Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2 : Details on the Mustang Cobra!

The mustang has the following mods to help it be the beast it was for the video. All work including paint, and custom welding was done by Car Crafters in Albuquerque, NM by Sean, Luigi and Brian!

The car is now for sale!!!

Quick over view of the car:

Dynoed at 490 hp and 490 ft lbs of torque

Fully customized and modified suspension

4 point roll cage with Sparco seats and 5 point belts

Details:

    

Engine:

a. Upgraded fuel injectors

b. Terminator throttle body

c. Custom x-pipe exhaust - no cats or mufflers, stops just past rear axle making it legal for any drift organization.

d. Custom air intake

e. Port and Polished supercharger

f. Billet pulley system for 12 plus lbs of boost

g. AC compressor eliminator

h. Aeromotive fuel pump with return system for constant high pressure

i. MSD 2-step rev-limiter, cuts the ignition before the fuel, unlike the stock ECU and is much better on the engine.

Cooling:

a. Eliminated the AC condenser for better cooling

b. Big aftermarket power steering cooler 

c. Steeda heat exchanger

d. Big aluminum radiator

e. Dual electric fans for over 2,000 cfm of air flow

Suspension:

a. Full Maximum Motorsports track package, minus cross member, to remain legal for all drifting organizations. This includes their purpose built dampeners, coil-over adders with correct spring rates, upper camber / caster plates, strut brace, all bushings replaced (including all of the rear IRS bushings), tie rod ends with bump steer adjustment. 

b. Custom blocks were made to relocate the front sway bar to allow for more steering angle

c. The front lower control arms were all custom fabbed out of DOM tubing. We had to make two different sets. The first set was very close to the stock arms just with more room but we found that we needed more camber and caster so a second set was made an inch and a half longer and we relocated the lower ball joint. Both sets will be included.

d. Front knuckles were cut and reinforced to allow for more angle and also worked to make sure the bump steer was perfect.

e. The final alignment was done and a lot of work has been done to make it handle great for drifting. On top of the alignment, the car is scaled and set-up for correct ride height, front to rear balance and cross weight.

Interior:

a. All the stock interior has been removed. This includes the heater box, radio, ac, stereo, carpet, headliner, center console, air bags, the stock steering column, etc.

b. The stock steering column was replaced with a solid shaft and a quick release racing steering wheel.

c. The ignition, starter, police lights, wipers, fuel pump, and fans are all on a custom carbon dash panel where the old radio was.

d. The boost gauge, water temp gauge, oil pressure gauge are all mounted on a custom carbon panel.

e. The headlights still operate from the stock switch.

f. The RPM, Speed, and other stock gauges work.

g. Sparco Racing Seats

h. 5-point racing harness for the driver and a 4 point harness for the passenger

i. Battery relocated to behind the passenger seat to offset the weight of the driver

j. 4 point roll cage is in the car currently, this will be legal for most pro-am drifting.

Someone made the car on forza 4! If you see more, screen shot them and post them in the comments section :)

Hope this helps to answer some of the questions floating around out there about it :)

This was submitted in the comments section, and he did an amazing job and after 8 hours of work produced this! attention to detail is spot on! His xbl gamertag is TehScrmin3agl3 Hit him up and buy this from his storefront!

Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2

Well everyone, the moment is finally here. Matt Sanders and crew from Icon, the riders Nick Apex and Ernie Vigil have done it again. The video is amazing, and I cannot describe what an honor it was to work with these guys. Thanks to Icon, Car Crafters, Guthrie Racing, Drift Exchange, Performance Fuel Injection and Pulstar Plugs. Without their support, none of this would have been possible!

I am looking for new sponsors for the upcoming season ;)

Driving during the shoot was one of the funnest things I have ever done, and was well worth flipping my car for.

Without further delay:

Well, cats out of the bag... Wreck info and pics inside!

For those of you that don't know, I totaled my car by sliding down an 8 foot hill, then completing a full flip rotation at the end, 10 points later, I stuck the landing. Not sure what happened, maybe I over cooked the turn, maybe I suck at drifting, maybe there was a fluid on the road. The end result is still the same, I totalled the white car :( Ernie Vigil snapped these shots.

