**The Evolution of Drifting Performance**

When it comes to drifting performance, every detail matters. The car's speed, agility, and responsiveness are all crucial factors that can make or break a driver's experience. In this article, we'll delve into the world of high-performance drifting and explore some of the key innovations that have taken place in recent times.

**Understanding the Limitations of the Factory Dash**

One of the biggest challenges faced by drifters is understanding the limitations of their car's performance gauge. The factory dash provides a delayed reading of the car's speed, which can make it difficult for drivers to accurately assess their pace. This delay can be significant, particularly during high-speed maneuvers like drifting. According to one driver, "the number on my Dash that isn't actually what gear we're in all the time... so it's actually a little delayed." This delay means that shifts are happening faster than they appear on the gauge, making it essential to develop a feel for when the car is in each gear.

**Solving the Problem with Direct Connection**

To overcome this issue, some drivers have opted for a direct connection between the driver and the car's performance gauge. However, this isn't always possible due to limitations in the factory system. Instead, many drivers rely on software updates or custom modifications to adjust the behavior of their car's performance gauge.

**The Role of Overrev Protection**

One key feature that has been introduced in recent times is overrev protection. This strategy prevents the engine from exceeding a certain RPM threshold, which can help prevent damage to the engine and transmission. However, this comes at a cost: it also means that drivers can't downshift as quickly as they'd like when drifting. According to one driver, "the ECU holds those RPM which are in this case above some overriff protection strategy... so this strategy won't allow us to downshift if we pass some refs."

**Solving the Problem with a Simple Solution**

To address this issue, drivers have developed simple solutions that involve adjusting the behavior of their car's performance gauge. In one driver's experience, "all it takes is like seven and a half K because you're they were a driver so mmm the definitely like third gear through that drop though foreign" was adjusted to prevent overrev protection from kicking in too early.

**The Importance of Cooling System Performance**

Another key aspect of drifting performance is cooling system performance. Drivers want to ensure that their car can handle high temperatures without overheating, which can cause damage to the engine and transmission. In one driver's experience, "I haven't seen any overheat warnings... even the automatic transmission temp isn't getting hot" – a testament to the effectiveness of their cooling system.

**The Role of Cooling System Upgrades**

While the factory cooling system is sufficient for many drivers, some enthusiasts opt for upgrades to improve performance. According to one driver, "I was planning to upgrade it with all CSF stuff and maybe I'll need two in the summer" – a testament to the importance of effective cooling system performance.

**The Limitations of the Current Rev Match**

One driver recently discovered that their current rev match setup wasn't quite living up to expectations. According to one driver, "I thought this rev match on clutch was actually it was it was it was almost so smooth I know I felt that too... but like wrong yeah like wrong in a good way." This suggests that while the current setup is getting close, there's still room for improvement.

**The Role of Tire Selection**

Tire selection is another critical aspect of drifting performance. Drivers want to find the right balance between speed and grip, which can be achieved with careful tire selection. According to one driver, "I found the limit of the angle if I put smaller tires in the front and air them up more... that would help it a lot." This highlights the importance of understanding how different tire configurations affect drifting performance.

**The Future of Drifting Performance**

As drivers continue to push the limits of their cars' performance, new innovations are emerging. One driver recently discovered an HTG GCU setup being used on Dorothy's drift car, which promises improved performance and responsiveness. According to one driver, "you could do that no one else can yeah... I'm very excited to drive that car" – a testament to the potential of this technology.

