Another one bites the dust

[scooby_si]

so what are the "drift UK" events then? http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008\' target=\'_blank\'>http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/29/29_1_5.gif\' border=0>
Si

[J4P RX]

Originally posted by scooby_si
so what are the "drift UK" events then? http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008\' target=\'_blank\'>http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/29/29_1_5.gif\' border=0>
Si

Theres only been one so far, at Birmingham wheels and it was Video\'d by V-Opt Japn for Option Video.  So cool.  You can read about it in the lastest issue of Jap Peformance.

Team Nightspirit went to Bruntingthorpe though as "Drift UK" to put on a demo, as the Drift UK guy is working pretty closely with us as the moment as the last event was mainly Nightspirit people.

There is another one in Birmingham coming up next month (I have free entry woo!), but it will probably be really busy now as the last one rocked so hard.  Best UK drift event ever but not many people came along as it was dubios about it happening.

As said, they currently have backing from D1 Corp Japan to run Euro Drift series, and are after proper venues to sort some big things for next year.

Things are moving along with some pretty big momentum at the moment.  Venues is still the main issue.

I have written too much lol.

[scooby_si]

can you post any more details for brum kinda stuff being local & all i\'d luv to come along......Any links of is it on the drifty site thing sumwhere? Always thought the UKD1 was a little not dull exactly but kinda boring surely even taking part on the same 3 corners again & again cant teach you all the different techniques particularly well.....?http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008\' target=\'_blank\'>http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/29/29_1_12.gif\' border=0>
Si (so wana get into it but dont fancy another 6 month rebuild....lol)

[J4P RX]

26th Sept is the next Birmingham Wheels event.

Silverstone isnt that great really and is getting a bit samey now.  The track is just a power test really but hopefully we will have some new tracks next year.

[Initial-D]

Desperatly need a track with lots of twisties! Silverstone is like you say too much of a power track and doesn\'t work out well for the lesser bhp cars.

[Fish]

OK, had a proper read of this last night.

The internal baffles in the tank appear to break down/off over time, and I think anything older than about 5 years would suffer this problem.

Back to the main bit though. I still think it was starvation, with a bit of lean running in there as well.

Whenever you start playing at trackdays and such, you should be looking at adding a swirl pot, uprated pump and an FPR as the least done. This cuts down on the chances of getting this sort of thing happening. Doing it proplery would mean a foam filled tank, small (helper) pumps in each corner feeding an in-tank swirl pot. This then feeds two pumps going to each fuel rail.

If trying hard enough you would be able to get starvation on 3/4 tank. It\'s really not that hard to do.

Plus you say that you got another 160 miles out of the tank! This to me would mean that it was borderline lean on cruise, which I would take to be lean on boost.

The think to look out for when removing the engine, is look at the turbo pack. If it has been running lean, the headers will be cracked due to heat.

These are just my thoughts on it.

Fish

[J4P RX]

Thanks Fish.

Regarding the MPG it only works out at a little over 20mpg, and thats all motorway cruising (mostly sub 3000rpm, especially on the way home) so its not anything good mpg wise.

Will get the turbo thing looked at when its out.  Sounds like thats a lot of work to make an FD reliable on track which is something for me to think about.

Lee

[Fish]

I guess that with drifting you would need to work on the cooling system all that bit more.

Higher temps like we would see on track, but without the air flow going though the radiator. Not good.

Fish

[JamesFD3]

I was at Silverstone on sunday to watch round 4 of the drift comp.
Went along out of curiosity having only done trackdays upto now as I wanted to see what this drifting lark was all about.

Came away very impressed by the skill shown by some of the top drifters.Drifting through a series of corners looks very difficult and I guess it takes alot of practice to perfect,especially the transition between the drifts.
Not sure it\'s something I\'d want to put my RX-7 through though as it looks pretty brutal on the cars with lots of rev limiter action and piling into gravel traps.
tempted to hunt down a nice cheap 200sx to have a play with though:D

James

[J4P RX]

Originally posted by JamesFD3
I was at Silverstone on sunday to watch round 4 of the drift comp...
...tempted to hunt down a nice cheap 200sx to have a play with though:D

James

I would have said hello if I saw you!  I had entered the RX7.  Got it home at 2am and up again at 6.30 as I didnt know if I could transfer my entry.  If not I was going to drive the 200SX anyway seeing as I paid.  They let me transfer to the next round though.

200SX is obviously the car of choice, but you need to mod a couple of things.  A lot of the S13s dont have diffs, so you really need to sort that (you can fit an S14 diff, but they are not so good).  Standard suspension is like a boat, and if you have the leather seats you fly everywhere

People keep telling me to just forget the RX7 and kit out the S14, but id end up spending more on it than I paid for it and my hearts not in it at the moment.

Lee

[JamesFD3]

Sorry I missed you Lee,I\'f I\'d seen your RX-7 I would have came over to say hello!!:wave

Those Isuzu Piazza\'s looked funny with there steamship bodyroll!

The 200sx seems to be the most popular car though with some long fast flowing drifts by some of the drivers.The transition from one drift to another does look very difficult and very easy to overcook.Practice,practice and more practice does seem the only way to get good at this game!!

Sorry to hear about your RX-7,I know excactly how you feel as my 3rotor 20B decided to go pop in a big way a few weeks back and that isn\'t going to be cheap to fix:eek:

James

[jantore]

Just to give u my opinion Lee. I had the same problem with my car. I had 1/2 tank left and got into a hard 90 degree left bend and as i acceleratet out of the corner i got a fuel cut. So i would say u had a fuel cut due to air in the fuel line. Cause as Fish said the baffels get worn down by the fuel.

Oh by the way Fredrik is a very good freind of mine And he\'s one hell of a drifter.

And he and i will be moving to england this fall


Sincerly

Jan-Tore Pedersen

[J4P RX]

Thanks!

I met Fredrik last time he came over for D1 at Silverstone and then the Birmingham event, as he spent a lot of time with the Nightspirit guys.  Yes he is very good!

Will be good to see him coming over again for the next event, hopefully Ill have a car running by then.  Im not sure at the moment.

Lee