Drift Sapphire

[Ade]

While my Capri is off road at Chizfab being turned into a 24v linked up competitive fully sorted beast I've got myself this Sierra. The idea is to have a budget temporary drifty toy to keep me amused/skint, and most of all hone my skills for when I get behind the wheel of the main event.
These pix are excerpts from two Fast Ford features documenting the story....

[Ade]

A few days later we undertook project 24hr drift car!
The plan was basically to do some budget key drift mods and tart her up  




Fitting tyres the cool way...


Weller Steels, 15x8J ET4 :smokin:


Had to try out the new welded diff!




Shonky battered wing gives Toole no fear!




Euan Begbie's 180 odd MPH bumper.... gotta add a few brake!


Dodgy door replaced...




essential Cossie style spoiler!

[Ade]

Badges binned, towbar cut off...  











It might have been massively underpowered for such a huge track but it was fun just throwing it into corners and using up the whole track to get it back together!


A long drive home for Kyle....

[Ade]

Since then I've been taking the Sierra to nearly every day at Crail....
Apart from ripping a gearbox mount apart from constant shift locks it's doing just fine!




Here it is looking out of place... which it does pretty much everywhere very well  


Looked great....


So today it was a trip back (with the much dirtier Saph which was wearing a few more battle scars) to Simon's to get it fixed...

[Janspeedcapri]

Nice thread  glad to see some people are having fun with their old fords, unlike me    

[Leebay]

I do like those white steels.........needs a 24v in it though

[turboshed]

looks like you have been having way too much fun

[Ade]

Yep, it's a lot of fun..... and just maybe it will get a 24v someday