Advanced Driving Techniques

[astonmartinandy]

Has anybody else here tried to do any of the manoeuvres that you see in the movies/ Top Gear?? The hand-brake turn is the obvious one, but the other day I tried my hand at a reverse flick , but then once i actually managed to flick my car round, I found my engine nearly died, even with the clutch down; anybody else tried and found this??

Any ideas for the next trick to try?

[graywolf624]

I really hope your not doing this on the street.

[frodefe]

install need for speed porsche edition - and try to qualify as a factory driver
- the only safe place to practice I guess (or cheapest)

[blah]

THe reverse flick is called a J Turn, its thought to all LAPD patrol officers.

[blah]

lol, if you feel like dealing with alot of shit everysingle day. Sure go right ahead. Also the Sercet Service Teaches J Turns to their agents.

[corvette97]

DONT BE STUPID , you are gonna kill yourself, be caruful

[pimrusis]

Cept could you do it in a Limo Brembo? MUHAHAHA!

[Toronto]

um i think every police man are trained in all these car moves (well at least in canada) they go thru a 1-2week driving course, and the flick is very easy in an stick or auto and never had the engine die on me, parkin lots late at night much fun ,

o and people in the toronto area, the wounderland parkin lot is sooooooo much fun, powerslides, donuts, 360, races, my and my friends have spent to many hours there

[kiato4]

What kind of car are you driving that it stalled or almost did?

[astonmartinandy]

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I'm tried it with the Alfa 147 GTA. Its a powerful front wheel drive so i thought it would have been perfect. Having said that I think rear whell drive is the only real way to go. Missing the drifting round long roundabouts! (well attempting anyways)

Oh yeah and i might just go up to an officer and ask him to show me how to do it in a car park!! I'm sure he would love that!!

[pimrusis]

It probably died because of a safty device on the transmission which keeps the car from powering itself if it is going the opposite direction the gears would allow. I.E. if you are going in reverse and flick it.

[Vansquish]

I've gotten to the point where I can hold a front drive car (Ford Escape, Focus, Contour/Mondeo, Mazda 6 etc..) in a nice four wheel drift, the J-turn is really easy in them too...though I don't think I would feel comfortable doing it in the Escape on anything other than very wet or snowy road...I also managed to powerslide my friend's Mustang GT for a couple of revolutions (I do mean powerslide as opposed to donuts)...and on a slightly more mundane level, I've taught myself how to heel-and-toe downshift...something that you can do on pretty much any road as long as you're comfortable with it.

[Zonda11]

Wonderland....HAHA. I'll have to go up there one day when its snowing.

[astonmartinandy]

Yeah I have been trying the old "heel n' toe" downshifts, and its great when it works, but do you get problems with the pedals being spaced to far apart so that you really are on the side of the brake pedal?? I had a scary incident where my foot came off the pedal and it was just the accelerator and clutch depressed! ops:

[zevolv]

I've pretty much mastered powersliding all types of cars (FWD, RWD, AWD) (Manual, Automatic, Padel Shift) I was taught how to Heel and Toe from my dad when I learned manual at like 13.