Teddy's "I drive my track car on the street" BUILD

[DMan II-40]

i have a feeling this is going to turn into another "never ending thread"

I am going to have to agree. Less talking more updating!

[Rawrvasour]

Holy crap moar pics.

[spooled240]

so i'm guessing this guy neiko got his car outta hock?

[duffman1278]

That vehicle displays several dents.

[DMan II-40]

That vehicle displays several dents.

and a roller painted hood?

[Kalypso]

streaks from the rattle can...

[nieko]

the whole car was rattle canned....

hood was the only part that f***ed up... gay.

and yes, the car has many dents, its been through quite a bit..

huh teddy?

like when you spun in front of me and i slammed into you destroying your whole front end

on with the update kind sir!

[mzeo]

nieko, where's your build thread? me likes.

Teddy, update, pwetty pweeeze?

[nieko]

Teddy is unbanned from Zilvia hahahahahahah

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Sad face. lol

[kc240guy]

This is a thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends...

[OM3GA]

and yes, the car has many dents, its been through quite a bit..

huh teddy?

like when you spun in front of me and i slammed into you destroying your whole front end

on with the update kind sir!

I saw this in person, it was epic rad.

[duffman1278]

I think this thread will spill the wine.

[pedobear-lovin]

update time! morr stories!

[S13Teddy]

Okay okay. Here we go. I'm still slightly intoxicated from last night's Halloween party, but after a nice hot chocolate and some butter creme cake I think I'm good to go.

Now, since it's been a few pages since I've had any time to update the next part of this thread, I think we should do a quick recap of the last part.

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.

That day at the Horse Thief Mile was quite uneventful. Early in the day, one of my front tires debeaded from the wheel and sent me off the track.. I bent one of my tie rods, and now I no longer had my Dunlops in the front. We went to a local auto parts store and picked up a new tie rod. Nieko helped me throw it on (I'd never changed a tie rod before) and I threw on a pair of Nexens in the front.

God what a terrible idea that was.

As the day progressed, my car was still running just as crappily as it always had. Sputtering at any rev over 4500, no power. But I was still trying my best to drive the stupid car. The sun eventually started setting, and my helmet had no sun visor.

As I came down the water tower section, I missed the apex, over corrected and spun out into a pile of haybales. Bummer.



Well night was starting to fall and I still had to drive the car home. But with a broken radiator, two broken headlights and the nighttime starting to fall, it was time to get to work and fix my no longer "perfect" automobile.



Good thing all my Norwegian buddies were all here to help, and let me tell you, I never would have gotten home without them. They fixed the radiator with a piece of plastic and a lighter. And so I drove the car home like that at night, with only one working headlight.





So my buddy Devin (wow-thats-a-cool-car) came to my house and we started fixing the car to our best ability.





It didn't come out tooo bad. At least it was driveable again.





Right after fixing it, it rained a few nights later and I had this spot where I wanted to take wet pictures. So even with my car in bad condition, I went and took some pics.





Then I pulled these tension rods from my other car too.





I also still didn't have power steering. Remember? I had a competition coming up in a few days, and by golly I was determined to make it there with a properly working car.

So I changed out my steering rack. What a biiitch that was! OMG. I never want to do that again.









Then I went and got my car aligned. Wow. Either the alignment rack was seriously fubared, or my car was seriously fubared. Caster was at 13 on one side and 7 on the other. The closest they could get the caster together was 11 and 9. So now I had different caster on either side. Front camber was at -1.5 and -2.3, rear camber was at -3.5 on either side.

Terrible alignment specs. But whatever. For some reason, I wasn't really worried.

Coming up was the 626Drift Top Gun competition. I was ready. My car looked ready.





This Topgun event was seriously like the end of my car. But I'll save that for another time. I need to clean my thrashed house.

[pedobear-lovin]

ask and i shall receive i guess lol. good update! i like this better then normal "build threads" because its like a story, keep it up!

[PHeller]

I love the cliff hangers.

[BDrags]

The suspense is killing me!

[Philipio]

I love the cliff hangers.

He sure knows how to keep an audience.

[JDM Sil4ty]

nice update.keep it coming teddy !

[MastaYu]

moar!

[justinedible4]

OMFGBBQWTFLOLQFTSTFUWTF!?!?!?!?!That is awesome!

[shmex]

Alright there trendsetter, settle down now...

Yo teddy..meng. Accelerate on the build story...im diggin it.

Zilvia isn't quite as interesting as this place anyways meng. You should know this...MMMAAANNN!!!!

Brutal... keep it up the story.

[S13Teddy]

Sorry for the small pictures in this post. I only have them this size.

So I competed in the 626Drift TopGun Showdown on December 6th, 2008. There were major sponsors there, such as D-MAX USA (who was already sponsoring the team), Blitz USA, Discount Tire Center, Clutch Kits.net, and Sonic Motor.



