george's FC drift build. blowing upbody kits
 

I've been lurking on this forum for a long time but decided to finally start posting. I already know a few guys in the community but I typically have stayed to smaller forums. So here goes.

I drive an FC. It's low. Has a V8. And I do a lot of smashing.

The story begins 4 years ago when I got tired of drifting 240's and wanted to get an FC. So I got rid of my old crappy 240 and got an FC!

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Original plan was to put an SR in it and keep it mild.

That lasted all of about 12 minutes.

First up, gut the car and build a chassis dolly.
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2nd, test fit S14 dash(stock FC one looks like it came from an IROC camaro).
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Start the roll cage
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Purchase LS
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Keep working on cage
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Then some shiny stuff came in
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Engine is in also wiring
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On the ground for the first time.
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Primer
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Defis in S14 dash
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1st real event with the car. 2009
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Decided I needed more caster so I machined me a new upper mount.
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More driving.

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Hard parking
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Then started running XDC 2010. Went to irwindale and did this. Bent the chassis but kept drifting anyway.

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Lost to Brian Peter. And got like 5th or something.

Wen to RD2 in Vegas. Got 3rd.

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I drove like a billion local and socal events after XDC. The started prepping the car for 2011.

2011 Prep. Step 1, buy cool wheels.

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Check.

Step 2. fix the front end after the irwindale crash forever ago.

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Check.

Step 3. Take it to Elevens Paint And Fiber to have them do a TON of awesome work.

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XDC Irwindale 2011!

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Got 3rd place. Blew the steering rack in friday practice and tried to fix it with the help of JTP. Unfortunately the pump also blew. Ended up drifting Irwindale with no power steering. SCARY!

I was still scraping walls tho.

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Then went to XDC Phx. Ended up winning the event after a final battle with Alex Pfieffer!

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Then I bought something I've ALWAYS wanted.

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Shortly after headed up to XDC seattle. Blew up my clutch and missed all of practice. Ended up getting taken out by Walker Wilkerson.

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Still had enough points to win XDC West Coast Championship.

Somewhere in there I also did the Vegas Pro-Am and got 1st in that series which gives me my FD license for 2012.

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Which brings us to 2 months ago and XDC Finals in TX.

Car felt amazing in friday practice.
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Then saturday the motor decided to hate the rod bearings and ate them up.

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I qualified with another locals car(Aaron Losey) and was set to do top 16 when his alternator crapped out. 2 separate cars I had towed off the track that weekend. Ended up in 2nd place behind Chelsea Denofa. I was 1st in points going into TX but you have to actually drive the event to keep the lead. Sadly my car didn't want to play along so I got 2nd. It was super fun tho and I love drifting with the XDC dudes wholeheartedly.

Which brings us to now. I have a non-sunroof 86 base model that is going to become the new 2012 FD car. Hopefully I can have some fun in FD. Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings!

<3's and puppies,
George

Baller.

Great setup, thanks for sharing.

Isn't Texas awesome?! haha

That is rad that Aaron let you borrow his car for the event. He puts on all the Texas drift events and is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

CONGRATS!

Boss

snazzy

i want your panasports!!!!!!!!!

great thread btw...

subscribed. love this FC .

Hi George!

jizz pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

This is why I'm trying to sell the s13. Gotta get back on the v8 project.

Hi ilia!

So some people have been asking me what the cars setup is so I'll list it out here.

Anywhere you see "custom" means I made it myself. haha

1987 FC TII

Exterior(most important):

Duraflex BN body kit
Duraflex 30mm front overs
MSport 50mm rear overs
Aluminum vert hood with BN type vent
DCW rear roof wing
Elevens Oxygen Blue paint

Interior:

Bride Zeta III seats(FIA)
Sabelt harnesses
Nardi Deep Corn steering wheel
Stack ST8100
S14 dash
Custom "painless" style wiring throughout
10pt roll cage

Suspension:

KSport GT Pro coilovers with 9k front and 5k rear
Custom upper camber/caster plate
Mazdatrix threaded rack spacers(2x)
Custom out tie rod ends
Custom knuckles
Custom bashed in frame rails for wheel clearance
AWR rear camber adjusters
Custom OEM center camber link shortened
DTSS elimn
Custom toe rods

Engine/Drivetrain:

2001 LS1/T56
LS6 intake
Poorboy longtubes
Dual 3" to single 4" exhaust
AFCO dual pass radiator
MAST fuel rails
Aeromotive FPR
Custom fuel hardlines
Melling oil pump
Improved racing baffle
Comp cams timing chain
MAP tuned, probably makes 320-330whp.
SPEC Stage 4 clutch with alumn pressure plate and alumn flywheel
Corvette C4 driveshaft
Tomei Trax 2 way

Wheels/Tires:

17x9 -19 Panasport C5C2
215-40-17 Falken RT615k
18x10.5 +0 Panasport C5C2
265-35-18 Falken RT615k

That's about it I think. 2012 car will have a stereo system and a huge GT wing and probably be even lower. I'll also be playing with a ton of susp stuff in the future and probably offering it for sale if anyone wants this stuff.

