Courtesy of Arminas Česaitis I have an outside video from the cork screw course. I could have been way smoother with a functioning ebrake!

I had a blast though and can’t wait for Hyperfest!

I haven’t made any updates in like 2 months – sorry about that! I started a new job and got an iPhone so I’ve been doing a bunch of crap photos, I need to link it up with this site so I can make updates on the fly. Look for me on instagram if you want to follow me on there: @SJKnoop

Anyway, I went to the Drift Nirvana season opener on April 1st and have some footage from that:

I’ve also collected some photos from Dan Jenkins and Jordan Chronister.

The last photo is an edit I did off one of Jordan’s shots. Basically just cropped it a little and changed the color around a tad.

It got up into the 70s last week so I washed the S14 and took it out for some driving. I figured I’d take a few more photos of the fresh fenders….I’ll eventually get some of the drivers side as well, haha.

On a side note, got a new helmet and gloves, and also a suit. So now I just need my submarine harnesses and some shoes to do some tandem driving. I also discovered I had a broken LH axle yesterday, got the new one on the way, should be here on Tuesday. I was wondering when my 140,000 mile axles were going to give out, looks like only one of them did for now.

I picked my fenders up from the paint shop last night. Just finished slapping them on, they’re definitely way further out then they were, the shape almost matches the rear now.

I snapped these two pictures up at the gas station, they aren’t very good, but I need to put fresh double sided tape on my side skirts and wash the whole car so I’m not that worried about it.

Here’s a short video I put together, I can’t wait to drift more!!!

So I finally finished up the fender work, which only took a few hours to complete but finding the time/motivation to do it is hard to muster when the weather decides to be in the upper 60s in late January.

I dropped the fenders off at Stock or Modified Bodyworks today, and hopefully I’ll have them back by next weekend. There’s no real rush other then wanting to get the car back together and enjoy this unseasonably warm weather!

Due to the damage my front fenders received I decided it was time to do some more metal work so I hopefully don’t have to get them fixed again. I came to the conclusion I am going to have to give up a little aesthetics for functionality. Due to how upright the wheel is at full lock I had to leave some room between the fender and front tire, its only the width of my finger but it should be enough room.

You can see the tools I am using to do this – a hammer, dolly, and heat gun. I also used an orbital sander to sand down some of the paint/bondo after I beat on it. You can also see an old shot gun shell, it fell out of my fender during the hammering, must have picked it up at Driftwater, hahaha. You don’t get keepsakes like that at any other facility!

This season is going to be awesome, my car finally feels perfect, once I get my hydro ebrake in and working there wont be anything let to do.

Here’s a teaser video from yesterday – HUGE thanks to Jared Huston for sitting through the cold to capture lots of awesome video footage. Aside from some cosmetic damage…lets just say I’ll be redoing my front fenders…it was the best drift event I’ve done in a long time.

Here’s one shot of the damage to my fenders. This side is the worst – you can see my tire popped off the bead as well. I went off at the top of third and gravel was lodged between the tire and wheel, you can see the wheel lip got a little messed up too but its no big deal the lips were not perfect anyway.

Just got back from Okinawa visiting my parents. Saw this while I was there:

I’ll have a few more photos later on this week.

I have to stop rolling my ankle skating…