The R31 Drift Pig

[evsr31]

Hey Guys,

I had a thread in here quite some time ago but it has gone, thought I'd post some updates as to what is happening with the 4 door drift pig....

Current Modifications -

1988 R31 Skyline Exec, colour coded white,

New front right / left guards,

stripped interior with full CCS Bodykit and mfx front lip -

converted from auto to manual rb20det silver top from an r32 - extreme hd clutch and blitz access ecu

Auto Gauge - oil temp, water temp, boost gauges

Elevo deep dish steering wheel

Just Jap fixed back race seat with 4 point TRS Harness (new sparco going to be put in)

Just Jap 600x300x76 FMIC with general R32 Intercooler piping kit

Custom Hydraulic handbrake with rear vs calipers and slotted rotors

Minispooled 28 spline 4:11 ratio diff

Whiteline swaybars front / rear with new noltec bushes

3rd's productions adjustable castor rods

D2 a31 coilovers all round with s13 hubs, control arms, calipers / rotors

Full service on the engine

New battery, clamp, sandwich plate adapter for oil temp / water temp

r33 xforce 3" dump / front with custom 3" under diff zaust

35mm and 30mm hub centric bolt on spacers

Bosch 040 fuel pump installed

Oil catch can setup

Turbotech controller on 14.7psi

Whiteline strut brace

remapped by jeff at TSL 183.9rwkw on around 1 bar.

What it looked like before it came off the road....

It lost a wheel a couple of months before this at AIR that did some fair amount of damage.

Video and pics below -

Video -

http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m137/dr...iPhone-cell.flv

Anyway over the last month or so I have been ripping into getting it back up and running.....

I wired up and cut out a custom gauge cluster, accessories, ignition, push button start, battery isolator, gauges etc.

Relocated battery to behind where the passengers seat would go

distribution block in engine bay

Crazy coloured r31 - s13 tie rod adapters, and drift shop adjustable rose jointed tie rod ends to go in the front

Picture of adjustability

Rear upper and lower trailing arms, with all new super pro bushes fitted

Also got a whiteline plus adjustable panhard rod on its way, for those that don't know this car is running s13 coilovers.

Thought I'd trial paint the front bar with a house roller, yes ghetto but it didn't come up too bad....

Wheel fitment -

17x9.5 drifteks all round, -18 rear, -12 front, flared guards 215/45/17's sumo's

Got roll center adjusted s13 ball joints coming (thanks again drift shop) and I'm going to purchase some new HSD coilovers.

Roll cage thats going in soon

Putting a sparco fixed back in that I purchased off of Billye, and all the other steering goodies soon so should be a lot better.

Upcoming parts to go in -

s13 HSD HR coilovers / racing logic coilovers

Some half decent new front s13 pads (machine the rotors)

r31 - s13 tie rod adapters + rosejointed tie rod ends

roll center adjusted s13 ball joints, fitted with new super pro inner bushes

Super Pro bushes throughout rear end

Adjustable whiteline plus panhard rod

New 30mm bolt on spacers that troy at tyrepower is getting done

repainting the whole car in enamel, same colours (slightly undecided)

Guards have been flared all round

Sparco fixed back seat for skiddles

6 point cage

vg30 turbz and screamer (undecided might go all out on a decent turbo) tune with Jeff afterwards to suit

some pipes perhaps

new fuel tank / surge tank setup

When the 20 gives up I'll be going a 25 package...

Vid from g1

Car will be painted in either 2 of the following schemes by all type crash -

Car Green, black bonnet and top stage vent, black frames / mirrors / garnish and white wheels

Car White, black bonnet and top stage vent, black frames / mirrors / garnish and green wheels

This sort of green.

That looks shit hot IMO.

as does this, slightly different more yellow green......but you get the idea.

I am also looking at a suitable external gate turbo upgrade in the future, I was thinking a GT3071R through HPIA......any suggestions? GT3076R too laggy? .64

Supporting mods of course - gtr injectors, z32 afm, bosch 040 fuel pump etc, and a tune to suit.

Cheers,

Ev.

Edited September 3, 2008 by evsr31

[JAS-25T]

Looks sweet guy.

Well done on getting back into it.

[2rismo]

That is farken agricultural - keep it up!

Great work!

[evil_weevil]

That is an awesome build and story!!

Well done!!

Car looks tough indeed mate!

