What do you drift in rl?

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When everything is finally fixed on my new Iroc, I will be taking that down to the track trying to drift it. Got a lot of parts needed though. It is a project car from the beginning, so It might be a while. I think it would be dope to see a Camaro drifting though. Who would be dumb enough to do something like that. . . oh yeah, me - D'OH!!!
 
Hey rakanishu sweet bmw, but one thing (this alwasy bothers me) you list your engine as a V6, hate to tell you, but Bmw doesn't make V6's and never has. Its an inline. Anyway, sweet ride.

Here are a few of my 91 camaro Rs. 5.0 liter (305 for those of us like my self in the US) tbi L03 V8, 700r auto trans, stock peg leg and 2.73's. Pretty much stock except for the 85-87 iroc 16x8's one of the previouse owners put on her. :cool:

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rock on, I'm not the only one willing to do this. BTW the pseudo new car I have is an '89 Iroc with the 305 in it. Did a few adjustments to the TPI - Tuned Port injection. HAd a friend repair and adjust the tranny - 700-r, Putting new set of camshafts, vavles and springs. Waiting on an oil cooler. Also, Forged pistons and new rods along with a new crank. In this whole process rebuilding the engine, with port polishing of course. Then it will be time to actually start modding the car :). It should be ready in about two to three months over here. Then it is time to hit the track :) I'm excited!!!
 
The Rs with the 305 kinda got jipped. Massively restrictive heads, exaust and poor gearing all lead to a sixteen second 1/4 with about 170-175hp and 255ftlbs of torque. Not bad for a daily driver thats decent on the gas (when its warmer outside), but pretty piss poor non the less. Oh well, i now have a job, maybe once i get some money built up i can do something with her. 1st thing would have to be a posi rearend with some 3.43's (keeps the gas milage up and gets a good boost accel). Then headers and a full exaust. From there its heads, cam, chip tweakage (never buy those hypercrap chips at 300 when you can buy the stuff you do it yourself (including another chip) for about 150 and get much better results even on a stock engine), intake and some other odds and ends hopfully. Doesn't get much driftage at this point due to a lack of money to pay for tires. It is done though, a group of guys in hawaii does it. In fact hit up www.thirdgen.org and look around the forums for a guy out of hawaii, he has a b4c rs (looks like an rs on the outside, but has the police package 350tpi, heavy duty suspension and such, ect) that he drifts. :cool:
 
that is nice with the 350tpi police special. Hope things work out for you with the car and everything gets done to it. maybe one day we'll meet up and take a run on a track or something. I've been to thirdgen.org but never signed up. I should now. I was even playing with the possiblity of throwing a 350 block in the car with the 305 heads with some forged pistons and rods in there. that would increase the compression way too much.707, but the only problem, need racing fuel to drive it around everywhere D'OH
 
You'd be better off to go witha 350 and matching 350 heads. Simply more power options. If you wants some good power out of the tpi system and keep the 305, look into new plenums, throttle bodies, Runners, ect. They make alot of aftermarket bits for that system. :cool:
 
They aren't that exspensive. My 91 rs with 76,000 was 2500. Granted she needs paint and some body work, but she doesn't have any rust (except up around the damned t-tops, but nothing major) and the tpi irocs and z28's are easy to find from 3000 (100,000 good shape, not perfect, but doesn't really need anything) to 5-6000 for a basically perfect 350 car. So just look about. Avoid the V6's and the lg4 carb engines. If you can avoid the L03 cars (like mine) with the tbi (throttle body injected instead of TPI which is Tuned port and more powerful) since they are majorly handicapped. Still good reliable engines all around, so as long as you do a bit of research and drive it you're ok. Oh ya, the one common problem with these cars engines is that about at 80,000-100,000 miles you are likely to have the valve guide seals start to leak, in which case you get a bit of blue smoke on startup, but its never going to get bad enough to burn any noticable amount of oil between changes or any power loss. Fairly cheap to get fixed so if you find a nice one with this, talk em down a bit and then save the cash to get it fixed eventually. Oh and if you are really looking for handling get this. These cars will out gun a 4th gen camaro on the skid pad, with the 92 Z28 pulling .94g's. Thats damned impressive no matter who you are. :cool:
 
my friend had a 82 BMW 320i we used to drift in, it was nicknamed the "****-Rag" because one of the doors was painted a lighter color than the rest of the car. but that thing died so now he drives a 97 Civic :confused: :banghead:
 
Hey i had an e21 320i. mine was a 78 and had the 2.0liter 4cyl instead of your friends 1.8liter. Had the 4spd behind it too. Not a bad handling car, gotta watch it though because the limit is a bit uncertain sometimes on pavement since it has an almost perfect 50/50 split on it. only thing was that damned vacum advance fuel injection from bosch. No one knows how to work on em hardly and they are constantly going out of tune, not to mention the valves get out of adjustment pretty easy. Fun cars though. :cool:
 
lol, i drive a vauxhall (opel) astra. its about 15 years old and FF. all i can do with it is understeer and wheelspin. maybe if it was REALLY icy and i pulled as hard as i could on the handbrake i could make the tail slide out. but anyone who has ever been to london will know that the weather here is pretty crap, all we get is rain and that isn't enough to make my car drift! :D heh

but i am thinking of getting a nissan 200 soon, though i'll probably make it a grip car simply because we dont have any roads around here suitable for drifting... well away from houses i mean.

paul
 
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nice car dood, personally i preferred the enkei wheels and i wouldnt have put that roll bar there, but the car looks sweet.

does it drift?

paul
 
HEHE Of yeah it will. I have a LSD I pulled from a RX-7. I have not instaled it yet though. SO my drifts are not as far and fast as I would like them. I will be posting some videos in a couple weeks. I like to drift U-turns under highway bridges.... WOOOOOHOOO
 

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