**The Importance of Balance**

Finally, drivers want to strike a balance between comfort and performance. While drifting requires a certain level of aggression, drivers also want their cars to be comfortable on the street. According to one driver, "I don't think I'm gonna be Street driving this thing for a while... maybe if I do drift week in a while I'll call you up and you can soften some stuff for me." This highlights the importance of finding the right balance between comfort and performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've got a good feeling this will be our last Saga of the clutch controlled automatic super project last night I shouldn't really tell you this should act like I can fake it today that is my first time driving it I drove it and it's really good we got a handbrake working in the car right now and it's sick but the last thing that's missing is angle and my makeshift angle kit if you remember it bent the stock tie rods I tried to find another part number that coincided that would work that's stronger because the super tie rods had like a point here where it buckled inward as like a weak point if you got on a crash so uh since we can find aftermarket ones a temporary solution was to have Cricut weld a sleeve over it but in an Ideal World we would be able to use like an FDF style tie rod where we'd have a heim joint straight on the rack and then off that have just like a rod going into another hem joint but I think this should get full disclosure this inner tie rod has blown the heck out but we're running out of tie rods because I keep bending them so this one was actually straightened out this was one that was bent attack from before and uh this is a proof of concept if it works I'll switch it out with the good ones that were just on the car should we ask people to donate their Mark 5 super tie rods no I don't think there's enough people that have super tie rods laying around unfortunately the most annoying thing is like every other BMW shares the same thread pitch and it's m16x15 for whatever reason they did one two five on this car and it doesn't share a tie rod with any other car that we can find that's pretty dumb yeah them to do that they're just like well people keep saying it's a BMW so we'll put one different thread pitch on the entire car oh I think we found the culprit basically what's happening these lock nuts on the heim joint are hitting the knuckle right here but what sucks is this is right where our weld is so I don't know that I want to really clearance it here uh the easiest option would be to space the tie rod down some not going to be ideal for bump steer but I think it'll be the easiest solution just to see what's going to happen once we get this thing all about this stuff I think oh okay hold it there hello do you like the 2020 automatic Mark V A90 super featured in this video well I have great news for you this Mark IV manual Supra that will be making 750 horsepower and have an engine bay sure to get you all the ladies could be yours every five dollars you spend at lzmfg or drift HQ gets you on for a chance to win we got drift Parts on lzmfg we got beautiful Heatwave sunglasses merchandise this is a bolt kit you can always use a bolt kit and then we also got BC racing coilovers and much much more check out the links in the description and don't forget to eat your beans thanks all right so we fixed the issue of it hitting the knuckle but it's still ever so close when you get over to lock especially when the car is on the ground or reaches different points to prevent that what we're going to do is make a bump stop that will also prevent the Wheel from hitting here if you look where I drew the Sharpie Mark right here the arm contacts the knuckle so what you can do it's kind of like an old school angle Trek you put a hose clamp on here with a piece of metal or something that can act as a bump stop and then we can get the angle to stop right about here which will give us a hard limit and prevent it from hitting the tire on this and prevent it from maxing out on the knuckle so that should be good and testable without bending tie rods but at least we know why they're bending now there's a little motor up here on the diff and this basically like engages clutches inside of the diff and makes it lock or unlock bartek was able to make an electric rig to get it to lock but it can't deliver it what it needs to fully lock right now so rather than messing with electronics Duarte has his f80 right here and Jordan who modded his motor is confident then we'll be able to steal his motor from his diff and use it in this at least as a proof of concept to see how much better this would be with the diff lock all the time which would basically make it feel like a welded thank you oh there's no little pin right no I don't see one oh I found him I'm airing up the fronts to give them a little bit more slip and hopefully take some load off the angle kit stuff but the important thing is with two spacers now in the front we have the uh knuckle hitting the upright before the tire hits anything so we shouldn't have any rubbing in the front or the rear which is pretty cool for kind of like a thrown together angle kit and I'm kind of excited to see how it's gonna feel it makes up my rear fitment I don't have 19-inch tires yet so that's just my front tires on the back all right so we've got the handbrake now suicide breaks we've got the shifter we got the clutch pedal bartek has the transmission working really good so this should be as close to the final iteration of this car as we've seen obviously the angle kit this will be the first time testing the little