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break everything

at the beginning of the month I went to aggressive and smashed my car into a jersey barrier first run. oops! Anyway more later too busy trying to get car back together before the final Drift Faction even Oct 1

PBM New Spacers and Upgraded Rotors - first impressions

I received my new parts from PBM a couple weeks ago and figured I'd post my first impressions of the new gear.

Spacers
PBM has updated their wheel spacer design since I purchased mine over a year ago.


These new 15mm spacers are beefier and are available with several add-on plates in 3mm, 5mm, and 7mm that can be added up for an addition 15mm of spacing.


The area where this spacer bolts up to the car is much thicker than the previous 15mm version and they did this by using shorter lug nuts.

The only thing I'm slightly disappointed about is they got rid of the hub-centric insert, not a big deal though as most aftermarket wheels probably wouldn't be hub-centric anyway.

Big Rotor Kit
These things are monsterous! They are single piece rotors that have the look of a two piece.

They come supplied with CNC'd steel caliper adapters and all the mounting hardware you need. I can't wait to bolt these up to the car.

I'll edit this later to post more pictures.

May 2010 LVD DriftFaction event - Not so Lucky

So I had some hard luck during last month's event.
First I had a hesitation problem which turned out to be a clogged fuel pump sock. Luckily Most people at the track where quite helpful and alowed my to barrow some tools and throttle body cleaner the fix it.

I got about 4 runs in after the fix until this happened:
That's my front wheel to the far left rolling along without the rest of the car. The bolt on wheel spacer I was using somehow failed. Insult to injury, I was unable to mount the wheel back on without the spacer due to the studs being cut shorter to avoid colliding with wheel. We rolled the car back to the pit with a dolly and some wood.
With the help of Team Massacre, Brewster, Joe T., Landers and a few others I was able to at least get the car back together enough to get home.

A day later I sent an e-mail to to Dan of Powered by Max and told him what happened. He only saw what happened to mine one other time and it was because of improper installation. Even though I had no way to prove my installation was good Dan graciously set me up with a brand new pair of spacers and a pair of their large rotors.

He didn't have to do this but he did anyway. Thumbs up to PBM for their great customer support! It's something you usually don't get these days and I'm glad to say I'll continue to do business with them.

I'll update on the new parts in the next post.

IntroII - The Car and current Mod list

So far the current mod list is:

Front suspension/chassis
*DONE
-Koni Yellow Struts w/ GC and modified housings for more travel
-unknown adjustable tension rods
-Tien inner and outer tierods with spacers
-Poly LCA bushings
-26mm 300zx brakes w/ Hawk Pads
-Tomei 3pt Strut bar
-Ichiba 5 lug hubs
-Stealth power brace
-Pounded the shit out of the wheel wells to prevent rub
*Awaiting installation
-Cusco Adj Camber Plates (currently off do to missing parts)
-Dang Drifters V4 S13 Knuckles
-PBM Big Disc Brake upgrade (in transit)
*Parts Wanted/possible mods
-stitch welding and reinforcement
-30mm Aluminum 300zx caliper for PBM discs
-roll center adjustment
-Modify or buy LCAs to allow more steering angle

Rear Suspension/chassis
*DONE
-Koni Yellow Struts w/ GC
-Ichiba 5 lug hubs
-Stealth strut Brace
-subframe collars or solid bushings
-PBM adj RUCA
-PBM adj toe rod
-PBM adj traction link
-Energy Suspension inserts
*awaiting installation
*null*
*Parts Wanted/possible mods
-LCA poly bushings
-stitch welding and reinforcement
-Hawk rear pads
-Hydro e-brake

Engine and Exhaust
*DONE
-Amsoil Synthetic 0w-30 Motor Oil
-unknown, beat up, short ram intake and K&N filter
-Hotshot Header
-Magnaflow Cat (BRM)
-BRM 2.5" Exhaust with resonator
-Apexi ECV (Exhaust Control Valve)
*Awaiting installation
-232 Exhaust Cam, and a redrilled cam gear for a 248 exhaust cam in the intake.
-BikiROM ECU (may need to swap the ECU it's installed in having issues with it taking)
-Altima Dual Electric fans
-Bottom mount turbo setup.
*Parts Wanted/possible mods
-Wideband O2 sensor and gauge with narrow band output for ECU
-370cc injectors
-New T25/8 Turbo or rebuild the Big28
-some time in the future build up of engine internals, no details yet

Drivetrain
*DONE
-S14 5spd conversion (clutch dampener bypassed)
-ACT HD PP and Street disk
-Findanza aluminum flywheel
-Deftforce 2way
-B&M Short Shifter
-Redline MT90 gear oil in tranny
*Awaiting installation
-Better motor mounts
*Parts Wanted/possible mods
-Aluminum Driveshaft
-Poly/Solid tranny mount

Cosmetics/Chassis/Other
*DONE
-This paint is done, haha
-painted primer hatch red so It doesn't attract unwanted attention (cops love multi colored cars)
-Kouki Tail Lights
-17" 5Zigen wheels (until I get some nice volks) and G-force KDW tires
-Xenon front lip
-S14 Seats
*Awaiting
-hood that isn't bent up
-S13 specific fender flares
-Paint, possible color change.
-Smoothing the dents out of the body
-Replacing crushed fender
-Front protective skidplate

*Wanted/possible modifications
-Race seats and harnesses
-Cage
-FRP or Carbon fiber replacement sun roof panel
-Canadian Rear lip
-Canadian DRLs
-JDM amber/clear front signals
-Canadian or similar skirts
-Volk CE28, RE30 or ?????
-better steering wheel

Tires

-225/45 R17 BFG G-Force KDW

Introduction to Driftruction

Welcome to Driftruction!

The name's Joe. I am also known as Rogue240SX and RogueRacing on several forums. This blog is dedicated to all things dealing with drifting and anything else I care to drop on here.

I'm fairly new to to the drifting sport and my first even was at DriftFaction's Sept 11th, 2009 event at Lebanon Valley Dragway. After that I was addicted and I plan on driving in as many events in the North East as my work/life schedule will allow and to learn as much as I can while I'm at it.

I drift a 1992 Nissan 240SX which will be slowly edging it's way into race car territory as time goes on. I'll post updates and any trick/tips/Info/Failures I uncover along the way.

I will also try to post news (and pictures/videos if I remember to actually take a camera with me) on any events I attend In the future.

Till then take it easy,
-Joe

p.s. if you haven't done so already check out d-faction.com