Hello people of Stanceworks, Id like to introduce my y33 q45. Unlike most y33s this car isn't going to be a garage queen that gets driven on the weekend to car shows. No, this is a budget drift car.
Maybe 6 months back I had a crazy idea, "why don't I convince my friends to all chip in and have a group drift rat?" As you might have suspected the idea didn't quite catch on as I had wanted. Thankfully my friend Paul was down for the cause, but he suggested we go another route, one thats a little bit more... unique...
Build a dank vip drift missile and do things we wouldn't do normally to our personal cars.
The first car that popped in our heads was an LS 400. It has a v8, RWD, LSD, and room to fit a bunch of wheels and tires for drift events. And on top of that Paul used to have a LS400 and has some parts left over from his part out. so the search for the perfect cheap drift car went on for the next month or so until he brought up a great idea. Why not an Infinity Q45? It's cheap, has a v8, and can use parts from a 240? not a week later we find a add on Craigslist for a y33 q45 for $1500, how bad could it be? so we drove 2hrs in traffic to check out this magnificent creature.
Where do I start with this... well for starters we met the seller in a Walmart parking lot in the beautiful Pittsburg CA. The seller: was a 16 year old kid who wanted to sell the q45 to buy a dirtbike. If that wasn't enough for you he was with his mom, who was dealing with a poopy child in the back of her MDX while offering us some of the devils lettuce.
Back to the Q45, the car was BEAT,it had *(has) terrible body repair, christmas tree of lights going on in the dash, 18" terrible fitting chrome SKRIMZZ, two 12" subs in the back (not wired up) junk in the trunk, broken power steering, and it once had a lien title. After a quick ride around the parking lot we both had decided the car was not worth the $1500. Well lets just say after 30min of negations we drove back home with a $700 q45.
TLDR; Wanted a drift car, went in halfsies with a friend and bought a q45.
Well heres a few cellphone pictures from when we bought it.
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The squad looking hard AF
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We gave away the subs to some random guy in a Starbucks parking lot.
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Did i mention our car has a 2" lift? apparently the vehicle was lifted to accommodate some 24" wheels? this is how i picture how the car looked.�
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so the next weekend we decided to start ruining, I mean fixing the q45. as seen by this video my friend made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSFQ83GqIk
TL;DW: equipped "street weight reduction"
so the time came to start making the car edgy, more "unique" so we decided to paint the car 2 tone.
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as you can see we chose some paint with a CRAZY amount of sparkle. After we sand and wax the new paint hopefully the sparkle gets more E X T R E M E
So the moment you've been waiting for... PARTS PARTS PARTS PARTS PARTS. Yes coilovers, toe arms, control arms, camber arms, firearms and wheels have been purchased.
a few quick shots of how the wheels fit.
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Yah looks like it might be interesting...
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5x120 adapters because BMW wheels lol
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and there we go, the finished product... Well sort of, we still have to play around with the ride height and get an alignment.
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so with the install complete we had a pretty fun time getting out of the driveway..
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The stock exhaust flange and the cats scraped the driveway a tad.
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Well as you might have suspected, the stock seats might suck for skidz. So to address that we got some new seats... kinda...
yes, we picked up some really nice condition STI seats, they don't fit too bad, and feel way better than the stock seats.
And this weekend we threw on a personal wheel that I took off my uncles BMW 635csi, fixed up the front bumper, and began test fitting our handbrake.
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and thats pretty much how she sits now as of today.
Maybe 6 months back I had a crazy idea, "why don't I convince my friends to all chip in and have a group drift rat?" As you might have suspected the idea didn't quite catch on as I had wanted. Thankfully my friend Paul was down for the cause, but he suggested we go another route, one thats a little bit more... unique...
Build a dank vip drift missile and do things we wouldn't do normally to our personal cars.
The first car that popped in our heads was an LS 400. It has a v8, RWD, LSD, and room to fit a bunch of wheels and tires for drift events. And on top of that Paul used to have a LS400 and has some parts left over from his part out. so the search for the perfect cheap drift car went on for the next month or so until he brought up a great idea. Why not an Infinity Q45? It's cheap, has a v8, and can use parts from a 240? not a week later we find a add on Craigslist for a y33 q45 for $1500, how bad could it be? so we drove 2hrs in traffic to check out this magnificent creature.
Where do I start with this... well for starters we met the seller in a Walmart parking lot in the beautiful Pittsburg CA. The seller: was a 16 year old kid who wanted to sell the q45 to buy a dirtbike. If that wasn't enough for you he was with his mom, who was dealing with a poopy child in the back of her MDX while offering us some of the devils lettuce.
Back to the Q45, the car was BEAT,it had *(has) terrible body repair, christmas tree of lights going on in the dash, 18" terrible fitting chrome SKRIMZZ, two 12" subs in the back (not wired up) junk in the trunk, broken power steering, and it once had a lien title. After a quick ride around the parking lot we both had decided the car was not worth the $1500. Well lets just say after 30min of negations we drove back home with a $700 q45.
TLDR; Wanted a drift car, went in halfsies with a friend and bought a q45.
Well heres a few cellphone pictures from when we bought it.
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The squad looking hard AF
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We gave away the subs to some random guy in a Starbucks parking lot.
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Did i mention our car has a 2" lift? apparently the vehicle was lifted to accommodate some 24" wheels? this is how i picture how the car looked.�
[IMG][/IMG]
so the next weekend we decided to start ruining, I mean fixing the q45. as seen by this video my friend made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSFQ83GqIk
TL;DW: equipped "street weight reduction"
so the time came to start making the car edgy, more "unique" so we decided to paint the car 2 tone.
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[IMG][/IMG]
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as you can see we chose some paint with a CRAZY amount of sparkle. After we sand and wax the new paint hopefully the sparkle gets more E X T R E M E
So the moment you've been waiting for... PARTS PARTS PARTS PARTS PARTS. Yes coilovers, toe arms, control arms, camber arms, firearms and wheels have been purchased.
a few quick shots of how the wheels fit.
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[IMG][/IMG]
Yah looks like it might be interesting...
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
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5x120 adapters because BMW wheels lol
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and there we go, the finished product... Well sort of, we still have to play around with the ride height and get an alignment.
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so with the install complete we had a pretty fun time getting out of the driveway..
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The stock exhaust flange and the cats scraped the driveway a tad.
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
[IMG][/IMG]
Well as you might have suspected, the stock seats might suck for skidz. So to address that we got some new seats... kinda...
yes, we picked up some really nice condition STI seats, they don't fit too bad, and feel way better than the stock seats.
And this weekend we threw on a personal wheel that I took off my uncles BMW 635csi, fixed up the front bumper, and began test fitting our handbrake.
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and thats pretty much how she sits now as of today.
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