My IS300 and a skyline...
 

I figured I'd take a stab at posting this here... I took some shots of my previous daily / drift beater before I parked it up for the winter. I know it's not for everyone, but it's beat up because it gets used, and I like it.

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr

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IS300 Skyline by AJ Gillett, on Flickr


And for good measure, some video:

http://vimeo.com/55269507#at=0

looks decent! slight wear and tear but its a DD so thats perfectly fine

Not my taste, sorry

I respect any car that's used and still looks pretty damn good

specs?

Can you explain the wheel setup? (No disrespect)

Specs on what? The wheels, engine, whole car?

I'm unsure of what you want explained or why it would be disrespectful.

I love the IS300, but I'd go in the other direction: sleeper wagon with 6-speed Supra turbo driveline :)

I like it, its tastefully moddifed.

I think the guy above wanted to know why you strech your tires, since most people see it at stupid and pointless.

Sexy! but the blue tint ... has to go.

Is that Halsted St?

Looking for honest feedback? If I saw that on the street, I would think cheap rice with the huge wing, body kit, blue lights, and stretched tires.

As long as you like it though, that's all that matters. Seriously. Who cares what I (or anyone else thinks), do what makes you happy.

False advertising. Where is the skyline?........... Ohhhh. I see what you did there.

Sleepers are lame and only good for drag racing... Which is also lame.

I wouldn't say it's tastefully modded, but yeah, I could see how that's what he was asking about.

Nope.

Yup.

I mean you don't build a car like this unless you're doing it for yourself, cause I've had plenty of people talk down on it, and I wouldn't change a thing... But cheap rice? It has Work wheels, a Buddy Club wing, JDM TRD front bumper and side skirts... I fail to see what's cheap about it... As for the styling of it, it's a drift car, it's supposed to look loud and obnoxious.

the only thing more lame than sleepers are gigantic wings. when i check to gauge the quality of a car i basically ignore all the obvious items and simply ask what tires and coilovers they use. id rather have a $2500 budget for tires and $800 for rims than the other way around

Haha well it certainly does look loud and obnoxious. :thumbsup:

In terms of the cheapness, it's not the individual prices/brand names, it's the overall look. Take the bodykit on the front. It might be TRD, but the design looks ricey/aftermarket for some reason. It's also got a large hole where there used to be a grill/emblem, and a uneven body panel gap between the hood and the front bumper. There's blue tint over the lights, which I automatically associate with rice. In the rear, the bumper is mis-aligned. Looks like there was an accident that wasn't repaired properly (paint chips, etc.) You've got the N1 style slant-angle exhaust which is borderline IMO. Then the oversized unpainted wing and the stretched tires.

Anyway man, I'm just giving my honest opinion. You definitely seem to like it though, so that's all that matters. Keep doing what you do. I can say it looks like a fun daily driver.

errythang

That is a foolish way of looking at things, I'd rather just buy the highest quality parts/the ones I want the most all of the time regardless of the cost... Besides, wheels you buy once, tires you buy 4-6 per trackday.

This bumper never came with an emblem, they just came with chicken wire/mesh crap, which is tacky. There's no uneven gap on the front bumper, that's just how it fits.

Tinted lights are rice? Track/drift cars use them all the time, I fail to see how protecting your lights from chips and shattering on the track while making them look better is rice.

The bumper is misaligned because it's clipped so many walls and haybails that there's no good way to attach it anymore. This is a drift car, I take it you haven't seen too many drift/track cars before if you think this is related to a poorly repaired accident.

The slant angled exhaust comment is by far the funniest of all... You realize there's a purpose for that right? My entire exhaust from the cat back only has one bend. Less bends=better exhaust flow.

The wing I can understand is not for everybody, and the stretched tires I'm not even going to waste my time discussing, but pretty much everything else you said gave me a good laugh.

Sorry I just re-read your first post where you said this was your drift car. Ok, that makes sense. You could have just said becauseracecar!

Reading comp > me. For some reason I thought this was your daily driver.

Stock engine, full custom exhaust w/ ASpec muffler, Stance super sport coilovers revalved and re-rated for 12k and 14k springs, Megan front upper control arms/rear lower control arms/rear toe arms, Figs poly front lower control arm bushings, Work meisters 17x10 +15 and 18x10 +15, Hankook Ventus RS2 225/40/27 in front, Kumho Ecsta something 215/40/18 in back, Buddy Club wing w/ the stands extended and wideposted, Lamin-x headlights/tail lights, 25mm custom front wide fenders, TRD Neo v2 front bumper and side skirts, VIS carbon hood, Altezza window visors, Recaro Pole Position seat, Tom's shift knob, Pioneer headunit, there's probably more but I'm tired of typing out this list.

