DiarmaidE36
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So for a start, my names Diarmaid im 19 and from Ireland, Decided to start a build thread just to keep track of everything ive done to the car so far. To make a long story short ive had a decent amount of rwds since i was 16, mostly e36s and used to do a few drift days. Moved to college and had to buy a road car so that was the end of my drifting. Had a corolla which lasted about two months before i blew the engine and then bought an e36 318i as a daily. Kept that on the road for a while but never had the power for decent drifting unless it was raining heavy. Decided to take it off the road and do an engine conversion but i lost interest in it and it sits in my garage still. Badly missing having a rwd daily i sold my passat and went with a friend to buy a pair of is200's. 1300 euro later we had them home. i had only intended to keep the lexus for the upcoming donegal rally and then sell it on again, so i could use the money to build my 36. Things got out of hand though and i still have it 
dont have many photos from early on because i keep breaking phones but heres a few with terrible instagram filters
Didnt last long as standard, bought some lowering springs for the front and cut springs for the rear for 5 euro
bought a broken trd front lip, gave it a quick fix and threw it on. Also did a diy job on the headlights, which were split and sprayed black.
Bough some cheap wheels next and sold the standard wheels, as i hate the whole "altezza rep" look that everyone goes for in ireland. Got a pair of 17x9 stitch precious for the rear and 17x8 rays for the front. Nothing special but they did for a while.
After that i put in an altezza 1.5 lsd, as this only had an open diff being an se model. Also got a big 4 inch backbox onto it for a bit of noise
Was scrolling through facebook one evening when i came upon two sets of volk Gr-c wheels up for 400. jumped in the car and headed half way across the country and picked them up that night. Ended up getting both sets of wheels, adapters and 25mm spacers for 350. Put on some new tyres and threw them on and fell in love. Picked up a set of carbon fiber eyebrows and 13x7 plates at the same time. Ended up looking like a new car
Headed for Donegal then and spent the whole weekend driving the shit out of the lexus. Between wall taps and bouncing limiter it survived the weekend and got us home in one piece.
Didnt do much with the car for a while and put it up for sale but put a years NCT on it and decided to keep it.
As the car was back on standard suspension for its test I bought a set of eBay MSR coilovers instead of putting the cut springs back in. theyre nothing special by any means but working on a budget and plan on changing them in the future. Other than that i just did a bit of streeto whenever it rained. Bent my drivers wing coming down a corkscrew hill sideways when the wheel caught the arch so had to stiffen up the coilovers.
Car was getting a bit rough around the edges after clipping walls and cracking the paint on 3 of the arches but i wasnt too bothered as it gets drifted most days.
dont have many photos from early on because i keep breaking phones but heres a few with terrible instagram filters Didnt last long as standard, bought some lowering springs for the front and cut springs for the rear for 5 euro
bought a broken trd front lip, gave it a quick fix and threw it on. Also did a diy job on the headlights, which were split and sprayed black. Bough some cheap wheels next and sold the standard wheels, as i hate the whole "altezza rep" look that everyone goes for in ireland. Got a pair of 17x9 stitch precious for the rear and 17x8 rays for the front. Nothing special but they did for a while.
After that i put in an altezza 1.5 lsd, as this only had an open diff being an se model. Also got a big 4 inch backbox onto it for a bit of noise
Was scrolling through facebook one evening when i came upon two sets of volk Gr-c wheels up for 400. jumped in the car and headed half way across the country and picked them up that night. Ended up getting both sets of wheels, adapters and 25mm spacers for 350. Put on some new tyres and threw them on and fell in love. Picked up a set of carbon fiber eyebrows and 13x7 plates at the same time. Ended up looking like a new car
Headed for Donegal then and spent the whole weekend driving the shit out of the lexus. Between wall taps and bouncing limiter it survived the weekend and got us home in one piece.
Didnt do much with the car for a while and put it up for sale but put a years NCT on it and decided to keep it.
As the car was back on standard suspension for its test I bought a set of eBay MSR coilovers instead of putting the cut springs back in. theyre nothing special by any means but working on a budget and plan on changing them in the future. Other than that i just did a bit of streeto whenever it rained. Bent my drivers wing coming down a corkscrew hill sideways when the wheel caught the arch so had to stiffen up the coilovers.
Car was getting a bit rough around the edges after clipping walls and cracking the paint on 3 of the arches but i wasnt too bothered as it gets drifted most days.
Got up the next morning and hit for wgh. Went for scrutinizing and realised i forgot to bring a tow strap for the front so i had to run no front bumper so there was access to the standard tow eye if i went off track. 
