Matt Russell And Campbell's Ménage Drift Sil80 Build Project

[femno]

Hi all,

Just thought we would share our Drift Sil80 Build Project for those who are interested.

It involves Myself, Tim and Russel; along with Campbell and Johnny who are also lending a hand or three here and there.

The car was originally owned by Tim and another one of our mates, where it was stripped of all its awesome parts; coilovers, 2 way, SR running gear and 2871R.

The original plans for it were to put a CA back in it and sell it off but it never happened.

Then one day Russell came up with an idea; before we knew it, myself and Russell bought out the other mate and therefore we ended up with the Sil80 3some-3way Drift Project! A 1/3 of the cost each and 1/3 of the work each. Works out good.

We are doing absolutely everything ourselves! From the cage install to paint to tuning. The budget for this build will be as tight as possible. The plans are:

Put a SR back in

Install a full roll cage

TR29 Turbo highmount with Tial Copy gate

Greddy copy plenum

V-Mount setup

PowerFC

Oil cooler

Welded diff

G4 drift spec coilovers

Hydro e-brake

Pump the guards a little (well maybe alot)

Bright Orange paint

Big kit

Black roof, mirrors and Bonnet Vent

We have most of the required parts, some of which we had lying around (yes, you ask why on earth the TR29 turbo! - a bad decision on tims part a few years ago...) ready to go and have sold off all of the unwanted crap such as interior parts etc to form a 'kitty'.

So far weve stripped the entire car and all of the sound deadening and have purchased a cage kit from Brown Davis which we are currently working on.

Once the cage is in we will paint the inside of the car and the engine bay, and fit everything back in that needs to go in.

After its running we will paint the outside panels to finish it off.

Feel free to give us any helpful pointers and/or helpful comments. If you want specific pictures let us know.

We will do our best to keep the thread updated with pics a plenty.

Cheers!

Mat.

[Russman]

Nice Fred Chewy!!!

Epic build. This sil will conquer all.

What does Ménage mean?

[alr33x]

it means 3some

gunna keep an eye on this project

joining team weldy this week myself haha

good luck!

[N1GTR]

Quick question, what happens when/if one smashes it-do all 3 pay for damage?

I had this thought in 2004 with a mate but we never went through cause I knew he'd stack it and never pay to fix it

[DJRIFT]

ive always wondered what a multiple owned drift car would be like.

who pays for brakeages?

ive been in shares with cars for other forms of motor sport but they were a lot cheaper cars and a lot less likely to brake.

BTW i love sil80's

[Drift SX]

We will be doing all our own panel repairs as well so this will cut the cost down greatly

[achoo]

Looking good!

Is that a 4 point cage?

[femno]

It will be a full 6 point by the time were done with it.

Ill post up a pic of exactly how its gonna look soon.

With Johnnys help, we are using CAD to assist us with all of those tricky fishmouths!

[femno]

Ok, some prgress, last week I took the car down to Brown Davis again for them to bend us up some roof diagonals, as we wanted them to hug the roof for plenty of headroom.

We also bought all of the required material for the rest of the diagonals.

So this weekend we will give it a good nudge and try to get most of them in.

Also the CAD drawing is tweaked and finished, well be using it to help us do the fishmouths, more on that later.

Thanks again to Brown Davis for looking after us, and providing us with the much needed knowledge of cage building! Cheers guys!

[NZM.031]

MEN-AAAAA-GE'!!!

and the one who prangs it will owe the other one a 10sec car.. and if they have to... over night parts from japan.

[r33_racer]

MEN-AAAAA-GE'!!!

and the one who prangs it will owe the other one a 10sec car.. and if they have to... over night parts from japan.

lol! Classic. This project looks great! Sil80's are the shit!

Keep em coming!

[funkymonkey]

monicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

lol nice work lads. subscribing to hang more shit on your in the future when you blow shit up.

[Drift SX]

Cage is complete! pics to go up soon, I guess when i decide to post them up, until then i cbf

[femno]

Well the weekend was a success wasnt it Timmy!

We started Saturday at 9am and finished up at about 9pm, then Sunday was another long one from 11am to 11:40pm!

We had the computer print us out some lovely flat patterns of all of the fishmouths, which I think halved the time taken to cut the damn things out.

Basically what we did is take each member, cut a slit down the entire pipe, and unroll it into a flat piece. Chuck that on a drawing at 1:1 scale, print it, cut it out, and trace them onto the pipes

So we did that for all 13 pipes! Of course we thought about it all and planned how to do it in a way to enable us to have access to the joins to get fit the welder in there!

We started with the roof diagonals, cut them and fishy-ed them, tacked them in.

Then we removed our rear boxes and dropped the whole front section of the cage down through the holes in the floor to be able to weld ontop of the cage.

Once that was done we re-positioned the cage back, installed the side intrusions and then and welded the entire front section and the boxes fully into place for good.

We then went about putting the rest of the bars in the front section, the main hoop diagonal and the horizontal bar.

The rear was a little more tricky, we had to tack in the lower rears, tack in the upper rears and weld them fully to the lowers, then break the tacks off and fully weld in behind the strut where we couldnt get to.

Then fully welded both of those assemblies in and moved onto the strut bar/harness bar.

Next was the rear diagonal; the last pipe for the day BUT! we kinda forgot what time it was (night and late), the cops showed up and demanded that we halt production of our Sil80 cage! At that stage it was about 20 minutes to 12am...

We were shattered that we were so damn close to finishing it off but oh well....today I finished it off and put that last one in, so its all done. Although I dont have a pic of the rear diagonal in.

We enjoyed a hard-earnt beverage at the conclusion of the weekends festivities:

Now just to reinforce the A and B Pillars to the side of the cage, give it some prep, and a quick spray inside!!

Mat.

[Russman]

That's the gear Mat! Good write up brother.

^^Gee he's a good looking bloke!^^

Next was the rear diagonal; the last pipe for the day BUT! we kinda forgot what time it was (night and late), the cops showed up and demanded that we halt production of our Sil80 cage! At that stage it was about 20 minutes to 12am...

(11:40pm) It's the police!!!!

We enjoyed a hard-earnt beverage at the conclusion of the weekends festivities:

Yes we did...

Good sliding times ahead!

[Russman]

MEN-AAAAA-GE'!!!

and the one who prangs it will owe the other one a 10sec car.. and if they have to... over night parts from japan.

Now I understand haha

[Drift SX]

Haha, i wish parts were overnight from Japan

[femno]

You mean over night parts from ebay.

[alr33x]

looking good guys

[NZM.031]

edit** and if they have to.. overnight china knock off japanese parts from hong kong purchased on ebay **