Drift Ninjaz – BlogThis!

I was a car-crazed nine year old living in England when the Group B era took hold of international rallying, and the images of those turbo AWD monsters will stay with me forever. While I don’t like to drive turbo cars and find AWD less than satisfying, there is something compelling about the idea [...]

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I’ve REALLY been neglecting my daily daydreams of future project cars.  As previously mentioned, I’ve been SWAMPED at work and have really been focusing on helping my department reach some pretty high goals.   I’ve also been extremely pre-occupied with a v8 swap into the 240sx.  
Based on my horsepower goals of somewhere between 300-350WHP, I’m fairly [...]

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In my Mongrel trophy truck daydream, I spoke about what kind of transmission I would run. I settled on the two speed Powerglide due to its light weight and compact dimensions. Plus, with a big block in light truck, I wouldn’t need a lot of ratios. Recently, while helping Jason find a [...]

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All Corvettes are cool, but I want a C3. Preferably an early one with the little chrome bumpers. With a big block and side pipes. I know that any later Corvette will blow into the weeds, but there is something about the earlier cars that the later models miss. They have [...]

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Okay, so this isn’t a post about a project car.  Although, I’m sure many project cars will be considered based on my next visit to VIR.  I’ve been following the One Lap of America race this year. Considering it’s a short term series, and you can see nightly results, I find it highly interesting [...]

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Perhaps I am getting soft in my old age (not just around my middle) because there are some projects that I would like that wouldn’t necessarily be all out track machines. Like Jason said about his 240SX, sometimes the creature comforts make a car more enjoyable than an extra tenth off the lap times [...]

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Well, I’ve already got a little slack on updating this series. So goes the life of a working father. To be honest, I’ve been swamped at work. Between that and thinking about future daily drivers, I haven’t given much thought to a project car.
Oh well, here I am thinking about the v8-240sx [...]

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I was fairly busy at work today, so I didn’t have a lot of time to day dream. My friend Les has recently sold his Z06 and is in the planning stage of a Monster Miata project. I’m sure this had a little to do with me coming back to the olde faithful; [...]

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Jason alluded to my latest crazy scheme, and I figured I’d blog some more details here.
I have long thought that the Baja style trucks were cool. Huge horsepower and an undeniable toughness. What I would like to do is take some of the same vibe and transfer into an asphalt runner. First, [...]

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 This is the first of what is hopefully a lengthy series of posts to help me decide on a future project car. Most of the projects that I dream of, focus around the idea of stuffing a modern v8 into a small and nimble chassis. There’s just something appealing about a simple v8 that can [...]

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