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finetuning ioniq 5N

Medihummer

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Jun 24, 2026
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Hi there I'm living in Belgium and i own a 2024 ioniq5N. I want to drift my car but it does not seem so easy. Therefore I started tuning the car
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Yes but the car is very difficult to drift for an amateur like me. The problem is that in the front there is no lsd so the inner tire spins through so you can not do 4x4 drifts Also for pure rear wheel drift the front wheel excursion is limited this makes that you very easily overdo the rear and can not catch it up any more by countersteer. Ideally there should be an lsd in the front or a different esp calibration that mimics an lsd with the brakes. I have also a focus rs mk3 which is much easier to controle in a slide. The ioniq is of course much heavier….
 
Waar in Belgie? Ik kom uit Den Bosch, heb de mijne onlangs aangepast met de kw v3 schroefset,Bola mat bronzen velgen, met hankook ion banden.
Het rijd en ligt zoveel beter in de bochten.
Je voelt het zware gewicht minder, en veel meer vertrouwen, het stuurt zo fijn.
Alleen met de hogere drempels is het even uitkijken.
Misschien een keertje meeten?
Ik kom regelmatig in Baarle Nassau.
Laat maar weten!

Grt Yess
 
I wasn't aware you were looking to 4-wheel drift. No master drifter myself, but won't it be difficult to maintain front drift with the power difference between the back and front motors? Or are you going to bias the torque towards the front to kind of compensate?
 
Then the front will never drift. The rear is already more powerful at the standard distribution of 50/50. Increasing the rear bias will only make it harder if not impossible to break the front free.
 
There is a fundamental difference between rear wheel and 4x4 drift. In rear wheel drift you have to countersteer once the rear goes or you quickly overturn and then you end up with the back 180 degrees out. Your drift angle depends from how far you can turn in your front wheels. So with the ioniq having limited front wheel steering angle you can go sideways 30-45 degrees max. If you are too slow you quickly overslide and can no more catch up the rear. Real driftcars they even change the front suspension to be able to countersteer much wider.
If you do 4x4 drifts then once the back goes you steer into the corner (not countersteer!) and push the throttle so you get drift on al 4 wheels. The car then slides sideways. So you can easily do 90 degrees drift and you steer the car on throttle: more throttle pushes you outwards the bend less inwards. When you release the throttle the car stops drifting and catapults forwards. That is what they do in rally. You set the driftangle with the handbrake and then slide sideways till you are in front of opening of the sidestreet you want to go in and then stop drifting. With the focus rs mkiii this works great even for unexperienced drivers and is big fun and can be done at low speeds
 
Problem with ioniq is you can not make the front wheels drift. Because there is an open differential there is always one wheel that spins the other wheel keeps contact. If there was a way to mimic a front lsd then the car would drift much easier…