Guides

Why these are grouped by phase and not by topic

Because the order is the thing that costs money to get wrong. Grouping guides by topic - suspension, brakes, engine - produces a list that reads like a catalogue and tells you nothing about sequence. Grouping them by phase tells you which decisions you are facing now and which ones you can safely ignore for a season.

If you have just bought a car, everything you need is in phase 0 and phase 1: what to check, what fluids and wear items to do first, and the single decision that actually makes a car drift. Phase 2 is where most people's second season goes - angle, front grip, a handbrake you can trust. Phase 3 is power, and it is last because power is the cheapest thing to add and the most expensive thing to support.

Every number on these pages has a source

Each guide lists its sources at the bottom, with the date each one was checked. Where a figure comes from a published source - a welded differential at $100 to $300 at a shop, a used clutch LSD at $400 to $800, a Wisefab angle kit at around $2,200, 200 treadwear as the front tire recommendation - the source is linked. Where a range is our own observation across retailers, it is labelled with a lower confidence level and says so.

We never claim a fitment guarantee anywhere on this site. Industry reporting puts fitment errors behind the large majority of performance-parts returns, and there is a documented trail of customers burned by "100% fitment guaranteed" claims. So instead every compatibility statement carries one of three labels - verified on this chassis, community-reported, or general principle - and where we are unsure we tell you what to measure.

What is deliberately not here

Tuning numbers for a specific car. We will tell you that drift setups want significant negative front camber and a lot of caster, and why, and that the right amount depends on your spring rates, your tires and your surface. We will not give you a camber figure for your car, because anyone who does without asking those three questions is guessing.

The same goes for power figures and spring rates. Those come from your kit manufacturer, your coilover supplier and what your tire wear tells you after a day out - not from a page that has never seen your car.