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The Taff*tune R32 GTS drift car build began back in November 2005. The car cost £500 and it was bought from a guy who had to get rid of it to be able to pay for his living room radiator, sofa and carpet after the radiator had burst and ruined the whole lot. I snapped the offer up straight away and went to collect it with a towing dolly and a Landrover Discovery a few days later. The car was ready for its transformation into a drift machine to begin. It was originally intended to be a cheap car that I could learn to drift in with a few basic mods to get me going but as time went on it got to the stage where I'd be better off making a good job of it and try my best at making it into one of the best prepared drift cars in the UK.
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The car began as an almost completely standard scared R32 GTS (HR32). The only mods were an aftermarket exhaust back box and a hastily made induction made from a cut up AFM and a standard sized K&N cone filter. Needless to say these modifications were of no significance to the project at all in the long run and would subsequently be discarded somewhere along the strip down.
The stripping started and the car became barer and barer each day.
The RB20DE came out and wasn't destined to go back in the engine bay.
The RB20DE was replaced by a lighter four cylinder alloy blocked SR20DET from a 200sx S14. This allowed the engines centre of gravity to remain firmly behind the front axle, aiding in the overall balance when the car is finished.
The gearbox lined up with the hole in the transmission tunnel thanks to the interchangability of various parts of the Nissan range. The gearbox is a standard 200sx S14 unit at present which is due to be replaced by a stronger gearbox or uprated internals.
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This write up really does have loads of photos so be sure to let them all load up.
The car began as an almost completely standard scared R32 GTS (HR32). The only mods were an aftermarket exhaust back box and a hastily made induction made from a cut up AFM and a standard sized K&N cone filter. Needless to say these modifications were of no significance to the project at all in the long run and would subsequently be discarded somewhere along the strip down.





The stripping started and the car became barer and barer each day.











The RB20DE came out and wasn't destined to go back in the engine bay.



The RB20DE was replaced by a lighter four cylinder alloy blocked SR20DET from a 200sx S14. This allowed the engines centre of gravity to remain firmly behind the front axle, aiding in the overall balance when the car is finished.


The gearbox lined up with the hole in the transmission tunnel thanks to the interchangability of various parts of the Nissan range. The gearbox is a standard 200sx S14 unit at present which is due to be replaced by a stronger gearbox or uprated internals.

cont...