Yeah so I decided to take a stroll outside the main gate and here is some pics of things I found
ohh look a JZX90 Mark II someone on base owns this thing, I need to find out who. Same goes for this guy
Smallest bimmer dealer ever? I sorta thought this place looked cool I wonder what kind of food they serve? This place is.... uhhh Clothes for a Grownass man hmm no wonder it's cheaper OMG! its the ultra rare Hyundai Tuscani GTR GT turbo!!! uhhhhh.... somethings you just shouldn't mix Lets just be honest, this makes no sense lol
So after fixing my half-shaft bolts I decided I should dyno my car as I didn't actually know how much power it was putting down to the ground.
Here's the sheet.
Yeah thats about what I thought it should be putting down. Notice the weird hicups in the higher rev range. Yeah I don't know what those are. Probably needs a retune or something. Well that was my last friday in the states for a long time so nothing will happen with the car for a while and this will now transition to Piner's South Korean Tourist Blog.
So our first event at the Silver Drag way was a bit unorganized as we were not sure how much time we would have to split between drifting and drag racing. We pretty much ran the dragstrip and the skid pad at the same time.
The course was fairly simple and open ended more gymkhana style than drifting. Heres a video of me testing the course.
The next time around I sheered off 3 of my drivers side half-shaft bolts because the other 3 on the half-shaft backed out.
heres a pic about a week later when I put new bolts in
So that ended my drifting for the night so I went on to make a fool out of myself
So the day after the myrtle beach drift event we went down to Silver Dragway and talked to the owners about letting us use their little Concrete pad to hold quasi drift events with the possibility of them maybe paving more area for us to play on. They didn't quite have a idea of what we were talking about so Mitch and I decided to do a little demo for them.
I mean it wasn't much but you'd be surprised at the power a tandem donut has over the uninitiated.
There was event the very next weekend and I had that whole week to get my front sway bar hooked up. Yeah that should be enough time cause i all I needed was the little bracket to hook the drivers side up to. Sure would only take a minute. Yeah.... my lazy ass never got around to it soo I pretty much just drove the event without any sway bars at all again. But I did end up getting my longer wheel bolts in the mail so I could run my sweet wheels with my dunlop Z1's up front. Now this event went off without much of a hitch except for the fact I was a dumbass and kept disregarding the exit of the course pretty much all day.
Now I was told by the judges that If I had driven through the actual exit of the course (marked by the cones that were standing up) I would have qualified 2nd and would have moved on to tandem. But because I am a retard I got a off course on pretty much all of my runs. I mean I pretty much drove to the right of the exit all day. See here is another one in practice where I was giving my dad's G/F a ride.
But a good thing happened that day, my Team mate and good buddy Mitch Durfee ended up qualifying for tandem and fought his way to get third place! This was his first event doing tandem and he killed it out there even without having powersteering in the car.
I haven't posted on here for a while due to sheer lazyness. But now that I am bored I will fill you in on what hath happened in the last month or so.
Well the night before the Street wise drift event at Charlotte motorspeedway I sheered a control arm balljoint shank clean off. Yeah sheered the fuck off. I am not sure how this happened but all I know I was making a U turn because drove past Nickles Garage by mistake and right as I am turning the car just falls on the ground and goes straight into the grass. I get out of the car and my lower control arm is actually outside of the car and my wheel has some crazy demon camber shit going on. I start going into freakout mode. Then I remembered that we had two E30's sitting at the shop that I could jack a control arm off of. Now mind you my car is still halfway in highway 261 and cars are going by at about 60 mph or so. Sooo I needed to get the control arms swapped out FAST. I pretty much ended up doing most of the work myself, Travis and Kyle brought most of the tools over so that was a big help and Mitch letting me use the tools from the shop was also a godsend.
I ended up working on this whole control arm deal for about 2 1/2 hours, pulling the spare arm off the e30 and then installing it on my car all the while it was dark and raining. Ohh and guess what!! My new wheels... you know the awesomely sick Gotti's? Yeah well the hubs on those are thicker than a normal E36 wheel soooo I was only catching 2 threads on them. Found that out when trying to put them back on. So I put my old wheels back on which right now have crappy used slide tires on them Great...
So the next morning we left a bit late for the event so we averaged like 90mph to get there on time and I tried all morning to get to a BMW dealership and see if they had longer wheel bolts (fucking Germans) yeah... not only did they not have longer ones they didn't have any oops I meant to say they had ONE wheel bolt. So that was a complete waste of almost 2 hours and meant that I missed the whole first practice session completely.
Soo I just had to go out on the crappy sumitomo whatever front tires and do what I knew how to do and try to get the course down before the comp runs. Also as a result from the sheered control arm deal I was also running with no front sway bar and I had been driving without a rear sway bar a for a little while as well (no events though)
here is some video though.
That was pretty much my best run of the day. I had only 5 practice runs to get the course down, and with the car handling radically different from what I was used to (no sways, shit tires up front) I was happy with that. Plus I ended up placing third! Hell to the yea!
Seeing as this post is already too long I'll make a part 2 for the rest of the shizz.
