Romans Daily/Drifter/Track Car

[180roman]

update

went to a Drift Day on the 18th of June

had lots of fun and have a few photos to photobomb on here later

few issues to fix after the drift day
driving low and scraping the exhaust caused the turbo gasket to leak, so the turbo will have to come off once again
need to replace the worn rosejoints on the toe arms
need better front tires
possibly a steering rack rebuild


this weekend went to the StanceWorks Melbourne Meet
while parking the tire caught my wiring loom shield and sliced into some wires,
leaving the meet, had power to the engine and headlights, nothing else worked, no brake lights, no windows, no dash and etc had to manualy wind up the pop up lights coz the motors were not getting any power either
on the way home got power back to most things but lost headlights, and whenever i braked or indicated the headunit would turn off and on.

this kinda pushed me to a decision to do a full wiring loom relocation inside the enginebay

i have searched for the way that people have relocated their loom into the engine bay and most people ran it over the strut tower and back down into the guard through the standard gromet/hole

i did not like the idea of running the loom back inside the guard beause the problem area is the rubber gromet area

so i've decided to bite the bullet and chop the loom in half

the plan is to lengthen and re-run wires from the fuse/relay box near the washer bottle down under the fuse box and along the chassis rail and then back up under the brake booster into the enlarged hole where the bonnet release cable passes through

[180roman]

a few videos thanks to Martin from SAU

map 1 run 1

map 1 run 2

battle 1 run 2

battle 2 run 2

[dav3design]

looks like a blast!

[180roman]

another round of photobombing

[180roman]

not much to update progress wise but do have some new photos from a DECA i went to yesterday

it was an interesting day starting off with wet weather and slowly drying up towards the end

mass photobombamage from DECA

[goon bag]

awesome shit man! loving the fact that one of the 31's towed it there!

[180roman]

Went to another Drift Practice day on the weekend

Had an interesting day, a few strange problems like gaining toe-in on the front for some reason..
and the hardline on my rear caliper breaking off at the end of the last session

I struggled a bit most of the day trying to get 245/40/17s to spin in 3rd and combating the shocking understeer due to crap front tires, but it was fun none the less

pics to follow

[180roman]

nah was thinking for the 180, but realy probably wouldn't have been a smart choice coz i would've blown my whole pay in one go

think i'll just save for a while and slowly work on the R31s

[P78]

lm for the r31?

[180roman]

yeah they are doing alright

used one to tow the 180 to the track and didn't have any problems(except draining the battery from leaving the high beams on while setting up camp)

otherwise progress has been slow coz the drift weekend ended up costing me $982

i also almost bought another set of BBS LMs in the same specs for cheap cheap yesterday, but stopped myself

[P78]

how are the triplets?

[180roman]

a couple of night shots

Somehow Sick I love the LMīs

cheers,

funny fact, the movie Mad Max 2 was just on TV when you posted the comment

[MadMax]

Somehow Sick I love the LMīs

[P78]

nice

[180roman]