Finally pull the motor out of this car and prepping to drop this motor in.
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Sep 13
Down but not out…
One dream is to get good enough to rock the top 16 of the pro-am series with that will be a ton of breaking and stumbling along the way.
This is engine #2 as I broke the cam shaft + bent all the valves. I also thrown a rod.
I don’t have a spare engine in it’s place so have a full swap that should fit right in with no major issues.
at the same time I lost both my best friend and mother at her young age of 59. I did a full write up here
I am in a rush to finish my brothers 280zx hopefully by this weekend ontop of that I have also acquired a 280zx that I am slowly restoring as a new daily for me.
Hopefully soon I can get this motor swap done and I can get back to drifting and shredding tires and bring in more content.
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Jul 14
Vegas Drift – 07-12-2019 – Much Needed Therapy
Vegas Drift 07/12 The time was here, the storm was closing in from the south side of town but it only lasted an hour as it had no effect on me driving to the track.
Loaded 4 old tires after filling them with 80PSI of pressure. loaded some tools just incase something breaks at the track for a quick fix.
Loaded the jack and other stuff.
The day was fun and as I made it out there at first intention was just to drive the wet course but decided to never mind an go the full course as I had alot of drama kicking in, in the past few days at work and with my own family so I really needed some seat time.
Going out there I stepped into the wet session and was like ok, it’s not that bad and went to the main track once I got over my fear for it and I am glad I did.
Now as I was calling it for the night, I had a major issue that arises near the end. From here I have made a call at 11:30pm – 12 midnight to find a tow, I found 1 and waited over 3 hours to hear they wont make it. I called another one about 2 and half hours in from someone who dragged someone out that night.
They turned off all the lights to the track around 1:30am from there I was being attacked by giant crickets and I watched a Coyote roam around looking for foods while I wait inside the car. At this time it was still over 95F at the track so I am melting from inside this car as I wait tired as can be.
Next day I found out it was the cam gear / shaft is what gave out. This is Drift Life, it was to be expected as this thing has taken alot of abuse in the past. I will rebuild, rinse and repeat.
Here is a few GoPro Clips from the event. (updated, my mom passed away on July 17th this was the last video she seen of me enjoying myself and happy)
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May 17
S12’s on the no carb diet…
A while back I did the full VG30 efi to carb conversion. The project was fun, it was unique and the first s12 with the carb treatment.
But fun part was over, I played with it, nuked a motor with it. toured the las vegas strip with it. Issues I’ve had with it, is always related to the distributor. As it is a custom build from Davis Unified Ignition. It’s alright but it has bugs to work out and I don’t have the patience any more.
So I have reinstalled the EFI system and upgrading it with another new system. Because my goal of this machine is to rock it sideways like I did before and keep going. my goal was to get into Pro-Am and hit it’s top 16 shootout or what ever they call it now. Because of this project I feel so disconnected from my main goal and the fun that follows it. So she will return! returning back to the original glory then upgrade to the j30 motor in the future.
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Sep 01
Starting to stream more at the track…
Greetings, I have been doing alot of twitch streams at the track lately and using stream labs for andoid things has been a bit successful.
Here was the latest video on demand I have done while I was at the last night time vegas drift track.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299126989
I am doing this monthly so be sure if you come here and found this to follow me on twitch as well.
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Apr 17
DPAN GT – Notice me Senpai!
I feel like the last Nissan S12 (200sx) that still exists and drivable in Las Vegas, so i said I will take my car to DPAN GT and I did so with no issues at all. I have tested and verified my car is running in tip top shape still and have been driving it casually lately. This date is also lands on the same saturday for the Ratsun LV meet so alot of ratsun lv guys will show up to this.
I drove down some surface streets to make it there due to my alignment is bad and I wanted to keep it safe. I made it there 10 minutes before the actual start time of the car show, which was good I was able to start picking out some food for lunch at the same time on top of the water I have with me.
