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TMF invades Irwindale!

Fellow TMF OPPOSITION drifter dudes Mike Pollard and Derek King strolled out to Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, California for this years Formula Drift Pro/Am Nationals.  Mike had previously blown his engine and had acquired an RB25 long block for a quick fix, so he headed out to Cali a day early to get the car to Garage BOSO for a nice tune.  Derek didn’t even have transport until a couple hours before he was going to start driving the car down.

Mike and Derek were both doing well in practice.  Mike has been getting quite acquainted with his knuckles and was using them throughout the whole course.

Derek’s under dash wiring actually started on fire during his first of two qualifying laps and he was lucky enough to finish the run cleanly as the car would be out of commission for the rest of the weekend.  He qualified 16th, which earned him his Formula D license for 2010!

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BeefCar

A couple of major updates with Keith’s 1JZ Cressida.  He has hit the track!!  He brought the Toyota out to Elko Speedway for TMF OPPOSTION’s demo during the Eve of Destruction.  During practice two things became quickly apparent:  His differential wasn’t locking up for shit, and his car was super fast with the sound to match.

While the differential made it so Keith couldn’t get sideways and remain sideways, it still made for a great little video!

Cressida Elko Shakedown from kaizophoto on Vimeo.

The Cressida then got a welded differential installed and back out, this time to Raceway Park in Shakopee, MN. Unfortunately it wasn’t without issues, as one of his couplers kept blowing off, but at the very least he was able to finally DRIFT the car!

Raceway Park testing from kaizophoto on Vimeo.

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Scottys super clean Silvia, on track.

As you may have seen from the two previous posts regarding Scotty’s sexy Silva, I have put a lot of work into helping him construct the cleanest Silvia ever, including an engine harness, chassis harness, bash bar, and many other items.

Well he has been able to hit the track up all summer long and do some drifting.

That’s actually TMF OPPOSTION driver Mike Pollard behind the wheel for the above shot.  Right after riding along with Mike, Scotty stepped his driving up a notch or two as he was able to learn a lot from riding with Mike for a few laps.

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BeefDyno

Keith has had the Cressida out on all 4 wheels driving under its own power and has found and fixed a few bugs, and is now ready to hit the dyno!

I can guarantee that this is the only Cressida to have hit this dyno before.

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BP’s LS6 RX7 has hit the track!

You may have seen the post in the Roll Cage section of the website, where I detailed the build of a roll cage for Brian Peter’s new drift car.  Well, now the car has all the bodywork, suspension, and engine sorted and its looking very good!  It’s also ready to hit the track.

The LSx engine, available in anything from the Corvette, to the Avalanche SS, has been a fairly common swap into FC RX7s for quite some time, being big amoung the drag racers.

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And God said ‘Let there be steering.’ And there was steering.

I had purchased a nice Sweet MFG. aluminum steering column from one of my favorite EBay NASCAR parts sellers a while back, so I decided to ditch the oem column in the FC.  The Sweet column is a collapsible unit, so if I ever get into a HUGE crash, at least I won’t be impaled by my steering wheel!

I needed help from my good friend Tim Gillette -former drift super beast- with turning down the oem steering shaft to fit inside the new .75″ DOM tubing.  The new tubing was really just a coupler to connect the oem shaft near the u-joint, to the u-joint at the Sweet column.

And here’s the new shaft installed in the car.  I purchased a nice firewall bearing for steering shafts and it worked perfectly with the oem hole.

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Let there be bay of engine, pt. 2

With the radiator and fan mounted to the chasssis, I began work on finishing the power steering system and the intake.  I bought a 3′ piece of 4″ aluminum tubing to use as the intake tube, as well as a 4″ 90* coupler for the connection to the throttle body and a stainless steel mesh air filter.

The intake system should suffice for now, but I do plan on updating it down the road after the kinks have been worked out of the car and I am ready to add more horse power.  I also mounted the KRC power steering reservoir as high up as I could, as the system is obviously gravity fed.

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Let there be bay of engine, pt. 1

I began by making some room in the engine bay.  All the misc. brackets and such that were no longer going to be used were cleanly removed, as well as the upper core support and associated sheet metal.

I also removed the lower radiator support as I will be making my own mounts for the radiator I have for the project.  For the new lower radiator support I welded in some 1.5″x0.095″ wall DOM tubing to the frame rails and made a few padded mounts which the radiator sits down onto.

In the above picture you can also see the KRC power steering pump and the aluminum head bracket that my good friend Tim machined for me.  The radiator sits at about a 45″ angle, and as such has plenty of clearance from the ground.

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