So I have been MIA for a while

I had to sell my 1998 kouki s14 because of school.  I finished my summer program at archaeology field school and I picked up a 1995 240sx froma fellow enthusiast.  I’ve already done a lot of work to the car and currently revamping the whole car once again.  Things in store for the next to be finished by formula D irwindale on Oct 11th.

Add widebody and new aero.  Paint the car, add toe rods, and fix my exhaust leak.  I decided after having two different forced induction setups to keep the motor a stock KA24DE for the time being.

I didn’t get a chance to finish the car before, but I currently picked up a sponsorship after doing the Hot Import Nights: Night Shift demo.  Put the car into a K-rail but was still driveable so i ziptied the bumper back on and kept right at it.

Pics:

Another cool thing that happened was an interview for speed channel.  I’m not sure when or if i’m gonna be aired with the episode, but they interviewed me for a good 10minutes.  It was pretty rad.

Getting some new rollers and tires for this new car as soon as it’s out of paint, I throw on my toe rods and gt it aligned.  I’m still looking for a reasonably price SA approved helmet that I can paint.

Some youtube videos i found:

Motoring J style Drift Competition

Motoring J’s cool event.
0:47 sec. woot.

There was an intermittent rain conditions and the front tires would not grip for anything (direzza z1′s). I had to drop the PSI down to 20psi to get any traction. Federals in the rear did their job amazingly. I had a few issues with the car (ebrake wouldn’t warm up so it wouldn’t lock) . On my qualifying runs my clutch pedal got stuck and wouldn’t re engage.

Thanks to RPS to sending out a clutch, VEX motorsports for spending countless hours after closing helping me setup the car’s clutch and alignment. Boris for running around mounting tires and running up w/me.

More pics as I upload them.

New updates

Will be found regarding the car here:

http://www.ziptied.com/forums/index.php?topic=18603.0

As to what i’ve been doing, is focusing on school, and working on the car when I have time. Lots of things are being prepped on the car.
I will be in Hawaii (Big Island) most of summer for an archeology field school. So please bear with me as All the events I had lined up for the summer will be without my attendance.

Check out http://www.norcaldrift.org for norcal events and a pic of my car on the banner (as a work in progress), thanks Victor, I feel famous now.

Car is under construction

Getting ready for ASB4 June 28-29. Stay tuned.

Perhaps a private event in July at BW. If not….

Thunderhill FULL TRACK DRIFT at the end of August (http://www.thunder-drift.com)

Thunder Drift Competition Pics!

Thanks to kyle (in sac) and whoever else snagged these snazzy photos of me.

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Thunder Drift Competition (Dec 2007)

Dec 22, 2007.
The first Norcal amateur drift competition held at Thunderhill raceway.

For this event I decided to get some Dunlop Direzza z1 sports tires.


Mostly to go along with my new front shoes. 17×9.0 +0 Volk te37′s in bronze.




Concave = SEXY

I got my car aligned during the week, and crashed while testing my alignment settings.
It wasn’t a pretty sight. Bent LCA, busted fender and bumper and headlight and corner lamp

Thanks to Herb for hooking it up with an alignment on Friday before the comp. Lucky for me I had some extra parts.
My buddy Gian had an extra LCA, so i purchased a new ball joint and threw it in. Replaced the fender and bumper.
I also installed the Msports headlight vent, VS driver fender and JDM urethane front bumper.

Now with my car looking kind of sexier it was ready-ish for the competition.
This was my first competition, more pics to be posted later.




A lot of the people in the comp had friday to practice on the full track. I got about 10-15 practice runs before the comp.
So I spent a lot of time getting adjusted to the new alignment settings and new tires.

So the track layout was awesome. I was having a great time just driving. The actual comp. was kind of biased, based on the fact that one of the judges was cheering for the guy who won first place (although his lines were spot on… this is where i mention he’s a professional driving instructor).

It went from 30drivers down to top 8 (they didnt’ do it d1 style w/ top 16). Apparently they were doing cumulative scores too because they totaled them at the end.

I’m standing by to hear from Geoff (t-drift organizer) about the final score standings.
Hopefully I learn from this comp and do well at the next one.

Thanks to:
Vex Motorsports – sponsoring the event, and letting me use the shop
Gian – if you didn’t have the LCA i’d of been screwed
Jay Pizo – Hooking me up some sweet as wheels as usual
Herb – Does my tires AND alignments
Whoever took the pics, cuz they came out awesome and whoever else i’m forgetting.

RESULTS ARE UP!!
Qualifying — For TOP 8
() – Car, [] Best qualifying score

1.Darius(s14) – 275 [95]

2.Connor(s13) – 260 [88]

3.Drew (s13) – 254 [90]

4.Thomas (ae86) – 248 [88]

5.Matt (s13) – 241 [85]

6.Joseph (s13) – 240 [95]

7.Jared (ap2) – 238 [80]

8.Xander (s13) – 237 [89]

9.Mando (ae86) – 228 [80]

10.Tommy (s13) – 221 [80]

11.Calvin (s13) – 203 [78]

12.Andrew (ae86) – 194 [70]

13.Serei (s14) – 190 [80]

14.David (ae86) – 185 [70]

15.Yee (s13) – 165 [65]

16.Andrew (s13) – 150 [70]

17.Kevin (ae86) – 125 [65]

18.Luis (s13) – 105 [45]

19.Brandee (s13) – 85 [35]

20.John (s13) – 78 [28]

21.Marc (s13) – 45 [15]

22.Jay Jay (s13) – 20 [18]

23.Arthur (ae86) – 5 [5]

24.Jeff W. (s13) – 0 [0]

25.Jay (s14) – 0 [0]

TOP 8

1. Jared (ap2) – 248
2. Thomas (ae86) – 237
3. Joseph (s13) – 230
4. Darius (s14) – 219
5. Xander (s13) – 205
6. Connor (s13) – 163
7. Matt (s13) – 20
8. Drew (s13) – 0

TOP 3

1.Jared (ap2) -271
2.Thomas (ae86) – 252
3.Joseph (s13) – 213

Based on top score during qualifying I should have been 11th. If only there had been a top 16. Congrats to everyone.

Thunder Drift (Nov 2007)

This was a pretty fun skid pad event. Mostly because it was 1/2 dry and 1/2 wet. Too bad I killed a pair of tires before noon. Luckily I had another pair of direzza’s for when it was raining.
There’s also a vid from this event.





There was also one run where my tires were smoking for about 5min after I got off the track That was pretty cool