So yesterday evening, the long awaited modified knuckles and lower control arms from KPR finally arrived. But all day yesterday, I was just working on pulling everything out of the front and finished tucking the wire harness up a little bit higher. Also drilled holes through the shock tower to route the hood latch cable to get that out of the way. I messed up the harness on my old S13 and didn't want to go through that mess again. I also banged on some of the other areas in the well where I would experience wheel rub. I was planning to install everything today but had some issues with the studs on the coilovers which I plan to resolve immediately. So I just ended up installing the tension rods from SPL parts and the lower control arms. As far as the KPR steering angle modification, I'm really happy with the quality. All the welds look strong and hopefully they stand up to all the abuse from drifting. But I would I have to give KPR 5 stars for putting out a quality product/service with great customer service and pretty quick turn around time. I look forward to trying them out on the track. I read a review on powered by max's knuckle modification the other day and I got excited because I believe that these will perform as good, if not better than PBM's modification. Check out the link.
http://www.gtfactory.jp/cms/page.php?15

Got the fenders rolled today. I wasn't to worried about the tires rubbing, but decided to get it rolled anyway. Just wanted to say thanks to Tony for doing such a good job and hooking me up for cheap. If anyone needs there fenders rolled in the San Fernando Valley, message me and I will hook you up with his contact info. I also wanted to thank Victor and the rest of the boys at KPR engineering for hooking me up with free next day air shipping on my steering angle modification for my front spindles. I will be giving them a detailed review when they arrive and again once I get them on the track. I'm getting really excited. Got the rear wheels on and after that the fronts arrive, I'll be ready for my alignment and corner balancing. Check out the pics with the crazy camber!!!

Just wanted everybody to check out a new project that my boy ViK and Team Tempest has been working on. Spread the Love!!!

What's going on everybody... Just wanted to give everyone on update on the car. We are still on hold for the steering angle mod. Contacted KPR and was told that it should get shipped out today. I'm hoping it arrives on Friday. I was going to start installing the brakes and pads this week but decided to sandblast and paint the rear calipers. I found it hard to put on a new set of Q45 calipers up front and have junky looking, brake dust covered, stock rear calipers. So I sent my parts to my boys at Quality Precision Cleaning in Duarte,Ca to get sandblasted and cleaned in their clean room facility. I had it painted a cast coat aluminum color with high temp paint to make it look factory. I wasn't going to paint the STOCK calipers red or some exotic color because I think that's gay. But what is even gayer than that is this weekend, I saw another S14 with shiny red Brembos all the way around sitting on tight 19" rims and I noticed he had his hand brake up. I was wondering how he had his handbrake hooked up to his brembo rear calipers and decided to investigate a little further. Come to find out, he had Brembo caliper covers!!! Almost had me fooled...
Anyways, this week we also bought some rubbers for the rims because I believe in practicing safe driving and I never drive with out a rubber. We  got some Federal SS595's all the way around. I don't know why, but it was hard finding Federals anywhere because they are all back ordered and Obama's tariff tax on foreign tire companies. Anyways, we are running 235/40/17 up front and 245/40/17 in the rear on a 17x9 + 17 rim. I originally wanted 255's in the rear but they were not available and took what they had. On the next set of rims that we will be getting next week, we are going to run Maxxis MA-Z1 so we can compare both brands. The rims are generic Work knock offs and yes I am gay too! But not as gay as the Brembo caliper cover dude!
So I guess that's about it, I also attached some photos of the swap because so many of my blog followers (all 3 of them) have been asking for pictures. So here you go... Enjoy

So after hours of internet drifting on which differential setup I was going to go with, I decided to try welding my diff. I previously had a Kaaz 2 way on my S13 and I really liked it. It was aggressive just the way I liked but it was just so expensive. So anyways, I bought an extra open diff to weld so I can see how it is compared to a clutch type 2 way LSD. I also read somewhere that both Rhys Millan and Dai Yoshihara loved how the spooled diff felt and how it was a lot more predictable and solid. Spooled is pretty much like a welded diff in which it is always 100% locking in acceleration and deceleration, so if its good enough for them, it should be good enough for me. Here's a few pix of my welded diff. I decided to remove the pinion gears and weld the gears to the casing rather than welding the spider gears together like most people do. I also used a heavy duty 400amp welder to make sure my welds penetrate the thick metal.

Clap your hands everybody, if you got what it takes. Cuz I'm Curtis Blow and I want you to know that these are the brakes!!!

So just a few updates with Project Drift. Yesterday I ordered my brake upgrade.
- New Q45 Front Brake Calipers and Rotors
- Goodridge Stainless Steel Brake Lines all the way around
- Porterfield R4 race brake pads front and rear ( Boy where these really expensive!)
- Muteki SR48 lug nuts (black)
-I also picked up some rims, I'll post pics once I get my SS595 rubbers on them.
So the project is coming along pretty smoothly. I'm just on hold right now for the modified knuckles and lower control arms for the fronts. Here is a pic with the rear KW coils, SPL links and arms and 5 lug conversion that I just installed. Thanks for following and I will be sure to post up reviews of all the parts that I have installed once I get her on the track.

It's been a pretty exciting week this week. Most of the parts that we've ordered for our drift project have finally arrived. Today's gift from the mailman was a set of KW club sport coilovers that we had special ordered from Germany. I was so excited that I texted all my friend the good news.

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 Since this is my first ever blog, I want to take a moment to tell you more about me and our new project drift car. I've always been a car enthusiast and I first learned about drifting while I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan back in 97-98. After I got out of the Service, my best bud ViK and I built an SR powered S13 (Nissan 240SX) strictly for drifting. After the build, we would go to Willow Springs once a week for a whole season with 10 sets of used tires and burn it up! It was all Good times, until I blew a piston?
After that our drifting was put on hold. ViK started his own project, an LS powered S10 drift truck that didn't work out due to him getting raped from the shop he took it to. I don't want to get into details, but it was a very expensive mistake. I decided to sell my S13 and move on to a S14 chassis which I just bought recently for this new project. ViK decided that he would let me use his engine and that we could just go in together on this car like we did with our first S13. For all of you that don't know, Drifting is a very expensive hobby.
So he we our today and the build is as follows...
-LS Powered S14
-Custom headers and exhaust
-Aluminum drive shaft
-Progress sway bars
-Sparco Pro 2000 race seat
-Nardi Steering wheel with NRG hub and quick release

Parts that have arrived

-KW clubsport coilovers
-SPL parts tension rods, traction rods, toe rods and upper control arms
-Tien S14 inner tie rods with SPL outer tie rod ends
-Modified Spindles and lower control arms are on the way from KPR race engineering 

Well that's if for now, but make sure you guys stay tuned in because there is definitely more to come!!!