driftkid23
16th December 2013, 07:37 PM
So a little under a year ago I bought this fine piece of machinery with the intentions of making it a really cheap track car just to learn in! When I got the car it had a snapped lower ball joint of which obviously needed to be fixed! But it came with a new lca and a strut as well so I just changed it when we got it home!
The car was also missing reverse so I had to get another t50 which are way over priced now days for what they are! And then I began thinking what mods could I do if I just ripped the engine out and done the gearbox and engine in one hit!
after spending a decent amount of money on the gearbox and a new heavy duty clutch, lightweight flywheel and such I realised I needed to do some more mods otherwise ill only be able to do skids pretty much in the wet because a 16v 4age isn't the most powerful of motors .
So I decided to go full out and rebuild this car from ground up!
I started buying useless crap left right and centre, spending everthing I earned (apprentice mechanic so it's not too hard to spend all that you earn).
and then everyhting came to a hault because I started going out with some sluz and it ruined my mind set on this car so the fruit box just sat in the shed for months on end gathering dust!
At the end of December I decided I needed it going because I was going crazy without having a drift car!
I bought a w55 box and got a bellhousing to convert it to fit the 4age, due to my intentions towards doing a 4agte build would surely break the t50!
After a very long process of gathering parts I wouldn't actually use in the future of that present moment, I decided to price up my engine build for forged pistons and all the bells and whistles. After seeing the price of that and seeing how much reliable power I would actually make it saddened me, I was hoping to find an easy 220-250kws but to get that it would cost me so much out of a 4age!
That's the moment I decided to go sr.
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The car was also missing reverse so I had to get another t50 which are way over priced now days for what they are! And then I began thinking what mods could I do if I just ripped the engine out and done the gearbox and engine in one hit!
after spending a decent amount of money on the gearbox and a new heavy duty clutch, lightweight flywheel and such I realised I needed to do some more mods otherwise ill only be able to do skids pretty much in the wet because a 16v 4age isn't the most powerful of motors .
So I decided to go full out and rebuild this car from ground up!
I started buying useless crap left right and centre, spending everthing I earned (apprentice mechanic so it's not too hard to spend all that you earn).
and then everyhting came to a hault because I started going out with some sluz and it ruined my mind set on this car so the fruit box just sat in the shed for months on end gathering dust!
At the end of December I decided I needed it going because I was going crazy without having a drift car!
I bought a w55 box and got a bellhousing to convert it to fit the 4age, due to my intentions towards doing a 4agte build would surely break the t50!
After a very long process of gathering parts I wouldn't actually use in the future of that present moment, I decided to price up my engine build for forged pistons and all the bells and whistles. After seeing the price of that and seeing how much reliable power I would actually make it saddened me, I was hoping to find an easy 220-250kws but to get that it would cost me so much out of a 4age!
That's the moment I decided to go sr.
Haha3017930180301813018230183301843018530186