Just Drift TOPDRIFT Rd. 1 pics

Just Drift TOPDRIFT Rd. 1 was a blast and a half

A huge thanks to Anthony C, as without him I would not have been able to have such a rad weekend. He lent me his drift car for the event, what a guy :)

Despite having the handicap of a car that wouldn't go into second gear, with my head hitting the roof, knees hitting the steering wheel, 120 less horsepower and no e-brake, I had one of the best drift weekends ever! It was awesome to get to drive with people at a much higher level than myself.

I got 2 full days of 2,3, and 4 car tandem, and got to run with my friend from vegasdrift, Nick Dizon, so that was a welcome surprise to see him out there. The weekend couldn't have happened without my main sponsor, Jim Guthrie with Guthrie Racing and Car Crafters. He did pretty damn amazing considering this was his first event. Another huge thanks goes out to Ben, Brian and Mikey for putting up with me all weekend long, fixing things and being awesome.

Here are the results. I was pleased to see I got 18th out of 48 drivers, not bad at all. Pics will be in the next post :)

TopDrift 2011

Qualifying scores going to TOP 16

Rnk	Car #	Name	Score
1	23	Chris Licup	270
2	26	Carlos Cano	266
3	34	Neiko Gunther	261
4	10	Michael Bell	257
5	47	Adas Baksys	253
6	24	John Jimison	246
7	41	Mikki Frial	245
8	39	Jason Kim	243
9	9	Jesse Vargas	240
10	28	Alex Villabrille	231
11	8	David Briggs	229
12	44	Jim Guthrie	228
13	11	Ryan Clemens	225
14	25	Mikey Whitey	216
15	42	Adam Levi	214
16	20	Ramon Hernandez	211
17	35	George Kilada	210
18	45	Dan Brockett	207
19	29	Tony Cisneros	204
20	14	Masashi Motonaga	199
21	1	Orlando Gamez	190
22	16	Enrique Mendoza jr	188
23	30	Matt Dale	188
24	33	Josh Chang	187
25	3	Tyler K Xiong	184
26	36	Mikko Eustaquiao	179
27	7	John Bathel	170
28	40	Daniel Kuo	166
29	17	Philippe Abatol	165
30	5	Spencer Reiker	152
31	37	Misa Ingles	134
32	32	Yoshie Shayuma	120
33	43	Eric Hill	20
34	2	sylvia mendoza	DNF
35	4	Luke Pakula	DNF
36	6	Brandon Patterson	DNF
37	12	Michael Mancuso	DNF
38	13	Hasan Hamade	DNF
39	15	toi matthis	DNF
40	18	Chi Hui	DNF
41	19	Vladimir Orlov	DNF
42	21	Roger Smith	DNF
43	22
44	27	Ryan Fadera	DNF
45	31	yuri garcia	DNF
46	38	Mauricio Ornealas	DNF
47	46	Seth Prestley	DNF
48	48	Randy Ramos	DNF

Off to cali at 7am friday for TOPDRIFT rd. 1

So Anthony C. kindly lent me his ride for this event, Cali here we come. Should be interesting in a borrowed car I have never driven in, to a track I have never driven, against people 76 times better than me.

I am excite! Pics from the trip to come...

I'm so hood...

Still having wiring problems, ECU problems etc... Overnighted the AEM back today, should have it by thurs. May be sharing Jim's car or driving Ben's turbo miata for the cali event.

Here is a pic of the Circuit Sports headlight covers installed on the car, as well as my hood. Hooray.

Pics pics pics

Since the 240 is down until we can re-wire it, Will Fox snapped a few choice shots of her :) Thank you Will, and enjoy!

And a few I snapped.

Wiring woes continued (hope on the horizon)

Scotty from Motiva came over to Car Crafters yesterday and told us what was up. Basically the way we wired the car last time was crap and the stock ECU  is very good at "overlooking" wiring flaws, and letting the car run anyway. So the main issue we are having is with the MAP sensor getting a constant 5v reading. 

Stock ECU plugged into harness, MAP gets 5v. 

AEM powered directly from 12v source and good ground, MAP gets 5v.
AEM plugged into harness, MAP gets .44v.
Wiggle the harness and the voltage changes, find grounds, ground them, MAP voltage gets up to a fluctuating max of 1.75v.

You can clearly see the ordeal we are in for, laid out before you in the below picture.

Look at that garbage. 

We took of to the junkyard yesterday and sourced a harness out of a 92 maxima (same ECU plug) to try and re pin the ECU. This looks like a week long undertaking and we only have a few days to get it done, yet again. 

Now for the light at the end of the tunnel! Enter Wiring Specialties Check out this gem they offer for RB swapped cars. This should be arriving by friday :)

More to come and a write up when it gets here :)

Wiring woes

Sorry for the lack of updates, but we were doing our best to get the car running for this saturdays drift practice (which we didn't make). Issues with the MAP and the TPS and probably the base map itself are keeping it from running. More to try tomorrow before work. 

I only have one pic, all suspension on.

Finally hit some road blocks...

I was thinking things were coming back together a little too well. My Ron Davis radiator seems to have sprung a geyser from deep within its core. I also had s14 knuckles on my car (5 lug conversion...), and bought another pair of s13 knuckles to send to powered by max. So upon removing the hubs tonight, they didn't fit lol. Last minute switch a roo at Daves's place tomorrow first thing :) He's been a life saver on this journey so far.

Pics (Angle anyone?):

No Irwindale! Fingers crossed for sandia on saturday :)

Car isn't ready for Irwindale, parts still have not arrived (oil cooler, knuckles, headlights), and to make it we would have to be leaving tomorrow morning. Sooooooo looks like we will be heading out to just drift at willow springs towards the end of the month.

On to the update. Car is painted, motor is back in. Cooling issues are hopefully fixed (new fans, swirl tank installed a different way, radiator in front of subframe). Blow off valve has been moved closer to intake manifold, maybe now it will actually open. Battery has been upgraded to an optima, and is in the back of the car. Fire suppression system is installed. Spent all morning today cleaning and re-wrapping the wiring harness. Installed the new cam sensor disc (for the AEM). Cut the dash to re-install. Front fenders are mounted. Installed new steering rack bushings, as the old ones were hosed. Tomorrow is gogogo, got to get this stuff done!

Pics!