Chaser 2011 - Project Pimp

[Stevie e39 drift]

wats d uda cars wiv prodrift banners in backround?

[DaveM-sport]

Lightening a car like this will make a huge difference?

Can you get cheap fiberglass doors, bonnet and bootlid for the Chasers?
When John's swapped them all for fiberglass and removed the other bits and pieces and did the boot-floor on the M3 the difference was like night and day.

Don't know why people are all going for Holset turbos other than the fact they are cheap... If I wanted ultra reliabilty, I'm sure there is better out there but costs more too I suppose.

The repeat failure of other turbos so far can't be all the turbos fault so I'd make sure everything else is perfect when your at it.

Black will be nice again too once you do some good graphics to make it stand out. Be good to get away from the feeling its a driftworks car and making it your own too.



You going to cage the touring over the winter too so you'll have a spare reliable car when....I mean if.... this goes bang

[Chuck_g]

Lightening a car like this will make a huge difference?

Can you get cheap fiberglass doors, bonnet and bootlid for the Chasers?
When John's swapped them all for fiberglass and removed the other bits and pieces and did the boot-floor on the M3 the difference was like night and day.

Don't know why people are all going for Holset turbos other than the fact they are cheap... If I wanted ultra reliabilty, I'm sure there is better out there but costs more too I suppose.

The repeat failure of other turbos so far can't be all the turbos fault so I'd make sure everything else is perfect when your at it.

Black will be nice again too once you do some good graphics to make it stand out. Be good to get away from the feeling its a driftworks car and making it your own too.



You going to cage the touring over the winter too so you'll have a spare reliable car when....I mean if.... this goes bang

Thanks for your input lad, being honest the only way il be doing PD next year is if i spend fuck all on the car. So new panels are out of the question as nice as they would be. As for Holsets, the way i see it is they are built for lorries, so need to be seriously reliable. They are cheap, and the rebuild kit for one is 30stg. Compared to Garretts €900. The sweds etc seem to run them on everything from Fords to Bmw's etc and have had some great figures etc. So thats why im gonna go down that line. The failures have been figured out, all different things.

As for the bm, il see how she goes over the winter

Thanks everyone for the comments, i shud have the tank in and plumbed tomorrow so il get up pics

[Chuck_g]

wats d uda cars wiv prodrift banners in backround?

s14 & a Twincam.........2 sierras in for good measure

[Scamper]

You have pm chucks!!

[nick180sx]

nice ta see your going with a decent turbo cool car man keep up the good work

[DaveM-sport]

Thanks for your input lad, being honest the only way il be doing PD next year is if i spend fuck all on the car. So new panels are out of the question as nice as they would be. As for Holsets, the way i see it is they are built for lorries, so need to be seriously reliable. They are cheap, and the rebuild kit for one is 30stg. Compared to Garretts €900. The sweds etc seem to run them on everything from Fords to Bmw's etc and have had some great figures etc. So thats why im gonna go down that line. The failures have been figured out, all different things.

As for the bm, il see how she goes over the winter

Thanks everyone for the comments, i shud have the tank in and plumbed tomorrow so il get up pics

Is the one your getting made for a truch???
trucks only rev 2500rpm so the turbo doesn't really reach speeds as high in a big petrol engine either as well as the turbo comes on and off boost far less in a truck like you would when drifting so fatigue failure is lower so don't need ball bearings etc.

Still, they still seem to work well somehow and of course the cheapness of them is a great advantage.
I know they work very well in BMWs... There was an S50ed E30 with a Holset in TotalBMW a few weeks ago with 630bhp or something like that.
I think I'd use a S366 or something though with a clever manifold

Even if your not able to get panels, there's still great scope for lightening anyway as there still seems to be alot of bits still left inside the car behind the dash etc

[Chuck_g]

Even if your not able to get panels, there's still great scope for lightening anyway as there still seems to be alot of bits still left inside the car behind the dash etc

Exaxtly what i was thinking, but im wondering do i keep my heater rad/boxes etc to pull heat from the engine.

Do many other drifters still run the heaters in their cars??

[Famous jh]

Exaxtly what i was thinking, but im wondering do i keep my heater rad/boxes etc to pull heat from the engine.

Do many other drifters still run the heaters in their cars??

I'd dump the lot if i were you cos there looks to be alot of that!! An even if you wanted to be fussy and keep a heater you could fit a smaller tidier heater box from something else lad

[Chuck_g]

I'd dump the lot if i were you cos there looks to be alot of that!! An even if you wanted to be fussy and keep a heater you could fit a smaller tidier heater box from something else lad

Well not being fussy lad, just wondering would the heater be more of a benefit to keep the car cooler as 1j's so like the hotter side of life. Or am i better off just ripping it all out?