drifting suspension setup

[Estrl M3]

what kind of setup is optimal? what are the differences with suspension setups built for drifting vs. street/auto x and track etc.

[Piner]

to be honest its not that much different than a road racing setup, a bit softer though. You want to get rid of unwanted body motion ie Roll/squat/dive but you want the car to still have a noticeable weight shift when you throw the car around.

Usually the alignment settings are mostly driver preference as are the spring/damper rates.

But a base line alignment would be '
0 front toe
-2.5* of front camber
+6 caster

.25* rear toe in
-1* rear camber

Now you don't need to do that to slide the car hell you can slide pretty decent on the stock M3's suspension, its mostly a drivers preference as to what they use.

Like right now I am running with no rear sway bar simply because I like the feel of it. Play around with stuff on the car and see what works for you.

[protomor]

The difference is what you make it. Some guys love cars that oversteer naturally. I think a good drift setup is one that is fairly neutral but is on a shade towards the over steer side. some people disagree.

[DriftFC]

What kind of spring rates are some of you guys running? and what have you done to get more steering angle?

[Piner]

Yeah I have 550# front 780# rears on a GC track/school set

With a UUC front sway bar and no rear bar

[SneauxM3]

No rear bar ay, how u like th feel of that, I was reading thru beginning this yesterday on iphone, I'm interested to see how exactly that feels.

Do u daily ur car as well?

[protomor]

What kind of spring rates are some of you guys running? and what have you done to get more steering angle?
550 front and like 900 rear. Cut springs so I'm not EXACTLY sure what rates. I Want to run 680/980 eventually. E30s don't react the same to springs in the rear as E36s tho.



No rear bar ay, how u like th feel of that, I was reading thru beginning this yesterday on iphone, I'm interested to see how exactly that feels.

Do u daily ur car as well?

I'm interested in the no rear sway either. In drifting, it seems to make the car twitchy. I hate the feeling of snap back and I'm trying to get rid of mine.

[rpm620]

the snap is not cause by swaybars ... allot has to do with throttle control if you let off alot it will snap but if you stay in it slightly it wont snap so much...

its alittle of everything.

[Piner]

I don't really know how to explain the feeling of not having a rear bar, it seems it breaks traction smoother and when you reach full lock it seems a bit harder to spin.

Try a few runs without a rear bar and see for yourself