I’ve had absolutely the worse time trying to drift on forza 5. I have owned the game for months, yet when I tune my car to drift, it seems as though the car is rendered undriveable. I am more than your regluar experienced drifter. I drifted close to half of all the cars on forza 4, but Forza 5 is telling me “NO” to every tune set-up I use. The game has become so much more difficult for me I’m beginning to believe that Forza 5 drifting has completely different physics.
I have been working so desperately hard on my Lexus LFA. This car was my ultimate drifting machine in Forza 4. I slid next to everyones door going down Fugimi Kaido. But now in Forza 5, this car cant even transition from one turn to the next! I Have been highly upset not being able to drift in Forza 5. If I could just get 1 tune to actually work, I would be set. Ive tried everything, from using muscle cars to super cars, low BHP to high BHP, drifting using every possible combination of assists, I’ve even started over and tried to drift with a beginners car. ( That would be the Toyota GT86? I think thats the name ) But Nothing works! I’m stuck, I need some advice PLEASE!
Hey mate, I was having a hard time getting used to it myself a while ago but maybe I can help.
The assists I’m using:
Braking: ABS On
Steering: Normal
Traction & Stability Control: Off
Shifting: Manual w/Clutch (easier to maintain angle, and mostly anything)
I was desperately searching around on Youtube where I found a couple of decent drift builds, until I came across
the Forza drift team called Doing it Sideways (DiS). They have a great video that goes through anything from top to bottom in makinga drift car,
it’s a great video that I still use all the time for all my drift cars. The build in the video is for a Mazda RX7 but it works on mostly
any car and engine (some better than other, and they use a V8 in the video). They are some great drifters and nice, helpful people.
Torque is pretty important to drifting since it is a measure of how hard your wheels turn. Torque is what makes your rear tires break loose with full fat tires. Also you can tell how a car does in the top vs. the bottom end by looking at the horsepower vs torque. at around 5252 RPM torque will equal horsepower. If you have 600 peak torque and 450 peak HP, that tells you the car is a butt sandwich in the top end, losing much of it’s torque before 5252 rpms. If a car has 400 torque and 550hp, that means the car is pretty good in the top end because it continues to produce torque past 5252 rpms.
What this translates into for us is that you want the peak horsepower in the ballpark of the peak torque number, and more than likely a bit above it for our purposes. This is the sign of a good upper midrange which is what we want.
If you want further explanation on exactly how horsepower works I’d be more than happy to discuss it, but yeah.
Use these two lads’ tips and you’ll be sliding in no time. I drift with manual (no clutch) and it seems to be ok. I have some nice tunes you could try. What really got my drifting going in 5 was, after trial and error, 0.2 or 0.3 degrees of toe out on the front got my car stable enough that I could confidently drift. To be honest, I’d say leave the Lexus until you’re confident with the “regular” drift cars like your S-Chassis, GT86/BRZ, E36 M3s and the like.
Best of luck and hope to see you slaying tyres soon!
Drifting with no clutch works great yeah, so it’s really just a matter of prefferance when it comes to choosing with or with out clutch
Another great ‘starting’ car is the Nissan 250z, was great for me at least so you could try that one out too! It’s a really beginner friendly car and I would really recommend it to anybody that are struggeling to drift.
Throttle control is also a key thing to be aware of, so you dont spin out finding the right gear is something you will find being different from each turn and car!
But I’m sure that you will get the hang of this quickly
the LFA drifts fine, problem with the cars on forza 5 in the ways they changed it you either have to rev the piss out of a car getting it around or get something with enough torque… i dont or never have used clutch in drifting because it allows me to focus on car position and whos around me more quickly and know my car wont be goin anywhere utilizing brakes for line locking… and the LFA is a high rev low end toque car so it just requires a more straight forward aggressive tune to get it over that wall of driving then into drifting
