- What's up, everybody, I'm Chris Forsberg,
Formula Drift Champion, and welcome back
to another installment of Drift Car Dynamics.
On the previous episodes, we showed you the key components
to getting our new engine package up and running,
including the turbo and fuel set-up,
but now, we want to keep all that extra power
nice and cool with a brand new cooling system.
And, of course, we're gonna top off the entire build
with some interior and exterior upgrades.
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Now the obvious first step,
once we got the car back from paint,
was to get the engine back in the car,
so that we can finish off the plumbing
and get this thing ready to run.
And, fortunately for us, AEM has released some new product
to help us connect the rest of our turbo system
to our Mishimoto cooling setup.
Now AEM's been making cold-air intakes for years,
but there's a lot of guys
that are doing these builds at home,
and they need to connect custom setups
into different chassis, you know, doing engine swaps
and so on and so forth.
So AEM now has these different radius bends,
different diameters, so that you can fit
your turbo system to your cooling system into any chassis.
And if you have access to a welder,
you can connect those pipes to get a really nice finish.
Now for the inner core, we went with a Mishimoto 3-inch core
because it has very good flow and high efficiency
to keep the intake air temps down.
We didn't want to push the inner core all the way forward
because we wanted to keep the inner core piping
nice and short for faster turbo spool.
The turbo itself generates a lot of heat
in the oiling system, so we also went with
a Mishimoto Dual Pass Oil Cooler,
which is sandwiched into between the inner cooler
and the radiator itself,
so that it can keep our oil temps nice and cool.
The biggest upgrade we did to the exterior of this car
was the CarbonSignal Widebody kit
and the Seibon carbon hood.
Now it all ties together really nicely,
and you'll see us cutting and trimming and test-fitting
all these pieces when they are unpainted still.
One of the things that I always recommend
when you have a whole new kit,
it is exciting to get that thing painted
and get it ready to put on the car,
but you always want to take that time and install it first,
so you can get everything fitting perfectly,
so once it comes back from paint,
it all just pops into place.
What I really like about this CarbonSignal Widebody kit
is that it's all tied together and looks great,
and matches front to rear.
So we have these wide fenders on the front and rear fender
but they're tied together with this carbon fiber door sill,
that really makes it pull together
and get the whole back end flowing into the front.
So the entire front end is inspired
from the vintage Dancer race cars,
where they actually went with this more pointy front end,
which they called a Gino's front end,
which is more aerodynamic for racing,
and CarbonSignal went through and brought
that same styling to this street style kit
and we wanted to give it a more modernized look
with that Gino's front end.
The new headlight buckets, the front hood sill,
these carbon fiber bumpers, the actual bumper fascia itself
and even a carbon fiber lip spoiler
to really tie the whole thing together,
even up back into the fenders again.
To go with the same look and feel,
we went with Dapper Lighting headlights,
which actually convert the old glass style bulbs
to a new plastic cover with a halo and an HID lens
to have a much brighter light, which is great,
versus the old factory units on these cars
for when you're driving late at night.
Now since this isn't just another Drift Car build,
where we rip all the interior out,
throw a bucket seat in and call it a day,
this is gonna be a street car, daily driven,
so I wanted to have a lot of the amenities of a street car,
to make it more comfortable when I'm driving down the road.
So we went with reclinable Recaro seats,
that have real nice bolsters to keep you in place.
As far as the rest of the interior,
we went with some Speedhut gauges,
which we did custom faces to give you the same look
and feel of the factory dots and gauges.
They're wrapped in carbon fiber to go along with
the whole theme of the interior and exterior
which was done by CarbonSignal.
We did a re-wrapped dash, a carbon fiber console,
which also houses our Clarion Head Unit,
which gives us some nice tunes from our Clarion speakers
in the kick panels for when we're cruising down the street.
Well, there you have it.
This build is ready to hit the track.
It's absolutely beautiful and I love the way it came out.
But on the next episode, we're gonna take it out
to the track for a proper shakedown
and show you how to set up all the suspension components
for your driving style.
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