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[Rustyrobertson]

Someone did years ago over here and a mate of mine was an "instructor" (just a bunch of the higher level guys n gals helping the noobs) at the race track for drift events. Said they're a nice car to drift.

once they have the time spent on setting them up right they are a dream to drift unfortunately i didnt get any of my really good drifts on film, i got lazy and was a little concerned that i was going to loose a camera  

[Pre64slider]

Just found this thread and I'm loving it. I've been contemplating a drift car for a while and with my Gen 1 wagon sitting dead in the street (gearbox failure, I have a spare) taking crap from my Gen 3, I think I might have to get building. Keen to see how this beast progresses, very nice work so far.

[Rustyrobertson]

Just found this thread and I'm loving it. I've been contemplating a drift car for a while and with my Gen 1 wagon sitting dead in the street (gearbox failure, I have a spare) taking crap from my Gen 3, I think I might have to get building. Keen to see how this beast progresses, very nice work so far.

DO IT! RWD all the liberty's And thank you my daily gen3 lib is also rwd, kinda my backup if i bin the RS  

[Rustyrobertson]

Some more pictures  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rustyrobertson]

So took the drift car out for some practice the other week, only during the very first drift of the night i broke my LH front LCA double adjuster and that was me done for the night  

 

 

In the pits pics 

 

 

 

And its stuck on the off field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So after breaking my LCA i obviously got sent off into the grass what i can tell is that the LCA anchored itself into the dirt and the car pivoted around it also snapping a decent chunk out of my rim. 

For this exact reason is why i dont drift on expensive rims, only cheap rotas  

 

 

 

And it gets added to my shrine of broken shit   

 

 

Now just waiting on parts from america so i can take it back out this coming friday  

[Hypnotic]

Bit of super glue and she'll be right

[allpaw4]

Nothing majorly bent from the car turning on the control arm? Thinking control arm mounts/bolt holes etc? Takes a lot of force to do that sort of thing... Good point about the expensive rims. Cheap and cheerful is the way to go. They might be known as cheap rims, but I can't see much else other than a really thickwalled stock wheel tolerating that sort of abuse. All the lightweight aftermarket wheels would likely have the same issue when subjected to that.

[gen3v8]

I Like your color coded paint work!  I have followed suit now that I`m starting to go grey =D

[Rustyrobertson]

Yea it doesnt look like anything else has bent or broken but wont know for sure until i get it back on a wheel alignment.  i think the car would of rotated easier because i was holding onto the hydro at the same trying to slow the car down.

Nothing majorly bent from the car turning on the control arm? Thinking control arm mounts/bolt holes etc? Takes a lot of force to do that sort of thing... Good point about the expensive rims. Cheap and cheerful is the way to go. They might be known as cheap rims, but I can't see much else other than a really thickwalled stock wheel tolerating that sort of abuse. All the lightweight aftermarket wheels would likely have the same issue when subjected to that.

 

Haha nice, at the moment i have given up on painting guards because i keep destroying them so until my front end is set up perfectly the damaged ones are going to stay  

I Like your color coded paint work!  I have followed suit now that I`m starting to go grey =D

[Rustyrobertson]

14mins of skids  

 

https://youtu.be/MUCheqFtvzA

[Rustyrobertson]

In car drift vid from matsuri 

 

https://youtu.be/EOa2TlXeAyg

[Rustyrobertson]

So the motor started telling knock knock jokes, so its time for a rebuild

 

 

 

 

[gen3v8]

I`ve never heard a good knock knock joke

[andrew_k]

Time for insane EZ36?

[Rustyrobertson]

Time for insane EZ36?

na, the gen3 is going to get that treatment first

[Rustyrobertson]

So new motor is in the car and tested it running n/a as the up-pipe flex decided to have a massive failure, so that prompted a whole new exhaust with a twist mount turbo setup which will be finished by the end of the week, until then i have reduced the twin side pipe to only be on the passenger side but added a bit of flavour to the mix  

 

also got a new jim berry clutch with a little bit more bite as the old one was dead, but surprisingly not slipping  

 

Old clutch

 

 

New clutch 

 

 

busted puckered colon of an up-pipe (definitely not meant to look like that) 

 

 

And the new touch to my exhaust