bolt-on angle adapter there's a lot of like little weird things going on but I got a really good feeling about it we have the diff lock out of duarte's uh f80 I'm excited we don't have a lot of tire and I don't have any more 19 so we're going full sun right off rip cool work for all those sick crackles and Pops pops I'll love those huge fan big crackle guy definitely has a bit more night and we tightened up the shifts so they're a little bit quicker than you want on a road going car what's the main purpose of the car right now is track stuff I figured we'd Veer on uh on that side of things all right full send first rep I'll start in first and go two three cool turn AC off ready foreign I'm not even doing it on purpose but I found myself like pulling the handbrake and booping it with the same hand I was sick dude when I click third in this thing oh it gets down but I like don't want to click through because I don't have that much Tire sure so I'm like trying to be conscious of it it is a little weird coming in here I feel like the ABS like acted up a little bit when I throw the bigger entries but I didn't spin it I was throwing some decent angle I'm gonna see if I can hit the uh yeah I was gonna say hit yeah whoa that's a dark line yeah um give me a little sprinkle on the rear tire so I could keep them cool and then I'm gonna hit like the OG Nico drop line foreign it's weird I feel like I'm gonna be like stuck between second and third like I think I could spin third but it's gonna wheel speed a lot more or second is very like fast and snappy the difference on the layout one thing that's also worth mentioning if you guys see the number on my Dash that isn't actually what gear we're in all the time so it's actually a little delayed so the shifts are happening faster than you see the number on the dash if we could hook up a gauge directly to the GCU you'd be able to see how fast they're actually happening but like the factory Dash is based on like certain messages and I guess those messages don't look the same so it's just a little confused yeah it takes some time for the chassis to realize which gear it's it's in all right we'll go for the OG line okay I'm gonna come back I need third I'll pull third right before the drop well I forgot to down chip I think I did but I might hit over rev probably oh so we can lower that that way it'll allow me to downshift I guess a little like seven and a half K because you're they were a driver so mmm the definitely like third gear through that drop though foreign so when I'm clutching in the car is going to redline when I'm off throttle and it's not allowing that downshift there but uh bartek's got to fix so he's gonna plug the computer we'll dial that in and then we'll go back and try that again well the cool thing is like we can test these things in the compound and put the car into these scenarios like that three two downshift and a hairpin and see what it does okay so as we were driving and testing uh we spotted one scenario that can be improved so as someone was clashing in on the third gear at the Rev limits uh the ECU holds those RPM which are in this case above some overriff protection strategy so this strategy won't allow us to downshift if we pass some refs we had it set to like 6 000 and it was cashing in at like seven and a half it was holding seven and a half so this way we couldn't like do the downshift from third to second gear and it's very simple to adjust just a simple table that we have defined each gears over a protection value so we're just gonna move it to 8 000 for in this case so it will like never kick in fixed one thing that I feel like I'm not highlighting enough too that I was a little worried with is temps on the car I haven't seen any overheat warnings I've been beating the crap out of the car quite a bit and all the temps seem to be looking pretty good even the automatic transmission temp isn't getting hot so I feel really good about the temp stuff I was planning to upgrade it with all CSF stuff and maybe I'll need two in the summer but for now in stock form the cooling system is way better than I thought it would be for drifting let's do it thank you listen at the beginning I thought that this rev match on clutch was actually it was it was it was almost so smooth I know I felt that too I downshifted it like rev matched so perfectly in drift that it felt like wrong yeah like wrong in a good way this thing's good I found the limit of the angle if I put smaller tires in the front and air them up more I think that would help it a lot yeah I'm gonna slip there a little bit tires are done good it's working good good hell yeah dude exciting stuff yeah that's the tire the tire is complete yeah just like your job thank you great success I'm very happy with it and uh you know I think the only thing that left to do a little bit we're trying to like find the balance between having the car like comfortable as a street car with like soft shifts at low load but when I'm drifting I don't really want that so I think we're just going to tighten that up yeah and uh I don't think I'm gonna be Street driving this thing for a while maybe if I do drift week in a while I'll call you up and you can soften some stuff for me but yeah I like it hard yeah you know that's that's what it feels it's true yeah quick Chase all the way anyway I don't know if you guys are going to see it in this video if it's gonna be another video but while bar Tech and that have been over here they've also been doing a DCT setup on Dorothy's drift car and from my understanding that's where the HTG GCU really shines yeah you could do that no one else can yeah and