Turnkey Drift Car anybody?

[Jim1234664]

was thinking the same thing.

that seems like a lot of stuff for just 20k

ive noticed that with heavily modded 240’s there comes a point of diminishing returns as far as resale

if you’re looking for an s13 drift car you can get one caged with an sr and full suspension for under 10k, it just wont be super d1 spec

[mechanicalmadness]

Wrong,

The import guys hate it, because pushrods suck.
The domestic guys hate it, because they tainted the godly LS1 with an imported shell.

Agreed. But ya push rods suck, and this is coming from a former Camaro kid.

There is a reason people call cars with V8’s swapped in them “lumps” . But like anything. if done properly I guess it aight by me.

[66impalass]

why do people build drift cars out of the very few RWD imports, mainly just 240’s, when there are a ton of more powerful domestic options that are much better starting platforms for the $? I mean, that’s obviously an exception, but the whole crew that ends up spending 10k to buy and build up a mild 240 just seems like they would be better served doing it to a fox bod or LT/LS1 car…

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It likely has to do with the origins (location) of drifting more than anything else. I suppose I can’t fault anyone for trying to stay somewhat pure to the “sport”.

This is the begening of it. Basically people where buying cheap, easy to find RWD cars in japan, none of which are mustangs or f-bodies, and started modifying them to “Drift”. Essentially the root of the sport is in cheap cars, which is why the dude in Hawaii is rocking a third gen and doing well with it, it is essentially a cheap, high power, easily modified, rwd car thats disposable due to production numbers.