Drifting Checklist:
1: A control method (Wheel = recommended, controller = hard, keyboard = near impossible)
2: Settings depend on your control method
3: Get a car (BMW M3 E30 Drift Spec is a good beginner's drift car)
4: Feel up for a challenge? Go get some mods, such as the Titan Mod Pack or the SP Mod pack or mod in a couple of your own.

1. Idealistically, you want a steering wheel. If you're absolutely new to drifting, i suggest decreasing the steering angle of your steering wheel to 720° just to make life a little easier for you at the beginnning, later on you can set it back up to 900° or whatever is your max.
2. Use the E30 drift spec, its pretty good for beginners as it has that sweetspot of HP for new drivers-not too much, enough to get the tail kickin. I'd suggest adjusting the setup as well of the car because with the default one isn't that great and you will find it hard to control the angle or connect transitions together. Additionally, if you still find it extremely hard, I know a while back beginners used to leave TC on for 10% to avoid constant spinouts, I have no idea how it is now but back then it made a pretty big difference.
3. start with SP. don't jump into online drift servers to learn drifting, most of the time you'll end up either crashing into walls or other people, piss them off and you will be the centre of all salt. Until you don't have at least the basics down and you can control the car well stay offline.
4. This probably should've been a point higher up, but I didn't quite understand from your post whether you're new to drifting in general or just new to drifting in AC. If you're new to drifting in general, watch drift bible by Keiichi Tsuchiya HERE . It's a great starters guide for anyone, after I watched it back when LFS was still relevant it really made things clearer for me.
5. Practice, practice, practice. Start drifting, adjust your setup, turn down assists, increase the steering angle, practice more, adjust your setup again, practice, practice, setup, go online, get shouted at, practice, setup, practice, practice and you're the next drift king going off to tokyo to meet Dom Toretto :)

About the setup, there are a lot of guides online on how to generally adjust a car setup in real life. Once you understand what impacts what how and read hints inside AC you will have a good understanding of what to change and why to change it. For everyone the drifting setup is a bit different to suit your style, but the essential things should stay the same.

Good Luck :)

thank you guys very much. And yea, im new to drifting in AC, i come from drifting in Forza, so i kinda understand to setup the car.
What i meant with downloads too is if there's any mods u recommend, also tracks like everyone wants to drift on the (virtual) ebisu.
but again, thanks for the basics :D!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxuxCgY_1owOSE1GeWVDVFRXWGM
You will find everything here.

wow dude! thats amazing! thanks!!

Ursprungligen skrivet av soyrango:

wow dude! thats amazing! thanks!!

Hey, I added you-- but basically its a few criteria. I'll show you a drift track that has pre-built drift cars in it (e30 drift).

We'll drift around. I'll show ya what I've learned so far. Do you have a wheel?

You haven't told us your peripherals, controller, wheel??

To start you don't need to download anything, the e30 drift car and drift track from the game are perfect to start with. You do need a basic knowledge of tuning and how it affects your car, specially weight transfer.

If you want to jump straight to mods, Titan and SP mods are the most popular, then there is Spitsy's, SH, TNT. The titan mod had a major update along with the game's new tire physics(make sure you get it).

is their any guidelines for wheel setup. i just got my setup going last night (thrustmaster tx wheel) and i tried doing some slides with some cars and it was just spin city and just didnt feel right. idk if i messed up the calibration for my pedals or something but it felt terrible, or maybe the cars i downloaded didnt have good mods. as far as experience with drifting i've done far too many hours in gt6 and fm6. so any advice or does everything i've learned from their mean nothing QQ .

Ursprungligen skrivet av james.r.taylor13:

is their any guidelines for wheel setup. i just got my setup going last night (thrustmaster tx wheel) and i tried doing some slides with some cars and it was just spin city and just didnt feel right. idk if i messed up the calibration for my pedals or something but it felt terrible, or maybe the cars i downloaded didnt have good mods. as far as experience with drifting i've done far too many hours in gt6 and fm6. so any advice or does everything i've learned from their mean nothing QQ .

Yeah sure you want to make sure you get full 900 degrees of rotation. As far spinning, this game is very very simulator.. so you're probably getting oversteer. Even the slightest blip in the throttle at the apex of a turn, or holding down the throttle will cause mad oversteer. You really have to use a lot of countersteer in this game.

Ursprungligen skrivet av james.r.taylor13:

is their any guidelines for wheel setup. i just got my setup going last night (thrustmaster tx wheel) and i tried doing some slides with some cars and it was just spin city and just didnt feel right. idk if i messed up the calibration for my pedals or something but it felt terrible, or maybe the cars i downloaded didnt have good mods. as far as experience with drifting i've done far too many hours in gt6 and fm6. so any advice or does everything i've learned from their mean nothing QQ .

To see if your pedals are calibrated correctly you can either use the control calibration panel for your software or there's an app in-game that shows pedal input.

thanks for the info guys. ya i have noticed that difference in simulation, it was weird tho cuz the car would initial a drift rather rapidly (massive angle) and then i would try to keep it and it would either snap back or just come to a crawl. got it to work a little bit better last night. one other thing i had question about, do not all cars have the same tuning parameters?

well i've kinda started to get the hang of it, main problem i have no is the rear end is just all over the place coming out of the exit, (transitions too quickly and far to rappily) any ideas for tuning set up to correct this? also how come alot of the modded cars dont have the same tuning parameters?

Yeah every car has different params and most likely will require different settings. with mod cars you never know, i generally tend to keep away from them, next dlc should bring some crazy tuners cars that will be crazy to drift with. Add me and send me your tuning setup, ill take a look at it when i have time :)

The biggest thing I can say is to flutter the gas-- hard on it to start the drift (only for a second or less), and then just blip, blip, blip.

Go to the Drift Junkies server, and go into the center Oval. Practice there. Add me if you wanna play

If the problem is transitioning too rapidly, my suggestion is to mess with the tuning menus. Mess with the dampers, add more toe, and just make sure that the rear has grip at all times, otherwise it'll be useless and you'll be prone to spinning a lot more than you need to be.
That also means that you have to be more careful on the throttle as to use all of the grip available.
If you would like, we can go through a session and I'll see what I can help with tuning wise.