I wouldn't have said that, because that shit is gay as hell... And it was my daily driver and my drift car for about 4-5 years, now it's just a drift car.

LOL I was expecting a "real" skyline :P but your IS300 is great too :D

Just remind me of my rwd 03 impreza... it was too my only dd and drift/fun/track car.... sold it with 146,000 km's (almost 100k miles)

I used to have an 01 IS300. Shouldn't have let that car go. :(

Are those the right tires for them wheels?

rims are almost a negligible factor while tires are easily the most important part of any car in any capacity, let alone a performance oriented car. how much lighter and stronger is a $2500 set than a $1000 or so set? maybe its just me but id rather have that money invested in suspension rather than overpriced, wicked offset wheels that sit outside the fenders when i drift.

im not knocking your car really. i just feel like thats a lot more show than go.

I'm not arguing the importance of tires... I'm saying that instead of only buying a quality part for one aspect of your car, why not buy the best of everything? I have sub $2000 wheels, I have all the suspension parts I want at the moment, I have tires that more than do the job, so what am I missing?

I get it, you're a guy that likes cheap wheels, and doing whatever is the cheapest thing to make the car fast, I am not. I respect the companies that make quality products and help build this industry that we love so much, and wouldn't buy inferior or knock-off wheels from companies that do nothing but bring this business down because of cheap-asses that don't have the money (or want to save) to buy a quality product. I own 10 sets of wheels right now between 4 sets of cars, none are knockoffs, but the majority of them were bought cheap (many for under $1000). And yes, quality wheels are stronger and lighter than knock-offs.

My car is more show than go, if you could read you'd see that it was also my daily. I built it to be simple, effective, and look cool, because I also have this to drift with:

http://streetkaizo.com/kaizophoto/wp...0/dd40_080.jpg

And now this as well:

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...856resized.jpg

Not to mention a minivan that I'll be building for occasional drifting... Drifting is about having fun and doing cool looking shit. I'm not out to break any record lap times (or act like I do in your case), or win a professional championship, and my cars are built to accommodate that.

it turns out i can read. you called the car a daily driver, a drift car, and a beater. where i come from the terms beater and show are mutually exclusive.

no. you dont get it. im not a guy who likes cheap rims. im a guy who likes nice suspension/tires. im not out to act like im braking lap records. im just out to buy mods that support track driving instead of riding around hellaflush. to each his own :thumbup:

It's not my cup of tea but I like that you like it and I like what you're doing with it.

The aesthetics leave much to be desired; Blue lights, big wing and stretched tires serve no real purpose so it's not my thing. However, you are out playing with your toys, learning car control (because drifting ain't easy) etc, and I think that is very very cool.

So keep it up!


p.s. I like your comment: "it's a little beat up because it gets used." Exactly how it should be.

Wow, you sound like a fucking child... Drag racing is a joke. You could have the greatest sleeper of all time and it wouldn't affect me because I wouldn't be racing it regardless of what it looked like.

It's not a show car, so that's great if you want to worry about words being mutually exclusive.

I like nice suspension and tires, I bought mods that support track driving, and the fact that I do 8-10 track days a year as well as countless hours of street drifting backs that up... The fact that I do that while still being low and having low offset wheels just shows that you really don't know what you're talking about.

Customized to your liking, looks like it has made lots of memories, good on ya!

PS We wanted to see more of this guy's BRZ journal but it got locked because of bickering. Got locked because of bickering. Get it?

Why the poke? function or form?

Whoa... you sure know how to talk to a guy. mmmmmmm shock adjusting, sway tuning and R6's... :wub:


:D

I swear in real life, I feel no need to censor myself for people I don't know, and I'm not defensive, I just tire of stupid people spouting nonsense.

What the hell is a point by and how does one get trained into giving one up? And yeah, you definitely sound like a tard, days worth of corner balancing, shock adjusting, and "sway tuning"? hahahaha

Keep dreaming buddy. Still boasting about how bad you'd beat me in some imaginary sneak attack race that you have planned in your head... What a child.

I started a new build thread that's still open... If only these road and track reading benchmark racers wouldn't keep coming in and trying to tell me that my drift cars aren't going to be winning any time attacks anytime soon.

I wanted to run 215's or 225's for drifting purposes, and wanted the wheels to have as much lip as possible... This was the end result.

Never once said I did an HPDE, don't even know what an HPDE is... Said I've done 8-10 trackdays a year.

And yes, rotate the mu curve and achieve ideal ackerman, then blahblahblah... I don't care about your benchracing. Most professional drift cars run no rear sway bar. So once again, why do you keep spouting all this nonsense?