DMAX HOOD

where'd it go? i like buy now.

also if you need a shell. forrest has my TII shell i gave him for using the shop. hit him up on it. he might still have it.


5k spring rates esplain why your car squats like a buick. rlyyyy nice

says the guy with a Camaro motor in his FC.

;p

boossssssssssss

your car is a thing of beauty, great thread, great build

niceeeeee

i heard you were going to raise your car and get hella front poke on the new setup? I heard this is how you make RX-7's good.


Truth???

He's taking queues from my FC :P

Hella-sunken rear wheels and stock angle

you have more pics of your front end? radiator placement, light mounting, etc.

love the cage work. how thick are the mounting box plates and gussets?

i'll dig up some pics of the front end.

it's time to finally start working on this thing again and get it ready for next year. i ended up getting a new chassis to replace the old one since it's seen too much abuse. i picked up a 1986 base model WITHOUT sunroof! It has 67k original miles and looks like it drove out of a 1986 dealer showroom.

interior pics. if anyone wants ANYTHING from the interior hit me up. I won't be reusing any of it. it's all pretty much perfect. seats had seat covers and so did the steering wheel.
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In the meantime I've been tearing down my old car.

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So far i've removed most of the engine stuffs and the rear subframe.

I'll be doing a lot more work to the new chassis.

dual calipers, 1900mm GT wing, evo brembos(with dual rears), shaved engine bay, wilwood or tilton pedal assembly, custom flca for lots more angle, and possibly a fuel cell of sorts.

should be sick when its all finished you keeping it blue?

joined so i could say fuck yeah! next year will be fun, we had a great time helping with the car this season. Oxygen Blue for life! i like that color still we should keep it going

george hit me up with those dual calipers... i needz!!!!

Do you have any mods to counteract fuel starvation at speed? I know people usually use surge tanks, but I didn't see anything in your setup list.

Also this

full tank of gas > surge tank.

what are you doing with the old shell?

i put a walbro 255 in my last car and never had fuel slosh problems it was also wired to a switch

backup car 2012

Definitely will! I got all my calipers and other parts needed for mock up so I should have something soon.

Nothing for fuel stuff. Just a walbro in the stock tank. I have gotten slosh before if the tank is low, so I just make sure to keep it topped off. Thought about getting a small fuel cell for next year but we'll see how funds go.

roll cage base plates were .095" thick IIRC. It was bigger than whatever the Formula D rules say it has to be. Hahah.

Giving it to this asshole V

oh jeez that guy?

Another night worth of progress.

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Motor is finally out. A few more things to take out from the interior and it'll be going to the new owner. SOOOOO nice having a removable core support. Motor took 30 minutes to take out. And half that time was spent figuring out what song to play while pulling the motor.

Also got me an upgrayedd. Evo Brembos. Extra pair for the rear on the dual caliper setup. Now to order that Wilwood pedal setup and delete the brake booster/master cylinder uglies.

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v= vitaly???

Nice thread George <3
Cant wait for 2012!

Wow this is awesome! I can't wait to see the dual calipers in the rear!

evo brembos bolt up to the fc or do you have to make brackets and car is looking sick man

to run the evo rotors you need brackets to raise the caliper higher.

you sure about that broski?

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good info. i must've had some magical rotors because when i pulled them from my 13 onto my fc the holes were 1/2" higher than the spindle mounts and i gave up..

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you're going to love them.

this car needs a live feed, i need to know the status at all times! it is it phx right now getting caged? cant remember what weekend you said it was happening

make a twitter for it or something, facebook fan page? yea

they tried caging it this weekend.

Things are going slowly but it should be 90% done tomorrow

that defi gauge set-up is clean.

great history, love your car bro, where's the fd 2012 build

yo, i have those rear uprights... hit me up if you still need them. i actually pulled them out yesterday thinking about you.. no homo.