Project STurdteen: Building the Competitive Drift Car from a Pile
Rathyna Gomer is MotoIQ’s sales manager but in her other life she is a Pro-Am drifter. We are in the process of rebuilding her 350Z competition car and due to its complexity the process is taking a while. In order for her to have a ride for the 2016 season, we decided to do some upgrades to her practice car, an S13 with the venerable SR20DET.
For a practice missile car, her S13 is pretty decently built but since it is a missile car, it has seen better days. The car has been worked over by a conveniently placed practice lot pole and by doing tandem with a random on a drift day. That and Rathyna’s habit of doing body repairs by backing her car into the wall at balcony has left the old S13 in a state of ugly.
The car has a decent set of basic drift mods already but we are going to take the car to the next level and rework the engine, suspension and brakes.