The Cars Final outing in Romania, oct 2011

It’s hard to believe that this car, RPS13-05664 has been in competition with me for the past 3 years. For 2012 the ncdrifting team are putting together a brand new 180sx shell  for competition mated the now proven and reliable 1jz power plant and running gear from the car above. More about the new car later but I think its only fair to run through the history of RPS13-056644 as a final farewell!!

I bought the shell at the end of the 2008 season and big plans were formed. The first JZ powered s-body in Ireland. Mated to a Supra v160 6 speed gearbox and a Skyline GTR Rear end the ingredients were there for a pretty awesome and competitive drift car.

With the help of WKD Imports we put the car together and the car made its debut at the 2009 Prodrift Rd2 competition in Punchestown!

The car happened to go on fire in Punchestown and set the tone for the rest of the 2009 season, with very few ups and a lot of downs. I think 3 engines we’re put into the car!! Mostly down to cooling issue’s and a lack of a budget to fix these issue’s because of all the engines that had to be bought.

Along with the engine issue’s the car handled like a bag of spanners. With the extra weight of the 1jz engine the end of the season couldn’t come soon enough for a full strip down and re-think!!

Even with all the mechanical issue’s we still managed a win in the 2008 season and a podium, Finishing up 7th in the Prodrift Ireland Championship. The car also received good media coverage with 2 magazine covers, one of which was Irish tuning magazine MIJ!

With the help of new parts from Driftworks including their Geomaster hubs and CS2 coilovers the handling issue’s were sorted for 2010. The car also got a ground up re-build and all the little issue’s and niggles we’re sorted once and for all!

2010 meant I also parted ways with WKD Imports and with the car looking a bit worse for wear wearing its 2009 paint job the statement of “whats on the inside counts” definitely proved true with a 2nd place finish and the start of the season long battle with my biggest rival on track James Deane.

The new paint job was unveiled exactly 1 year after the car made its debut, Rd2 of the Prodrift season in Punchestown.

With all the problems the year previous it was time to get some revenge on the Co. Kildare circuit. And after a 1st place finish, well, you couldn’t get much better than that. Beating James Deane in the semi’s after 2 “one more times” and Gavin Lenihan in the final! The new car was working and after a 2nd place finish in the first round we we’re on top of the points table.

Myself and James had some of the toughest battles imaginable that year meeting a total of 4 times out of the 6 rounds but eventually James came out on top and we finished up 2nd in the Prodrift Ireland championship in 2010. More importantly the car hadn’t missed a beat all year and proved to be more than competitive no matter who the competitor.

The car remained in this spec for the 2011 season and once again proved uber reliable. It was time to send the car on its travels and see how it fared out against its europen rivals.

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At the end of the 2010 season the car was shipped to Dubai for an exhibition event. We couldn’t wait to get to the track so we managed a bit of illegal drifting portside!!

The 2010 season finished with a bang, beating Remmo Niezen in the final and taking the crown of UAE Drift Champion.

For 2011 the car was permanently based in Europe to compete in the Drift Allstars European championship, and traveled to many different countries.

Somewhere near the Alps,

Malta,

Switzerland,

France, (not a good event this one )

Wembley,

and finally Bucharest, Romania!!

Not all events went so smooth, especially France as you can see from the picture above, so this year there was a lot of this,

and some of this, where the diff broke in Sunderland!!

It’s been a tough year to keep on top of things with the car this year. Mostly bodywork as we have been known to run a lot of walls…..

… but mechanically it has stayed strong and always got me to the end of an event!!

It’s cool to see re-makes of the car online and in computer games!!

This one made me laugh… a lot!!

So now after 3 years of hard competition and countless wall rubs the car sits in my garage awaiting its strip down. Looking very sorry for itself.

The car will live on as it’s been sold to an Irish drifter, but for me its the end. The team has recently purchased a mint 180sx that will converted into the ultimate 180sx drift car and you can follow the progress over on my facebook fan page over the next few months!!

So for now I bid farwell to you, RPS13-056644, its been a hectic, well traveled and exciting 3 years!!  :)

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Nigel

Next stop for the NCDrifting team is the Bucharest Grand Prix in Romania this weekend! As we speak the car is somewhere in Europe on it’s travells and the team join up with the car early Friday morning in preperation for what has to be one of the biggest drift events to be seen in Europe this year.

Located on the streets of Bucharest with the World famous People’s Palace as the backdrop this is a one of a kind event. With champions from all across europe competing for the €10,000 purse the competition will be fierce for the top step of the podium.

After the success at Wembley Marangoni Tyres have once again come up trumps by supplying their Mythos tyre to use at this event.

Nigel had this to say about the partnership with Marangoni Tyres,

“After testing the Marangoni Mythos tyre in Wembley we’ve stepped up a size and will now run the 265/35/18 Mythos on the rear. These tyres are truely amazing and will without doubt provide enough grip and smoke to be up there with the best of Europe and will enable us to challenge hard for the top spot. I’m privilaged to be working with a company like Marangoni and their interest in drifting is second to none. Hopefully this will be the start of a great partnership for the future. ”

Marangoni Tyres have released a teaser video, please check it out and “like” their Facebook page for all the news leading up to the event in Bucharest!

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The event gets underway with a parade through Downtown Bucharest on Friday night and the track action kicks off Saturday afternoon with Practice and Qualifying for the main event Sunday.

For more information on the Bucharest Grand Prix go to media partners 4tuning.ro and check out their in depth features on the drivers and other news related to the Bucharest Grand Prix 2011.

So after a hard fought Drift Allstars Championship battle with James Deane we came in as Runner up of the 2011 Drift Allstars European Championship.

The championship came down to the final round in London underneath the Famous Wembley arch and nothing short of a win with current championship leader James Deane going out early would make the championship mine.

In the top 8 the battle for the championship was over after an epic head to head with James that went to a one more time, but eventually James took the win and the championship.

A huge thanks to all my sponsors for 2011,

Chambers Performance,

Evicted Wear,

Spec Clutch,

and my latest sponsor for 2011 that came onboard with the team for the Wembley event,

Marangoni Tyres.

Without all these people this amazing year wouldn’t have been possible.

Nigel

Motors Tv have started to air the Drift Allstars 2011 championship.

For those of you who missed it please check out round 2 in Sunderland and Rd3 in Malta below. Some great coverage and great exposure!

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To win some official evicted gear all you have to do is click “like” on the NigelColfer Facebook Fan page….. Simples!!!!

Along with the chance of winning some gear it’s also where you’ll find all the live updates throughout events and upto date news!!

Enjoy the new page…   NC