my slowly 1983 AE86 drift rebuild/ 1979 KE35 recovery

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In preparation for the BDC Licence day @ Lydden Hill, I haven´t done much since the last Lydden Hill practice day, cause all the car need is more power, which obviously can´t be changed within a couple of days, as it requiers an engine swap...

Played a litte with the suspension to get it lower, rolled the arches to accept all my wheels without changing wheel spacers, topped up the oil.
And bought a shitload (5pairs iirc) brand new of Yokohama A539 185/50/14´s wich will play the main part in my misery later on.

I´m guilty of going to a licence day without the intention to compete next year, but I was curious to see what its like to do judged runs and how I´m doing compared to others and maybe even gain a licence
Turns out I´m shit and didn´t get a licence
To make excuses for my bad performance, I blame my new veery grippy tires in a car that it not able to smoke them....110bhp+ 0 camber. No matter how I threw my car into the first corner it just bogged out before the 1st transition, were I shift from 3rd to 2nd and than the same shit as I was getting ready for the big bend shifting up to 3rd, clutchkicking, it just whouldn´t have it...
Wasted all my practise runs trying to get those Yokohamas to work, but with no results.
Finally came to the conclusion, driving like this wont get me a licence, so I canged to my normal slightly bigger but a lot less grippy part worn tyres.

Not done a single practice run on them made me spin 360° on the entrance of my first judged round, cause I wasn´t expecting so much less grip:wack:
softened the suspension to get some grip back,
2nd run was me getting used to my car again and 3rd was a good run, and thats what the judges thought as well 3rd run was semi pro worthy

Collected quiet a few nice pictures over the last week, thanks to all the photographers!!!

check out the siick lock! Upps, wait, actually its me spinning :o


These are a few of the other pics, from the licence run and the practise session:











And even my fucked up last round was captured...



I´m booking the Lydden Hill Weekender in Decemver this week, not much to do on my car, I´m trying to get my new 4,7:1 spool diff ready, but apart from that all I need is loads of 185/55/14


My AE is also going on the dyno to get a powerfigure and have a look what I´m currently pushing, this could help me trying to figure out what engine I´m gonna build/ put in my car next.
So many choices... 7AGE, C20XE, 3SGE or even an SR20DET, all depenging on costs, the power I can get out of every setup with the same money...