I realize it’s been almost a year since our last update. My excuse is that I moved to california for a couple months and when I came back I just drove the car and fixed it when it broke. Here’s a quick recap of 2010:
January through March 2010: I was in CA. Car sat with a leaking sr.
April: I drove 2800 miles from San Diego to Philly in 2.5 days, spent the next two days getting the car ready, swapping in a new SR and installing a K-sport hydraulic hand brake. We literally started the car for the first time Friday around 5pm and finished bleeding the brakes at Maple Grove Saturday morning before taking the car out for it’s first drift event of the season.
Crappy vid of the maple grove event and some pics:
YouTube - Chris Diamond 4/24/10
In May, at ECB, I slid of track and ran over my front bumper, so that’s missing in most of the pics. I spent the rest of the year driving and breaking stuff.
In June we finally put the bigger fn’s on with spacers and got an alignment at RT Tuning.
Looks so much better:
Overall the car ran much better this year. Had some issues with over heating early in the year. Replaced the radiator with a new one from megan racing and haven’t had a problem since. I broke 3 cheap toe arms so I replaced all the suspension arms with PBM stuff. I don’t have any pics of that install, but I’m sure we’ll get some up later.
This is a straight cheap toe arm, the 2nd cheap ebay one that almost cracked in half, and the pbm arm for comparison:
The last event I did was at the Allentown Expo center at a BMW show. Not my finest moment:
Basically I hit a curb and landed in a ditch. Ripped off the body kit, broke another toe rod, bent the quarter panel in a couple inches, and a coolant line tore when the motor slammed back into the firewall. This happened on the first turn of my first run, so we were able to get it back together enough to get it back out there. My shot at redemption:
YouTube - M2U00012.MPG
The front right wheel was shaking pretty bad after that too. I replaced all the adjustable arms with PBM parts and now the car is at RT Tuning getting knuckles (more angle) and an alignment.
So that’s about it. We’re going to start a new thread for the winter rebuild (probably gonna wait until we actually start the rebuild). The plan is a new motor, gt3071r, and, thanks to ChaserAero, a new body kit and hood. I’m sure there will be some other changes to come as well.
Some pics from this season:
Drift Car pictures by noname7198 - Photobucket
And a couple videos:
May night moves:
YouTube - Night Moves 5/26/10
September Freedom Moves:
YouTube - Freedom Moves