I'm I'm very excited to drive that car and uh I think you guys will be pretty stoked when you see it the 8 HP good trans the gear ratios are pretty good and we're able to go between second and third and make it work so hopefully I can take this thing to an event soon insideI've got a good feeling this will be our last Saga of the clutch controlled automatic super project last night I shouldn't really tell you this should act like I can fake it today that is my first time driving it I drove it and it's really good we got a handbrake working in the car right now and it's sick but the last thing that's missing is angle and my makeshift angle kit if you remember it bent the stock tie rods I tried to find another part number that coincided that would work that's stronger because the super tie rods had like a point here where it buckled inward as like a weak point if you got on a crash so uh since we can find aftermarket ones a temporary solution was to have Cricut weld a sleeve over it but in an Ideal World we would be able to use like an FDF style tie rod where we'd have a heim joint straight on the rack and then off that have just like a rod going into another hem joint but I think this should get full disclosure this inner tie rod has blown the heck out but we're running out of tie rods because I keep bending them so this one was actually straightened out this was one that was bent attack from before and uh this is a proof of concept if it works I'll switch it out with the good ones that were just on the car should we ask people to donate their Mark 5 super tie rods no I don't think there's enough people that have super tie rods laying around unfortunately the most annoying thing is like every other BMW shares the same thread pitch and it's m16x15 for whatever reason they did one two five on this car and it doesn't share a tie rod with any other car that we can find that's pretty dumb yeah them to do that they're just like well people keep saying it's a BMW so we'll put one different thread pitch on the entire car oh I think we found the culprit basically what's happening these lock nuts on the heim joint are hitting the knuckle right here but what sucks is this is right where our weld is so I don't know that I want to really clearance it here uh the easiest option would be to space the tie rod down some not going to be ideal for bump steer but I think it'll be the easiest solution just to see what's going to happen once we get this thing all about this stuff I think oh okay hold it there hello do you like the 2020 automatic Mark V A90 super featured in this video well I have great news for you this Mark IV manual Supra that will be making 750 horsepower and have an engine bay sure to get you all the ladies could be yours every five dollars you spend at lzmfg or drift HQ gets you on for a chance to win we got drift Parts on lzmfg we got beautiful Heatwave sunglasses merchandise this is a bolt kit you can always use a bolt kit and then we also got BC racing coilovers and much much more check out the links in the description and don't forget to eat your beans thanks all right so we fixed the issue of it hitting the knuckle but it's still ever so close when you get over to lock especially when the car is on the ground or reaches different points to prevent that what we're going to do is make a bump stop that will also prevent the Wheel from hitting here if you look where I drew the Sharpie Mark right here the arm contacts the knuckle so what you can do it's kind of like an old school angle Trek you put a hose clamp on here with a piece of metal or something that can act as a bump stop and then we can get the angle to stop right about here which will give us a hard limit and prevent it from hitting the tire on this and prevent it from maxing out on the knuckle so that should be good and testable without bending tie rods but at least we know why they're bending now there's a little motor up here on the diff and this basically like engages clutches inside of the diff and makes it lock or unlock bartek was able to make an electric rig to get it to lock but it can't deliver it what it needs to fully lock right now so rather than messing with electronics Duarte has his f80 right here and Jordan who modded his motor is confident then we'll be able to steal his motor from his diff and use it in this at least as a proof of concept to see how much better this would be with the diff lock all the time which would basically make it feel like a welded thank you oh there's no little pin right no I don't see one oh I found him I'm airing up the fronts to give them a little bit more slip and hopefully take some load off the angle kit stuff but the important thing is with two spacers now in the front we have the uh knuckle hitting the upright before the tire hits anything so we shouldn't have any rubbing in the front or the rear which is pretty cool for kind of like a thrown together angle kit and I'm kind of excited to see how it's gonna feel it makes up my rear fitment I don't have 19-inch tires yet so that's just my front tires on the back all right so we've got the handbrake now suicide breaks we've got the shifter we got the clutch pedal bartek has the transmission working really good so this should be as close to the final iteration of this car as we've seen obviously the angle kit this will be the first time testing the little bolt-on angle adapter there's a lot of like little weird things going on but I got a really good feeling about it we have the diff lock out of duarte's uh f80 I'm excited we don't have a lot of tire and I don't have any more 19 so we're going full sun right off rip cool work