Drift Mob wet day!

Drift Mob held another wet skidpan day which resulted in another massive turn out.

Camo, Alex and Keegs were there cutting a few laps with Jabbit from the BLAZE Unit! As usual was an awesome day that ran smooth as silk with most drivers progressing through out the day.

Was also good to see a few female drivers having ago!

All in all its hard to go wrong with beats, sun and drifting..............

Project Subie.............

Recently decided that 2012 will be the year i start a new project. After spending a month in japan the one car that stood out for me was Kumakubo's old gd impreza. I picked up a bare 04 STI shell and have been slowly working out how to transfer the Nissan running gear i had been stockpiling for the past year. The plan is to run an rb25 neo motor and box as well as a gtr diff and drive shafts. Also a hybrid Nissan/Subaru suspension set up.

Shell hanging out in its new home. Being able to push it around the shed makes life real easy!

The engine bay dimensions are basically identical to a Silvia but with the strut towers further back towards the fire wall. This was the first trial fit just to see how much of the fire wall has to come out.

This is the new position the RB is sitting in now. Required a fair bit of cutting to fit that far back. The mounts will also transfer down to the tubular front cross member, should be enough to hold everything together.

Decided to go a different way with engine mounts. The standard Subaru cross member is a disaster so il make a tubular cross member and mount the rack and engine off it as close to the sump as possible.

engine and chassis side mounts ready to go

Finished Product

Gear box cross member should also help stiffen the mid section of the car

GTR Rear

After breaking a driveshaft at the last project d day iv gone standard r32 GTR rear end. They are a mechanical 1.5 way from factory so this will have to do until i can hopefuly find a cheap 2way in Japan.

Heres the pics and basic instructions on what to do!

 Basically strip your current setup back to bare s13 knucles. Make sure the stock knuckle is clean and where the hub locates is smooth, clean and free of rust and grime

 Bolt the GTR hubs to your stock knuckle. They have 4 bolts as seen that go in from the back of the hub. Use a bit of bearing grease on the splines to help get the drive shafts in and spin freely.

 You can see the difference in thickness of the GTR actual shaft (left) as well as the hub end of the spline. The drive shafts are also threaded where they join the diff removing the original nut and bolt configuration. They are still 6 bolt but everything is much thicker.

This is a stock r32 GTR diff as it came out of the sub frame 

The stock gtr tailshaft connects to this billet machined flange. This will need to be removed and swaped for your stock r200 flange to keep your existing tailshaft. The nut will undo pretty easily but the flange will need to be tapped out with a hammer.

  

 The next step is to remove the back aluminium finned cover plate and swap it with the one off your R200 diff. This will allow it to bolt into your stock s13 subframe.

The gtr uses a total of 4 bolts rubber bushed allowing the diff to move. S13's are solid mounted in the cradel using 6 bolts as seen above. The front bushings on the Gtr diff will need to be packed down above the diff with washers as well as bellow. Alternativly you can Make or purchase alloy solid bushes, which is what il be doing.

This photo shows the bigger bushing opening in the front of the gtr diff

 The gap between the subframe and the diff mount will need to be packed out with washers and a longer bolt used with you plan to keep the factory rubber bush setup

Fuel line bash plate is starting to look a little worse for ware but is definatly doing the job its ment to