Ok, this thread has been a long time coming – starts in 2006…
Having had enough of drifting utter piles of rubbish (either mostly broken Nissans or reliable but just plain awful E30 BMW) I decided to go straight to the top and get myself a proper D1 car, ish. Due to the huge running costs of the aforementioned Nissans and the subversive friendliness of Declan Hicks I decided an MX5 might be a sensible choice, his old competition-spec MX5 as it turned out. By the time I got my hands on it some of the goodies had gone - the turbo, roll cage, cool seats, but the welded diff, coil-overs, hydro-wand, mouldy fried egg paint job, huge wheel spacers and extra steering lock were all there, as were his highly developed geometry settings.
First mod was to leave it the hell alone and drift it. I know it was perfectly set up so any time it wasn't drifting was down to poor driving, which surprisingly helped a lot, because I stopped blaming cars and worked on technique.
Drifting done my first real job was to get rid of the paint job. Much as I loved having school kids wave at the car and police follow me home I thought that the classic satin black would perfectly match my paint spraying abilities. Having painted previous cars matte black the hard way (proper paint, proper spray booth) I thought I'd use facilities more in keeping with quality finish I demand. Rattle cans in a field it was. A day later and my car was gleaming satin black with black wheels, with a little flip up spoiler to add a bit of menace to the back end for 20 quid. I left the bonnet green and wobbly white but even now I don’t really know why, possibly because I’ve seen too many white cars with black bonnets.
