Engine

  When trying to whip a car into a drift you can have some restrictions when it comes to power. There are many sorts of engines that can be inside of a vehicle and choosing the wrong one could mean that you will not have the required power to get into your drift. We are going to cover the most common engine that you will find in a drift car, the V-type engine. The V-type engine design comes in a V6, V8, V10, and V12 configurations. The number indicates the number of cylinders in the engine and this number commonly corresponds with a greater horsepower. Horsepower is a great contributor to drifting because when you have more power pushing to the tires you are increasing the the amount of torque in the tires. Being able to push higher horsepower to your tires allows you to break the friction between your tires and the ground below and in turn giving you better results when performing a drift around a turn. The engine also effects the amount of acceleration that the vehicle can perform and by looking at the formula F=MA you can see if you have twice the amount of acceleration you will increase the force by a factor of 2. Having twice as much force contributes to the overcoming the coefficient of friction that is needed to initiate all the drifts a drivers heart desires.

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