quality cost $$$$$$. get the best you can for what you have. or don't and do it as many times as tweak.

 

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haha what ever guys. Ya I drift, but I dont drift on the street, I go to the tracks and I have done it mulitple times. I am quite good, but need a few more parts (just like everyone else. haha) I also do auto X and drag racing, you going to make fun of everyone that does that also?

Don't be mad cause you can't drift. You know you want to throw it sideways, you just can't.

Power, reliability, cheap ... you can only choose 2

I choose power and cheap because I dont mind rebuilding. I am smart enough to be able to fix my own parts instead of just paying someone else to, so why not go with the extra power?

Also why would anybody take their um .. $20,000 car to a drift track? that just seems stupid to me. I would much rather wear down my used 3k rx7..

Upatnight PMed me and said that I am burning my bridges... cause he is so hot or something ... hey spend your money I dont care just saying for others in the future I recommend what I did. I know my car, I basically put the whole thing together. I like the fact that I can fix anything on my car. You can call drifters stupid, but we know as much about our cars as any serious racer... (except for the ones that just pay for their upgrades).
I dont know about upatnight making BIG power (almost none of his parts scream aftermarket turbo) so most of his mods must be on cosmetics for 20,000. That is fine, I just prefer go, more than show.

Hate me if you want, but I have never loved my 7 more then when I was in 3rd 6000 rpm WOT, sideways, on a banked corner.


Ohhh and I would most most likely still be on my stock engine and transmission if I was to drive the car as a daily driver... I couldn't stand the NA though... was a good snow driving engine! Just like any motorsport you are going to break something ... if not, you're doing it wrong. :P You have to push it to its limit.

 

Hmm. That made me look around a little. I don't see any official comments on it, but the overwelming agreement seems to be that there was a turboed SA (which is further divided, some saying it was prototypical and others that it was a limited addition), so these are TIIs. Mixed in there are similar things to what I said, the claim there was a prototypical turbo FC that was redesigned, and of course the reversed UK standpoint of S4/S5=TI/TII.

So it seems sometimes a little research can blur an answer even more. Oi.

 

There was and SA turbo in Japan, and it was the called....Turbo. Tii is the Turbo 2, or second turbo. I don't know about an S4 S5 split.

 

I'm not mad that I don't drift. My car is built for grip driving. I'm not sure how drifting would turn out with my 295 & 315 wheel combo.



Anyone can be smart enough to do anything on these cars. They aren't hard to work on really. Some people just have no time, space, or tools to do it. If I had all 3 of the above I would do everything on my car. But there would still be alot of fabrication and machine work and **** that I would still not be able to do. I'm not gonna try to lap my plates, machine my housings for studs or lighten & balance my rotating assembly myself. I'd gladly pay someone else not to **** that **** up.

And who would take their ~$100K+ car to the drag track? Lots of people do, plenty destroy their cars there and even themselves. But yeah, drifting has a much higher probability to do damage and therefore using a junkyard beater would be smarter. But just because that sport is all about controlling your car while it is "out of control" does not make it any more lethal to yourself or your car as a drag strip where one false move can put you into a wall or make you go flipping 15x down the track.



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All I know is that there is a 12at first gen sold in Japan only I think, it was called the turbo. When the FC came along they also labeled it as a turbo. Probably due to the fact that the SA turbo production run was small. But for some crazy *** reason they decided to label all USDM turbo FCs as TurboII as in the 2nd mazda rotary turbo car, yet there had never been a 12at SA sold in the US prior.

 

i say, like others... do a t2 swap... complete... if you wait for the right deal, you'll catch something amazing....