Drift More Trucks.

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Drift them. Do it. I dare you.

If you’re lucky, you might be able to do as well as the wild crew at AcademeG (the madmen behind the Bentley “tank” and ZIL-X5M mashup) and their thousand horsepower KAMAZ drift machine.

My Russian isn’t great, so I don’t have a real grip on the details of the fabrication project that gave us this monstrous three-axle drift monster. The video below has some good footage of what it took to restore this truck, which appears to be a KAMAZ 5320, and turn it into a 1000 horsepower drifter, and the whole story is available on a playlist here.

From what I can tell, the most important modifications (other than the significant power bump) this truck received are to the rear differentials. Welding a rear differential is one of the easiest ways to increase oversteer, which is exactly what you want in a drift car (or truck) but it wasn’t clear at first whether the technique would work with two drive axles.

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As you can see, it DID work. It worked real well. And I think it’s important to learn the real lesson here. Drift more trucks.