To Stay Drifting, Crazy Things You Have Done...

[BigGameHit]

The other night I sat in a parking lot changing out bent suspension items. It was about maybe 20 deg or so In Northern Japan. I have access to shops but honestly didnt feel like going to them for such a quick job. I went back to my outside parking lot roots.

While doing this I started to think, Im not alone in this. Post up crazy things you have done to stay drifting.


Ill start it off.




-worked in spaces so tight at the junkyard that the bottom of the car was about 4 inches from my face

-Worked in snow blizzard

-Worked in thunderstorm upside down on my back with mud flowing down my shirt

-Many motor/transmission/clutch swaps

-No sleep for hours

-No food

-Dropping hot dates

-Driving miles away to aquire parts

-Skip lunch to work on car

-Join the military oddly

-JB weld and Hot Glue items

-Drove around for hours looking for junker tires

-Sell things on Ebay

-visit Hardware store along with Lowes and Home Depot

....many more gotta run

[ajcdrift]

- JB Kwik'ed a leaking part (at a ProAm qualifier)

- Random drives for parts

- Pulled all-nighter to fix car, ended up driving quite a ways to borrow my friend's car for the event

- Sat out for large portions of events while trying to diag and fix car troubles

- Zip-tied bags of ice to my radiator and intercooler and poured cold water through them after each run, cut a big hole in my hood with an angle grinder and bought flex-a-lites from Forrest Wang, then continued to run at 125C in order to qualify then tandem at the Vegas ProAm qualifier.

- Missed many things in order to drive in events


During my street days:

- Yanked a smashed rear end back out with a chain and the same telephone pole I crashed into, nearly getting whiplash in the process

- Searched Google Earth for potential places to drift

- Drove for hours looking for good places to drift

- Came back after gtfo to take a ticket for a friend who would have been arrested


There is definitely more I'm not thinking of atm.

This should be a fun thread to read!




Andrew Coomes
ajcdrift.com

[Slapshotnerd]

Keep it on the track.

street drifting is a crime.

[Dori Star]

boo jacob, always gotta kill everything.. hahahah

1. used a styrafoam chinese food container as a cone marker (brando, you still owe me for what you ran over)

2. using rope around your tow hook to pull another car out of a ditch

3. ziptied pieces of bumpers back together just to get you home

4. pawn for parts

5. ziptying suspension components just to get you home.. hahha

[driftnutz]

Well I'm a noob to the full on drifting culture so watch this space!

Although I have travelled serious milage and missed big family + friends events to try and capture drift action through my very own lense. not to mention I'm gonna be travelling from the uk - melbourne fl then drive upto ATL for round 2 at road! I am seriously hooked.
1 saturday I drove 2.5 hours one way to watch D1GP japan vs UK then did it all over again on the very next day as I didnt do my homework to know that it was a 2 day event.

+ sold my pride and joy bling bling Mercedes (full chrome engine) to buy me a s14a Silvia 200sx