I was out filming with Icon for the upcoming (Friday Jan 13th!) Drift 2 video, and we we had just finished filming, headed back down the hill, and after 150 or so runs up and down it over a period of 3 days, I wanted to take the motorcycle guys (Nick Apex and Ernie Vigil) on a ride. Ernie hopped in and off we went, things were going great until they weren't lol. About half way up, I lost it in a top of 2nd gear turn, slid off the road and down an 8 foot hill. Once the wheels caught, we began our spin, smashed onto the roof, and then landed back over on all fours, on top of a fence.

Shaken and sore but overall ok, we walked the walk of shame from the wreck around half way up, to the cars below. About 3/4ths the way down, Nick came scooting up the hill and scooped us up. 3 way on a scooter in the dark after flipping your car seems legit right? We dragged the car down the hill and ernie and I headed back to the hotel to see if we were messed up or concussed. Turns out we were ok thank goodness.

It was definitely one of the most violent things I have been through... And would rather not do it again :)

On a side note, Jim Guthrie let me drive this beast in his place for the filming. He was still hurt from Irwindale, so I was honored to fill in his shoes.

Now comes the part i'm not so stoked about... I have to build a new car for the upcoming season. I have another shell stripped down, and just got it to Car Crafters today. Thanks to Brian and Adriens help, we ripped the 5 lug off of it to put on my daily driver gray coupe, and will hound down on her next weekend.

The two coupes Gray Daily and Black pro-am (soon to be):

More on that build up to come - Missile deluxe for sure.

Threw the new wheels on the daily s13 - 18x10 xxr 521s. Still need to do some fender pounding and spacers but I like the overal look.

That was a big update, and I have had to be a bit hush hush about everything due to the secrecy of the film details, but since the vid drops this friday I figured I would share at least my details. More soon!

Edit 1/20/12 More pics from the wreck!

Lack of posts

Sorry about the lack of posts... Tons has gone on since the last entry, and come January I will be catching up with all the things that have gone down, from the small to the crazy (holy smokes crazy) to the epic.

Thanks for hanging in here :)

love

Dan

4 years of drifting in 10 minutes. Hooray!

Took clips from the last 4 years of drifting and threw them into a video, mostly for me to get them all in one place, but good to see progress has been made not only with the car, but with driving as well. This showcases the jump from a spray painted SOHC KA24E s13 to the RB25 wide body car is today.

Enjoy!!!

For event organizers, drift specific spread sheets!

Drift Spreadsheet !!!

Just made these for our No Coast Drift Party coming up on the 1st and 2nd, and figured anyone who runs drift events across the country could use these.

Made a top 16 elimination excel spreadsheet, as well as a drivers list spreadsheet for up to 3 qualifying runs, with the totals for speed / angle, line / smoothness, and style / excitement auto totaling at the bottom of each run. Epic and easy.


Top 16 Drift Competition Bracket

Score Sheet for Drivers 1-22

Score Sheet for Drivers 23-44 

If these help you out, post up, share, edit I dont really care.

No Coast Drift Party Pre-Registration for Oct. 1st and 2nd

We are to the point where we are taking pre-registration orders for the event. This includes those of you in state as well.

Drivers List:
#1 Jeremy Norris, CO

Here is the catch for you out of state folks, we have secured funding for a gas/diesel credit:

• 300+ miles away gets $100 each
• 300 - 50 miles, gets $50 each

Just show us your ID's when you get to the gate. This credit will go out to the first 10, or until we reach $1,000, depending on where people are pre registering from.

If we dont get enough people pre reg'd from out of state to fill the credit, it will be dumped into the purse for the comp on sunday :) I will be keeping a running list of the drivers signed up in the order they paypal on this blog.

You will receive the credit when you arrive at Sandia on saturday or sunday. Remember to get your tire requests in here ASAP as well.

If you have any other questions, please shoot me an email at sandiadriftevents@gmail.com

In the comments section of the checkout, please include the following:

Name:

City and State you are driving from:

Car year make and model:

Mods:

Sponsors:

Interesting Fact about you:

Years Drifting:


On to the payment info!!!

Drivers
$135 for 2 day plus discounted camping
$125 2-day entry
$25 Saturday only
$100 Sunday only

Spectators
$20 2-day general admission ($15 Sunday only).

Gates will be open all day, and a pre race BBQ will be held around 2pm on saturday. We will have tech until 4:30pm - Drivers meeting to follow shortly after.  Please try to be there!

