Youth Group Drift Project

I am volunteering at a local youth group who wanted to do a car based project. We have managed to buy a e36 320 SE (not the bestskidder I know) for almost scrap money. It was completely standard when we got it, we have also been given a set of e46 wheels.















They were anxious to start doing something so we have started stripping the interior and here how it stands so far.




So far to do list is looking like

- strip interior
- service
- sort any rust & poss paint matt black
- weld diff
- hydro
- ebay coilovers
- look at increasing steering lock
- any lifestyler bits we can do on the cheap

 

It been a long time without any updates but things have been moving along (slowly).

We have managed to get a grant of £900 from the council to get us started with our project, and are in the process of buying bits.

first to arrive was this



It was quite expensive to buy it new but we didnt want to get an out of date seat for safety/liability reasons.

We also have some JOM coilovers on order and are on the lookout for M3 front top mounts.

 

Thanks hopefully we will see other similar projects popping up. As you say its great to be involved in a project like this.

 

I would say that we should be ok as long as we get the welding done by a professional (or do it under the supervision of one).

With the seats if someone was injured driving the car and it was fitted with FIA dated seats that had expired then. I think it could be an issue. Although if we use the standard BMW seats we would be fine from a liability stand point as they don't go out of date (if that makes sense).

There aren't any "local authority car project guidelines" to follow, but we are meant to risk assess any activities we do with the young people. So our thinking is that with things like seats / subframes / harnesses etc is worth spending out the extra to make this as safe as we can.

 

Good call. We are hoping to get a cage probably a 6 point bolt in when funds allow.

At the moment we are planning on getting it up and running as a basic drift-able setup. Then hoping to get some local businesses to help sponsor the project. So hopefully we should be getting a cage as like you say cage + seat + harnesses is going to make it much safer.

 

We are looking at this at the moment. None of the them can drive yet so we really need to get them in the car and learning the basics first. The group I work with is part of the Army Welfare Service so there is a possibility that we can use some MOD land near us for driving learning/practice, although I don't know if they would allow anything more than sedate driving.


For drifting the POD is probably the nearest place that has regular events to us. I have seen a few southwest based events but these seem to be irregular.

 

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

To give you a little bit more info about us.

The Youth group is run by the Army Welfare Service from Ordnance House in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

They run various sessions there which are open to young people from both army and civilian families.

The car project is run as part of the seniors session which is on Wednesdays.

As for the project it has 2 main parts.

The first is to work on the car our current plan is to build a basic spec drifter in time for this summer.

Our current list is

stripped interior
e46 wheels
Bucket seat
M3 evo front topmounts
ebay coilovers
steering wheel and boss
hydraulic handbrake
Steering lock hubs / arms


The second part is to try and get sponsorship / donations in order to progress the project. For that we are getting them to go and try and get sponsorship from local firms and then we will be displaying the car at various local events over the summer to promote the project and any sponsors we can get.