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So I've been wanting to build a drift car for some time, I want to learn how to drift on pavement. I've been doing it in snow for 6 years now, in all my previous subarus, and I know how to powerslide and do donuts, obviously, but I've never actually gone out and tried to hold a drift. I've always been too scared of crashing or bumping into something, because the only rwd car I have is my 1974 Gran Torino,and that's a nightmare sideways. Well I just fixed that by buying a 2000 Subaru Outback.
I know, I know, it's awd. In the spring once this snow goes away, I'm welding the center diff, taking out the axles, and welding the rear diff. Gonna be a blast.
The day I got it
Went out snow drifting with a whole crew of drift kids Saturday night, my first time going out with anybody but myself. Was such a blast! Got my first battle scar when my buddy tapped my rear bumper. I got a bit too sideways and started to slide off the road, my friend was sideways in his chevy truck and hit me. Just some cracked paint. I also curbed a wheel while sideways, but not bad, just has a very slight flat spot, vibrates at 55 I tried some tandem drifting and it was a blast. We also got the cops called. The cop was super cool about it though. He told us to find a better parking lot where nobody would call the cops and have fun and be safe. He even said he wishes the new cars were rwd cuz they were more fun in the snow. I blew a 180 in front of him because my rear window was covered in snow and I didn't see him come up behind me, he didn't even have his lights on and didn't ask for my license. Coolest cop I have ever encountered.
I've done a few mods to the car since I got it, I fully gutted the interior, the only pieces of the stock interior left is the front seats and the steering wheel. No dash, no passenger airing, driver airbag is getting removed soon. I went as far as scraping up 60% of the tar sound deadening. I plan on peeling up the rest. It peels right up in the cold. There's two heavy steel plates under the sound deadening designed for vibration dampening, they weigh like 4 or 5 pounds each. I took them out as well. I stuck a pin though my e-brake button and lengthened the lever, as a temporary drift brake. I also replaced
the muffler with straight pipe, and installed a cheap cone filter entirely for noise, since there's no power gain.
Upcoming mods will be lighter steering wheel, no quick release because idc to have it, and a hydro ebrake. Gonna be so much nicer to be able to just lock the wheels. Also want a non-power seat or a racing seat. I wonder if I can convert the outback front doors to manual windows? I also want to lexan everything behind the driver's windows, and weld the rear door skins to the body and cut out the frame inside the doors.
Can't wait until springtime and rwd.
After Gutting It
I know, I know, it's awd. In the spring once this snow goes away, I'm welding the center diff, taking out the axles, and welding the rear diff. Gonna be a blast.
The day I got it
Went out snow drifting with a whole crew of drift kids Saturday night, my first time going out with anybody but myself. Was such a blast! Got my first battle scar when my buddy tapped my rear bumper. I got a bit too sideways and started to slide off the road, my friend was sideways in his chevy truck and hit me. Just some cracked paint. I also curbed a wheel while sideways, but not bad, just has a very slight flat spot, vibrates at 55 I tried some tandem drifting and it was a blast. We also got the cops called. The cop was super cool about it though. He told us to find a better parking lot where nobody would call the cops and have fun and be safe. He even said he wishes the new cars were rwd cuz they were more fun in the snow. I blew a 180 in front of him because my rear window was covered in snow and I didn't see him come up behind me, he didn't even have his lights on and didn't ask for my license. Coolest cop I have ever encountered.
I've done a few mods to the car since I got it, I fully gutted the interior, the only pieces of the stock interior left is the front seats and the steering wheel. No dash, no passenger airing, driver airbag is getting removed soon. I went as far as scraping up 60% of the tar sound deadening. I plan on peeling up the rest. It peels right up in the cold. There's two heavy steel plates under the sound deadening designed for vibration dampening, they weigh like 4 or 5 pounds each. I took them out as well. I stuck a pin though my e-brake button and lengthened the lever, as a temporary drift brake. I also replaced
the muffler with straight pipe, and installed a cheap cone filter entirely for noise, since there's no power gain.
Upcoming mods will be lighter steering wheel, no quick release because idc to have it, and a hydro ebrake. Gonna be so much nicer to be able to just lock the wheels. Also want a non-power seat or a racing seat. I wonder if I can convert the outback front doors to manual windows? I also want to lexan everything behind the driver's windows, and weld the rear door skins to the body and cut out the frame inside the doors.
Can't wait until springtime and rwd.
After Gutting It
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