TDiddy Drifting

Work Sleep Work Party Sleep Car

2012-01-28T20:23:00.000-08:00

It been some time but the car is still around. In the last month or so Iv been work a LOT so car has gone by the way side but I'm still got plans for 2012. Iv got the sub frame out and I need to get a new one, because my diff bolts wouldn't come out so I had to cut them not happy. My diff cover cracked so I'm going to need a new diff cover too. As far as my cockpit I'm painting it white (painting a cage with glass in sucks) and just picked up a ASD hand brake so that's going to be fun and also got 2 of the 4 z32 rear brakes yet duel rear calipers.

My rear wiring harness

still need to pull it

One thing that I took for granted was my old garage, but with the move it been fun tyring to find room for stuff so I have also done a little organizing.

Im Back

2011-12-17T17:05:00.000-08:00

Well this year was fun even though its been about 4 mounths from my last up date.

I will be updating more oftern.

Some stuf thats going on

I did some fixen

So much bad news.

2011-08-24T11:23:00.000-07:00

So I failed I didnt drive Round 4 at Nashville Superspeedway. My clutch went out at the Drift Indy Rage. and I didn't have time to fix it.

Event Flyers

2011-08-05T18:31:00.001-07:00

It Been Some Time Know

2011-08-05T18:29:00.000-07:00

Well its been some time since my last update. Well as of two weeks ago I started a new job and after four week of not having a computer I'm back. My car is good shap for the most part unfortunely someone tryed to cut my rear brake lines and ended up just cuting half way thru so I got new braided stainless brake lines for the rear.

Unfortunely I didnt make it to I.A. even thought I was offered a spot for drifting and a place to stay, but it was at last minute so I couldn't go.

As for the next Event I will be attending, it will be another DriftIdy Rage Event next Fiday. So I'll see you there and I will also be attending MDU Round 3 in Tennessee but I will be runing a 205/50/15 instead of a 195/65/15 which should help me out a little with this high speed track.

Next Weekends Events

2011-07-02T18:11:00.000-07:00

Next Friday July 8 Drift Indy Rage Three at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis in the parking lot from 4pm to midnight and on Saturday July 9 right next to the parking lot on the oval track Midwest Drift Union Round Three at noon.

Were It's At
Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis
10267 E Us Highway 136
Indianapolis, IN

Clutch

2011-07-02T17:59:00.000-07:00

So I decided to work on the car a little this weekend seeing that DriftIndy Rage and Midwest Drift Union Round 3 are next weekend. I got the transmission off and the clutch was fucked.

New Clutch

Also

2011-06-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

I got new side skirts and re-did my front lip with plaid duct tape.

This was Friday morning.

Drift Indy Rage 2

2011-06-23T15:13:00.000-07:00

Let me start out by saying DriftIndy Rage 2 was a blast! My friend Jimmy let me use his trailer to pull my car to the event so I did not have to worry about my car messing up. With that being said, I had a little too much fun taping walls, by the end of the night I tap the wall nine times. Which was fun, but now I have to pull my quarter panels out and need to get new taillights and that trim piece. I dont think I'll be taping walls as much! I also had my clutch go but I can't complain its stock with 107,000 miles on it and I've been drifting this clutch for the last year and I'm not nice to it.

One the way up

Time for the media

My damages

Drift Indy Rage Two

2011-06-16T23:25:00.000-07:00

This Friday Drift Indy Rage two at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Be there from

4pm to Midnight.

http://mdudrift.com/forum/index.php?topic=6200.0

$10 to get in

Vote For T2

2011-06-14T00:55:00.000-07:00

T2 Mike need your help to get some sponsor help. So do your part and VOTE you can vote once a day.