[BezerkR32]

you blokes are insane, those high speed entries are nuts.

looks like you will be back out on the track soon.

good luck with it.

[Habler]

Nice build up. Can't wait to see what the paint job turns out like.

[evsr31]

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, yeah neither can I! haha.

While I'm at it I thought I'd sneak in a few pics of my hr31 gts-x 2 door

These pics are from when we were at Winton raceway for the skyline nationals this year.

Edited September 4, 2008 by evsr31

[JAS-25T]

looks tough!

[dodgsun]

moar pics!!!!!!

[evsr31]

I sadly ended up selling my black hr31 gts-x to get a tow car and trailer -

You do what you gotta do eh...

Anyway some updates for the drift car -

inside in metal primer

Some of the guard work -

Cusco cage dummy fitted, interior painted and both seats installed

Sorry about the shitty pics they were taken at night.

Edited October 20, 2008 by evsr31

[evsr31]

Cleaned up the drivers side loom, all soldered and heat shrinked up.

Looked like that -

This is the bullshit i removed - you should have seen the main power feed for the battery off the fusible links, it was all melted in certain areas - disaster waiting to happen rly.

N just a crappy pic of the loom running there now, still have to saddle it up so that it's held in place nicely but it's a lot better.

Anyway updates, put everything back in today.

Rose jointed adjustable tie rod ends with r31 - s13 adapters

roll center adjusted ball joints in the s13 arms, with new super pro bushes

machined rotors and new brake pads

all cleaned up / painted crazy colours to match the wheel colour.

shameless plug for the offsets

Took it for a drive tonight, feels great but ghetto wheel alignment is making it pull to the right.

Edited October 20, 2008 by evsr31

[evsr31]

Took off my old possy standard turbo and put on the r33/vg30 one I bought

Bare side of head, and turbo size comparison

few pics of Top stage UMV bonnet vent installed

chucked the extinguisher in too

[evsr31]

Ah and a bit of inspiration, but my bonnet will be black, and brighter green wheels.

[evil_weevil]

Dam thats a hot 31 coupe you had!!

But gotta agree on the priorities there! If you dont have a tow car and trailer...cant go drifting!

Cheers for the updates!

Good to see its still going strong!

[evsr31]

Few updates -

these photos were just taken unwashed, vents aren't in the front bar yet obviously.

Don't know where I can mount the number plate now though without restricting a bit of flow to the cooler.

Now for a comparison -

this is what the front right guard looked like -

And now looks like this - (Thanks to my lovely gf)

Goes for paint at all type crash tomorrow.

[fatz]

for the love of sore heads pleas extent the front cage mounts so when you stack you dont brain yourself on the front cross bar of the cage

Edited November 3, 2008 by fatz

[evsr31]

My head clears it fatz, it sits higher than the pics really show, and will definitely have padding on it.

Car has been painted now, hasn't got the wheels on it as of yet but here's a few pics.

Installed a malpassi FPR and had it tuned by jeff at the speed lab, made 210.2rwkw on safe AFR's.

Mate has started extending the rear legs to suit the car

Pics with wheels on soon.

[evsr31]

wheel colour pic, bright candy green, very glossy.

Edited November 6, 2008 by evsr31

[CEF11E]

massive write up very inspiring.

i jsut bought a 32 that will be stripped fro track work as i cant bear to smash up the one i already have.

you have done a lot of work in a really short time. looking forward to seeing it fnished!

what a handy gf you have!

[evsr31]

Far out I should probably update this thread huh.. thanks for the kind words guys.

Pics of straight pipes and camera mount before i went out to g1.

painted pics and g1 drift

Didn't have the best run of luck and it was definitely something else to try and get used to the car after all the changes.

Few pics of it skidding at g1 mallala, made love to some tyres on a scando that i couldnt bring back, qualified 19th just out of the top 16 which i was happy with.

First battle in I blew 3rd, not a very successful day but still had some fun.

Pics of car

Scando into turn 1

oops

After hitting all those tyres I was feeling fairly dark for a while but was happy when I got skidding again.

Reo has seen better days along with the front bar, but will get all type crash to fix up the front bar, and I'll just wack a new reo on...

Few pics of how the car came up after some cut and polish, fine down the sides, just front bar needs to be repaired as well as the lip replaced / repaired.

Showing the sus parts and mad wheel widths n stuff

reo off