My 1989 FC Vert Turbo II

[ali303]

Yeah it is. Personally I\'m going to relocate my water gauge to the clocks, like my boost gauge at some point. Boost gauge 1 side, water temp the other - means I can keep an eye on it, as it\'s pretty critical. Or I\'ll mount it by the little thingy in the middle of the dash, and when I get a wideband, mount the AFR gauge on the side of the clocks.

That\'s 2 boxes ticked already, diff and coilies. The HSD\'s should be a little softer (or at least, much more adjustable - adjustable damping, ride height and spring preload), but it\'s a big expenditure. I forgot you had coilovers already - I\'ve been chatting to a different guy on email about cutting springs and got confused!

Yeah, slightly wider than mine, and try to get something with side mounts or that\'ll fit a Bride seat rail, unlike mine. Bride\'s are SO expensive though!

Then go drifting! Or go drifting inbetween mods too :p

Sounds like a good idea dude!

Yeah the Kei Offices are hardly forgiving or very adjustable to be honest, HSDs would be nice in the not so distant future though.

To be honest, as much as it pains me to say it...fake fixed Brides can be had for £250...might be an option if I can\'t find something better at a decent price.

With regards to the AFR gauge, its probably not much use whilst drifting, it should be something that is used whilst mapping, I don\'t think its something you are going to be able to check whilst going sideways lol

Also with regards to cooling, I know Phil had electric fans on both the radiator AND intercooler as when going sideways there isn\'t any proper airflow going through the front, the fans were attached to a switch so that they were running 100% of the time during a run.

Haha yeah I can\'t picture myself studying it mid-drift to be honest!

Very good point, I\'ll be sure to look into that as it sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea!

[ali303]

Got my new gauges. The boost gauge was mounted into the little pocket thing that sat above the radio but obviously there wouldn\'t be enough room for three.  I ripped it out, stuck the radio in the upper position (want a radio with a flip-up screen screen at one point so I\'d rather it covered the heater controls than the gauges!).

Just plonked the gauges into the space to see how it\'d all look, need to get a holder or make one up...and get them wired up of course! Would prefer them to be black as well but ah well.

Just going to use the boost, oil temp and water temp ones for now, I\'ll eventually get round to sorting out the air/fuel ratio one if it becomes necessary.

[B.Martin]

Looks good mate. How much will you be letting the Kai office coilies go for when you change? :Giggle

You should post more pics of your car.

[ali303]

Looks good mate. How much will you be letting the Kai office coilies go for when you change? :Giggle

You should post more pics of your car.

Thanks dude. Haha, I don\'t really know to be honest as I need to to know more about them before coming up with a price...although of course this will be when I eventually get some HSDs or something which won\'t be in the next couple of weeks!

I\'ll get some more nice ones soon, just not completely happy with the exterior at the moment. The rear wheels especially need some attention from some spacers, and consequently the arch will need looking at as a result. Also need to rectify the front lip (or lack thereof) situation as well.

I took the car out with a few mates to a big open space with a couple of cones as they were bored of flying into roundabouts at 60mph + and pulling on the hyrdo and just wanted to go back to basics and practice their accuracy. Granted the surface was a little tricky but a few of them had a go in my car and just couldn\'t get it to work...they\'d get halfway round before the car would just develop a mind of its own and just spin them round (I\'m presuming this is the DTSS, as on bigger corners/roundabouts it\'s actually been quite good!).

These guys aren\'t beginners either, seeing as one of them is a drifting instructor and the other is equally as good...and both are used to doing this:





It was a bit discouraging to be honest, and it did make me wonder how I am going to cope if an experienced bunch of guys struggled with the car! Time will tell I suppose

[ali303]

Well I took the car to my mate\'s unit last night to sort out the blowing exhaust and also just to have a poke around underneath (as I can\'t get properly underneath it whatsoever when using a jack!).

The blowing exhaust was just a missing nut on the rear of the second cat, God knows where that\'s disappeared to but after sticking a new one on all is well.

While under the car it appears that the driveshafts are running wayyy too close to the rear subframe (about a finger\'s width a way) and that parts of the chassis have at some point scraped the floor. Awesome.

Took the car for a quick skid as well afterwards seeing as it was soaking wet outside, it feels an awful lot nicer on bigger corners/roundabouts than smaller hairpins or whatnot which I\'m guessing is down to the DTSS not causing as much trouble. Speaking of which, I\'ve been speaking to someone this morning about making me up some DTSS bushes and sticking them in a set of hubs for me, I\'ll keep you informed...

[TiddlesRX7]

You can buy them for £40 ish can\'t you? I really must fit the ones I got when I bought my car!

[ali303]

You can buy them for £40 ish can\'t you? I really must fit the ones I got when I bought my car!

So people have said but they don\'t seem readily available by the looks of it. A guy on Driftworks just put up that he was breaking a Turbo II so I asked out of interest.

[papercutout]

I got mine for £40, but they\'re not that common to find for sale. Have you pm\'d Mick Choi yet?

Oh and yeah, I was going to tell you - these things appear to kill CV boots quickly when low. Both mine are properly shagged on the inside CV joint, really split wide open. I covered them in gaffa tape (lol), but it\'s only a temp solution! My car is always jacked up when I see underneath though, so don\'t know about clearance. Good job you can\'t get it any lower anyway!

[ali303]

Damn totally forgot, I\'ll get on it!

Yeah I thought it was going to be an eventuality after studying mine! Bahaha gaffa tape, epic. My diff seems to have wet itself as well...ah well.

Picked up some new bits today as well:

Nardi Deep Corn:



RE Amemiya AW-7s for skidding on:



Also got a Driftworks drift handbrake button to put on but not really sure how to get it on, the FC handbrake seems a little different to everything else out there (that there are instructions for at least).

[ali303]

Went to Buxton today for some skidding, clutch lasted all of 5 laps Any suggestions for a suitable replacement!?

[ali303]

Went to Buxton today for some skidding, clutch lasted all of 5 laps Any suggestions for a suitable replacement!?

Oh, and on top of that I forgot to mention that I got made redundant the other day, so pretty stumped as to what to do with the car now :3Confused

[L18M]

i got stock clutch if you need. offers. postage along i guess about £10-15.
else exidy 6 puk  or a orc carbon pro if you feeling rich ;p

[m1tch]

*is winning with his ORC 709*

[papercutout]

Oh, and on top of that I forgot to mention that I got made redundant the other day, so pretty stumped as to what to do with the car now :3Confused

:reallymad

Put it in a garage, and get a new job, then pull it out the garage?


Good work on the clutch destroying though (sorta)

[ali303]

:reallymad

Put it in a garage, and get a new job, then pull it out the garage?


Good work on the clutch destroying though (sorta)

That\'s the plan (hopefully!)

Haha it wasn\'t actually me that did it though, I went out for a few laps, thought it felt a little weird so let my mate (BDC licence holder) have a quick go. In three laps he\'d managed to absolutely rape it. He got some good angles but also said that it was quite possibly the hardest car to drift that he\'s ever driven - mainly because the welded diff and DTSS are constantly fighting each other. He used to have an FC Vert himself (which still had DTSS) but he didn\'t have a welded diff, which he said made it a lot more predictable when the DTSS started fighting what you were trying to do.

As for the clutch, "the hat" has offered me a second hand paddle clutch pretty cheaply, guess it\'s worth a shot?