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Dyno Chart

                 The other night i got a chance to dyno my Rb25 swapped s13. It was a charity at Force Fed racing in Las Vegas, one of there employees lost his girlfriend to cancer. so for 20 bucks you could do one run on their dyno and all donations went to funding a funeral and other bills. no torque numbers just Horsepower.i managed to pull 255 hp, not bad just a bit shy of what i was hoping for. my chart is a little shaky at the top end, one of the guys there said i need a colder spark plug. so i will be switching to a colder plug and hopefully that will help steady it out on he top end.

the ambient temp was 112.7f, it was a 4th gear pull from 35mph to 112mph
cool thing about RB motors or any non 4 cylinder motor is look at how quickly i get power.

i had a great time and im glad that Bobby talked me into going. it was the first time i have ever had any of my cars dynoed and i actually got to drive it while it was on the dyno which was very cool.

From Russia With Love. STREET DRIFTING

Vegas Drift 24 pictures

Thanks to Erwin weaver for the Killer shots check out his facebook for all 141 pictures from the Event.

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CRAZY AS FUCK

so much awesomeness is happening in this video. EVERYONE this is a MUST WATCH

RB25sx updates

                           Here are some long awaited updates on my car, i know i took a few month hiatus from blogging but im now back with a vengeance. Just because there were no updates doesn't mean i wasn't working on my car, i was actually quite busy. since ever had crashed his s13 and decided to go 14 i was able to get his stuff that he couldn't use on the 14 build. Thanks a MILLION bud. So here is what i have done.
Evers old subframe with max solid bushing and tanabe sway bar
Evers rear over fenders
Evers front PSM knuckles
I also got ambitious and decided to extend my lower control arms. the last event i was having real bad outer shoulder wear so i thought that maybe if i extended my lower control arms i would get more camber so at full lock i would have a better contact patch.But when i extended my lower arms i opened a whole new can of worms, since instantly my greater camber was causing serious rubbing issues on my fender wiring harnesses so i had to take the whole dash out and reroute the fuse boxes into the car. This is actually easy and can be done with out cutting any part of the harness, you can do it with radiator and engine still in the car. start on the passenger side by where the ecu is mounted, and remove the three white plugs that are connected to the harness that comes from the passenger wheel well.you will need to unbolt you ecu and move it to access these plugs, then go outside by the passenger wheel and pull the harness out from inside the car. Then start disconnecting the main fuse box wires, then start pulling that box out and follow the wires removing the headlights, turn signals, light motors, and horn wires if you have them. then unbolt the radiator brackets and pull the radiator back a little and pull the wiring from off of the upper core support. then you get to the drivers side fuse box, you shouldn't have much of anything actually plugged in there. then stop there and go to inside the drivers side of the car and get a 10 mm and unbolt the fuse panel and resistors that are bolted in. then disconnect all the wires attached to you steering column then pull those all out so they just sit on the drivers floor. mind you the dash must be out. then this is the hardest parts cause you need to move around a lot of thick harnesses and you should see the light in the hole in the fender where the harness comes through then have some one go on the outside by the drivers wheel well and pull lightly while you feed it from the inside and it will all fit right through the hole in your fender with out any modifications just be aware that there is some sound deadening that you need to break away to enlarge the hole and the harness will come right out with no cutting. then the rest is obvious just reconnect and you have to extend you headlights, turn signals and brake master cylinder wires since obviously all the plugs are now in the car. you will also need to extend you lower harness and some other wires and from the harness. but just take it slow and do one group of wires at a time. sorry if thats all a little jumbled or miss punctuated.
the other thing i did not realize was i would have to get longer tie rods since i extended the lower arms 35mm so i had to order the max inner tie rods since they are 20mm longer then stock s14 ones.

 Tie rod looks a little bent but its only cause of the wide angle lens.

 You can see the lack of fuse boxes.

 and one more of the garage and evers build.

VgeasDrift Last Event of 2012

                  This event was a bittersweet one for me. it starts the day before when my best friend crashed his car during a practice of the course. I was pretty bummed that we weren't able to tandem together, but we will get him a new car built and be ready for the next Vegasdrift Pro/AM season.

so on to the actual day of the event. This only being my second event i have entered in my car i was still pretty nervous, and this event was one of the biggest turn outs in three years so there was plenty of talent there which didn't help my nerves. the track was setup with a high speed third gear entry into a long sweeping right. im not a fan of right turn initiations, so that was another obstacle for me to overcome. well i was able to shake my nerves off and make a couple of passes, Then i was really able to get comfortable with the course. here is a crude video i made with my go pro just sort of hacked together but you get the idea.



I learned a lot from this event like how pushing your clutch in during transitions helps, ebrakes can help you get a little farther if your coming up short on a clipping point, and how making sure you have good tires. and keeping new ones on to help keep your grip up, This helped me out in being consistent. i really only went out there with 2 goals in mind, 1 stay consistent and 2 work on trying to hit the clipping points and put the car in all the right spots as if it were a judged event. i also learned that my tires were CRAP, i was running the Achilles 2233 in a 225 45 17 and all they did was chunk chunk chunk. they have very little grip and they chunk like crazy i have no other experience with Achilles tires so im not going to say that all Achilles tires are bad. but take my advice and DONT get the 2233's. luckily Ever had some spare wheels since he wouldn't be driving this event. So half way through the day i switched to his wheels, after i had already gone through 2 sets of my Achilles tires.  i pop'd on his fresh FEDERAL 595 tires and boy what a difference. The grip was better, the smoke was better, they wore evenly with no chunking, and they lasted a long time. im very satisfied with the federals and will be running then from now on, and most likely i will get the federal rsr tires for the front as the 2233 are even chunking on the front of my car.

so by the end of the day i was feeling good, had some good tires on the back and felt like stepping it up so i tried running a few of my first ever tandem runs. below is the only video i have that my girlfriend took on her phone from the bleachers.



the video is very poor quality but you get the idea, i am the lead car.

