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Offline Diamond Hell

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #40 on: 12 July 2013, 10:14 »
Errr, OK.  We're not going for smooth and fast here, so maybe I'll just have fun with it.

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #41 on: 14 July 2013, 22:21 »
Yes I know. Im saying when it steps out, let the wheel slip through your hands. You dont need to spin it like a mad man. Same when it straightens up.
Let it slip through your hands then hold it when you want to hang the arse out. And hold it when it comes back straight.

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #42 on: 15 July 2013, 00:27 »
Thanks, I think I'll go with the other advice I've already had and I'll spend some time just enjoying titting about in it for now.  Do crack on and show us the videos of you doing this though.
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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #43 on: 15 July 2013, 13:35 »
You've been given bad advise mate. Just trying to make it less of a effort for you and you will enjoy it more.
This is what I mean and this is what ive been taught when I went drifting

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKQK92fKa-E

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #44 on: 15 July 2013, 17:05 »
You've been given bad advise mate. Just trying to make it less of a effort for you and you will enjoy it more.
This is what I mean and this is what ive been taught when I went drifting

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKQK92fKa-E

Christ! Looks bloody good fun that!

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #45 on: 16 July 2013, 01:12 »
You've been given bad advise mate.

Right, so let's get this straight:  Have you driven on gravel? You've posted a tarmac drifting video which is quite different to driving on a loose surface.

It's 'advice' by the way.  :wink:
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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #46 on: 16 July 2013, 06:49 »
Yes done  a rally driving day. They show you how to drive on gravel in fwd 4wd rwd

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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #47 on: 16 July 2013, 08:06 »
You've spent some time on one day driving on some gravel (probably on gravel-specific tyres) and you're dispensing advice on what I should do by posting a drifting video?

For now I think I'm going to go with the advice 'keep the wheels pointing in the direction you're going' and the advice from my own internal monologue of 'do enough steering to keep the car on the track'.

In the interim you should get busy telling all those rally drivers on Youtube sawing on the wheel that they're doing it wrong.
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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #48 on: 24 July 2013, 10:08 »
I had the exact same problem in my farm truck, 4wd drifting is awesome... until you have to snap out of it then its 'spinspinspinspin'... gets tiring very quickly. I bought one of these, you did get arm ache after a while but that was in a jacked up early 80's hilux. Im sure the bimmer is much lighter



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Re: E36 BMW gravel shed
« Reply #49 on: 26 July 2013, 01:35 »
Nah, I'm good without an assister wheel on it - the rack's quick enough to collect things without too many dramas.
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