Always loved reading through forums on here of other people’s builds and wanted to have a go at one to remember these last 3 months of putting the car together. I had plans to start the thread once I began building the car & gradually update it as I went along but time was not on my side & would’ve been far too much.
Bit of a short backstory on my drifting to date. Went to my first Irish Drift Championship event with my Dad & brother in 2018 at a very wet Punchestown which left me absolutely amazed and instantly fell in love with the sport. Roll on February 2019, on my 21st birthday weekend my brother and I double drove our e36 we bought together at the Drift games Bash in Mondello Park for our first outing. Both of us were left hooked instantly which led to many drift days over the last few years and I branched off to get my own car, a grey 328 e36 so we could tandem together as this always was the goal.
After the December 2022 Drift games bash I was on the fence of wether to compete this year or not but wasn’t 100% decided. But a great friend of mine by the name of Rory Raza Malone really hyped me up and gave me the push I needed to really commit.
So first step was to find a clean shell as my previous e36 was quite rusty and not worth pushing on with.
I picked up a rolling shell that I knew was sitting at a shed not far from where I live for many years and would be a perfect base to build upon. (Funnily enough I had actually tried to buy the same car two years previous before I had bought my grey car, but I’m hindsight glad I hadn’t as at the time, it would’ve been way too big of an undertaken)
It’s a really clean rolling shell that was very stripped with no loom, pedals, brakes, glass etc but already had a solid cage.
My plans before going down and collecting the car were to swap my 328 running gear into it and run that for the season.
However once I came down to collect the car I had found out the owner also had a non-vvti 1uz lying about that was originally supposed to go into the car. Once I had mentally committed to competing it kept crossing my mind that with a little bit more power it would make the car some what competitive especially since it’s gunna cost so much karting the car around the country,might aswell give myself some shot. However, I knew I hadn’t all the time in the world as my first test day was 3 months away and it was going to be a very big commitment while also having to travel up to Dublin to work in office 3 days a week for my first job out of college during this time.
Anyways, once I heard he still had the engine, for me in my head it was perfect and an no brainer, I was gunna make it work.
Car came rolling with alot of the body panels / glass as well as an IRP v1 lock kit, a nice fuel cell, Bosch 040 external pump, is200 box and some other little bits and was decently priced in my eyes at €4000 all in.
So this was the starting point.
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