On a side note, it may very well be pretty cold at night, so bring warm clothes and tons of tires.

Choose!

Sat and Sun w/ Camping (discounted) $135.00 Sat and Sun $125.00 Sun Only $100.00 Sat Only $25.00

If the button above doesn't work, please send payments to sandiadriftevents@gmail.com

Can't wait to see everyone out there!

<3

Dan

Top Drift round 4 2011 Wrecked Magazine Photos! Hooray!

As always Wrecked comes through with some epic shots, even with the challenges of shooting at night, they came out amazing. Thanks Wrecked for doing what you do!

The photo gallery can be found here

Some of my faves:

Video from Top Drift round 4

Qualifying run, and top 8 following run filmed with my GoPro.

My JustDrift Topdrift rookie season in retrospect / rd. 4

What an amazing season.

Many friends gained, many techniques learned, many new tracks and layouts driven. I cannot begin to recognize how blessed am to have someone in my town that saw some potential and lent much more than a helping hand. Without Jim Guthrie, Brian Dewitt and Car Crafters, this entire season would not have existed.

So from the bottom of my heart, thank you guys. You made a dream become a reality.

This was my rookie season competing against some pretty amazing drivers. While New Mexico is a super fun place to drive, we don't have the population or the scene to kick things to the next level. That's where Justdrift comes in. They have been churning out FD winning drivers for sometime now, and (yet again) I cannot begin to describe how awesome the entire crew at Justdrift is. From the crew to the judges (Charlie, Bomac, JTP, Taka and everyone else), the entire season was full of positive encouragement, feedback and being pushed to the next level. If you live in cali, like drifting and have not been to a Justdrift event, there is something seriously wrong with you. Go. Go now!

Round 4 was another learning experience and was set up like a mini Road Atlanta. High speed, long slide entry into a 90 degree left hand turn, followed by a late apex right hander, then a long sweeping left back to an inside clip and out the starting straight. Everyone driving seemed to be having issues during the day, but once qualifying hit, it was a whole other story.

I was also feeling a bit meh after practice and the qualifying runs were all at night. My first run, i entered at some random spot I had not entered near all day, and took out both inside clipping points at the entry. I also managed to knock my brand new gopro off with the clipping point. awesome work Dan. Luckily those things are resilient as hell, and it looked like nothing had happened to it. Sadly it was off, so no epic footage from that. Mike Bolanos was nice enough to record some clips from the judges area, so thanks for that!!! Ill be uploading those soon.

My second run was one of my best of the day, solid entry, hit most of the clips, but could have been a bit more aggressive with angle and speed. This run would net me 9th place in qualifying as in my 3rd run i tried to extend the entry way too long and basically came to a stop. Since there were only 16 drivers at this event, I was pleased to say I made top 16 lol.

First battle was with Jason Kim, rad driver, who was currently (and remained) one spot ahead of me in the rankings. He spun on his lead run, and I sloppily finished my lead run to take the win. My 2nd top 8 of the season put me against Mr. Smooth / Mustache, Ryan Bell. I knew this was going to be a tough battle as Ryan is always set on destroy mode. He lead first and I had one of the best following runs I have ever had, but fell off point towards the end of the track and didn't stick as close as i could have. On a side note, his tire folded in half and was sticking out about 8 inches from his rim every time he transitioned to the left. It was one of the craziest things i have had this season. He stuck it out like honey badger and finished the run.

My lead was ok, but ryan stuck to me like glue. He and his mustache would move on to top 4. Awesome battle, and thanks to Ryan to giving me pointers and tips all season. He is one hell of a guy.

The top 14 ended up like this, so congrats to you all for kicking much ass!

1	Gunther	100
2	Mendoza	95
3	Bell	90
4	Gamez	86
5	Clemens	82
6	Villabrille	78
7	Brockett	74
8	Hatley	70
9	Orneales	66
10	Kim	62
11	Wolfson	62
12	Cano	54
13	Jimison	50
14	Hill	46

The rest of the battles were super fun to watch and the the new FD drivers were crowned. Congrats to all 6 of you, you killed it this season, and I cannot wait to watch you in FD!

1. Ryan Clemens

2. Neiko Gunther

3. Carlos Cano

4. Ryan Bell

5. Orlando Gamez

6. Enrique Mendoza

I hope I have the pleasure of drifting with you guys next year, if not, this was a summer I will never forget.