A purists nightmare - E46 drift build

[Tkuhn]

Swapped out my valve cover tonight. The one I had on the car has roughly 200k on it and leaked when under high revving for extended periods of time last year, aka drifting lol. 

A big thank you to @Earl for picking it up for me since I work till 430!

Also raised the rear a bit so it isn't as sacked out in the rear.

[Jdesign]

I saw a snapchat of this thing all lit up at night. Where are your pix and info on the night lights? I assume all LEDs? I dig it!

[Tkuhn]

Jdesign said:

I saw a snapchat of this thing all lit up at night. Where are your pix and info on the night lights? I assume all LEDs? I dig it!

I was saving that fun info for when I get a decent photo! Hahahah

[Tkuhn]

DD71 went very well. Didn't have any major issues besides my first set of drift spares rubbing on the passenger side coilover. (Because I never test fitted anything lol) luckily we had spacers to solve that problem, but the car definatly needs a real alignment beyond our toe plate/angle gauge good enough alignment haha.

The car stayed relatively cool for the fact that it's getting thrashed on hard. Was 96 at the hottest point all weekend and engine temps didn't go over 216 and went right back down after a cool down lap

Overall I'm extremely happy with the cars performance, while of course I want more power haha. But it is extremely controllable and predictable, which I didn't realize how loose and blah my sedan was. Definatly more adjustments to make but I'm so excited to learn more with a solid chassis under me

[Tkuhn]

Well I did have one thing up my sleeve that @Jdesign already called me out on hahah. 

I had this kit on my civic and I kept it for this car.

It's a XK Glow xkChrome exterior and interior kit. Bluetooth controlled and all that fun stuff with a shit ton of color options and patterns. I also installed a strobe kit on the car but I don't have any good videos of it yet. 

[Tkuhn]

[Rekpoint]

Kailr needs to hurry back to stout so he can take some cool pictures of my car !!!!!

[Jdesign]

That looks killer. Do you have any close up pics of the actual lights?

[Tkuhn]

Jdesign said:

That looks killer. Do you have any close up pics of the actual lights?

I don't, but what I like about the xk stuff is the exterior strips are solid ones not a stick on rolled up ribbon if that makes sense.

[Jdesign]

Tkuhn said:

I don't, but what I like about the xk stuff is the exterior strips are solid ones not a stick on rolled up ribbon if that makes sense.

That does. Like this:

[Bassboy3313]

Man! This brings back memories. I installed actual neon tube underglow on my Hyundai Tiburon back in high school. Was the talk of the town.

[Jdesign]

Bassboy3313 said:

Man! This brings back memories. I installed actual neon tube underglow on my Hyundai Tiburon back in high school. Was the talk of the town. 

everything always comes full circle

[Tkuhn]

Jdesign said:

That does. Like this:

Correct, but that is v1, the v2 connects directly at the end of the strips instead of having wires come out of the ends with connections.

[Tkuhn]

Bassboy3313 said:

Man! This brings back memories. I installed actual neon tube underglow on my Hyundai Tiburon back in high school. Was the talk of the town. 

Hell Yea! I'm 25 so when I got into cars I was at the end of all that fun I'd say. Always wanted underglow and once my 7 year build on the civic was at a certain level I pulled the trigger haha and then when I parted the civic I kept the kit for this car.

[patsbimmer1]

I love the underglow!  I had neons on my Jeep Cherokee Sport in high school and almost burnt it down from my terrible wiring job.  Ahhh memories...

[Daggerty]

Bassboy3313 said:

Man! This brings back memories. I installed actual neon tube underglow on my Hyundai Tiburon back in high school. Was the talk of the town. 

I had the tube ones also and the sides shattered in a few days. Purple man

[Jdesign]

Damn!! Im like the only one that hasn't had underglow. I did have a lowrider bike that was purple and I had purple neon underglow on that.  I need to see if I can find (actual Polaroid) pictures.

[Tkuhn]

Been a bit since an update! 

Did a few things before DD72 last weekend.

Put the stock front sway bar back on the car to eliminate some of the body roll in the from end that I believed was causing the car to grip up a bit too much. I had shortened end links that came with my coils but when I ran them on the sedan last year they caused binding due to the angle kit and actually bent the mounting tabs on the shock body. Did some testing with the stock end links and they worked out perfectly!

Also changed up the front tire size from a 205/40 to a 215/35 which in turn gave me alot more room to lower the front of the car, it was killing me looks wise at the original height. Ended up being able to lower the front end 7/8" more with the new tires! 

Oh and unrelated to things that needed to be done before drift day I also snagged a new quarter window motor from a yard since my driver side one was dead. Made me so happy to have both rear windows functioning! 

DD72 went really well and I'm pleased with getting a front sway bar back on the car along with the new height and tire set up in front! 

[patsbimmer1]

I love it!  Looks good out there!

[Tkuhn]

Random update:

Not much to report. Got some new drift spares and the car has been great even after yet another 2 day event of straight beating on the car! 

New drift spares are enkeis from an Evo X. 18x8.5 +38, good specs for bow but definatly want to get some 3 piece spares over this winter.