Because Drift Car

Rallim · Mar 18, 2013

Figured I'd finally make a thread. So, as my signature picture thing clearly demonstrates, turning my car into a drift car.

A little background first. Here's the car the day I purchased it, Bra, horrible wheels, unusable headlights.... still loved it.

Car stayed like this for the longest time, all that I did was change out the headlights to something less sucky, but still sucky.

Ended up going to some drift events and actually spending time in the pits, finally getting my ass into gear to get my car out there. Had to put a new clutch in it first, since it was slipping. Cut up the exhaust a bit while we were at it.

World's simplest exhaust. Cut it off after the flanges, glass packs, turn downs. Crude, but effective, and cost $40.

After that, got some of these

And hit my first event!

Couple other mustangs there, all really cool people too. Learned a lot of stuff from the guy with the new edge

And then I teared it up pretty well for my first event I think

And rocked the car as pretty much bone stock for a couple events.

Dat body roll.

And then I got fed up of my car being COMPLETELY stock, so recently I picked up a couple more wheels, lowered it somewhat, and I've got a few things sitting around ready to go on it.... hopefully this thread should be updated pretty regularly, as I've got A LOT of plans for this thing now. But anyways, here's how she sits as of now, waiting for sunday.

945.0 · Mar 18, 2013

nice. i got some extra parts laying around up for grabs if your interested let me know.

RichV · Mar 18, 2013

I don't mean to bugger up your thread, but what exactly is drifting?

I know that a lot of car control is key, but why do you build a car for it? Is it a drift class that you get points for, and get some sort of cash prize or trophy? How often do you have events? Is it a competition against other drivers in a class? Or how does it work?

Musturd · Mar 18, 2013

Nice dude the stance and Bullits look way better

Slykin · Mar 18, 2013

RichV said:
I don't mean to bugger up your thread, but what exactly is drifting?

I know that a lot of car control is key, but why do you build a car for it? Is it a drift class that you get points for, and get some sort of cash prize or trophy? How often do you have events? Is it a competition against other drivers in a class? Or how does it work?

I would assume it's just for fun at his level. I wouldn't mind trying it for fun.. granted I can get much more doriftos on my four wheeler.

Orange 94 · Mar 18, 2013

Looks fun! Good luck on your build! That would be so fun! I'd be scared on wrecking my car though

RichV · Mar 18, 2013

Slykin said:
I would assume it's just for fun at his level. I wouldn't mind trying it for fun.. granted I can get much more doriftos on my four wheeler.

Ya, I have no idea how experienced dude is. But in the suspension thread he was building the car for/around this sport, so I'm just curious. When you build a car for purpose, there's a competition and/or rules. I know NASA Drift does some exhibitions at some of our events but I've never seen classes or what the competition is really about. Is it like the figure skating of motorsports?

Rallim · Mar 18, 2013

RichV said:
I don't mean to bugger up your thread, but what exactly is drifting?

I know that a lot of car control is key, but why do you build a car for it? Is it a drift class that you get points for, and get some sort of cash prize or trophy? How often do you have events? Is it a competition against other drivers in a class? Or how does it work?

Well building the car is basically attempting to make it faster, more car control, and more steering angle. Right now I've just been doing open events which is basically just a track day. There's a course setup, you do a run, get back in line. Kind of like autocross the way the open stuff is setup essentially. There's different levels of competition that is judged based on line, speed, angle, ect, and I'm going to try to do the grassroots stuff just for fun. Eventually I want to have the car setup enough to do pro am, but other then that I'm just doing it for fun. The only place I've attended events so far is 1-2 times a month, but there's like 4 other tracks within a couple hours driving, so in reality if I had the money it could be every weekend. Hope that kind of answers your questions a bit....

RichV · Mar 19, 2013

Yea, similar to what I do. I started doing HPDE events running my street car. When I decided to compete, I built a car for a specific class limited to those modifications. Then got a competition license and went racing, obviously racing is just a speed contest and winner is who crosses the finish line 1st. Then the weekend has 2 'tire races', where winner can get up to $300 in TOYO tire certificates per race (2nd-9th get $ as well). Then we run 4 points races per weekend where those are totaled for a year-end placing with a trophy and other class sponsor perks/certificates/cash. You're spending dollars to make nickels, but it's something.

duh09 · Mar 19, 2013

I really wanted to enter my Mustang in a drift event or two but was never free/had money when the events rolled around locally.

