Owning a 'Drift Car'

[Rainey94]

Hey there:
First I'll provide a little background about myself and why I've made this post. My name Is Warren I'm a teenager with a love for cars. Lately I have been searching around for a father son project car that the father figure and I can work on before I head off to University. When we originally came up with the idea of having a project car, it was supposed to be a street car that we could Auto-X every Sunday or so. Some of the Original cars that we were looking at included a R32 GTR and A Pulsar GTi-R. The GTi-R is still probably the best idea for that sorta thing as I could easily drive it around, and I wouldn't HAVE to store it in the winter though if it became a serious auto-X car it would need to be stored anyway. As awesome as it would be to have an Auto-X car I am keeping the mind open to other ideas.

And this is where the 'Drift Car' idea came in. I was wondering what sort of maintenance, upgrades, and so on are routine with owning a drift car. Any stories, listing off the positives and negatives of owning and maintaining a drift car, suggestions and so on are all very much appreciated. As far as a specific car goes I have been looking at s13s and 180sx's as a starting point. Thanks in advanced!
Warren

[caliber676]

Tires, brakes, and clutches. Make sure you know how to change those lol. As with autoX you will be pushing a vehicle so you wanna make sure its up to par for running at a constant high load.

[Bugsly17]

Do youself a favor and purchase a Silvia.

Sr20>rb series. S chassis>>>>>>R chassis(for drifting)

[DreadedFist]

Tires/brakes/transmissions/driveshafts/clutches/bushings/bearings/blinker fluids/exhaust bearings/you name it, drifting will wear it.

[Rainey94]

So really I'm looking to be broke quite quickly.... haha How did you guys get into drifting?

[johnnyjohnny]

Tires/brakes/transmissions/driveshafts/clutches/bushings/bearings/blinker fluids/exhaust bearings/you name it, drifting will wear it.

Agreed. It really doesn't make sense to have a dual-purpose car, especially when you factor in the insurance issue. A car set up for drift/drag/TT/rally/whatever will not be all that great on the street. If you compromise some things to make it streetable, then you'll never reach it's competitive potential. Also, how are you planning on insuring your dual-purpose car? Not many (if any) insurance companies will insure a car used on the track. You can just not tell them, but then you're potentially committing insurance fraud.

I was part of a long forum thread regarding insurance and dual-purpose cars on the CASC-OR forum. If you're interested in reading through it all, find it here: http://www.casc.on.ca/forums/.

[Rainey94]

My main idea of this was really to find a car that we can have some fun with. Due to the lack of Drift days and so on I would not be looking for a car to be super competitive nor anything that is a solely track car. The idea was to have a car that gets me to school and such on the week days and be able to have some fun with it on the weekends. Its a "just getting your feet wet" sort of approach to the world of motorsport, and if I decided that it is something I would want to pursue in the future the car designated souly for the event would be the next step, but for now just a car that will give me a taste of what its all about would be what I'm looking for. This is also the reason why I am currently more partial to Auto-X, there are many more events,(in my area) the fees are much lower, and it would be much more suitable to participate with a dual purpose car. I'm just looking for opinions on the difficulties of entering the world of drifting, to see if it is worth some serious thought.

[Turboner]

Do youself a favor and purchase a Silvia.

Sr20>rb series. S chassis>>>>>>R chassis(for drifting)

Not to toot my own horn here, but the last cscs.ca drifting competition was won by a R32... any my RB26 has lasted 4 years(so far) drifting the F*** out of it...at 400+hp. more then any SR owner can say.

[gtstevan]

unless you are real serious into it a good clutch a set of coilovers and and lsd rear differential and you will be fine for what you are using the car for...over the winter and the start of this summer i was the same as you and looking into at options and that is what a few drifters told me

[RSi]

Do it!
The time you spend with your dad will be valuable.
You are young so i assume you don't need to rely on your car.
Have some fun.
I honestly doubt you would ever regret doing it, but you absolutely might regret not.
There are some good cheap cars that you could get started in too....

[Rainey94]

Thanks guys, Today I am headed out to Montreal to go look at the s13.5 that the have at sunrise and also check out JDM montreal while I'm there.

[RSi]

That car looks pretty cool!

[Rainey94]

Well today was the Montreal trip.... lets put it this way, if I wanted a 180sx that is held together with staples and elmers school glue that sounds abit like a tractor I found the perfect car... they also had a very nice Evo 2 but my issue with that would be finding parts... and yes yes I know drift cars arn't suposed to be pretty and that it'll look worse when i drift it into a tree the first time but the 7 different shades of white drove my OCD ass up the wall lol anyway onto the next

[RSi]

hahaha thats too bad! An EVO wouldnt be such a good drift car anyway.

[Rainey94]

hahaha thats too bad! An EVO wouldnt be such a good drift car anyway.

I meant the Evo as more of an Auto-X car, unfortunatly I am still torn