic title was in quotes. Its more of a controlled slide. And its not heavy engine braking. More like going from 2nd gear at 1000 rpm to 1st, putting it around 3500. not too drastic. it just revs higher allowing the caliber to jump when it tag it. i love my car and wouldnt do anything that would cause serious harm to it, and I dont think sliding like this every now and then is dangerous.

PS: i only do it in wide open parking lots or areas where there are no things to hit or run off the road. its not even close to rolling.

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SebringLXXXi

it's called engine braking, and you can do it with out hurting any of the internals, if fact in an emergency stop it's what is recommened, look it up in the owners manual. may not be in there for an automatic, but I know it is for manual trannies

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KStryker

Thanks for posting this info, its pretty cool to know that a caliber could sorta drift; as Richard said, we would love to see this in action

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Texas_Cali

Keyword of the day: "emergency"

What does the manual say about Controled sliding?

SebringLXXXi

you know what, I looked it up because it got me thinking, it does say in an emergency, but it also says using it normally, especially in manual trannies, is recommened be cause it helps to decrease brake wear. but enough of that there is something more important at hand. YOU
tell me something, do you always follow the rules? no. if you can't have alittle fun every now and then, what's the point? to drive from point A 2 B and then after 8 hrs B 2 A? sounds like loads of fun to me, where do I sign up? when's the last time you toped your car out? do you even know the top speed of your car? when's the last time you took that big turn alittle faster than you were safe with and relized that 'hey, that was fun, I think i like this car, lets do that again'? when's the last time you get to know your car and your car got to know you?

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