E30 Zone

took my car out yesterday for a play trying to learn to drift it - anyway james (driftybolox - on here - even though the traitor has sold his e30) who is quite useful demonstrates a novel parking technique next to my e30:

http://www.racecar.net/driftvids/parking.mpg

crap video of one of the few times the e30 was not spun into oblivion during the learning process - which is definitely ongoing:

http://www.racecar.net/driftvids/rubbish.mpg

anyway james then took me out in my beemer at the close of play and proved whilst drifting it at 90mph(!) - there is nothing wrong with the car - just the regular muppet behind the wheel!

Very nice mate!

Where is that you are practising, airfields that allow that sort of behaviour are in very short supply!

it was at bruntinghtorpe in leicester - this was just at the close of play - when no one was using this loop and by prior permission on the radio etc etc ...u know the drill

anyway bit of a trot from guildford and cheeks are still suffering from a 2.5 hr journey home sitting in buckets with a car with fairly stiff suspension - although norfolk would not be too far away i guess

Looks like you had fun, nice and sideways from your mate

I was out at brands last week in my mates elise and he got black flagged for too much sideways action "this is not a drift day" the marshal said

Looks like fun, i will have to do it some day.

looks like you had fun dude!

what's the spec on you car?

Did you say you're in Guildford?

i think a lot of tracks are pretty cagey about people drifting all over the place - went to a test day at donington in february driving a spaceframed mid engined uniroyal beetle and a guy from ukd1 was drifting his e46 m3 and some of the punters got a bit twitchy about "unsafe driving". in fairness the guy in question was pretty good and made sure he had his fun away from other cars on the track - but i think one guy fell off following him - cos he was too busy watching the spectacle going onto redgate - - but noise is also an issue - drifting on dry tarmac often sparks up the dreaded noise meters

- car is a 2.7 with 284 6 branch etc etc caged/h&r's stripped out - have ordered megasquirt from ant which will hopefully mean that the motronic can be drop kicked soon - built with low 9.1 c:r for iminent m90 installation + ported head supposed to be collected at the end of the week - try and get it fitted b4 zone rolling south road day on the 11th - but might be a bit tight timewise

- yeah based nr guildford - work in shere live in wonersh

bonus video james has uploaded - just his cefiro - but quite good:



http://www.alleyjax.co.uk/jamestemp/vids/Cef.wmv

What diff are you using in the E30?

James is fairly handy! Slight understatement! lol How many cars has that guy been through!

james has been drifting since 2001 - organised first uk drift event - and yes he has gone through a lot of cars

diff -=lsd whatever ratio came with sport i guess - bit of transmission shunt now - might have to investigate that further

nice. supercharged 2.7, that's gonna be awesome!!! How much boost you expecting to put on it?

another local zoner wehay!

tha makes two from guildford simon from bracknell and hoshy in kingston!

finally some zone activity in surrey lol

I reckon a trip down boxhill one night would be a laugh. (I'll start a thread so we don't hijack this one...)

easy guys, race car i saw your car in shere last summer, did you have black rims on it before? ive got a black sport 1 as well, how about that next boxhill meet dude?

yeah thats the one - i probably will go to the next meet @boxhill

cool fella