Driver Profile #75 Eric Castro

Name: Eric Castro

Age: 33

Location: Hollywood CA

Years Drifting: 4

Vehicle of Choice: 240sx

Why: cheap, parts availability, easy to find replacement car, so common everyone knows how to fix things since i dont.

Mods:
Rebuilt KA
GodSpeed
-Coils
-RUCA
-Sway Bars
- Other adjustable arms I dont know the names of.

welded Diff
5 point harness
dished steering wheel and extended hub
all kinds of crappy fiberglass knock off fenders and stuff


Favorite Track to Throw Down:
HTM

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting:
Shop Sponsor, having fun, accomplishing alot for a single cam car.

Personal Goals for the Future:
Now that I can drive decent, I would like to build a full shell from the ground up.

Random Fact:
Giraffes sleep for intervals of 20 minutes at a time.

Last Comment:
hangovers hurt when you get old

Driver Profile #74 Marco Gutierrez

Name: Sharkerio

Age: 25

Location: West Coast, I.E

Years Drifting: 1.5

Vehicle of Choice: s13 Coupe

Why: It looks G'

Mods: suspension, intake and headers.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: street

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: learning to counter steer

Personal Goals for the Future: practice more

Random Fact: Open Diff still

Last Comment: Don't Hold Back

(Corey Z: Marco has a pretty impressive video place on youtube, check it out, keep your eyes peeled for more!)

Driver Profile #73 Anthony Failla

Name: Anthony Failla

Age: 24

Location: Originally from Miami, FL but moved to good old New Jersey

Years Drifting: Did a lot of street drifting and messing around back in the day but reall got serious about 4 years ago.


Vehicle of Choice: 1993 Nissan 240sx Coupe

Why: I like the 240s because that’s the only thing I have driven since I started drifting and I feel most comfortable in them. I would really like to sell my car and try driving and mark 4 chaser.

Mods: S14 SR20DET
Motor:
• Godspeed Intercooler
• Custom Intercooler piping
• Tial 50mm BOV
• Aeromotive FPR
• Greddy 256/264 Cams
• Greddy Rocker Arm Stoppers
• Greddy Oil Catch Can
• Aem Tru Boost Controller 12psi
• Z32 maf
• Z32 fuel filter
• All lines converted to SS lines
• Mishimoto Rad
• Mishimoto Rad hoses
• Frsports Downpipe
• Custom 3 inch straight pipe exhaust
• Competition Stage 2 clutch
• Custom intake

Suspension:
• BC Coilovers (10k/12k)
• S14 front LCAs
• S14 Front spindles with 5 lug hubs
• S14 Inner and Outer Tie Rods
• PBM tie rod spacers
• Tein Tension rods
• S14 rear 5 lug hubs
• Kazaama Sub frame spacers
• Welded Diff

Exterior and Brakes:
• Exterior is bone stock for now
• Spaced Hood
• 17x9.5 15 offset MB Battles
• Falken RT 615 tires up front
• S13 stock front and rear calipers with project MU pads

Interior:
• Bride VIOS III seat (Low Max)
• Bride Low Max Seat rails
• NRG quick release hub
• Nardi Wheel
• AEM gauges
• Custom 8 Point cage
• Full Stereo System
• G-Force 5-point harness


Favorite Track to Throw Down:
Clubloose – Englishtown, NJ

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting:
From day one that I started driving on the track I always wanted to become good enough to run with the big boys. Over the last couple of years I have sacrificed a lot in order for me to get better. Countless days of tuning the car to run better. Watching other drivers and how they drive and taking all of that and modeling my own personal style.

(Corey Z.: This is the heart of a drifter in a nutshell. And how alot of us do it! PROPS!)

Personal Goals for the Future:
I would like to be able to get a chance to drive with the guys from D1 and XDC and be able to travel to different places to drive with other drivers to be able to further my driving even more.

Random Fact:
Im a 240 whore haha


Last Comment:
You only get one chance in life to do something you love. So why waste it.

Driver Profile #72 Graham Savage

Name: Graham Savage

Age:26

Location: Northern Va

Years drifting: don't consider myself one, i crew chief for my brother rapper Dan


Vehicle of Choice: Why:'93 240 hatch, got it so cheap i pretty much stole it!!! oh, and hatch's rule.

