motocaddy's e36 vert build

[motocaddy]

damn swee video. you got some skill

I'm working on it. This was only my second day of drifting, so I was pumped it went so well, both with car and driver. I feel like I have the basics down now, just need to practice and develop as much as possible.

I wanna drift! Looks like a great time.

Like a boss!

thumbs way up.

Thanks guys!

den, How do you like the hydro set up on that side of the tunnel. trying to figure out placement of mine. Thinking where you have it is going to be easiest to mount/reach

I like it fine on that side of the tunnel. Since I was down on power and speed, I initiated most my drifts with a clutch kick. But the few times I needed the ebrake it was easy to find and pretty effective. The people that put it on the driver's side of tunnel have issues with it being to close to legs and steering wheel. If it was a comp car, I would mount it on top of tunnel, but that would require removing the whole console. This setup seems to be perfect for a daily/drifter.

Sucks I'm not in a drift in this one, but love the B/W with yellow wheels:

[HTOWN///M]

den, How do you like the hydro set up on that side of the tunnel. trying to figure out placement of mine. Thinking where you have it is going to be easiest to mount/reach

[nhojyauq]

thumbs way up.

[Rob&co]

Like a boss!

[B Rod]

I wanna drift! Looks like a great time.

[Nick475]

damn swee video. you got some skill

[HTOWN///M]

NIce shot and nice vids. I should have loaned you my two go pro's so you could have had more and different angles and vids. Next time!

[motocaddy]

ben looking good!!! I cant wait to get out there with you guys and rip it up!

me neither! I'll let you know when the event in the fall is.

nice video! looks like a lot of fun.

It's an insane amount of fun! It's difficult to explain how glorious this is until you do it!

[DannyE32]

nice video! looks like a lot of fun.

[HTOWN///M]

ben looking good!!! I cant wait to get out there with you guys and rip it up!

[motocaddy]

Pretty stoked on how the drift event went! The promoter was amazing and did about 5 hours of classroom instruction the day before the event, so I had the info, just needed to put it to practice.

Started out on the small beginner course (all I did at my first event in Nov.) and couldn't get anything going. Frustrated, I went to the main course to try it out. On the second pass, I was drifting most of the 2nd big corner and having a blast! I could only get the first main corner decent every few times (either spin or understeer on other passes), but felt like I had good control and angle on second corner all day.

Easily the most fun I've had in a car! Huge thanks to Aaron Losey and everyone else at Lone Star Drift for putting on an awesome event and class! Also, enjoyed hanging out and giving my friends and wife rides, so thanks to my wife Stacy, Clay (clay), Shaun (vgrntbeauxner), Jason (gundy315) and Leo (vdubsunday) for coming out!

Here's what the car looked like just before the event. Should have some action shots soon (I hope).


And here is video of probably my best 2 passes:

[motocaddy]

awww damn you about to ripsh*t up with this e36

I'm gonna try. I feel okay about the car, just not sure how the driver will do.

dang sir, you are bout that lifestyle doe. you crazy

I'm not ready to admit I have a problem.

[yoshioka90]

dang sir, you are bout that lifestyle doe. you crazy

[PRO-STAR]

awww damn you about to ripsh*t up with this e36

[motocaddy]

Very nice build. I am actually building an E36 Vert myself and this is super inspirational. Glad to see you have a roll bar and thank you for posting info on where you got it I've been searching for a place to get one. Your build is killer! Still doing a color change?

Thanks! Perhaps he still has my dimensions, as it fits well. I plan on adding a diagonal for main hoop and harness bar, so you should get it with those to start.

I'd like to do a color change, just still a ways down the list.

I love this car so much haha.

Thanks!

Love that you kept the front bumper

I plan on always keeping the non-M bumper. I may change it up to a '92 bumper though.



My second attempt at drifting is this weekend, so been getting it ready for that. Huge thanks to my awesome bro Clay for all his help and wizard skills!

Did a quick refinish on the OZs. I planned on keeping it simple with white, but the wife really wanted something bright.


Picked up a CNC 412 staging brake. Supposed to be a pretty nice unit and much better than the china/ebay hydros. Clay made a bracket out of some angle steel and welded it to tunnel. Still need to paint it white at some point.


Wheels are mounted up and lines ran for the hand brake. Just need to bleed the system, remove rear sway and raise the front coils a bit.