Bakadesu!

I have no idea how he keeps doing it, but Chris came second... Pics HERE Results on page 3 HERE

Initial Drift club members, but if you have a CAMS L2NS licence or higher already, you won't need anything else as far as that's concerned.

You probably won't get quite as much track time in as one of our practice days (there's one on there in August - check HERE) but we had first timers qualify for the comp last time.

Initial Drift is proud to present, in association with Evo Motorsport: D-DAY CHAMPIONSHIP NSW 2005 - ROUND 3 at Wakefield Park. The third round of the Initial Drift D-Day drift championship 2005 will be held at Wakefield Park on the 2nd of July 2005. A full morning of practice, followed by qualifying, then a top sixteen battle to win! Spectators more than welcome. Full cafe facilities and plenty of parking available at the track. DETAILS: Gates open at 7:30 AM Entry is $100 for club members, $150 for non-members. You will either require a CAMS L2NS licence, CAMS day licence or Wakefield Park licence, all of which are available on the day. Please register HERE. Payment up front will secure you a spot. All cars must pass CAMS scrutineering - no fluid leaks, batteries must be clamped securely, seats and seatbelts must be safe, any harnesses and roll cages must be safe etc. All drivers must wear non-flammable clothing neck to ankle to wrist, and wear a Australian Standards 1698 approved helmet (like a motorcyle helmet). Judging and full commentary by the Initial Drift council. For directions to Wakefield Park, CLICK HERE. Wear warm clothes - this is Goulburn in July we're talking about. Bring lots of tyres! The results from Round 1, which was held on the same track, were as follows: 1)Michael Spencer - lime green Onevia 2)Chris Easton - black/silver R31 3)Greg Host - black JZX90 Mark II 4)Stuart Borrows (Noddy) - maroon R33 GTS-t 5)Jarich Van Horch - light blue Gazelle 6)Pete Carruthers (Fatz) - black R31 7)Nathan Weissel - blue VL turbo 8)Mark Watling - Multi-Colour R31 9)Fernando Wiehrl - black/gold Sileighty 10)Anthony Bilic - dark green S13 Silvia Edit for Skylines Australia forum: Look at that - four out of the top ten were Skylines. Come along and prove you're better than Fatz and Chris. Round two results will be updated here soon. Prizes include a Hybrid FMIC kit OR a DRFT body kit, an X-Force stainless steel turbo-back exhaust system and an X-Force stainless turbo manifold. A pack of cable ties is awarded for the best crash, as well as trophies for podium finishers. Take a look at some of the photos from round two HERE and round one (as seen in Drift Battle magazine) HERE.

Want to buy: One 17x9 R33 GTR wheel. No rubber preferred, minor gutter scratches are OK (no big gashes on the edge though), plastic centre cap not required. Sydney only, I'll pick it up from wherever you are and pay cash. Let me know what you have.

Initial Drift D-DAY 5th MARCH A full day of drifting to be held on the north Oran Park circuit, otherwise known as Driftland. Drifting starts at about 9AM, so get there 8AM to get your car scrutineered and yourself signed on. You will need to wear neck to ankle non-flammable clothing (cotton long sleeve shirt and jeans are OK) and have a helmet that conforms to Australian Standard AS1698 - just look for the sticker on the back of the helmet. You will need a CAMS L2NS licence. If you don't have one, you can purchase a day licence there for $20. The entry fee is per driver, not per car. Your car will need to be in safe condition - battery securely clamped, no leaks, brakes working, seatbelt working, seat secured etc. Wheels need to be suitable for the car, and attached by all wheelnuts. Please register online here http://www.initialdrift.com.au/events_calendar.php Because this is a little bit of a late notice for this forum, please pay cash on the day. Members $100 Non-members $130 Day CAMS licence $20 Spectators $10 (Oran Park entry fee) Take the entrance on the Northern Road into Oran Park. There will be a sign indicating "Driftland". Motul Motorsport will be giving away a bottle of Motul 300V engine oil as an encouragement award to the most improved driver on the day. - Alexi

No speedhumps in Japan. They really are that low, all the time. One of these would make a fun daily hack. Anyone got a spare Datsun 240K for sale?

Project Mu Drift-Spec pads are only the sort of thing you should get if you're going to use them for drifting. They have a very nasty initial bite and a more consistent friction coefficient than other pads. This makes them good for drifting, but results in a much lower heat tolerance and difficulty of use. Some more progressive pads might be good for daily driving/track. The ads for them in Japanese magazines actually advise you not to buy them if you drive a very heavy, light or FWD car.

Add a towbar and trailer for taking the 180SX to the track, and I'll buy it.

Smarty. However, female gymnastics is a good spectator sport... :wassup: Much like anything else, you can just ignore it if you don't like it. Stuff gets popular for a reason.

