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| Having a lot of clutch plates in an LSD is good. The LSD will go longer without servicing and run cooler with more plates. |
LSD diffs are expensive but you can achieve pretty good results for very little money by welding the spider gears together in a stock differential. The car might not be too good for street driving after that as it will skid the inside wheel in tight turns and wear tires quickly, but it will drift pretty well! A welded diff is slightly harder to initiate a drift in as it tends to understeer during turn it but it is pretty easy to adapt to or adjust the suspension to improve turn in.
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| The Progress Group makes high quality adjustable anti sway bars for many cars. Quite a few Pros in FD use Progress bars for their S Chassis cars. |
Swaybars
A lot of people in the drift world discard their anti sway bars but we disagree with this practice. Sway bars make a car feel much more stable in drift and allow big changes to be made in handling balance quickly which affects how easily the car can be set in drift and how much angle the car will run in drift.
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| Dai Yoshihara uses Progress bars on his FD Championship winning S13. The bar adjustment is one of the things his team uses quite a bit to set up the car from course to course. |
It is best to get a matched set of bars that are adjustable. Whiteline and Progress make adjustable bars for many popular cars. If an adjustable bar is not available for your car you can make your bars adjustable by having a fabricator weld plates with adjusting holes on the end of your bars using universal spherical end links like those that Whiteline sells.
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| Whiteline also makes high quality bars for many cars. Here are adjustable Whiteline bars on Dai Yoshihara's 350Z demo car. |
When you are practicing, it is much easier to adjust your sway bars to change your car's balance compared to changing springs. If no sway bars are available for your car you can also use universal racing swaybars such as those made by Speedway Engineering and have a fabricator help you adapt them to your chassis. Having to do expensive things like this is a good reason to stick with something like a Nissan S chassis since all the parts you need to compete all the way up to a pro level are available off the shelf.
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| If a good adjustable bar is not made for your car, you can adapt racing tubular bars from companies like Speedway Engineering to work. For race bars you have a huge range of available stiffness and adjustability, The drawback is that it can take quite a bit of fabrication to get these mounted in your car. |
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| An example of how Speedway Engineering bars can be mounted here. |
