Dai Yoshihara’s 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild Continued!

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The carbon fiber mid car bay contains the dry sump tank, oil filter, engine oil cooler, battery, and fire system. 
 

The engine management is a Motec 880 with a CDL display and a PDM 15 handling power distribution.  The mil-spec wire harness and tuning is done by James Lin Motorsports. The pedal box, proportioning valve and master cylinders are Jamar Performance Products parts. 

Eimer Engineering fabricated the e-brake system and a Long shifter rows the G-Force GRS transmission worked over by RTS.

 

Under the car, you can see the dry sump tank and the bulkhead fittings for coolant, fuel, and oil.

The bulkhead fittings clean up the lines in this area and make maintenance and repairability a lot quicker and easier. 

 

Bulkhead fitting also greatly cleaned up the clump of hoses in the engine compartment. Previously, this area was a snake of steel-braided hose. A tidy snake, but a snake never the less; that was not the easiest thing to work around. 

Now there is much more room in this area to get tools in to work on, repair and maintain the car's many fluid moving systems. It's easier to get at the rearmost plugs too. The blue and red nipples on the aluminum coolant line are air bleeds.

Stay tuned. Dai's car is getting a full race turbocharged LS motor built by the MotoIQ Garage, and the car will commence some shakedown runs before it is officially rolled out for FD's media day in a week!

The team has more tweaks going into the chassis, and this thing looks really good for Long Beach right now!

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