Romans Daily/Drifter/Track Car

[pitbulldrifter]

i love this shot

[P78]

now that's a good stance

now the same pic with 4 lm's fitted?

[180roman]

Soo... long time no update...

Went to a 2 day drift event (Drift Matsuri 25-26th Feb) and what an epic weekend it's been

Thursday
On Thursday I've finally recieved my Mu Handbrake shoes, so i got to fitting them after work.
While I was doing that I've also raised the car a bit all round to make it driveable for winton.
However when I loaded the car up with all the wheels/tires and spare parts the rear ended up rim on guard again and I ran out of daylight to do any more work on the car.
So I took it for a spin around the block to see if i could manage to drive it up like that.
This has shown up a fair few issues with my plan, the front tires scrubbed heavily when turning and the car was scraping the ground with every little undulation in the road and to top it off the rear guards were smoking from the sidewalls rubbing.
Workign a 9-5 job there was no time to raise the car after work as I would have to leave for winton as soon as I get home.
While fitting the handbrake shoes i've also discovered that the rear left wheel bearing was fair f**ked and has a shitload of play in it, which would have to be replaced after Matsuri as I've had nothing spare

Friday
Woke up at 6am to raise the car before I leave for work. Took about an hr to do all 4 corners, but the car now had no scrubbing issues expecpt from the ocasional scrape of the exhaust or a puff of smoke from the sidewalls on a bump. Good enough as I didn't have any more time to work on it.
Work day seemed to stretch on forever as I was pumped to get to winton.
Lucky for me a friend saved me a car port pit spot, so I wouldn't have to cook in the sun all day.
The drive up was fairly uneventfull except for a cop bike hiding in the bushes who tried to follow us for a bit, but then left coz we were not speeding.
Once we got to Leisure Park, I got my drink on

Saturday
After a quick breakfast at Maccas, we headed off to the track, where I lowered the car back down a little and put on the AD08 front runners
In the First session the handbrake would not work, so I tried to get it working by yanking it real hard with some minor success when combined with a hard tap of the brakes.
Once I got back to the pits i've tightenned the drums and the hanbrake nut inside the cabin, but this seemed to have done nothing when I tried to use it in the Second session.
So by this point I said f**k it and just clutch kicked everywhere instead
With the blistering heat of the day I was a bit worried about the water temperatures, but the max it got to throughout the day was 95deg with no cool down laps and just lap after lap drifting. I was pretty stocked with the performance of the car durring the day and gained a bit more speed entering the S'es and the Sweeper. By around 5pm i was almost out of fuel and filled a 20L jerry can.
Later in the day the sun set has become a PITA when trying to enter the S'es as it was in your face right up to the entry point.
However the full dark night session has proved to have even less visibility due to the dust in the air reflecting off the lights.
With the day done and dusted we kicked back the Leisure park with a few drinks before calling it a night to get some sleep for Day 2

Sunday
The day started with a breakfast of left over pizza after which we headed to the track.
The wet roads around Benalla gave me hope for a cooler and wetter track, to make it easier on the car to slide. However the sun came out in force and the track was bone dry by the 2nd Group of the day.IThe breeze made the weather feel cooler and was a nice change from Sat weather.
After the first session i was once again almost out of fuel and used another 20L Jerry can.
The rest of the day went smoothly with no problems with me deciding to call it a day at 4pm and started to pack up.
By just my luck as I packed the car, the heavens openned up and it started to pour with rain. I realy wanted to go out for a wet session, but i would've preffered to get home earlier as I was wreked and needed a lot of sleep.

I was pretty damn wrecked as I got home and having to get up for work earlynext morning didn't help, but all f**king worth it to have such an epically awsome time drifting with friends.

Bring on the Next event!!!

Things to do before April:
Replace rear left wheel bearing
Fix handbrake issue and get lever extension(current issue is probably the way the lines are run under the car
Fit extra lock knuckles
































Thanks to all the photographers for the pics

Will post vids later

[180roman]

so there has actually been some progress on the car now

i took out the subframe and removed the old bushes and replaced them with solid alloy risers

This moved my subframe up, so the toe arms no longer hit the subframe, so there now was more room to lower the car

I wanted to see how much lower I can get the car now

So this was the result












I also sold the R31 that could be seen in the background of previous pics and bought a new daily Holden Barina(Opel Corsa B) which can be seen hiding in the background now

[180roman]

So drift Matsuri entries opened last night and the event sold out in just over 1hr
So many people were trying to register that it kept crashing the server, but i managed to get a spot

It will surely be an awesome event with all 150 spots filled + reserves

This kind of left me with very little money to play with though, so progress might be pretty slow with the car.

And here is a couple of photo updates from a photo shoot i went to

[P78]

good one romain

[softg]

functional and sinister

word

[180roman]

So i washed the car and tought i should take some photos while it is still clean

The front guard that has been getting bent at winton every time got some hammer treatement since december too



White tape > paint







Scrape scrape



and here is the photo of the dump pipe that split at winton



and here is how i want the car to sit

[pitbulldrifter]

Sounds nice, can't wait to see

yeah just come over lol, its not that far

[180roman]

sick 240 looks jdm as hell keep up the good work

Cheers

its an item or 3 or 2 . i got a torque wrench id come help ya but im a few miles away lol

Sounds nice, can't wait to see

yeah just come over lol, its not that far

Dude, this is so fucking sick that it hurts my face. black on black wheels make this thing go from classy/classic to tough pavement predator. Amazing work as always.usual.

Thanks Padraig

I see lack of Meister updates from you
I want to see those things reassembled with rear barrels all round and trial fitted on the car

[padraigmk3]

Dude, this is so fucking sick that it hurts my face. black on black wheels make this thing go from classy/classic to tough pavement predator. Amazing work as always.usual.

[pitbulldrifter]

What is this item you are getting? Wheels? Coilovers? You got me interested...

Z progress has been pretty non existent since i pulled the head off to change the headgasket. Just cleaned up some blocked water galleries and stuff, but been lacking time and torque wrench to put the head back on the car.

Probably just going to organize like a BBQ working Bee on the car with friends, so i can get it all done in one day.

its an item or 3 or 2 . i got a torque wrench id come help ya but im a few miles away lol

[ilikestance]

sick 240 looks jdm as hell keep up the good work

[180roman]

The videos got me soo siked to go slide! Now I'm just mad that my car isn't done haha. I love raw incar footage like that, where you can see infront of the car and what the driver is doing, but you could definately tell you needed a little more power in the 3rd gear sweepers towards the end. Burn some rubber for me at the matsuri, I wish I could drive an event like that.

Thanks man

Since that video for the last even of the year I upped the tire pressures on the back to 50psi, as I used to run 35psi, so i could get a bit more grip in 2nd gear corners to pick up speed.
But on 50psi 3rd gear slides so much better with my power. My friend runs 50psi on the rare tires in his S14 and he has 200kWs, so i guess i should stick to 50.

Super keen for Matsuri, just over a month and a half left.

ya i just haven't had anything update worthy. once i get my *********** ill do a big update so keep an eye out . what happened to the z?

What is this item you are getting? Wheels? Coilovers? You got me interested...

Z progress has been pretty non existent since i pulled the head off to change the headgasket. Just cleaned up some blocked water galleries and stuff, but been lacking time and torque wrench to put the head back on the car.

Probably just going to organize like a BBQ working Bee on the car with friends, so i can get it all done in one day.

[pitbulldrifter]

Cheers man,

Hows the Supra coming along man? I see no updates in your build thread...

ya i just haven't had anything update worthy. once i get my *********** ill do a big update so keep an eye out . what happened to the z?