Mini- Minami Course.

More an more Tuner Shops in Japan, seem to be opening up there very own RC Drft tracks. Uras, Kazama Auto, Tex Modify, and D-Like.

Here is another one opening up Mature panel shop as covered by the NoriYaro Blog.
http://noriyaro.com/?p=3676

This smaller indoor carpet drift track is a miniature of the famous Ebisu Circuit’s Minami course
(I love how the far sweeper leads into a downhill drop to the wall clip)

Pretty cool stuff. I would love to go to all of these tracks and drift. I might just have to make me a list of all these cool tracks?

I thought I lost my Heros...

For a minute, I was very sad to find out all the cool D-like videos where gone and the nozaki0313 account was closed, but then I found them listed under a new Youtube account. What a relief. I love watching these guys Counter steer videos. They are now listed under:

DRIFTstageDLike777




They even added a Driftmaster video shot in the rain!



Great Stuff D-Like guys! Keep up the good work!!!

2JZ...no shit?

Funny stuff...



LOL!

Got to try this one day: http://www.xtranormal.com/

Gears, Gears, and more gears...

I guess there are alot of ideas regarding CS gearing for SD cars.

Check our a few I was informed about....

http://green.ap.teacup.com/babango/172.html

[img]http://green.ap.teacup.com/babango/timg/middle_1247068927.jpg[/img]

http://green.ap.teacup.com/babango/177.html

and

http://ameblo.jp/kazama2026/entry-10284756896.html#main

[img]http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20090621/15/kazama2026/a0/69/j/o0480085410200493793.jpg[/img]

cool stuff...but I am still holding out for my idols at D-Like...

http://www.d-like.jp/driftstage/

Exciting CS info!!!

Increased gear ratio part 1 for the Driftmaster...

Well, I still haven't gotten a chance to modify the new 35/20T rear diff gears I got last week, but after looking them over some more, looks like it will take a bit of customizing to get it to work in my LCG. I guess that will be part 2.

But what I was able to do is install the new 44T gear with my custom 10T. The mess is not as good as with my stock 40, but I think if I shim it a little more it should be good. Right now its really noisy, but seems to work pretty well. New gearing is now 1.87:1 and it has required me to pretty much start over with the suspension tuning. Now tuning is more like the Cyclone, where I need to maximize rear grip and minimize the quick transition speed.
Lucky I have a better idea how to tune for this now. Tuning the front weight, rear toe, rear ride height and rear swaybars have helped a lot.

More Gear Options!

As I mentioned before, in addition to my new custom 10T gear, I was able to get a hold of some custom gears from a new friend I meet in Taiwan, through the Groovydrift forums. Thanks to him, I now have even more CS options for my shaft drive.

Check out (professionally made by his friend) custom 20/35T gear combo for the rear I have. I haven't installed them yet, but the quality looks very nice, as nice as the original gears I think.
I was also able to source from him, some more 44T gears, which are handy to have, cause they work well with the 13T or 10T I have. (thanks

Before I was limited to a 1.56 ratio, but now I can mix and match up to 2.285, if I want. Not sure if that is too much, but should be fun to try.

Now all I need is some Arai track time... (too bad, I am not sure when that will be, probably not this weekend, but maybe next!!!)

Countersteer at SWP!

Looks like even the the home court of Speedway Pal is getting into the Countersteer drift action. I have a feeling most advanced drivers will eventually go the way of the Countersteer...

http://batikons.web2.jp/blog/archives/2009/07/06200748.html#more



so you better start now...LOL!

Kenny form the Block

Cooler then Gymkhana 2, I think...

Custom CS Gear Ver.2...

From what learned from the first one, I applied a few different techniques to this 2nd one.

Ouch, my fingers hurt now from cutting and grinding. Hopefully this one will mesh a little better?

Countersteer looks good.

Just another cool JDM video I found on youtube. Countersteer!