been drifting saturday ;() photos
What are winters like where you live? Anything comparable to Canada?
I've parked my 7 for the winter, lets not mention the fact that I poped the oil seal at the end of last month :P but I actually did plan on parking for the winter, and have some stuffs planned for my car too. Alas it is an N/A so it only goes as far as rebuild+streetport, some intake and exhaust work, some manifold porting and as large a shot of NOS as I can possably get away with puting on, just so I can put up a fight against the local turbo'ed cars, as well as fixing all the minor things that are messed up now like my busted oil cooler line, trailing arm, blown front struts and emergency break cable. I havn't figured out what I want to do suspension wise yet, havn't looked into it, but I guess I could be like all the other wannabes and say "It's going to be a strictly drag car" or something :P
Wow I can't believe I plan on pooring this much money into an N/A... I must be mad.
I've parked my 7 for the winter, lets not mention the fact that I poped the oil seal at the end of last month :P but I actually did plan on parking for the winter, and have some stuffs planned for my car too. Alas it is an N/A so it only goes as far as rebuild+streetport, some intake and exhaust work, some manifold porting and as large a shot of NOS as I can possably get away with puting on, just so I can put up a fight against the local turbo'ed cars, as well as fixing all the minor things that are messed up now like my busted oil cooler line, trailing arm, blown front struts and emergency break cable. I havn't figured out what I want to do suspension wise yet, havn't looked into it, but I guess I could be like all the other wannabes and say "It's going to be a strictly drag car" or something :P
Wow I can't believe I plan on pooring this much money into an N/A... I must be mad.
Last edited by NixxoN; Oct 20, 2002 at 11:02 AM.
hey i have a 90 mazda rx7 n/a with auto tranny , im looking to buy a VERY low millage t2 but in my rx7 i have no prob drifting , and yesterday smething scared me , i was aprochang an intersection to fast and i came into the turn and flat out squared it , it was like the car streered its self , is that that RW Steering? cause it scared the **** outa me , good thing i just bought some great soft compount tires 2 days ago!
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damn..not only rear subframe, but front is shot too..
i`m going to install spare one tonight and while i`m at it, i`ll put on RB swaybars, endlinks, swap PS steering rack for manual one and replace dust covers on balljoints and tie rod ends for Energy suspension ones...
GC coilovers and caster/camber plates will go on tomorrow afternoon...
i`m going to install spare one tonight and while i`m at it, i`ll put on RB swaybars, endlinks, swap PS steering rack for manual one and replace dust covers on balljoints and tie rod ends for Energy suspension ones...
GC coilovers and caster/camber plates will go on tomorrow afternoon...
Originally posted by gen2ForCe
dang at least the car looks decent...my freind just got side swpied into a ditch and his 01 Lancer blew up! so that sux..o well at least he hated that car hha.."too weak" haha
dang at least the car looks decent...my freind just got side swpied into a ditch and his 01 Lancer blew up! so that sux..o well at least he hated that car hha.."too weak" haha
It looks like from the pics that he let off the gas to quick and/or stepped on the brake and the rear gripped and snapped him around.
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ok, front subframe is down, just waiting for other guy's car from which i`ll remove manual rack and install it in my car with spare subframe...i have to install PS rack and pump in his car too 
damn work...

damn work...
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This is the perfect example of the 1st and best upgrade you can do, and that is upgrade you driving skill. Before you start upgrading your car do a few autocrosses or go to a drivers school. Most people start modifing their cars before they can drive them to full there full potential.
Why do people like taking the slow way around the track? Drifting is stupid. Oh, and power on oversteer != drifting.
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Originally posted by hawk 7
This is the perfect example of the 1st and best upgrade you can do, and that is upgrade you driving skill. Before you start upgrading your car do a few autocrosses or go to a drivers school. Most people start modifing their cars before they can drive them to full there full potential.
This is the perfect example of the 1st and best upgrade you can do, and that is upgrade you driving skill. Before you start upgrading your car do a few autocrosses or go to a drivers school. Most people start modifing their cars before they can drive them to full there full potential.
Originally posted by Espo
Drifting is not stupid it can greatly increase the acceleration outside of the turn. It sure beats braking through a turn. The only problem is that it is really dangerous and expensive to learn to drift properly and if you cant do it properly then its not worth it.
Drifting is not stupid it can greatly increase the acceleration outside of the turn. It sure beats braking through a turn. The only problem is that it is really dangerous and expensive to learn to drift properly and if you cant do it properly then its not worth it.
I recentlly installed the rear toe eliminators on my 86 n/a and I would have to say that that was the best thing i coulda done to improve the level of control i have over my car.(keyword control! not to be mixed up with better handling)... befor i installed them i would drive my car up and down various (remote) mountain roads trying driffent ways to drift and grip drive. lets just say when i did drift those rear toe thingys sure made it alot more.... unpredictabld. but now my car kicks all sorts of ***. no more of that pesky catching mid drift ****.. or understeering in a fast turn... i mean who woulda thought ya could fall in love with ya car all over again! =-)
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damn, that realy sux, im gunna be pissed when it happens to me, i know it's going to but i realy don't want it too, o ya PRESETLIMITS, try opening a dos promt and then typing this: PING www.rx7club.com. and them copy the ip into the browser box, it used to work on my old schools computers, but it doesn't work on the one i go to now, if it won't work for this web sight then it might work for a popular "vulgar" sight that they just block by the name instead of using a filter...
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