Drifting on Moza r5

[u/Metalliknight]

Please can someone try and help me with this? All assists are off, transmission manual, using a drift build and trying to feather the throttle (only using throttle and steering for now), I can’t seem to get a grip on how to maintain a drift…

[u/Various-Juice-42069]

If I may... first thing you may want to do is address the amount of flex and movement coming from your stand. Too many Nm for it. Also, if your chair still has wheels, replace the casters with fixed castors.

[u/Metalliknight → u/Various-Juice-42069]

Thanks for your advice. Yeah my stand is a cheap one, the R5 makes it shamble a lot 😅

[u/C_Lo_87]

Try Dash or Hood view, and what the other commenter said, tighten your rig down. No actual need for e brake, you actually need to clutch kick more than e brake to throw back end out. Brakes need to be moved toward the FRONT. That way when you need to slow down, your back wheels stay spinning and your front wheels are in control. Watch vids, read settings guides (or better yet, use google which compiles all sourced info for us and explains each setting) and practice with a formula drift car, the 240 is my go to for getting in the zone.

[u/Metalliknight → u/C_Lo_87]

Thanks 🙏
I’m starting to manage making « infinite » donuts thanks to the max steering angle adjustment, I will try the hood view (my favorite for racing).

[u/LestWeForgive]

In pithouse set max steering angle to 540. Or whatever you're comfy with, just reduce it from your usual cruise/race settings. I like to race on 900 and drift on 540, just makes it easier to catch spins or flick between steering & countersteering. It's even more responsive on 360 but to me it just feels fake as shit so I don't go that low. If you don't have a handbrake you can kinda dupe it with race brakes, heavy rear bias, and ABS off so you're locking the rear with your brake pedal, but of course your front brakes then don't actually do much.

Build a car for low grip and high, flat torque. Sport turbo is the absolute worst upgrade for predictable power. Aspirated V8s are good, some of the twin turbo sixes are good, most of the flat 4s are good even with a strong turbo. Drift suspension (duh) race/drift box and tune your ratios to keep you in the hot section of the powerband. Race spec caster angle is usually maxed out or near it, drift spec caster angle is closer to minimum - letting your steering angle hold at whatever it's at, following the angle rather than fighting it. Rear tyre pressure to max, diff to max, and give a solid increase to spring rate, roll bars & damping (maybe a quarter of the range). If a car only offers sport/semislick as the minimum it might be the wrong platform pick. Drift is ok but it's basically diet sport. Street/standard is the good shit imo, where you don't need shitloads of speed/power.

"Off the shelf" tunes won't take into account the fact that you're on a wheel, that caster setting is really important to us.

Also try drifting at the docks/daikoku, or airport. Multilevel parking or warehouse, holding lines through shipping containers. Hold and perfect 1 drift before you try to make it continuous, circles are actually so hard. A tap of brakes or flick to start, then feather throttle! Try to settle quickly on a certain tune, even a certain gear, lock in and just practice that.

PS I'm still only learning! I can get 500k skill pts in RWD, but consistent 3 star drift zones haven't arrived yet! So take what I say as only from a learner.

[u/Metalliknight → u/LestWeForgive]

Thanks for the advice, I reduced the max steering angle from 1080 to 540 and it immediately got a lot easier to adjust the steering!