Well I wanted to ask peoples opinion. An AE86 with a slightly bent drivers side chassis rail. Its not massive, but its bad enough that you can just see it. Car doesn't wheel align properly either. Can get all adjustments the same except the camber is I think 20' different on either side.

This is all with stock suspension.

The car drives fine, drives straight, you wouldn't know unless you saw the damage, apart from the fact that the front end doesn't line up perfectly, the bonnet, drivers side guard, headlight etc aren't spot on.

Now I'd have no worries about using this car just as a daily, but what I really want to do is set a car up for drift. I'm not experienced enough to know how critical having a perfect alignment on the front end is. So for instance am I likely to find the car will be more happy to slide in one direction than other? From my internet knowledge of drift suitable suspension setups I have been under the impression that its important to be able to dial everything in perfectly. This is mainly what I'm worried about.

So basically, I see my options as being to sell the car and buy another ae71 or something (with straight rails too and set that up). Or just start working on the suspension on the sprinter and start learning in it and it doesn't matter so much if I crash it because its already got a slightly stuffed rail? It wouldn't be like I'm ruining a great example of one. So what I am really asking is, when starting out in drift, is it going to mean anything if the car's rails aren't perfect?/Am I only going to notice the effect of it once I actually get good at it?

I can put up a photo of the rail, but you can't really see anything, its not that easy to see in a photo.

Also, I don't really want to sell the car, as I put it back together from scratch, so I know that everything is 100% (apart from the rail, and a couple of diff seals). And you just don't get that with a second hand car.