dano's tank by dano

11 minute(s) of a 45 minute read

Came back from an amazing 6800km road trip down to JCCS, met some great people, thought I'd share some AE86 photo's:

Bonneyville Salt Flats where a S2000 joined us:

The Infamous Shoe Tree:

At the forumla D Parking Lot blocking Traffic to sell our tickets met a nice 240z owner:

Along The Pacific Coast Highway:

At JCCS in Lonbeach at the Queen Mary:

I'll start off with some pics from last year that I finally got my hands on from our road trip on the salt flats on our way to JCCS:












So I started parting out my car and selling off parts to help fund my 71 plymouth roadrunner project - Any parts I could make myself I made my own and sold off the rest starting with welding the diff for the first time - can't be a drifter without doing it at least once:



My negative camber last year was too much at -5.5 so I shortened the lower control arms and put it to a more resonable -2.5 to 3 degrees:



I also sold off my 4 links so I just lengthened the stock ones for now with new poly bushings:




I sold the carbon fiber hood to beardo - thanks! (as well as many other goodies) and had some fun with a stock hood I had kicking around:




I was gonna sell all the parts off it and sell the car as well - but our local autox lccs and sassc announced this year that we have autox pretty much every weekend this summer - unlike last summer where the count was zero - so I got sucked back into the project again and made it better - alot better:

new shoes:

My 15x9 Hudge negative offset diamonds now has rubber and doing this I obviously had to remodel the car again to fit:

So then It started:












I cut out the front splash shield and welded in the chute so I can bring fresh air to my intake:

After tubbing the front I had to Tub out the rear into the cab - Passenger side:

inside the cabin passeger side (sorry i dont have a drivers side pic yet:

Drivers side:

Clearence from framerail to frame rail (Also with full castor on oem rods):

Because I mini tubbed out the front I had problems with the clutch no hitting the tub - so I had to lengthen it and strengthen it - its pretty close to my brake pedal but adjusted it so no its fully engaged when its flush with the tub:





Made my own fender braces:







Now I also Picked these TRD N2 fenders from 87j-spec, and fitted them ontop of my widebody - So its a widebody kit ontop of a widebody kit! Do you reconize these fenders???!










I always wondered how they did the big white lettering on tires you see for time attacks and a couple months ago I saw a vid and it showed a race team spray bombing the letters on the tires while still on the car - i thought "hey i could do that!" and I made my own stencil and a couple months later on speedhunters I saw that rauh welt uses the same method for his cars (they are actually nitto's - neogen series if your wondering):




And how she looks today for the first time ever she's all one color!!! - here's some pics at street machine this year with my buddys S12!!!



(missing my war and peace which is back on now)

I'm Hoping to get some professional photos done before it gets wrecked so I'll post'em up when I get them done!

thanks for looking!