So SEMA’s coming up, my badge was delivered yesterday, so now it’s to time figure out “what I am doing next season?” which brings me to my next topic, American Drifting.  What’s going on with American Drifting for 2009?  I’ve heard a few murmurs out there, but it looks like the only Professional American Drifting out there is FormulaD.  Now I have no problem with FormulaD or American Drifting, unlike some people these days, but I would like some place to compete in 2009. I just don’t “fit” into FormulaD, I don’t have the backing yet.  I have been reading up on the Canadian Drift Series, Drift Mania, and I think I will fit in there.  Ryan T-U-E-R-C-K (Thanks Tony) did VERY well up there a few seasons ago, and a few of my friends went up there this seasons for a few events and had a blast.  So, it  looks like I’ll be pushing DMCC while I’m at SEMA which brings me to my next point, Money.  I have none.  I like money.  So does drifting.  So does my car that’s not done yet.  So does Las Vegas.  Without money, I can’t go to SEMA to try to GET money to compete in DMCC.  My house likes money too.  They TV broke two weeks ago, and if you have to get a new TV you might as well upgrade soooooo, 52″ LCD it was.  There’s some SEMA money right there.  Speaking of my house, we’re remodeling the bathroom.  It’s going to be awesome, but awesome costs money.  And guess what?  The first payment to the contractor is due the day before SEMA starts.  doesn’t look too good.  Alright, alright enough of the sob story, I’ll figure something out.  You know how it is, everything is last minute.

Back to drifting.  GTLive & FormulaD Pro-Am is next weekend.  I’m running up there to check it out, I’ll post pics!

Here’s the TV: (Amercian Dad finished while I was writing this, so Family Guy is on)

House Stuff:  The bathroom sink and vanity

Jeeze, OK, what have I been up to? Lots has gone on since my last update, so here’s a quick (or not) recap. I’ve been extremely busy working on the car and working on other projects here and there. Two weeks ago right before FormulaD ATL, we had the opportunity of going to the premiere of Drift Alliance’s new movie “Stay Hungry.” If you don’t have this yet, GO OUT AND BUY IT! This movie is awesome, the DA guys have definitely outdone themselves with this film. Have you bought it yet?!?! go to www.thedashop.com now!

Pictures from the premiere:

The DA crew

The dM crew!

Next up, was finishing John Marsh’s car before FormulaD to put in the Mazda booth. Yancey had built him a new motor that needed to go in. Marsh has a widebody Miata, if you were at FD you saw it, if you weren’t, there’s a few pictures below

Right after the motor went in, looking to make sure everything was running right:

After that, we decided to drop the wrenches and enjoy a good, relaxing weekend at the track. Well, as soon as I got to Road Atlanta on Saturday, Justin Pawlak comes up to me asking for a car. Long story short, he went to get his car tuned early that morning, and it blew up on the dyno. So after about 3 hours of making calls, and finding out that any car I could think of was being repaired from NOPI E-town, we tried to roll Struka’s car through tech. I knew it would fail on a couple of things, but I was just concerned with the cage. If the cage would pass, we could fix everything else, but the cage did not pass. So no ride for JTP.

The event was awesome! Great driving from everyone, and lots of close battles! It was nice to go to an event and just relax and watch some good drifting, but at the same time it pained me not being out there.

But anyway, the podium was:

1. Rhys Millen (Bridgestone Tires/Exedy Pontiac Solstice)
2. Michihiro Takatori (Super Autobachs Nissan Skyline)
3. Ryan Tuerck (Gardella Racing/Mobil 1/Maxxis Tires Pontiac Solstice)

Now for some pics!

Marsh’s car:

“Big guys in a little car……..” Patrick and Marlow in my street car:

Me and Carluch:

Shameless Plug

Forsberg was killing it all weekend, but lost first round to Takatori

That Sunday, Sonja and I were taking Jacob and Thao from EDRFT.com around the city when JTP calls again, looking for a place to leave his rig. So now, I have this lawn ornament for the next two weeks. I think I might take it for a spin

Race car talk! She got a new wiring harness. The old harness was a ‘96 which was OBDII, but had been re-wired for my OBDI LINK ECU. I put a ‘94 OBDI harness in to eliminate any wiring issues that may come up. The ECU was completely re-soldered to make sure all connections are good, the heater core was replaced, and my supercharger was completely rebuilt by Magnuson. The new motor is coming along really well, the head was just picked up from the machine shop, and all the bearings and rings will be here Tuesday. I’m hoping to have the motor complete by this weekend.

DJ James came by today and we put in a new soft top. This is the first time I’ve put a NA top in a NB and I like how it looks.

Tops:

Installed:

Greg changed the wheel bearings in his WRX:

Wiring harness, heater core, and A/C Delete pipe in:

Dash back in:

Well, I think that’s about it. I’ll try to keep this updated more.