I found a cozy spot by Twin Peak’s bar and BJ’s. and started to take pictures of the other cars that arrived. There was a huge mixture of different nissan, toyotas, mazda’s etc.. It was a nice show up and they where all taking pictures but I feel my car was missed in that picture taken. Because it is this thing about the s12 unless it looks like a classy eye candy car it gets missed. S12’s regardless they where built for rally WRC style, they are often an ignored S chassis. I got alot of people asking questions though about the carb setup, and how it seemed to blown their minds. It was great, I did get asked about if it is was an v8.
Around 4:30 I decided to leave and head to frys. As I needed to pick up a few computer parts for a secondary pc I am building for testing on my WonderingRaven Networks. Other than that it has been a very long time since I driven her to Fry’s.
I left fry’s around 5:20 to make it to Samurai Motors by 5:30ish, and this is where I met up with more people and different cars ones that didn’t make it to It was good show up and more pictures was taken and my car had alot of kudos for being carb’d.
It was great hanging out with people here, but unfortunately I had to leave around 8:30pm and couldn’t stay until midnight..
Overall it was a great meet, it was very friendly nothing bad. If at most I hope to see that my car gets some pics out there as they post them up.
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Mar 28
Vegas Drift – Spirit of the Streets – Vegas S12 Invasion
03/24/2018 was the beginning for the The Vegas S12 Invasion, powered by Club-s12, TougeSW, and VegasDrift. It started at Speedvegas at around 7am a few people showed up, we rolled out around 10:15am and started the drive down the Las Vegas Strip (Speed Vegas is located just south of the M resort on Las Vegas BLVD directly south of the strip)
Crusing the strip, with only 4 cars strong and a friend with his Bike, I didn’t get a chance to get to the rear and just lead the way with me driving first down the last vegas strip ( I wanted someone else to lead but they didn’t want to) . So pressing on with GoPro footage down the strip that took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to complete. Around 11:45am we arrived at the track. One of the s12 owners could not get into the track but we have met up with a driver that his S12 is currently down. He was the one who actually built a community in Las Vegas called Las Vegas S12 Owners Society. The s12 community itself has been going down it seems, the last known support is what is left. Even with some california guys at the last minute stated was unable to make it and due to this support this event only lasted 1 day.
Vegas Drift, I wanted to drive this event sooo bad but was unable to due to my cars current condition with it’s paint and such. I wanted to paint this car with a solid color a few months back but was unable to because of the help was promised but never delivered. But the event it self was great there was 2 courses setup and it was like a huge loop of drifting all around, chains for days. We left around 3pm due to the wind was way too strong and instead of a BBQ we headed to Outback steak house and did some bowling and that is when the day came to the end.
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Jan 22
VegasDrift 2018 Opener – 01-21 – My Redemption
Today I was gearing up to the start off of a great year, at first I was going with all out at the main track but I decided not to this first run because I don’t want to end up breaking the motor again and thought I should relearn my car again. So I ventured forth with the wet track.
I am starting over with learning this motor keeping an eye on the revving and listening to the motor reactions, I’ve said before it’s amazing how much power it pushes at a lower rev. But as a reminder I do need a new set of front tires for grip.
There was no hesitation when hitting sideways as it is pushing that torque and I can really feel that when I hit the water as I get a lot of over-steering if i give it too much gas. The lines started to get really long where I was getting maybe 1 – 2 runs an hour but hey guess what? I waited and did it until they ended at 5pm. It was amazing and I had fun.
To be honest I was afraid of only getting 1 run this day, but instead I had a bit of redemption and I am glade I made the choice of sticking to the wet pad this time and start over instead of taking the track head on as I could have blown another motor from ignorance.
Side note: old + water does not mix, I did alot of hopping in the rear and felt like I needed to warm up the tires. This being the skid pad drenched with water and a 2 minute time limit, I couldn’t do burn out in the pad nor outside due to the rules =( but that is ok, my tires warmed up more I got to drive.
My gopro’s battery sucks I gotta order new ones for the next event, so here is a little clip of my first run in the skid pad.
https://youtu.be/LnBzc9rvxio
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