Wheels setup advice to learn drifting
 

I need some setup suggestion to start learning to drift on the race track.

On my stock power 86 I'm going to use my HPDE aftermarket front wheels 17x7,5 ET35 with Neova AD08R rubber, to have grip in the front.

I have to choose what to use in the back, considering I don't want to change tires on my HPDE rear wheels:
- buy another pair of the same wheels and buy cheap tires;
- buy 4 stock used (almost new) stock wheels (17x7 ET48) and use 2 of them on the rear for drift (with cheap tires too).

The price of the two solutions is similar, but in one case I'll have 2 more wheels that I can eventually sell to another rookie drifter.

I know that the square setup is ideal in this car.
At the moment I suck at drift, I had hard times in controlling the car over the limit during HDPE (i.e. spun most of the times).
I like the idea of drifting but I fear it too, so it's possible that I'll change my mind after some serious attempts, and in this case the stock wheels could be sold easily.
Do you believe that with the stock wheels and cheap tires in the back, + my 7,5 ET35 sticky tires in the front, drifting will be different/harder/something?
:thanks:

Just use the stock wheels and pick up some cheap, stock sized spare tires. Achilles, Nexen, Federal, Nankang etc. in 215/45r17 are all pretty cheap.

In regards to differences from front to rear tires, it's a preference thing. Some prefer grippier tires up front. Some like a more balanced feel and run the same tires front and rear. No "wrong" answer.

Check out this post I did a good while back. It answers a lot of FAQs that people have when starting to drift:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...&postcount=394

If you are trying to learn, stock tires front/rear will present to you the easiest learning curve.

By artificially reducing rear grip, you're not really learning how to slide as opposed to setting up the car to intentionally oversteer.

-alex