Also check out this video by Tommy Suell, im supper excited that i made it into this video there are some pretty cool shots of me i really like the shot where im being followed by Josh Guild. Thanks again Tommy for including me in the video.



so to wrap it up i would like to thank Nick for putting on a great event, and for all the VEGASDRIFT staff that made it possible. i would have to say that this event was one of the best ones in a while. i would also like to thank everyone that came out to drive and to watch we need big turn outs like this so we can justify having practice events more often. If your still having doubts about coming out to drive at a practice event cause your embarrassed of your car or the skills you lack, you should really think about making it out to the next event. everyone is so nice and helpful out there, there was no egos and there was three separate tracks a figure 8, and small 1st/2nd gear course and then the main course. please don't let drifting die in Las Vegas.

Vegasdrift 22 T&T

                           Yesterday was the first event i have ever done, and i could not have been more happy. My car performed flawlessly and so did Evers with exception of his fan ground wire coming lose, but after a quick fix he was back on the track. Ever and i have Ben long time supporters of Vegasdrift and Ever has even entered a few events years ago before he started deconstructing his car for the last 3-4 years. We are usually at every event weather or not we are driving. we are out to support the grass root drifters and the Vegasdrift sanctioning body. This event was in jeopardy of being cancelled due to lack of people signing up, when i heard about that i sent out cries all over the social networks to try and get people to sign up. i just don't understand how you wouldn't like to pay some money to drift all day from 9-5 with out any care in the world, no tickets, big wide open area so its harder to crash, and all the free advice you can get from people with YEARS of knowledge. not to mention that everybody on the Vegasdrift staff are so nice and helpful and the really want to help the grass roots drifter that is aspiring to make it to pro level. Nick (the man responsible Vegas drift) is trying very hard to get these events together and help support our sport of drifting. But with the lack of people turning out for these events its almost not even worth it for the amount of work it takes to get these events all planned and coordinated. We need more interest in these events, how come when there is a Vegasdrift Meet and greet people come out of the wood works to attend, but then when it comes time to pony up and do an event nobody shows any interest. I guess there are just more internet drifters then there are real drifters.You cant tell me that you do it on the streets everyone knows that one warehouse is a bust, the other one has speed bumps now,  the other one is so tight that you risk running into cement curbs, and im not preaching to keep it off the streets im aware of how drifting started and how fun it is to drift. But where else can you get a full 3rd gear pull to a large sweeping turn where you can actually get experience at high speeds. Lets face it doing donuts in first or second gear in a round about or a parking lot does not qualify you as a drifter, I do that with my Prerunner. These events are the chillest things around people with stock cars are out there, people with slow cars are out there, people that have NEVER drifted or even done donuts are out there. Please don't let these events DIE show you support for Vegasdrift and grass roots drifting, DONT BE SCARED, SHY, or EMBARRASSED. plan ahead start saving 5 bux a day. i guarantee you that you will have so much fun. the next event is Sunday November 18th start saving. oh and you can say you need tires, ever went through 1 1/2 sets of tires. now that's 2 federals and 2 more that he still has enough life on to do about 7-10 passes at the next event i went through 2 1/2 sets but only due to tire pressure issues, but i go it figured out and next event i should only need four tires. ever uses federal 595 tires and i tried out the Achilles 2233 both of those tires are pretty cheap about 75 a tire for the federals about 65 a tire for the Achilles 

Now on to the actual event, i usually am behind the scenes taking pictures for the blog. but this time i didn't take any pictures and i only did one go pro video. there was just no down time it was drift drift drift all day. so below are only my one video and a video from TRACKDAY.NET  that features Evers car,and a couple pictures i took with my phone. sorry. but that all i got.

UPDATES...

                                   Man oh man it has been a while, but please rest assured its for good reason. we have been busy prepping our cars for the upcoming Vegas Drift event on OCT 6th. so that includes getting parts, wheels, tires, fixing broken stuff on the cars currently, and just basically making sure the cars are all prepped for the event. it all started by figuring out what was wrong with evers car, after a long hiatus we were finally able to get it running strong. pretty much since he has had the car the rack has almost always had a small leak, well not any more. we replaced the rack and added parts shop max steering rack eccentric bushings, and tein tie rods.

Now lets take it back a few weeks. i made a trip to California to get wheels tires and some other goodies you'll see later and some stuff from MAX

 the black ones on the right went on my civic.

The whole thing started with me going 5 lug. ever found some rear hubs on Zilvia for a great deal so i go them... then i thought man i need new wheels now. so i decided to just go crazy.

here is the front 5 lug full Q45 conversion.i know its not baller like the Z32 but it works fine for me.

 i also got an AEM water temp guage, those are the pictures of the HYDRO EBRAKE installed and the max rear toe arms.

That is not a Keys wheels its just an Ebay wheel with evers keys wheels horn button. After installing the ebrake it took me a long time to get the brakes properly bled, even after bench bleeding the new ebrake master cylinder. but i finally got it working right. 

Here is the car down on the ground. wheels specs are 17x9.5 all around +12 in the rear and -7 in the front. 225 45 tires as you can see in the pictures i gaped my front fenders to fit the wheels easier.

thats pretty much a quick sum up of the last few weeks. please enjoy the rest of the pictures and we will see you all out at the VEGAS DRIFT event on OCTOBER 6th