for all those sick crackles and Pops pops I'll love those huge fan big crackle guy definitely has a bit more night and we tightened up the shifts so they're a little bit quicker than you want on a road going car what's the main purpose of the car right now is track stuff I figured we'd Veer on uh on that side of things all right full send first rep I'll start in first and go two three cool turn AC off ready foreign I'm not even doing it on purpose but I found myself like pulling the handbrake and booping it with the same hand I was sick dude when I click third in this thing oh it gets down but I like don't want to click through because I don't have that much Tire sure so I'm like trying to be conscious of it it is a little weird coming in here I feel like the ABS like acted up a little bit when I throw the bigger entries but I didn't spin it I was throwing some decent angle I'm gonna see if I can hit the uh yeah I was gonna say hit yeah whoa that's a dark line yeah um give me a little sprinkle on the rear tire so I could keep them cool and then I'm gonna hit like the OG Nico drop line foreign it's weird I feel like I'm gonna be like stuck between second and third like I think I could spin third but it's gonna wheel speed a lot more or second is very like fast and snappy the difference on the layout one thing that's also worth mentioning if you guys see the number on my Dash that isn't actually what gear we're in all the time so it's actually a little delayed so the shifts are happening faster than you see the number on the dash if we could hook up a gauge directly to the GCU you'd be able to see how fast they're actually happening but like the factory Dash is based on like certain messages and I guess those messages don't look the same so it's just a little confused yeah it takes some time for the chassis to realize which gear it's it's in all right we'll go for the OG line okay I'm gonna come back I need third I'll pull third right before the drop well I forgot to down chip I think I did but I might hit over rev probably oh so we can lower that that way it'll allow me to downshift I guess a little like seven and a half K because you're they were a driver so mmm the definitely like third gear through that drop though foreign so when I'm clutching in the car is going to redline when I'm off throttle and it's not allowing that downshift there but uh bartek's got to fix so he's gonna plug the computer we'll dial that in and then we'll go back and try that again well the cool thing is like we can test these things in the compound and put the car into these scenarios like that three two downshift and a hairpin and see what it does okay so as we were driving and testing uh we spotted one scenario that can be improved so as someone was clashing in on the third gear at the Rev limits uh the ECU holds those RPM which are in this case above some overriff protection strategy so this strategy won't allow us to downshift if we pass some refs we had it set to like 6 000 and it was cashing in at like seven and a half it was holding seven and a half so this way we couldn't like do the downshift from third to second gear and it's very simple to adjust just a simple table that we have defined each gears over a protection value so we're just gonna move it to 8 000 for in this case so it will like never kick in fixed one thing that I feel like I'm not highlighting enough too that I was a little worried with is temps on the car I haven't seen any overheat warnings I've been beating the crap out of the car quite a bit and all the temps seem to be looking pretty good even the automatic transmission temp isn't getting hot so I feel really good about the temp stuff I was planning to upgrade it with all CSF stuff and maybe I'll need two in the summer but for now in stock form the cooling system is way better than I thought it would be for drifting let's do it thank you listen at the beginning I thought that this rev match on clutch was actually it was it was it was almost so smooth I know I felt that too I downshifted it like rev matched so perfectly in drift that it felt like wrong yeah like wrong in a good way this thing's good I found the limit of the angle if I put smaller tires in the front and air them up more I think that would help it a lot yeah I'm gonna slip there a little bit tires are done good it's working good good hell yeah dude exciting stuff yeah that's the tire the tire is complete yeah just like your job thank you great success I'm very happy with it and uh you know I think the only thing that left to do a little bit we're trying to like find the balance between having the car like comfortable as a street car with like soft shifts at low load but when I'm drifting I don't really want that so I think we're just going to tighten that up yeah and uh I don't think I'm gonna be Street driving this thing for a while maybe if I do drift week in a while I'll call you up and you can soften some stuff for me but yeah I like it hard yeah you know that's that's what it feels it's true yeah quick Chase all the way anyway I don't know if you guys are going to see it in this video if it's gonna be another video but while bar Tech and that have been over here they've also been doing a DCT setup on Dorothy's drift car and from my understanding that's where the HTG GCU really shines yeah you could do that no one else can yeah and I'm I'm very excited to drive that car and uh I think you guys will be pretty stoked when you see it the 8 HP good trans the gear ratios are pretty good and we're able to go between second and third and make it work so hopefully I can take this thing to an event soon inside\n"