Hey when you're at the sort of angle on the entry, are you dragging the front wheels alot, or is it purely steering angle and the front is gripping? If you're letting the front wheels slip, are you controlling it somehow or is it just getting used to the feel. If that makes sense.
hey mate, fronts are well and truly sliding, this is one of the big things about my setup, unlike wisefab it embraces the lack of grip you get with wheel jacking at high angle, the easier your fronts slide, the more angle you can carry, and almost as important it makes the transition to regripping much softer. you can control the car with your fronts even past their grip a little, but more important at that stage is controlling throttle, foot brake and hand brake, know exactly when to use them, and when the earliest point you can get on the throttle is, and exactly when you need to get back off it before it spins is all part of just practicing it enough. although the skill seems silly and impractical for events like comps, you can pretty much never have to worry about spinning in competition again, especially if you couple it with a high lock setup as well.
Nice nice. With that set up though, does it make the front end more washy when yo do want it to grip though? For wild flicky transitions and stuff.
you don't need big front grip for hard transitions, in fact you want less if anything. hard flicks are all about the movement of the car, fronts should only ever be used as a catalyst, and if used rightly, you only need the slightest amount of grip at the front to start the biggest amount of movement, it's all in using the weight of the car correctly. having less front grip allows you to catch the big transition easier as well, just like big entries, when you have more grip at the rear than the front, your car will resist yaw movement, this means you can throw it hard, and the balance of the car will pull up the movement quicker and easier and resist the car from spinning, if you have too much front grip and not enough rear, the opposite happens and the car just keeps moving around causing you to spin. most drifters believe they need more front grip then they really do, a drift car being driven right is constantly sliding the fronts and using the rears for the steering and drive, and the fronts only as a catalyst to weight movement in the chassis. there is a limit obviously to how much front grip you can lose where even mid drift you begin to fight the car from wanting to straighten, but that point is a lot lower than most people think. if people want to run high front grip setups then so be it, but they won't reap the rewards of the low front grip setup, where the only negatives can be driven around with enough practice.
Good skills man, possibly one of the most awesome entries I've ever seen. It's nice to see people share some knowledge and actually discuss drifting on here for once as well.