Category: Drift

Oct 11

TougeSW – EP1 – Drift Car Revival Recap podcast

So I have started this series, pushing for 200 subs now.  Since I lost my main motivation not just in driving for fun but for motiviation for life.  I’ve been pushing forward and pushing myself to stay motivated to keep drifting and keep drifting fun again. Here is episode 1 of that podcast recap with …

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Sep 26

TougeSW – 1987 Drift Car Revival Project, Project Fairlady Silvia

I will be hosting live on twitch a recap session and future videos vlogging my experience as part of my life streams at night. I will be available on twitch from 8pm PST, TougeSW podcast / talk show will be every thursday night going forward.. twitch channel is https://twitch.tv/WonderingRaven.

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Aug 13

DC village – organization

Every year I see car hacking village and it kinda inspired me to see what I can help bring to the table. So I am looking for other fellow drift nerds to maybe make this a village next year with defcon with me. Organization by the OG DC702  

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May 04

Ca18det gets exhaust…

This was all 1 piece I had to cut from another car. I wanted this to be as module as possible.

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Nov 23

Project: Fairlady Silvia – is now gone full CA18DET

The project vg30de conversion was a bust, as I grown tired of hacking the ignition just to get it to work with Megasquirt 3.0.  Seems that finding related parts and harnesses is alot harder than it used to be.  j30 is not wired the same way as the z32 is there for I couldn’t use …

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Mar 20

The return!

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 …

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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 …

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Jul 09

Vegas Drift – 07 / 12

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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 …

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