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Hey,

I'm looking at buying a Nissan gazelle and turning into a drift car, so i can learn to drift and gain more experience with modding cars before i am old enough to buy/drive a skyline.

I was wondering if there was any other sort of car that you would recommend for me to look at before i purchase a gazelle, that would make a good/cheap drift/project car.

Also, what engine would you recommend i put in it?

I chose the gazelle because i heard that ca18det/sr20det can just bolt straight in. (don’t really know much about engines tbh)

Heres one i am looking at there aren’t really many around :P

And about how much will it cost me to get it up and running as a drift car, not counting the exterior and interior work.

Keep in mind that i am:

17 years old

Wont be driving it around town, only on tracks

Have an income of about 160 a week

Going to put alot of time into it.

Also if you know anyone that is selling one tell me

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated

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you need to get one with indapendant rear suspension. part from thet they make great drift machines.

Also consider an R31 skyline, they do a really good job if they have a locked diff and hard suspension they put out about 100rwkw and its just enough to get them drifting.

Cheers.

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Justjap have an immaculate factory turbo S12 in their lot right now that has to be seen to be believed. It has an original 120,000km on it or something but looks like its brand new.

Could i please have a link?

Also consider an R31 skyline, they do a really good job if they have a locked diff and hard suspension they put out about 100rwkw and its just enough to get them drifting.

That's with thier standard engine? and if i wanted to upgrade the engine in it how hard/expensive would that be?

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R31/s with the standard RB30E put out very close to 100rwkw and hive quite a decent amount of torque.

their weight balance is not too bad and parts are cheap as chips :P

The best was to set one up purely for drift is strip everything out of the car just leaving 2 seats, dash and door trims and gut the rest this will help by keeping the car lighter.

then get the diff locked by welding it at about $50-100 and then buy really stiff springs far stiller than you would use on the road. around 5k rear and 7k front. they will set you back between $200 and $300

I have seen cars set up like this perform remarkably and having spent all of $1700 for the car and a set of springs and a welded diff.

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you can also turbo the stock R31 engine using factory parts from a VL turbo but all up you will be looking at around $1200 for ECU, injectors, turbo, dump, crossover pipe, taking the total to $3000

and for a grand more than that you can buy an unregisterable race only import shitter like an S13.

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