There's a group of people nearby that meet up every Saturday and hang out at a Staples parking lot and I've followed the 240 crew out to some factories and slid my car around and it's a ridiculous amount of fun. Nothing like rolling in with a bunch of imports, being made fun of, and then showing them what a small amount of torque and gears will do! Haha

ttocs · Mar 19, 2013

I could see it not only as a good time, but also as another way to learn how to control your car better. I am willing to bet that learning that point to which it is going to break into over-steer and how it reacts, and how you react to it would be hugely benificial for someone that enjoyed racing as much as drifting. Please post some vids when you get a chance.

98BlackGT · Mar 19, 2013

started from the bottom now we here

Rallim · Mar 19, 2013

Orange 94 said:
Looks fun! Good luck on your build! That would be so fun! I'd be scared on wrecking my car though

Haha, I was going to put a 540/740i V8 into my old 6 series BMW and use that, but I never found a spare motor and it'd be a lot of work. I finally said screw it, my cars never going to be super clean, but it works perfectly, DRIFT CAR! And it's not my daily, so worst case I chuck it into a wall, some friends have trailers there, then just tube frame it back up.

RichV said:
Yea, similar to what I do. I started doing HPDE events running my street car. When I decided to compete, I built a car for a specific class limited to those modifications. Then got a competition license and went racing, obviously racing is just a speed contest and winner is who crosses the finish line 1st. Then the weekend has 2 'tire races', where winner can get up to $300 in TOYO tire certificates per race (2nd-9th get $ as well). Then we run 4 points races per weekend where those are totaled for a year-end placing with a trophy and other class sponsor perks/certificates/cash. You're spending dollars to make nickels, but it's something.

That's pretty much exactly how it's structured in terms of anything competition, at least on the local level. Competition stuff starts next month, I'll go into it pretty well once it rolls around for you probably.

duh09 said:
I really wanted to enter my Mustang in a drift event or two but was never free/had money when the events rolled around locally.

There's a group of people nearby that meet up every Saturday and hang out at a Staples parking lot and I've followed the 240 crew out to some factories and slid my car around and it's a ridiculous amount of fun. Nothing like rolling in with a bunch of imports, being made fun of, and then showing them what a small amount of torque and gears will do! Haha

I got so many jokes the first time I went to an event, all in good fun though. That's one thing I love about the culture around it, 99% of the people are the coolest people you'll meet. And I was really surprised how much people were kicking it in comparison to I was, car has a lot of usable power for drifting. I was surprised honestly, since my first event was in the dry and I'd never done anything in the dry before really.

ttocs said:
I could see it not only as a good time, but also as another way to learn how to control your car better. I am willing to bet that learning that point to which it is going to break into over-steer and how it reacts, and how you react to it would be hugely benificial for someone that enjoyed racing as much as drifting. Please post some vids when you get a chance.

Very much so. The thing I love about my car is how it taught me to drive, when I had it for the most part it had HORRIBLE tires on it.... everyone here probably knows how it is in the rain with bad tires on these things. It's definitely a good skill to know how to control the car in a slide a little bit, hell just last week I was getting on the highway in my daily, back end kicked out a bit, corrected like it was nothing really since I'm so used to it. 9/10 people probably would have been in a tree or something.

Here's a little something from yesterday to hold you over until this weekend just some donuts but hey. More videos from my first event on there too, got a new memory card for my go pro so I'll have lots of footage of this weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-J-I9K5MQ&list=UUmF-xj7PcOx-jrzM3-5p8hw&feature=player_detailpage

Rallim · Apr 10, 2014

Here, have an update.

So, the car hasn't been driven in an event since maybe October I want to say. I tried once and the diff decided it was sick being locked up and opened up like a cheap whore.

So, I've just been gathering things for it lately, and finally started making progress.

Getting many things.

KW Coilovers, cut the spindles down 1.25 inches, custom made 2in extended LCA's, maximum motorsport bumpsteer bolt through kit. Got a few more things but yeah.

Finally started getting everything together, and the end result is disappointing. Where I'm at now is my tie rods aren't NEARLY long enough to be anywhere near a usable, so I have an ungodly amount of toe. Time to find a tie rod solution.

However, here's a preview of the steering angle. Should end up with more when it's done because right now everything sits in pretty toe'd out.

On the bright side, pretty sure I have the most stancetacular hellaflush mustang in existence right now.