S13Teddy wrote:Sorry. I'm in the garage fixing my car right now.

Good job on the build Teddy. Awesome job on landin SS!

Update NOW!

pj wrote:

NO now its NWS

Loved reading every page. Nice Job Teddy

update already. Jesus.

Then I made I traded my nice Sparco steering wheel for a JDM white one that I had shipped from Japan. This was before the stupid "JDM colored wood wheel" craze that's going around. Now everyone and their mom has one of these and it pisses me off. I've been trying to trade it from something else. If anyone wants it, ask away.

Anyway. Back on topic.





This picture is of me driving my fine automobile to the End of Summer ZOMG BBQ Bash.



And what a fine automobile it was. Still had a single-cam KA24, still reliable, still a good drift machine.

And then came hell... we pulled that mighty single-cam out from it's nice cozy home. The ultimate home where it belonged. The home where it withstood so much agony, so much pain, so much abuse from it's father but still continued on its mission to propel 2 wheels with enough momentum to break the traction of the rubber on those wheels and hold a gangster drifting line while doing so.





Goodbye forever.



Oh yeah. See why my wheels look like that? That's because I forgot to pull off my strut bar before putting my car on jack stands. Then I was too lazy to lower the car back down to pull it off, so I did so while it was in the car.

But I forgot that they were the same bolts holding the coilover to the strut tower. Noob.





At first, it would not start. we tried and tried and tried. It would only crank, never one tiny spickle of life would show... So we called Henry Schelley. Right away, he said, "Your fuel lines are on backwards."

Wtf?

So we swapped the fuel lines around, crank the engine and BAM! Started right up. What a genius that Henry is.

That night, one of neighbors came out and yelled at me and my mother saying we were irresponsible and this was not a "garage". What a biiiiitch. She can suck my right nut.

And so... the mighty SR20 was in.



I drove it around like this for awhile, open downpipe because I had no exhaust.

I wired up this sick dome light too. For some reason it stopped working recently. Gotta fix that.







I went to some cool meet at Superior Nissan.











So then I sold my 002s to a local Miata guy and bought these Falken Hanabis in 17x9 +20.



So I re-test fitted this bumper to check the ground clearance. It was much better. I would save this bumper for later yet, though.

Then I ordered some bolt on spacers in 4x114.3 from Powered by MAX. One pair in 15mm and one pair in 20mm. The 15's were destined for the front, and the 20s were destined for the rear, which would have been perfect stock body fitment all around.



Everything in this plan would have worked out perfectly, except that Falken Hanabis have a flat mounting surface. On most wheels, there are indents after every stud hole, which would allow for extra studs from a bolt on spacer a place to go. But in this case, the Falkens were flat. This meant that the 15mm spacers would not allow the wheel to be mounted because the actual wheel studs were too long and would hit the wheel before it would be flush with the rotor.

So I sold the 15s and bought some 25mm ones.



20's mounted up front.



25mms in the rear would obviously need a pull. So I did not mount those right away.

Well then my good friends Nieko and Danny got their cars impounded for street drifting in Costa Mesa, and had a car wash to raise the funds required to get their cars out of hell.







A few days later, Norm (usdm180sx) came over to my house and helped me pull my quarter panels.





I also got these ugly sideskirts. Ewww. Car was so ugly at this point.

Then I trekked back out to Horse Thief Mile for a private test day with the Norwegians and the Japan Auto Supra that competed at the Red Bull World Drifting Championships.





It was this day that my car started heading downhill.

Love the cliffhanger

OH THE SUSPENSE.

Love it, Teddy.

i ran into the same problem spacer wise. running 25mm spacers all around with too much poke in the front

Excellent thread never knew what you looked like so I always pictured Eric Foreman lol

You got my vote for the Fortune Sponsorship....why not use a low grade loctite on your RUCS bolts....

Moar updates pweeezzzzz

IMO the 002's looked WAY better than the hanbai's

easily the BEST THREAD ON NICO!!i can now sleep in peace

a lot of people do this. daily driving a track car.

S13Teddy wrote:If anyone wants it, ask away.

i want it, how [email protected]

Teddy, mind me asking how you got your interior lit up like las vegas?

man I need to document my car like this!looks amazing btw teddy.

love this thread more then i love my mom

lovin the thread, good job, if you dont mind me askin, what were you doin for a rear diff up at this point?

TimTurboZ wrote:Excellent thread never knew what you looked like so I always pictured Eric Foreman

It's because everybody says I look like Eric Foreman when my hair gets poofy.

phanatikz32 wrote: IMO the 002's looked WAY better than the hanbai's

I do not like the Hanabis either.

nifares240 wrote:a lot of people do this. daily driving a track car.

I respect those people.

Persona wrote:Teddy, mind me asking how you got your interior lit up like las vegas?

A neon tube.

pj wrote:
i want it, how [email protected]

Will e-mail you asap.

Wc240 wrote:lovin the thread, good job, if you dont mind me askin, what were you doin for a rear diff up at this point?

I've been using the same welded diff since I bought the car and have not ever changed the fluid.

so how is a welded diff for dailying? pros and cons.

Well a welded diff for dailying isn't exactly a fantastic idea, but so many people do it... Tire wear becomes really bad. I cooked a pair of Direzzas in less than 3 months just from driving to school and work, no drifting or spirited driving at all.

In the rain, you need to pay attention to what you're doing because the car will slide out much more easily with a welded diff and it can catch you by surprise if you're not really focused on driving.

Other than that, it's fine really.

Teddy I dream to get a ride along from you one day. But am always too nervous to ask you. kekeke

S13Teddy wrote:Well a welded diff for dailying isn't exactly a fantastic idea, but so many people do it... Tire wear becomes really bad. I cooked a pair of Direzzas in less than 3 months just from driving to school and work, no drifting or spirited driving at all.

In the rain, you need to pay attention to what you're doing because the car will slide out much more easily with a welded diff and it can catch you by surprise if you're not really focused on driving.

Other than that, it's fine really.

thanks for the answers man. the tire wear is the only thing holding me from it. i'm PoooOOooRrrr

thanks for posting this teddy, you motivated me to continue my build thread i started like a year ago!

ViolentRunning13 wrote:Teddy I dream to get a ride along from you one day. But am always too nervous to ask you. kekeke

Shut up. You're only nervous because you're afraid we'll crash and die.

Which is probable.

Yes. I'll give you a ride some day teddy.

I want your hanabis when you sell them, even though im 5 lug.

mmaxeyjr wrote:

thanks for the answers man. the tire wear is the only thing holding me from it. i'm PoooOOooRrrr

it should be the snow we get that keeps you from doing this

we need more story time teddy... its always a good read