Rx8 “budget” drift car build

[RossLathey]

So I’m abit late to the party with posting on forums in 2022 but I miss the old days of scrolling forums endlessly rather than watching crap on TikTok.

I’ve been building this car for about a year now and thought I’d share what I have done and what I’m going to do moving forward as it helped me seeing what others have done and then posted.


The car started off as a £600 44k on the clock completely stock with working everything

 

[RossLathey]

The body kit is a mix of Rx7 and S13 extended and shorted where needed

 

[RossLathey]

The suspension is max speeding rods (cheap crap) on tein 14kg springs all round with raised rear top mounts

destroy or die full front lock kit

custom rear toe arms to correct alignment

 

[RossLathey]

Arrived with the car pretty clean and proceeded to get beached in the pits

 

[RossLathey]

Managed to run the bank taking some mud with me in the defuser had a slight bump with a mx5 and killed a pair of tyres and was linking 75% of the track one a few runs on a wet day so I think that can be put down as a successful first day

 

[RossLathey]

Car was not great this time I’d messed around with wheels and alignment and it just didn’t like the small front wheels and with the lack of stretch the tyres catching the inner arch would cause issues on the big flicks

 

[RossLathey]

Damaged my front wheels on pot holes on the layout

Cracked the rear light hitting a tyre on the rear defuser

smashed the skirts and bumper (again)

 

[s98rehm]

Car looks bad ass! keep the updates coming.

 

[SE3P]

Dude are those s13 side skirts

 

[KolbyDunlap]

You did something unbelievable. When I spotted pics of this car, I thought that you bought one in good condition until I scrolled through your posts.