Blake Olsen's s13 Coupe Drift Build *Not as cool as my FC, but also with a v8* !

[Miroteknik]

......the fans were turning backwards blowing air out the front of the car!

Genius. Pulling the hot air out of the engine bay and outside into the atmosphere! Global warming!

trololololo

[RolledAndPulledG]

Genius. Pulling the hot air out of the engine bay and outside into the atmosphere! Global warming!

trololololo

Yeah not too smart haha

Blake you my nigga

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So yesterday I made all the parts for my front bash bar, starting with a 1 1/2" chromoly main upper bar. My idea is to make this part strong but all the supporting bars weak so if I hit something no frame damage should be inflicted.


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Made the mounts out of 2" angle that are gonna bolt to the sides of the frame rails. This whole thing will be completely removable


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Made the lower bar out of the old halo I made for the roll cage. Cut it and sectioned it and made a sleeve, just need to weld it together.


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Rear bar is pretty much straightened out, will have an inner sleeve as well, along with a 16" piece of angle welded to the bottom to tie it all together. This will also be a good place to later build a jack point off of.


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Front strut bar showed up, clears everything well. Just needs washers now and its all good.


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Ready to weld up my removable front bar!


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Stay tuned!

[Hitman Cody2130]

Nice progress man! Cant wait to see you put those bash bars to good use

[RolledAndPulledG]

Nice progress man! Cant wait to see you put those bash bars to good use

Lol, well tbh I hope i never have to actually use it lol

[Daffy]

Ugh you're not making me want an S13 Coupe any less. I want one so badly

Amazing work as ever, can't wait to see it all done and painted that awesome khaki colour!

[PugLife]

It´s funny how chilled you are about all the mess the previous owner did.
Cracked up when i saw this:

First is how the exhaust is hung. A majority of it is suspended by this rubber strap. The previous owner was a real craftsman for sure.

Hahaha
And the fans turning the wrong way... priceless.

It´s in much better hands now though. Sub´d for sure.

[RolledAndPulledG]

Ugh you're not making me want an S13 Coupe any less. I want one so badly

Amazing work as ever, can't wait to see it all done and painted that awesome khaki colour!

Haha good man, I cant wait either!

It´s funny how chilled you are about all the mess the previous owner did.
Cracked up when i saw this:


Hahaha
And the fans turning the wrong way... priceless.

It´s in much better hands now though. Sub´d for sure.

Haha, its whatever, I'm powering through it!

[parttimeprojectionist]

i came in here to rant about you getting back to work on the fc but fuck this is good too haha!

[Khalil]

dat aero unnnfffff

[pjurisprudencia]

I just got finished fapping

[rsingh3g]

I just CONTINUE fapping

fixed it for you

[pjurisprudencia]

hope i can see it after i get off work today at vegas pro am! :3

[Bobbythunder]

Some of the original images took a dump.

[RolledAndPulledG]

i came in here to rant about you getting back to work on the fc but fuck this is good too haha!

hahah!

dat aero unnnfffff

I just got finished fapping

fixed it for you

hope i can see it after i get off work today at vegas pro am! :3

I saw you puss <3


So i havent been on in a couple days because I was scrambling to get the car finished for my event that happened yesterday. But lets start from where I left off!

Thursday:

I cut my front lug nuts down on the lathe so they wouldnt hit the back of the wheel anymore for my bolt on spacers. Took off just over 1/8".


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Made a new E-brake mount using 3" steel angle.
I did more, but cant think of it all lol.

Friday:

First, set up an area to paint aero black to match everything else while it was raining.


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Let that dry all day

I didnt get any pics during this time because I was working straight through.

The rest of the day I was working on the car , diligently knocking things out on the checklist. Well this went all the way till 6 A.M.; 2.5 hrs. before tech inspection. I came in, slept for 50 minutes, then loaded up the truck and car on the trailer.

Once the car was loaded, we welded a new tip on it so it wouldn't burn my rear bumper lol


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Heres my interior all wrapped up for now:

Sparco Evo 2 Plus's, Impact 3" belts, Momo deep wheel, CNC pull ebrake, autometer gauges.


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Relocated my fire extinguishers too.


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And what you've been waiting for, complete pics!


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I made it to the track and still had to do a complete setup on the car! I only made 4 practice runs in the car before it was time to qualify!


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My second qualifying run. Went a little too hard since my first run was solid anf wanted to throw something gnarly. I was backwards, but hit the inner clip and dipped a front tire so it was a zero.

http://web.stagram.com/p/534874698010307109_208939073

Vid of me loading it up :|

http://web.stagram.com/p/535405578171221355_23717592


I'll wrap it up with the only pic I have of it sideways thus far taken from my girlfriends instagram


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Overall I had a ton of fun and am really pleased with how the car worked! No issues really, just a few cracks in aero and bent my exhaust from a couple dirtdrops

I'll post more pics and vids as they come!

[mexMan]

Didn't the engine have like a boatload of issues? This build went like 10000x faster than the FC one!