Let a Drift Champion Explain How to Align Your Car for the Perfect Drift

Camber, caster, toe, track width. Chris Forsberg and Engineering Explained answer all the alignment questions you were too embarrassed to ask.

Understanding the technicalities of car alignment can seem like a dark art. Camber, caster and toe adjustments all work in concert, and a single adjustment can have a major effect on how a car drives down the road. 

Why not let Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg and Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained clear it up for you? 

First off, yes, this video is basically one long commercial for parts supplier Techno Toy Tuning and Universal Technical Institute. Second, the painfully hip Instagram-style filming may be aggravating to those with a hipster intolerance. You've been warned.

But the backdrop—the decrepitly glorious Old Crow Speed Shop of Burbank, California—is fantastic, and Chris and Jason explain everything in terms so simple, a school kid could understand them. 

Go ahead, learn something about how your car works. Though your end result may not be as glorious as Forsberg's tail-happy 240Z.

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