Dai sets out to defend his 2011 title in Episode 2 of GTChannel’s “Behind the Smoke” in front of another Long Beach sellout.  In this second show from Long Beach check out Dai advance through the tough Formula Drift field on his way to 2nd Place.
See Dai’s exclusive battles with Matt Field, Fredrick Aasbo, Ken Gushi and Daigo Saito and Justin Pawlak.
“Once again I really love coming to Long Beach.  The crowd, the track and just the overall atmosphere makes me feel really comfortable and we got 2nd, so I …

Dai sets out to defend his 2011 title in Episode 2 of GTChannel’s “Behind the Smoke” in front of another Long Beach sellout. Formula DRIFT kicked-off the 8th championship season on the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Street Course.  Check out Dai maneuver his way through the qualifying stages of Day 1 and as always there were challenges to overcome.

“Long Beach was great, I love that track and the atmosphere down there.  There is a lot of talent out here this year and more drivers to contend with,” said …

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Hollywood CA, – April 16, 2012 ¾ Season 2 of “Behind the Smoke ” premiers today at 3 p.m. EST. Fresh off his second place finish in Long Beach last week, Dai Yoshihara is looking to recapture the magic of his 2011 Formula Drift Championship.  In the first episode check out Dai and the Discount/Falken Tire Team meticulously tune his car for the beginning of the season.

“2012 is off to a great start and we hope to duplicate the success enjoyed with “Behind the Smoke” last year; while expanding the …

So for those that missed the 1st part of the build thread, here it is.. just click the link
http://automodified.co.za/awd-turbo-opel-corsa-build-thread
Alright hopefully everybody is up to date with whats trying to be achieved here. So we left off with the body work being done.

This is what the cars has been based on, its a rally version of an Opel Corsa B and I wont lie, it looks hot as hell!

With the C20xe in and the turbo manifold all hooked up it seems that the clearance between the turbo manifold and the front …

After the unfortunate failure of my Silvia’s SR20 and it needing a R16K rebuild, I came across an amazing deal.
Brenton’s V8 S13 has received a lot of bad reviews in the past and sat on Gumtree for sale for a long time as there were rumours going around about the chassis being skew, everyone warned me about this car. I personally knew this car and the driver and knew there was a lot of money spent on this car.

The deal of my Caddy and a set of Grids was agreed …

We are onboard with a Nissan Silvia S14 by the looks of the dash. This is a video clip shot on the Tsukuba circuit in Japan.
There are a whole bunch of cars in the mix here, but this driver of the car really flicks his car around and has some great handling techniques!!

{via Driftworks)

I happened to stumble across this build last night while doing my usual reading up and blog research. In South Africa we see a lot of Opel Corsa’s having bolt on turbo kits being put on and body kits and they are pretty much almost as popular as a modified VW Golf. So I was saying I came across something that is very unique and the Opel fans are about to do their nuts!! This car falls straight out of Switzerland and I’m told that to have a modified car …