T2mikedrifting.webs.com

Some Cool Stuff

2011-05-26T19:19:00.000-07:00

I found this video from Mark Lenardon of Round two.

http://vimeo.com/24296030

Also DriftIndy said some stuff about me and I though I share it with You.

http://www.driftindy.com/

Updates

2011-05-22T14:12:00.000-07:00

Well it's been some time since my last update on what is going on with TDiddy Drifting and its been crazy busy! Well I ended up not going to Road Atlanta, my ride bailed on me at the last minute, but I did catch some of it on drift stream. I give props to my friends Mike Feiock and Mike Skudlarek.

On Friday the 13th Drift Indy was back and had a small space in the O'Relly Race Way Park parking lot. I have to say it was a lot of fun just burning off tires, supposely there was a layout, but I didn't know what it was so, I just had fun taping walls and making lots of smoke (ka smoke).

I did hear that the next Drift Indy Event will have a bigger space so maybe even some third gear (keep your fingers crossed). As for Midwest Drift Union Round 2 it was cold, wet, and windy. I did good in pratice and was happy with the track but it dryed up right before qualfing and I only got two pratice laps before qualfing and ended up spinning both times, but I did not spin on my qualfing laps but still didn't have enough to qualfy in the top eight. I didn't have any car problems untill the drive home. My exhaust kept falling off and I had to jimmy-rigged it with zip ties and wire. I also got a little hole in my radiator so I had some over heating issues. I have to thank Josh from Team One Way for stopping on the side of the highway to help me fix my car. I got my exhaust fixed and it's even a little bit quieter, so it won't be so bad on long drives to tracks. I still need to fix the leak in my cooling system.

Round Two Results

1) Bill Cook
2) Kris Hackensen
3) Adam Ouziel
4) Cody Tobe

Time for Media

I also did a little mudding

Driver meating

Some Videos I found

My Exhaust

At least 40 miles of draging on the ground and 70mph

My Friend Greg Is a better welder then me so he did it and did a good job for having a pos welder.

New ish exhaust.

ps I dont like Michigan

The Month of May

2011-04-26T19:27:00.000-07:00

As most people know the month of May ia a big thing in Indiana. As it will be for me too, I have made plans to go the the first Drift Indy Event of 2011. Its going to be at Lucas Oil Raceway (aka IRP). This is just a fun day but its Drift Indy, so if the drifting sucks there is alwas an afterparty that's dop. I am also planing on going to Autocity. I went to this track last year and wrecked, so this year i'm going allout. Plus I have just enough power to do this track.

The drift Indy event is May 13 you can find all the information at http://mdudrift.com/forum/index.php?topic=5988.0

The Midwest Drift Union Round 2 is May 15 and you can find all the information at http://mdudrift.com/forum/index.php?topic=5926.0

I my also go to other events in May and if I do I will be sure to let you know, but as of right now these are the only events that I know for sure.

Road Trip

2011-04-18T21:52:00.000-07:00

Went to Ohio with the 240 last weekend. The car ran great.

I stop by my friend Cody's house, he had just painted and installed his BN blister aero.

Looks lower then it is.

I crashed at my friends place in Lima. Liam has a huge auto school so lots of car enthusiast. That sc300 has a 1jz, the white hatch has a rb20, and that blue thing. My friend Jelani is building a 1j s14, full track car. We also finely installed my front main seal (no more leaks) and a fan switch so I don't have to pop my hood everytime I turn them one.

In Ohio looking at Indiana Sunday night on the drive home.

Found More Pictures

2011-04-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Formula Drift Long Beach Qualifying

