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Good dampers will work well for everything. The ones I valved for my brother's supra do awesome both on the road course and for drifting. But they're valved correctly.
So the car is comfortable to drive on the street, especially considering the high sprung natural frequencies and stiff spring rates, it works awesome on the road course and can drift pretty well. For drifting, transitions are no problem, I think it takes them smoother than a lot of the other cars I've driven. Meaning that it's not too fast which would indicate too much rebound, but it's a lot smoother. Minimal overshoot, quicker settling time, so the car does what you want. And the compression curve is nice, so bumps and high frequency inputs are properly taken care of and not transfered into the chassis. So during a drift the car is very stable despite the type of road surface.
So it can be done and it's not that hard, you just aren't going to find it in any of the coilovers that get pushed on here or talked about like they're actually good.
I think people are using overly stiff dampers to make it easier to drift. But they're probably hurting the overall performance of the car for other parts of the course. Dampers too stiff in rebound for the rear can make it real easy to enter a fast turn, you can just let off the throttle, steer in and the back will start to step out. But it will also make the car a little harder to control for other sections of the course. For example, if you're coming in fast to a tight turn and you have all that rebound back there, you aren't going to be able to take the tight section as fast as someone with good dampers because you will have to fight the car to keep the rear where you want it. But I don't know, maybe it's just me and the fact I like good dampers.
For the original poster, you're going to compromise ride quality unless you spend about double what you want to spend or you wait until my setup is done, which should be soon. I'm hoping to have it ready to test at the end of the month.
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