Dan's Blog

Cage Progress

Dan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:33:03 +0000

Danny @RE_SpecGarage is just doing an amazing job on this cage. I cant wait to ride in the car and feel how rigid it is during events. All thats remaining is the door bars and the gussets behind the doors.

All I need after that is a seat, some aero for the car, and we are ready to cook with fire!

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BFD August

Dan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:10:27 +0000

Partying, Good friends, Drinking, ANDREW W K, and a blob. What more could a person wish for! This is where I will be all next weekend. Ill try to take pics if I have my camera with my at places that I wont have the opportunity to break it haha.

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Spacers To the Front!

Dan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:57:59 +0000

Finally put the 25mm spacers up front, Much better and clearing the coilovers now. This puts the setup at 17×10.5 (-3mm)Front & (-20mm)Rear. You can kinda tell in the pic the rear looks much better, Ill have wider rubber on the other set of wheels I have so that will close that gap and make the car look better when I raise it another inch.

I also had a chance to install the ISIS Power Steering Line, big thanks the Ken@ Enjuku Racing. Definitely wont have a problem with this blowing off compared to the ghetto one I made from universal PS rubber hose and cut up hard lines haha. The picture sucks but Ill take some better once I get the car on a lift. You can clearly see the fluid everywhere from the old line blowing up.

You can also see the cage coming along, Danny still working on getting it sized up good. Cant wait to see the end result!

Spacers installed

Dan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:15:14 +0000

This puts the rear at -20

Making a tall guy short

Dan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:56:29 +0000

Im a 6′4 dude so sitting in a seat and your head hitting the roof is never fun. So I’m modifying the floor panel to allow me to see lower.

Also here is a quick shot of Danny’s custom angle knuckles finally installed on his FD. This car is going to have some serious angle.

Spacers Arrived

Dan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:12:01 +0000

This should give the rear that poke and then Ill be able to move the 25mm spacers that originally were on the rear to the fronts. This means a dope ass stance and no more rubbing. Ill be installing them tonight so wait for the new pics.

Bored at work…

Dan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:47:55 +0000

This isn’t usually what I am doing at work seeing that I mainly work on computers all day, but a shipment of a few hundred PC’s came in and we had to unload them. We had a lot of trash from the packaging and before tossing it I had some fun..

Shes moving again!

Dan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:28:51 +0000

Finally finished up the major of everything to get it rolling. Pulled it out for the garage and instantly blew off my custom power steering line haha. So Im going to be ordering the ISIS Stainless braided power steering line from Enjuku Racing. I also found that the front coilovers are still rubbing on my wheels so Im going to end up throwing the rear 25mm spacers up front and the rear will be 30 or 40 mm spacers I will order. That should set everything flush for the widebody and look nasty.

The car is going up to RE_Spec Garage this weekend hopefully to get the cage started, then rolling up to All-Aspects to get the suspension aligned. I will finally be ready to test this thing at its first drift event!

I did a quick punch forward before putting it back in the garage and I can tell you this thing is going to have no problem getting sideways hah.

On a side note, I pick up my new tow vehicle. This winter I will grab a full car trailer and be ready for next season!

Prepping for Driftwater 7

Dan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:07:06 +0000

Just a few more loose ends and the car will be ready to roll.
The to do list for tonight:
Install RUCAS
Add water for cooling system
Check valve for brake booster
Battery box install
Power steering rack and lines

Not too bad, so that’s the plan for tonight.

More Pics

Dan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:49:22 +0000

And that brings it up to date..