2011-04-08T15:38:00.000-07:00

Driver:                    Car #:   Score:
1   C. Grunewald     #79       93
2   D. Yoshihara      #9         92.9
3   K. Mohan          #99       92.2
4   M. Powers         #665     87.6
5   R. Millen            #6         86.5
6   D. McNamara   #8         85.7
7   W. Wilkerson    #95       84.8
8   T. McQuarrie    #17       84.3
9   J. Russakoff      #85       82.5
10 R. Tuerck        #44       81.8
11 J. Pawlak         #13       81
12 M. Field          #777    80.9
13 M. Waldin       #23     80.5
14 J. Abbott         #518    80.3
15 R. Petty           #808    79.5
16 C. Forsberg    #64     79.2
17 M. Essa          #101    78.7
18 K. Gushi          #33     78.6
19 D. Mertzanis   #323    76
20 C. Ng             #84     72.5
21 A. Pfeiffer       #88     72.3
22 C. Martinez     #951    71
23 J. Maeng         #51     70.7
24 F. Aasbo        #151    70.4
25 T. Aono          #86     69.1
26 O. Graven       #113    68.4
27 M. Feiock       #222    63.6
28 D. Kearney     #43     61.8
29 J. Jones           #29     61.4
30 P. Mordaunt    #90     58.9
31 O. Bachis        #723    54.3
32 T. Yoshioka    #21     47.7

Pictures

2011-04-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

My plug Wires came off.

Pictures

2011-04-05T15:21:00.000-07:00

Pictures by

Matthew A Zick's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jst1cam/

Pictures

2011-04-04T19:54:00.001-07:00

Found two videos

2011-04-04T18:36:00.000-07:00

Just some fun on the track

First tandem run (this was not a good run).

Pictures and Videos

2011-04-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

I'll post pictures and videos as I find them, but until then here is a really bad video.

MDU Round 1 Standings

2011-04-04T15:36:00.000-07:00

1. Kris Hackenson 35pts
2. Nick Thomas 28pts
3. Mike Pollard 25pts
4. Brian Peter 22pts
5. Bill Cook 20pts
6. Keith Carlos 18pts
7. Ryan Nalezyty 16pts
8. Thomas Lange 14pts
9. Jake Maturen 12pts
10. Juan Marquez 10pts
11. Caleb Nichols 8pts
12. Chris Gonzalez 6pts
13. Tomas Blangiardo 4pts
14. Josh Clay 2pts
15. Jason Schmidt 1pts

Congratulations to Kris Hackenson for finshing first and for putting on a hell of a show.
I qualified 11 and had 2 tandem battles.

Better Late Then Never

2011-04-04T15:35:00.000-07:00

Fire Suit.

Still need to paint the cage but it's all back together.

Cage is in

2011-03-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

Finally after two months on jack stands, it's back on the street.

The roll cage is done and I'm very happy with the results. I can run full door panels and it's not touching my seat. Cody does good work. But the work is not done. I still have to put back some of my interior and install my 5-points. O and my front main seal started to leak oil today while I was doing my alinemient. So my friend Jelani is going to help me replace it Friday and help me get my car ready for this Sunday. MDU round 1 is this Sunday, it's going to be BIG.

I had my friend Jorge Vega make me up some vinyls to represent TdiddyDrifting on my car. If you want one get at me and I'll see what I can do.

Dash Board Work

2011-03-21T10:45:00.000-07:00

I made some vent block off plates.

This is what it looks like when I was finished.

I also have my old HUD dash for sale if someones interested.

I also painted my black wheels a primer grey. Once I change the tires they will be good as new.

Congratulations Mike Skudlarek

2011-03-13T21:12:00.000-07:00

I would like to say congratulations to Mike Skudlarek for qualifying 7th at XDC Irwindale. Mike is an up in come drivers in Formula Drift and XDC.

http://www.mikeskudlarek.com

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=772275971

Round 1 for Midwest Drift Union

2011-03-13T13:58:00.000-07:00

This will be my first event for 2011. I'm paid and got plenty of tires.

List of thing to get the car ready for 2011

alignment

paint the interior

put the interior back in

get a fire suit

get gloves

passanger side harnes

rear view mirror

roll bar padding

and maybe even a hydraulic hand brake

Cars at codys

2011-03-13T13:37:00.000-07:00

Cody working on Bwags car. This car will be really nice.

Seats In

2011-03-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

Finally my seat in, so the car goes to cody tomorrow.

Back on the Ground

2011-03-09T19:24:00.000-08:00

Well the car is back on the ground, I got the suspension on and my new steering wheel came in.

Still waiting on my seat.