You don't buy coilovers to have "less grip". My car's suspension is set up pretty much as a "drive to work and weekend track car" (slight front toe out, rear toe in, slightly more front camber and caster), the only major difference being a slightly stiffer rear swaybar and not much rear camber to keep the tyres sitting flat. Beginnners start of with low grip, but as the speeds increase, so does the need for grip on demand. My car was set up by a guy who specialises in racing Commodores. I reckon he'd know something about making cars grip. I took it out to Wakefield in stock condition and drove it, and have done the same since with all "drift" mods installed. It goes four seconds faster, with only 0.1 bar more boost. Neither is freestyle or vert skateboarding/wakeboarding/big air motorcross, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. :uh-huh:

Perhaps he meant a visit to Adult Shop M's?

I was on a Yamanote line train a couple of weeks ago and noticed on the monitor a "cease of operations" on a certain line due to an "accident". That must be what they call it... Akeenan, is RE Amemiya easy to get to in Chiba? I was there a couple of weeks ago to visit Top Secret and used the monorail from Chiba station, then a taxi, so it was pretty easy. I had planned to go to RE Amemiya but due to shady directions, I didn't bother. Should I be kicking myself?

I was in Tokyo on holiday from the 17th to the 23rd of July... Checking my notes, I would have been walking from Shinonome station to Super Autobacs at that time...and I remember it being obscenely hot. Thank you Japan for having vending machines every five metres.

It's a Japanese porn video fetish called tamakeri, which basically involves cute girls kicking guys in the nuts.

I bet you'd have a lot of trouble cleaning ghosties out of that fabric. :nowigetit

Oran Park Grand Prix circuit (ie, the whole thing) would be nice. :nowigetit I have a feeling it's going to be Eastern Creek, isn't it?

(PM sent) The biggest difference with the clutch pack LSD was the increased corner speed compared to what I was used to with the standard viscous LSD, so I kept running wide until I got used to it. To be honest, learning with the viscous LSD turned out good, because you need to be a lot more aggressive with the clutch pack LSD, since the car wants to understeer unless you really throw it in, which requires a better suspension setup for more turn-in grip, which I'm lacking in, a bit. From what I know, the rear swaybar stiffness is more important, since keeping the weight evenly distributed over the rear wheels makes it more predictable and easier to change direction. Because of the way the car moves when drifting, it tries to lift the inner front wheel, so keeping the front swaybar softer than you expect to keep the wheel on the road is a good idea. When I was setting up the car, I asked a guy who set up race cars to work out the settings for me. It takes some convincing to get them to do it ("Are you sure you want to do that?" :bahaha: ), but it's worth it, since they know what suspension settings do what.

The Initial Drift skidpan day is $130 for non-menbers ($100 members) for the full day, not a half day. It's $75 for non members for a half day, so the dry afternoon session is your best bet for more advanced stuff. It doesn't look much, but you're hitting a corner every few seconds, so it's absolutely top practice. You only go through one set of tyres at most if you do the wet and dry sessions. You can't say you're a drifter if you can't fully link a whole little course like that, which nobody has really done that well yet. Good to see you're getting the 'Line back in working order Chris. I never want to hear that scary rattling noise again. :uhh:

Naturally. Yeah, the viscous LSD always seemed to have a mind of it's own as to how many wheels it would spin eh, but we shouldn't be using these fine Nissans just for smokeshows now, should we? But you're right, the question was to check for an LSD, and jacking it up and spinning the wheels is the best way. Perhaps there's a cue to the internals by looking at the back of the diff housing?

I know it's not the same car, but I've been modifying a 180SX from stock to drift (pic from last Saturday) and I've added all the mods you mentioned, minus the FMIC and boost up. The coilovers stopped the suspension loading up so much, so there wasn't that big uncontrollable " bounce-flick" when changing directions. A larger swaybar in the back (from an R32 GTR) helped even more (you may need something bigger and custom, and I've been recommended a custom K-Mac by a Skyline driver). The only problem with the stiff coilovers was the car's body flexed too much (the plastic trim was creaking very loudly up driveways :Oops: ), so get some front and rear strut braces at the same time if you can. There may not be a whole lot of Skylines in D1, but coverage of smaller local events in Battle Magazine and Drift Tengoku show them to be just as commonly drifted (mostly 32's) as any other car.

That test doesn't prove the LSD is any good or not, just that you have one. I know I had a viscous LSD ('94 180SX), and it passed the test you mentioned, but it would still one-wheel drifts and donuts like an open wheeler would.

That last lap was a classic. I was trying to get as close as possible to make it look good, your tyre was sparking like an angle grinder, I'm pissing myself laughing, your father-in-law's saying "Watch out, his tyre's almost had it!" and I see you look back at me as I'm coming at your driver's door. :looney: Top fun and well organised. It was great that we got heaps of track time, and still had plenty of time to watch or change tyres between runs. Bring on... FDD3!

Well, tell them to give their American counterparts a call for some advice, since they were the sponsors of the D1 Grand Prix events in the USA. I'll take two pairs of Advan Neovas in 205/45/16 please.

I was out there in the purple 180SX. The dogleg was the craziest corner I reckon, since you can't see what the heck is over the hill, and a lot of us spun out coming down the other side. The one time I actually had a chance to look at the crowd, I saw a bunch of kids almost hanging over the fence, hooting and pumping their fists. Heehee.