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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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Finally got to organizing the garage a bit.

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I need to get these wheels sold too

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Incredible! Awesome job, cant wait to see you swing it around at Staggered this year

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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Do you run the tie rod spacers with ps or have you deleted it?

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Originally Posted by YankyMate (Post 1492799)

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.

Know what size spacers you are running? I'd like to know what is possible to run without blowing out the ps seals

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Know what size spacers you are running? I'd like to know what is possible to run without blowing out the ps seals

Not sure / can't remember. Danny George was selling them like 5yrs ago.

Another drift event, this time on the road course. Great day up until I made a silly mistake and put the car into the wall. Got lucky and the damage wasn't too bad.

Spring time, got the cars out. BMW needs work, Miata works.

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How much boost do you run at drift events?

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How much boost do you run at drift events?

10 psi

Drove a drift demo this weekend.

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Not a fan of drifting but Ill give you a cat for that. That was pretty sweet.

Ok, I'm impressed. Good skills.

Ok fine, have another.

Fucking phenomenal car control!

Haha, thanks everyone. Appreciate the cats.

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Haha, thanks everyone. Appreciate the cats.

curious did you have Jimmy tune your car? I watch his YT channel and hes been tuning a bunch of miatas lately. Im not into drift but props to you anyways.

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Originally Posted by andyfloyd (Post 1534042)

curious did you have Jimmy tune your car? I watch his YT channel and hes been tuning a bunch of miatas lately. Im not into drift but props to you anyways.

He did not tune my Miata. The car has been on this tune for a few years now.

Lock City Drift has a new competition series, Street Series, for "street" car, and a Top Drift series for pro2 type cars. First Street Series competition was this weekend, placed 2nd out of 26 drivers.

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Photo from the battle that got me into the Top 4
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Singular Motorsports hood vents in. Hopefully help get the temps down on track.

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Round 2 of the Lock City Drift Street Series competition. Made some mistakes, and the weather kept changing conditions. In the end I didn't place as well as round 1, but hoping to do better on the next one.

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Street Series Round 3, got a podium finish. Love this little track, so good for tandems.

I need to hit a SCCA Track Night in America soon as well, haven't driven one all year.

Solid driving. I didn't have any desire to drift until picking up my placement holder miata. Now I want to hit up some events. Sweet cushion holder.

Round 4 of the Lock City Drift Street Series, qualified 1st and placed 1st.

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I love the pics and videos, great job man.

No work on the Miata this winter, and now foreseeable future with drift season on pause. The M3 had the oil pan gasket replaced, softer poly diff bushings, 5th gear detent replaced, R33 wheels hubs bored to fit the larger BMW hubs, Falken Azenis 615 tires, and FancyWide rear diffuser.

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Our drift season here is pretty much kaput at the moment as well. It's a massive bummer.

What's your steering setup look like now on the miata?

If I recall correctly from earlier you had the SPL inner/outer tie rods. Do you still have that? Have you moved to a cut steering knuckle or anything yet?