Monday parts are in

2011-03-07T11:12:00.000-08:00

Battle Version Tension and Toe arms also Nagisa ultra low Sliders.

Mike Feiock’s New Look for 2011

2011-03-06T15:25:00.000-08:00

A friend and mentor in drifting Mike Feiock got his pro license last fall and has done some work. He is planing on driving the first event out in Long Beach, with little more power and a new paint scheme.

Coming together

2011-03-05T13:15:00.000-08:00

I fixed my power steering leak, put my sway bar back on, and my bumper on. As soon as my suspension parts come in and my seat I will be bring my car to Cody's to get it caged.

Weekend Work

2011-03-01T16:44:00.000-08:00

So my boy Jim came over and we finally got the sound insulating out. Still have more work to do but the big stuff is out, I only have to do the fenders.

Finished the sunroof delete, painted and all

Seat and rails should be in soon, same with my steering wheel.

More updates later.

Sunroof

2011-02-21T20:59:00.000-08:00

So my boy Jim finished the install on my sunroof delete.

Now it just needs paint.

Cage Time

2011-02-17T19:49:00.000-08:00

Tonight I called my friend Cody who builds roll cages in his spare time. He said he will cage my car, so plans have been made so it's time to finish my cage prep.

Not the best photos, but you get the picture he does good work

Update on the drift car

2011-02-13T15:17:00.000-08:00

So I didn't have much time to work on the car as I would have liked, I ended up going to Cincinnita on Saturday and somehow it ended up taking up most of my day. But I did get some work done on Sunday. I finally removed the sunroof, on the down side no sunroof but on the up side less weight and my head will stop hiting it.

Its still not finshed.

leftovers

Get Nuts Lab

2011-02-09T20:47:00.000-08:00

I saw this the other day and can't stop watching. I know it's just parking lot drifting but the tandem is Fing sweet. Enjoy

Weekend Work

2011-01-30T14:50:00.000-08:00

This weekend I went home to my parents to work on my car. But I have to say I had some motivation problems, with my power steering line not wanting to work. But I was albe to get the left side kunckles and tie rod and end installed and I measured out 48 degrees of angle with the new tie rods and ends.

Winter upgrades

2011-01-23T18:45:00.000-08:00

PBM RUCA

PBM Tie Rods

geting ready for cage

Summer 2010 part 3

2011-01-23T18:37:00.000-08:00

Got some coilovers

Went to an event at Gateway

My first 3rd gear course (on stock KA)

Went to the last MDU drift event

my first rain event lots of fun.

My last event I went to was at columbus Motor speedway.

My Boy Mike in the FC, the last day for that car!

2011 MDU schedule

2011-01-13T19:06:00.001-08:00

2010 Mayhem

2011-01-13T17:39:00.000-08:00

This car has been drifted

Aspec 7-25

Aftermath

Wall tap at Speeddrome.

7-4

Summer 2010 Part 2

2011-01-13T17:20:00.000-08:00

Some more photos of the season I got a little better but I ended up taping a wall at the Speeddrome while competing for a roll cage.

Black cars, Big Fat wheels and Vega's

2011-01-12T12:41:00.000-08:00

Some Drifters form Vega's

Summer 2010 Part 1

2011-01-12T12:24:00.000-08:00

I drove my first on April 17 I didn't do much but it was fun.

My second event fun.

I got some smoke but from the wrong end.

My 3rd event was at speeddrome it's a fun and small track. I would recommend a track like this for noods, it halped me a lot.

I also had some wiring problems.

It started on April 11 2010

2011-01-11T18:28:00.001-08:00

I found the car on craigslist in Tennessee for $3200 it was in perfect shape except it needed all four tires. So I went to the nearest tire store and got four new tires so the car was $3450. I will never buy a s13 for drifting that costes $3200 again.

Later that night when I was geting gas heading home, she was soo clean.

Supper clean interior and everything worked and full power.

It did come with an aluminum radiator, megen header, test pipe and isis exhaust.