Hey, guys !
A small intro. Im russian and work and live in China, Beijing. Each f**king year there is this epic drift event in a city nearby.
World Drift Series its name.
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American drifters(Matt Powers, JR, Ross Petty etc) are invited to event for even more madness and destruction.
In 2010 I was driving an ass-spec C33 build in one week with 1jz and small T3-T4 turbo. All was good, only the f**king W58 factory clutch was sleeping. Untill on the last day at night I got my friend to borrow his r154 with ACT HD clutch. Which helped a bit.
Funny thing is I got very deep into the grid. Going through top 32s and to top16s. Was kicked out in top4 battle by Ueo. Top 8 battle was with Imamura and I got lucky his half-shaft snapped)) Otherwise my weak ass skills and car wouldn't let me finish in top 8. Which is really funny with chinese guys buying expensive here s-chassis built by japanese/taiwanese for crazy money.
Anyway, its always a huge problem to find a good garage or tuner here. But I was lucky and got help from a local guy.
He basically sponsored me for event. Half of the parts on the car was mine. Engine wise it was his.
Event starts on 29th of september. I bought the car on 15th of september from a friend. With a dead 4cyl carb CA20 engine.
Cars had to be in the padocks on 27th. But I could negotiate for late entry on early morning of 29th.
So here I start.
Day 1 September 15th
Got the piece of shit car. Looked god on the outside. But the roof line by the windscreen rusted to shit. Seller f**ked me over on that
Could probably negotiate a better deal if I knew about that.
Really gay red interior. I wanted to leave it. But f**k it. Scraped it all of in the end.
Day 2 September 16th
Brought over some of the parts for the car.
Powered by max hydro handbrake, fake bride seats, 3 diffs with different final gears, half shafts for spares. simple and brute.
9.5J ET15 chinese wheels. Got only 2 haha. Rest is 9j with 20 offset.
Here is a good edition for the engine. Guys here are really sketchy about turbos. So its either garrett BB or hks or greddy. I don't have that moneys. So I went to a diesel truck turbo shop. And picked this baby up. Its genuine garrett GT3782R. Journal bearing. T4 devided AR1.0 on the hot side. Manufactured in shanghai garrett plant for some truck.
Compressor: 58/82mm Turbine:74/64mm A bit similar to HKS GT3240 with T04S rear or GT37. Or even TD07S-25G.
I bought it for USD550 which is f**king cheap. And it works good.
Day 3
I didn't do shit to the car. Waiting for parts and playing around with friends rb25. Installing a truck turbo on his engine. No pics.
http://www.56.com/u36/v_NjQzMDc4NzM.html
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Day 4 September 19th
Got all the interior out. Got some dry ice and got all the sound deadening out. Started doing the boxes for the roll cage.
Day 5 September 20th
Was working on the rollcage with the guys. Trying to replicate some nascar bars haha. Test fitted 2jz block to see the fitment.
f**king engine mounts from zero lab are total worthless shit. They way they space the mounts is impossible. They don't even line up.
Had to get one mount copied here and used the same mount on both sides. The only way it looked like it could work out and it did )))
Day 6 September 21th
Run out of tube for rollcage. Started on the rear subframe. Made some solid mount raise rear subframe mounts.
Also got some parts in. 4 rear 2 pot calipers for my car. 2jz AT bellhosuing for some experiments. Which are really f**king going to happen.
And some premade brackets to run individual 2 pot calipers for hydro handbrake.
Got the suspension arms from my old car. China spec. But worked on daily every day for 2 years no problem.