When i saw this thread yesterday i knew it would turn to shit really quickly.

Yes, just keep putting words in my mouth... Never said I didn't care about going fast, I drive fast quite often. I never said everything other than drifting was lame, I said drag racing is lame. What I said was that none of the crap that you're spewing out pertains to me in any way shape or form.

This seems to be a reoccurring trend of this forum, that people who talk all about racing and and car setup and building cars "the right way" (whatever that means) go around forcing their opinions of how a car should be set up on people who drift as if they have no idea what they're doing.

I prefaced the thread by saying this was a drift car. I've been drifting for years after switching over from grip driving. I know the what a car needs to be set up for each style of driving based on LOTS of seat time. I don't sit at home reading books about car setup to sound smart on the internet, I go out and drive, and make adjustments to the car based on the way I want the car to feel, and sometimes I make comprimises based on how I want the car to look.

So if you know anything about drifting from experience and want to talk car setup, then feel free. But don't come into my thread and act like a child trying to force your findings from some chassis engineering book on me like I don't know what I'm doing... If you were really that interested in HPDE's and road racing then you'd know that the most important thing is seat time and building driver skill. You could tune your sway bars for years, and if you're a shitty driver then I could still put down better times in a shitty drift car if I'm a better driver than you, or know the track better than you.

The end

i do like how i get called cheap because i like cheap wheels when hes over there posting about stance coilovers and how endlinks need preload.

Holy shit, I bought $1400 coilovers, I'm such a cheapass... Stance is a quality, non-knockoff product used on many professional drift cars/time attack cars/road race cars. Just because I'm not rocking Aragostas or something comparable doesn't make me cheap. That's like calling someone cheap for buying a brand new BRZ/FRS when there's Ferrari's that could be bought too, your logic is flawed.

As for the endlink thing, I don't think I said anything about preloading them, I think I said I adjusted them so there was a little tension while the car was in the air... I had no way of adjusting with the car on the ground, so I did what I could... I'm going to be honest, if you've ever used adjustable endlinks, the difference between an endlink with no tension, one with tension, and the stock endlink with a lot of tension is very negligable. Not to mention my car hasn't been aligned as I'm waiting on rear camber arms, so the sway bar endlink would be most easily adjusted during alignment with the ease of having the car lifted up.

its your critical thinking and not my logic that is flawed. i dont care if stance is a knockoff or not. that has no bearing on quality. they are outsourced chinese or maybe korean part where the company doing the testing are not the company building the product or performing quality control. you missed the point. im not knocking you fro cheap coilovers. im knocking you for calling me cheap for liking cheap rims (even though that is an assumption on your part) while at the same time running cheap coilovers and cheap tires that dont fit on your expensive rims. im going to be honest, the difference between a stock endlink and an adjustable one is not noticed when you sit under the car and feel them. you find the difference when your sway bar binds because your endlinks are forcing your swaybar into other suspension components.

Honestly I could care less where its made as long as the product proves itself... Stance coilovers to my knowledge were previously made in Japan until the main factory closed down. As far as I know they're made in the same place as Buddy Club, Kei Office, HSD, and probably others. From what I have seen in person with Stance, the coilovers are inspected and typically assembled in house in the US before sale.

There's a difference between a quality entry level coilover and a cheap crappy coilover. Just because you personally don't know anything about the quality of a product doesn't make it a shit product. These coilovers are proven, work great, and they have great customer service... Try complaining to Rota that one of your shitty wheels cracked in half and see where that gets you... Unlike with Stance's, I've seen many knockoff wheels crack or break from things that a quality wheel would only bend from. So I don't see how you could even compare that.

As for my cheap tires, it's drifting, I don't think you understand that the point is to burn up the rears. In the front this season I ran AD08's on my E30, and Star Specs on my IS, and clearly my tires fit on my "expensive rims", you can see them on in the pictures.

No binding here, so I guess I'm all good... I've had cars lowered a lot with factory endlinks that did bind as well, and they drove fine too.

Everybody on the interwebz is a pro about everything. Cause the internet said so.

I dont even pay attention to anything LSxJunkie says. He always says the same thing to different people.

Heres my thought. His cars and build threads involve driving and awesome quality parts and progress.... And driving. Not a 3 paragraph essay on their new interior LED lights or a full page writeup on how the two bucket method is the only way to wash this car.

It's a fucking CAR. Buy, build, drive, have fun. The end.

That IS300 is sick. Wing is a bit too much for me but it's sick and does what its meant to do. His BRZ is sick and will only get better.