Back in an s body-180sx import drifter

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So after the first practice day I was really pleased with how the car was handling/performing. A bit down on power compared to the 1jz's I owned, but the speed that can be carried in it makes up for the lack of power and torque
I daily drove the car over the next while, then entered it into the AMA Drift Series final at Nutts Corner on the 24th August (I was competing for fun on and off in the chaser in the AMA Drift Series, best I acheived in it was 4th place out of around 60 entrys and my chaser was basically stock bar fmic exhaust and lsd)

Nutts Corner Oval isnt a very forgiving place as its basically a stock car stadium with solid concrete walls running the full way around the outside of the track.
The way the organisers Con Tinney and Andy McFetridge set the track up was fantastic, balls out at the first wall, getting as close as possible, running the wall the whole way round, followed by a manji up the straight then another big entry into the bottom corner as close to the wall as you can get without it all going tits up.
Practice went ok considering it was a quite a hot day and the 180sx had just about enough power to get me round the bends the way I wanted.
Qualifying came, 3 attempts, I felt I done 2 average runs and a good run. I made it into the top 16, qualifying around 9th position.
The battles were intense, I was first up against an m3 bmw, I knocked him out and proceeded to the top eight, where I met another m3, running a lot of mods and wisefab lock etc etc, we done our lead and follow runs, and the judges voted for a one more time, but on the first one more time the m3 smoked me off the line, leaving the underpowered 180 a few car lengths behind before the first initiation, I closed the gap some, but not enough, so I was knocked out before I could make the top 4
But I had a fantastic day, lots of fun and I was buzzing the whole way home, thinking about some stage 3 power mods


Got so close to the wall on my practice I rubbed the paint off the bumper