Mods: KA with every bolt on but a power adder, great for highways

Favorite Track to Throw Down: summit point love

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: making the skid pad my biach

Personal Goals for the Future: BIG power

Random Fact: i make fast cars go faster

Last Comment: blah

Driver Profile #71 Ben Schumacher

Name: Ben Schumacher

Age: 20

Location: Adelaide

Years Drifting: Just over 1 year


Vehicle of Choice: Toyota Corolla KE70

Why: Fun, N/A, Cheap, doesn't drive itself.

Mods: 16v 4AGE, Coil-overs, TRD shocks, TRD 2-way, BuddyParts cage, pretty basic.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Only driven Mallala but so looking forward to new drift track being built in Adelaide soon.

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Twin Drift win at G1 Round 1, 2010. Jay Duca and I (KE70 FTW :P)

Personal Goals for the Future: Drift in Japan, travel around Australia to do more events.

Random Fact: Only changed the oil once and its had a year of track work, 4ages sooo reliable :)

Last Comment: Thanks to Buddy Parts for always helping out and getting my car sorted.

Driver Profile # 70 Matty Borg

Name: Matty

location: adelaide

Years drifting: just started

Vehicle of choice: onevia .

Why : like the look

Mods: tein coilovers, camber arms, tie rods etc. 2 way

Personal accomplishments in drifting : none.

Personal goals for the future: qualify in G1

Random fact: eninge knock is bad lol

Last comment : if your sump isnt touching the ground it needs adjusting.

Driver Profile #69 Andrew Hawkins

Name: Andrew Hawkins

Age: 29

Location: Sydney

Car: Nissan S13 - Also have S14 and S15

Why: Had S14 since before I knew about drifting in 2002 so already loved them. Know them inside and out, parts are cheap and easy and they are built for it!

Mods: ( S13) Stock SR20DET, X-Force Exhaust Manifold, Turbosmart external wastegate, Garrett GT2871R, GReddy plenum, Hypertune throttle body and intercooler piping, Saber intercooler, Nismo 740cc injectors, Haltech Platinum ECU, Walbro pump, Saber radiator, Saber oil cooler, PWR power-steering cooler, Trust sump, Splitfre coilpacks, GReddy Profec B Spec II, Nismo coppermix clutch, Nismo engine and gearbox mounts, Nismo Pro-LSD 2-way, 5-stud conversion, S14 calieprs, DBA 5000 GTR rotors, Project Mu pads, Nismo braided lines, HSD coilovers, every arm and bush replaced, Whitleline sway bars, Koya 17x9.5+15 Drift-Tek wheels, Origin widebody guards, D-Max rear spoiler, Lamborghini Orange re-spray, bucket seats, custom bonnet, Saber gauges blah blah blah 235kW @ wheels and been going for 18 months.

Favourite Track: Full Eastern Creek track and Marulan

Personal Accomplishments: Host Drift Australia TV show, made Drift Central DVDs, made Drifters Unleashed DVD, commentated DA, Powercrusie, Fulllock, Raceline, and QR drifting events. Helped the scene grow

Personal Goals for future: Get better

Driver Profile #67 Robby Edmonds

Name: Robby Edmonds

Age:28

Location:Melbourne, Australia

Years Drifting:3yrs


Vehicle of Choice: 2003 Ford BA Xr6 Turbo ute

Why: Its the car i learnt to drift in and had the most fun!! :)

Mods: cooler, highflowed turbo, screamer pipe, 3inch exshaust, 040 fuel pump, fuel reg , cappa flash tune.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Winton , Victoria Australia

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Qualifying for the top 16 in many events

Personal Goals for the Future: to travel the world and drift in many different series to gain knowledge of overseas drifting techniques

Random Fact: i once drifted a police vehicle lol hahaha

Driver Profile #65 Mike Cianci

Name: Mike Cianci

Age - 24

Location: New Jersey

Years Drifting: 2-3 years

Vehicle of Choice: s13 240sx coupe

Why:Light /nimble/cheap/endless amounts of mods

Mods:2jzgte/r154/Garrett t67/full suspension/aero/too much to type :)

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Englishtown/raceway park

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: To have fun and forget about the daily routine

Personal Goals for the Future: To compete for fun as a privateer just for fun.

Random Fact: Im drunk right now

Last Comment: Keep drifting fun!!!!!!

Soon to be covered!

I will be going back down to VA to do a nice cover story with Ryan Downey and his shop, Auto Expectations! I will also be taking my s13 diff down for his man Hendrick to lay down some beautiful welds on.

Stay tuned for this expect to see....

Carbon Lotus

Basics of welding a diff

One on One with Ryan Downey. The 2009 Drift Nirvana Joe's CHAMPION.

Drift cars, drift cars, and a little more drift cars!