Daze's 400bhp Nissan Silvia drift car

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This looks absolutely epic with the clear headlights!! Really like it in honesty...

Thanks! Yeah, I have headlight film/tint over the clear headlight covers

Really good read through all you have done. Seems like a pretty epic machine. I look forward to more updates in the future

Thanks! Yeah, I have an update on its way actually!

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Right, finally an update!

Booked to go to Anglesey Matsuri for late October, and I had also been invited to take part in the BDC night demos too, so that should be fun! I'd never been to Anglesey before, so I was excited to try out a new circuit!

Firstly though, a few small things to fix on the car - mostly oil leaks. A mate of mine helped with that (with a pit in his garage). It was a loose AN10 fitting on the Tomei oil take off, next to impossible to get to, so we remove the alternator then nipped it up.



Then, as I was to take part in the night demos, I thought I’d spice the car up with some neons! Please, don’t judge me! Hahaha



Headed to Anglesey on the Friday night. It was a hell of a drive for me, but got there in the end. It must have been worse for Hudson though, driving up in his PS13!



Friday night the weather was absolutely insane - wind, rain, cold, just horrible. The Saturday started similar, but luckily cleared up. I got into the swing quickly, starting on the small "entry practice" hairpin, which was really good fun. Almost no queue, and with all my mates there, the best fun



I next tried out the "Touge" circuit. WOW, incredible. Its all linkable with almost no manji's, really feels Japan driving it, mega undulations on the layout, so much fun





The weather cleared up & onto the fast layout. I got paired up with none other than Huxley! It was an amazing & quite special few moments for me, having Hux on my door. He's someone I've looked up to in drifting for many years, such a cool dude, and cool car!



Early afternoon Saturday, With Joe Ankers chasing on the Touge circuit, I overcooked it a little & binned it into some tyres! Luckily there wasn’t any major damage, but my neons I fitted especially for the Saturday night demos were destroyed! Hahah, karma?



The night battles began, holy crap, it was intense. It was BDC/Driftcup/Retro guys only, so all of the dudes really knew how to drive, and basically everyone apart from me had huge light bars, neons, flashing strobes, everything on their cars. I just had 2 crappy 20yr-old Nissan headlights to help me on an almost pitch-black circuit. I did about 6 laps, killed a pair of tyres, and called it a night! It was fun though!



On the Saturday night I spent the night at a local self-catering holiday home thing (with big thanks to one of my sponsors, Stu Roy, Garage SR for hooking me up). Feeling fresh for the Sunday, the weather was spot on, I got straight back out there. The car was running so well the entire time, literally no faults...



...Until, the gearbox blew I guess its about time I blew a gearbox, its the same gearbox I've been running since I've had the car, so almost 3 years now. I could select gears, but I couldn't drive anywhere. This happened about lunchtime Sunday, and I called it quits for the weekend. Got the car on the trailer, packed up & enjoyed watching for the rest of the day.



As always, I have some incar GoPro footage

Touge circuit in the wet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlh2qVMxh4

Fast circuit, in the dry with Hux chasing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9VtGtZdmvI

Fast circuit, in the dry, BDC night demos (terrifying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMLNIdITdU

Touge circuit in the dry, crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-qlslgvlk

Touge circuit in the dry (the run before my gearbox blew!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoNe8omRn0

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With the car back home, gearbox swap was top of the list. I had a spare, and I bought new (expensive) gearbox oil again for it (Redline heavy duty shockproof). Swap wasn’t too much hassle, my mate Stu took care of this for me, whilst I did a quick spanner check on the car. Everything else was fine





Then, I had the car booked in with another mate who does body repairs. I finally got him to repair the crash damage rear quarter that I did way back in 2014 when I crashed into Ryan Poth at Snetterton. Finally I have an offside rear light which isn’t smashed



And then back to my buddy Stu’s for rear arch tubbing in prep for overfenders. Its not something I really wanted to do, but needs-a-must now. I really liked the idea of keeping metal arches for as long as possible, but they were well past it, and I need more grip on the back - overfenders will give more width for wider tyres.



Both sides done like this, with a little lip to help protect overfenders



Once it was back home, I offered up the overfenders which Kinzuru Kits supplied for me. Really good quality, +50mm, they fit great! I was worried they’d bulge like mad & look horrible, but I’m pleasantly surprised on how well they suit the car!



I’ve also picked up a pair of new skirts as well, they are Vertex. I think it works well!







I'll be keeping the Navan front & rear bumpers though, half due to costs as I'm now trying to spend minimal amount on the car (due to a wedding to save for!), but mostly because I still really like the Navan front. However, I do have some slight further changes to cosmetics to come to the car, so more updates with that soon!