I thought I might do a thread for my fiancés drift car, after all it shares a stable with GUN180 and is a build I have, and continue, to play a major roll in
I cant remember exactly when the car came into our lives... but I think it was early 2012 maybe, not long before GUN180 was pulled off the road for its conversion.
Sheridan had supported my drift habit for a long time, something I had only just taken up when I met her, she has always been more interested in grip than drift and had only owned FWD and AWD cars... so when she decided that she'd like to have a proper crack at it and learn how to throw a RWD around I was happy to help her build a car!
She has always been more of an R chassis fan and loved GTR skylines, so when it came time to purchase a RWD she naturally chose an R32 GTS-T, she picked up this car from Melbourne as there weren't any suitable cars in Tassie cheap enough.

The car needed a bit of work to bring it up to scratch for it 1st drift day, the previous owner had some pretty dodgy shit going on, like an external fuel pump and surge tank (about 500ml tank lol) tek screwed into the boot with a power wire for the pump running from the amp that was also running a big arse sub (also tek screwed down)

But it had coilovers and an RB25 turbo, it didn't go too bad, made 160RWkW on the dyno and did a good skid, it was a starting point


Sheri spent plenty of time spinning out and coming off the track at her first few events, no different to how I started, but she still managed to pull off some nice drifts!

It wasn't long before we decided there where some areas of the car that required fixing if she was going to improve her drifting to the next level, so that Christmas santa was very generous!!

We installed some new Coilovers, front camber and castor arms rear camber arms and a GTR rear swaybar, as well as some solid subframe bushes and project mu handbrake shoes.

Sheridan does do a lot of work on the car herself... with my guidance


off to do some more drifting

I think she's pumped!!


Here is a couple of videos of her drifting with the RB20DET Setup
Sheri drifting 1Sheri drifting 2At the end of 2013 after finishing 12th outright for her rookie season, she had the urge for
MORE POWER and wanted to do an RB25 conversion, so a cheap series 1 RB25det was found and purchased (we went with series one as it makes the swap a lot easier using the R32 RB20 loom) and some other goodies like HKS injectors Z32 AFM and Power FC ECU where bought from our good friend and tuner Andrew at Confidyne.
Sheri cleaning up the Motor and taking the sump off to install the correct front sump ready to drop in (block and head where separate when we purchased it, the head had just had a full rebuild and the motor was to be used in a 280Z!!)

Sheridan's dad and my fabricator mate prepping the RB20 to come out

RB20det out...

We installed the RB25 without the head, then put the head on when the motor was bolted in place

RB25det in...

It took me about a week from that last pic to get everything else bolted in/ on and wired up, the wiring wasnt too bad, using the factory R32 loom made it pretty straight forward...
being a series 1 RB25 we where able to use the RB20 coilpacks/ igniter and wiring, just had to swap some injector plugs over and swap 2 wires over at the ecu (2 injectors change pinouts from RB20 to 25) and also run a wire to the ecu for VCT.
We used a cheap, small, Kinugawa TD05-18g to do the puffing...

It's had a few issues using this turbo, mostly to do with boost control, it gets retuned before every other event... luckily though that doesn't cost us anything since Confidyne look after us and are one of sheridans sponsors
It has made anywhere from 230-260rwkw depending on what day it was dynoed and what problems it had at the time!
She decided to go for a new look with the car for 2014 as well, so the hagard old GTR style bar (now mostly made of cable ties) was retired for a new (2nd hand) bar & some factory plastic side skirts and rear pods

And the car was sprayed in matte black EBC liquid wrap (similar to plasti dip)

The Tyre Solution (a local dunlop super dealer owned by the then current state drift champion) also supported her for 2014, easing the cost burden of our drift habbit as my car was nearing ready for a return to track.

It was a year of ups and downs for Sheridan and PIG032, having less success during the season than with the old RB20det setup... mostly we put it down to an inconsistent car throughout the season, most practice days the car seemed fine and Sheridans drifting improved in leaps and bounds, but car trouble always seemed to strike during comp days!
From intercooler pipe blowout issues to a failing fuel pump... But we always got through the day in the end

Her end of season result didnt realy show how much she had improved, finishing 21 spots further back than last season
A couple of video's:
Sheri drifting RB25 @ BaskySheri drifting Symmons Plains raceway
Accidents do happen... this was cuased at one round when they put red tyre bundles on the outside of a corner because they wanted us to stop dirt dropping

Turn 4 at baskerville raceway is sheridans fave, she can often be seen with an arm out the window even though we are strictly not allowed to do that

Sheridan took great delight at the end of the year at a lap dash event, taking out a class win and fastest female award, she beat me by almost a second!! more impressivly she beat our tuner (and friend that encouraged us to enter) in his 300+rwkw R33 Skyline by over a second!! Sheri has improved her RWD driving skills with her drifting just as she had planned

more to come, stay tuned...