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Old Aug 15, 2017 | 11:08 AM
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Old Sep 21, 2017 | 04:40 PM
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Picked up a new drift car. I still have the miata, but took it off the road. I was looking for something that seats 4, convertible, and NA. This M3 happened to be for sale for cheap, and now it's been a project.

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Miata still runs

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Finally got to organizing the garage a bit.

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Photos from last weekend's drift event.





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Drift demo

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Incredible! Awesome job, cant wait to see you swing it around at Staggered this year
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I needed my roll bar to be SCCA compliant for a track day that's coming up. A friend of mine cut and welded a diagonal bar in for me.

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I painted it, matched the best I could. I need to do something with the leather padding at some point to make things look a little nicer.

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Got some hand me down Hoosiers, swap out the burner tires.

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The TinCan Motors tire machine

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Old Jun 11, 2018 | 09:05 PM
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Old Jun 14, 2018 | 08:48 AM
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Track day

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Turn 1 results

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Old Jun 16, 2018 | 10:53 PM
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Another drift event with the car



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Do you run the tie rod spacers with ps or have you deleted it?
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Originally Posted by YankyMate
Do you run the tie rod spacers with ps or have you deleted it?
I run the spacers with power steering. I also have a power steering cooler.



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