From Stock Clean R33 Gtst To Full Time Track Drift Car

[boostn0199]

Ohh i think your getting me confused with the other guy with the white 33. Im not the one that sold you the lca's lol im the other guy on nissan silvia forum that was trying to get more lock thats probably why i never got an email cause im not the one you sent it too.

[Run-It-Hard]

aaahhh!

Your THAT guy hahaha. Yeah sorry dude got it all mixed up!

Looking good out there man

[boostn0199]

aaahhh!

Your THAT guy hahaha. Yeah sorry dude got it all mixed up!

Looking good out there man

ahahahah yeah too many r33s and too much talk about lock over two forums made it alll a little confusing. Thanks.

Here are some pics from the drift day after theve started to be released.

[popinr33]

Great write up buddy. Look forward to hear more.

[boostn0199]

Thanks mate. Stay tuned constantly something going on lol.

[boostn0199]

Small update of what I got up to on the weekend, didnt do much just doing the little things to get the car ready for drift attack in a few weeks.First decided to finally bleed my brakes and also did the usual oil change. Was going to start to give the inside a clean the thought cbf with all this carpet stuff so started to strip bits of the interior out that were not needed and also got to work on stiching up my old front bar to go on the car. Here are a few pics.

[boostn0199]

Just a little update for what I did this weekend, Ive been looking to get a roll cage for a while now so have been looking around for any for sale or to get one made and came across one finally selling here on the forums. Its a cusco 6 point cage so perfect for my needs as drift cages dont have to pass CAMS and got it real cheap so snatched it up straight away. Just had to get some new bolts and make up my own mounting plates which was no problem.

Would of like to put it in now but the cars already on the trailer for next weekend so Ill chuck it in when I get back from drift attack.

Also with the car on the trailer dummy fitted up the new tyrerack to the trailer to see how it sits and its perfect so thats another thing that will be finished off when I get back.

Not long now left til drift attack this weekend cant wait!

[boostn0199]

Time for a update. Went to my first drift comp last week drift attack at calder and it was a difficult day with the track being really wet in the morning practice sessions and also ended up having issues with my surge tank, one of the welds developed a leak so didnt get much practice runs in trying to fix it and did my qualifying runs while being kind of conservative due to lack of practice which ended up being not enough to qualify for top 16 but anyway good learning experience and had fun on calder park for the first time. Heres a few pics from the day and my temp fix of the surge tank lol is there anything that cable ties cannot fix.

Got around to installing my roll cage that I had purchased and decided to strip pretty much all the plastics in the car while sticking it in.Also ordered a driftworks 4 point racing harness and installed that aswell.

Nice sunny day today so decided to try out my guard roller that I purchased a few weeks ago and flare my front guards. Did the job pretty well I pumped them out a decent amount.

Edited November 5, 2011 by boostn0199

[Run-It-Hard]

rad!

[boostn0199]

I been real lazy and pretty much let this thread die of the last couple of months and though Id bring it back again today. Have done quite a bit of work since the last update and now getting the car ready for the 2012 season. Basically had a couple of practice days end of the year to finsh off 2012 and both were cut short off full days as split a cooler joiner and didnt have any spares and the next one ended having a small tap with a guy tandeming behind me cause I spun didnt do any body damage which was great but he drilled straight into my oil cooler and ripped it to peices so that was the end of my day.

Had a few months break now until the 2012 season started at the end of feb with matsuri so I had a plan of things to get done before then. First was take care of work in the engine bay. 1 was to remove the whole aircon system as it was no need and taking up room. Next I relocated my oil cooler to infront of the radiator to have it in a safer position to prevent it from getting smashed, bought a new 53mm koyo radiator to help out with cooling espcially in the summer installed that in aswell.

As youve probably noticed in my pics my fmic has been crooked for years lol so decided to fix that all up and the next issue was Ive a power steering leak all year which has been worsening so replaced the leaking hoses and also all the seals in the pump and added a ps cooler for peice of mind, cant go wrong for 10bux for a used tranny cooler off a falcon.

The engine bay stuff sorted it was onto the front end suspension work. Plan was to install some modified knuckles to gain a heap more lock and also to imporve transistion into corners as r33s lack that due to there weight. Got knuckles modded by JDI, lengthend my LCA by 25mm and knotched them, picked up some ikeya tierods and new tie rod ends, installed some driftworks offset rack spacers to eliminate any chance of binding, relocated brake line bracket as wheels were rubbing on them now due to so much lock, removed the guard and tucked up loom along with making a steel sheild for it to protect it from possible rubbing. Finally installed some subframe c collars in the rear to stiffen things up.

Decided on getting a new set of wheels for the new 2012 setup, this time with decent offset so ordered 6 rota grids in gloss black from wheeltech fronts 17x9 +25 with a 20mm spacer rears 17x9.5 +12. At this point my computer room was starting to look like a warehouse lol.

I was really wanting something new in terms of appearance for the car for the new year and with just new rims wasnt going to cut it so spent sometime thinking about some options of what I could do the car which wouldnt require a redicoulously budget, look good and also be completely different. I started looking into getting the car wrapped as this was becoming a new trend so decided to have the car wrapped in urban camo using the base paint and wrapped the hood in matt black.

Im extremely happy with how it turned out even better than I thought it would and acheived exactly what I wanted, completly new look to the car. If anyone needs any car wrapping of custom decals or anything cosmetic I cant recomend carx in clayton enough top quality work and great guy with good pricing.

Anyway thats where Im at now.

[boostn0199]

Small update, was looking at the wiring loom and wasnt convinced on it being safe even though I tucked it up as much possible so decided to bite the bullet and do the biggest drainer option of cutting and extending and re-running through engine bay. Atleast got peice of mind now.

[Joshhr33]

Hey mate, looks good like the build. Just a quick qst what fmic is that? if you remember the brand? or anything .. cheers

[boostn0199]

Hey mate, looks good like the build. Just a quick qst what fmic is that? if you remember the brand? or anything .. cheers

Thanks man, the fmic is just one of the just jap return ones.

[Joshhr33]

Ohok sweet .. I've been looking at that one or the blitz return flow .. Just looked bigger then i thought haha. So what you got planned for your 33 now?

[boostn0199]

Ohok sweet .. I've been looking at that one or the blitz return flow .. Just looked bigger then i thought haha. So what you got planned for your 33 now?

Well its pretty much at where I wanted it to be engine wise and suspension wise for this years season of drifting so Im hoping to be able just concentrate on drifting as much as I can this year and not having to worry about changing or adding anything, so will pretty much just be fix something if broken and spend the rest of the money on tyres lol.

[Joshhr33]

Yeah nice looks like you have done well .. Something I might try and emulate .. If its nice tomorrow I'm going to give my r33 a clean and polish and I'll post some pics .. I picked it up couple weeks ago .. Your thread giving me good motivation haha .. Have fun with it man and cheers for the replies.

[boostn0199]

Yeah nice looks like you have done well .. Something I might try and emulate .. If its nice tomorrow I'm going to give my r33 a clean and polish and I'll post some pics .. I picked it up couple weeks ago .. Your thread giving me good motivation haha .. Have fun with it man and cheers for the replies.

No worries mate just gota build it up little by little and enjoy it.

[timmy_89]

I know I'm resurrecting and old thread lol... but it's a good one. Nothing over the top, and all mods with a purpose (except for the originally retrim of the seats, but they are gone so we can ignore that haha.

Have you still got the car mate?