A lot of tension could be felt in the pits that day. The driver's meeting was interesting. Quoc Ly and Justin Pawlak were there to judge the competition that day.

I'd competed in 626Drift Competitions before, but they were small "in-house" contests. This was the real deal. Drivers from Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles were here to compete for a real cash prize and some sponsorships. The friendly vibe amongst drivers seemed to have disappeared.

8am was time for practice. It was my first time on the track with my car in quite a while. Before, I had stayed off because of the lack of power steering, a decent running motor, and a good alignment. I finally had a somewhat drivable car, and these practice runs would be my first test runs with the new set-up. I could tell the car wasn't reacting consistently to certain things, but it would have to work.





As luck would have it, within the first ten runs I bent a tie rod. That would conclude practice for the day. Sweet. My chances of qualifying for Top 16 had just been reduced by a longshot. There were some amazing drivers I would have to go up against, such as Mike Essa, Jeff Jones, Mark Fernandez, John Chow. I did what I could to get a new tie rod on the car before qualifying was up.



As I changed my tie rod, I watched the first cars qualify. I was on a very limited amount of time to get this stupid car back on the track. Bernard from D-MAX came to help me with the operation, as well as the on-the-spot alignment.

I got the car back on the track in time to be the last car to attempt at qualifying. I would have to trust my s***ty eyeball alignment to get me to the next round. First run, I came in 3rd gear to the first clipping point, kicked the clutch, spun in the transition to the ring. Sweet. Second run looked good. At least, I thought so until I spun. Again. I was beginning to think it would be over before it began. Thankfully, I did a nice, clean run on my third attempt.



If you look at my bumper, you can see where I clipped one of the clipping points very nicely.

Onto the second driver's meeting. Announcing the qualified. "No way in hell I made it in," I told Cody Sarem, my fellow teammate. "Me niether," he replied. We stood attentively around Jackson and the billboard which would hold our fate: who qualified, and who didn't. It would also show, for those who qualified, who would go up against who.

Jackson revealed the board. Everyone scanned it as if it were the roster for the high school football team, showing who had made the team and who hadn't made the cut. I frantically looked for my name. 1st? Of course not, keep scrolling. 7th, no. 11th, no. 13th, no. 14th was Cody. Good job, Buddy. I thought I hadn't made it, until I spotted my name, under 16. I had qualified! Sure, it may have been last place, but holy hell, I made it! I would get an opportunity. Who was I paired with? Mike Porter, also known as "Mike FC".

Time for practice again. We would get a 2-hour practice session before the Top 16 battles. During this time would also be lunch, but forget that, I needed to get used to my car before throwing myself sideways door-to-door with another car. I was able to compensate for the car's will to grip hard during a left-hand drift, while wanting to spin very easily during a right-hand drift. By flooring it in 3rd during initiation, then early downshifting into 2nd, I could maintain fair angle into the first corner. I would then have to slam on the brakes right before the transition into the ring. Since the first corner had been elongated, it was a much faster entry, which meant locking up the brakes to slow myself down enough...



During the last quarter of practice, I was coming into the first corner, transitioned, then spun. Little did I know, Nieko was following closely behind in his white S13 coupe. He slammed hard into my front end with his door. It was a sight which would bring attention to every spectator watching. Glass was on the track, and my paint was on his door. Let's see the damage.



No time for lunch, time to bring on the hammers and start bashing the living (or non-living) crap out of some metal! We ripped off the headlights, but most of the grill and passenger headlight was wedged in-between the bumper support and radiator support. Oh well, time to stage for Top 16!



It finally came time to run in Top 16! I was running against Mike Porter, driving a 13b turbo FC3S RX-7. He pulled hard on me in the straight, but I managed to stay somewhat close. Unfortunately, I spun in both runs, and lost to him right then and there.

[Cody240]

Dude your "build Thread" is the s*** I swear its like I'm reading a Manga about the latest installment of initial D lol GO! TAK...... OH I Mean GO TEDDY!. your battle with the FC is just like the manga you are the under dog but are some how keeping up till disaster! keep it up man.

[achikennugget38]

dude even my mom likes your build thread.i swearshe said "He's a good writer."

[EnjoiNismo]

[PHeller]

Looking back, do you think you could have gone as far with a KA-T as opposed to the SR swap? Would the engine be a limiting factor?

[S13Teddy]

Looking back, do you think you could have gone as far with a KA-T as opposed to the SR swap? Would the engine be a limiting factor?

I think I would have gone further with the KA-T setup, but that is on a personal case basis. The SR that I threw into this car was already a piece of crap. So with that KAT setup the engine probably would have run better and helped me a lot more.

I prefer the higher revving of the SR though.

[DMan II-40]

You could turn this into a comic, then that comic into a book, then that book into a cartoon, then that cartoon into a Live Action show on FOX, then that Live Action show on FOX into a MOVIE!?!!?!?!?

Step 1: Write story

Step 2: ....

Step 3: PROFIT!