My JZX100 Chaser, From Cruiser to Drifter

[Greg]

Cheers lads. Your man never bought the other lights so they're there now as spares.

Just out prepping the car now for Sunday. Taking the rear seats out for more wheel room, and checking a few bits and bobs. The car is getting an oil change, gearbox oil change, diff oil change, rocker cover gasket change, and drive shaft seal change before Sunday. The gaskets arrived today, a few days early. Thanks to Sarsfield for sorting that out.

Here's what €92 worth of gaskets look like.....not much really..




I hear it's going to rain Sunday, so my plan of trying 16's for 3rd gear practice might be out the window and I may stick to the 18's.

[Greg]

So...... got all the fluids changed in the car today, and the rocker cover gaskets changed, but not the drive shaft seal changed because they didn't fit, which kind of sucks.

This lot all got used up..




Just finished loading up the car and I'm all set for the morning. Hopefully the weather stays like it is now and tomorrow goes well.

I seriously need to invest in a van or jeep.

[Mick K]

UNION filters Greg Nice to see you supporting us

[Greg]

Only the best. That's one of the older ones though, which aren't great, but it will do for a week until I get one with the new design mouth, or a Toyota one.

[Sarsfield]

well greg,looking good,what was wrong with the drive shaft seals? Thats a bit of a bummer

[Greg]

They're bigger than the old ones for some reason, must work it out with Toyodiy today at some stage.


Right, went to Mondello Sunday and had an amazing day. A few spins here and there, but a lot more linking bends and trying out switch entries into Honda, and the odd one into Dunlop. That and trying aggressive flicks into the S bend and a bit of clutch kicking in 3rd. Had lots of fun aiming for the tyres at the S bend, and for the pit wall, but it's a bit nerve racking at times aiming your road car at a fairly unforgiving wall. Although if I started worrying about hitting shit I'd never drive the car as hard.

When they wet the track it made things very akward and a lot of hard work, but on the flip side it did make trying bigger entries that bit easier and it was a good steep learning curve.

No running problems with the car whatsoever, and it drove there fine, drifted great, and drove home again. The only problem overall really was the way I couldn't get a single 15minute session out of a set of part worns which is killing my wallet, but what can I do?

A few thanks - Diff06 for being my wing man helping out during the day, and fitting bits to the car, anybody else that helped during the day, and a big massive thanks to Derk, and Looneydrift for manning the tyre van and being flat out all day. Oh, and thanks to Ste for bringing back my bumper at the end of the day because I had given up any hope of finding it.

Ok, loads of pictures coming up. Thanks to William, driftin.co.uk, Sleepycat photography.
















Will upload the rest as I find them again.

[Greg]

The car when I got home..



Quite the collection of crap building up.