# GT28RS vs. GT2871R

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**Created:** [January 7, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gt28rs-vs-gt2871r/135070 "2008-01-07T17:22:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gt28rs-vs-gt2871r/135070/6 "2008-01-08T21:06:50Z")

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> [@What car should you be driving?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-should-you-be-driving/2781/7):
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> I believe I’m on my way to day to day drivability, so I’m setting forth to the GT28RS.
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> Drifting would probably be better with the GT2871R though. Not saying that 600WHP can’t break the tires loose, but the tires breaking free is one of the most important aspects of drifting. When there’s a rapid incread in engine power, more or less that means there is a rapid change that the engine violently starts to spin faster. The change will be more dramatic than the tires can hold onto and the wheels will start to spin without the car moving forward.
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> Now a smooth power band, the car will continue to accelerate but you’d have to rely on a change in environment for the wheels to break free, unless of course, you stab the gas all of a sudden. The GT2871R wouldn’t require that you stab the gas.

OK before I type anything, this is my opinion and I could be totally wrong as I have never driven a boosted car at its limits. However, I have quite the experience in drifting.

I myself would prefer the smooth curve because of the following. (Keeping drifting as its main usage.)

1. Predictable power and not a spike out of nowhere. This can cause difficulty in controlling a drift and even while initiating. I’m almost imagining it like driving an automatic and you punch it and theres no instant power, until a second later and then BAM it comes all at once.

2. If you fall out of the boost range and this happens often while drifting, you basically have (for argument sake) 1/2 the power you would have at full boost, while with the GT28, even if you’re at lower rpms, you still have 75% of the power there. Mind you, these are just approximate numbers as I am looking at these graphs.

3. It will take more finesse to get used to as the spike seems to be very dramatic. More throttle control is needed and less error for mistakes. Yes throttle control is important, but why make things more difficult than it has to be right?

NOTE: I could be completely wrong, but from a drifting perpsective, that’s my 2 cents.

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