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This time I attended an event organised by "Mad Mike" called Drift Force at Hampton Downs! Check it out!
 

Well... its the long weekend so here's another video!
 

New video is up!

it will make at least 1hp. lol

New video! 
 

2 hours ago, zero said:

Great video, and a good improvement on the first one.

Keep it up.

Thanks mate!

Pulling the chassis rail of my drift/track e30... with my daily e30

6 hours ago, Olaf said:

move your photos to flickr.

I just seen this, flickr ay? its too bad i don't have the pictures on my PC anymore. Looks like mass download and upload time haha

1 hour ago, EURO V12 said:

Some good advice by Olaf, remember you can still speak while recording as notes for your voiceover, but if you make any vocal mistakes you won't need to worry, can fix in post, overlay the HiQuality audio, keep anything spontaneous and funny for B reel or bloopers, I've thought about somthing similar with a curse cut at the end, every swear word spoken cut and spliced and played alphabetically, it'd crack me up anyway, and kept separate from main vlogs means you won't get those videos flagged and rendered NSFW.

That's a god idea. especially with a memory like mine I need to make as many notes as I can. I like the whole B reel ending idea, I find the bloopers endings more enjoyable than the movies sometimes haha. Ill definitely use it when I get more content up.

Thanks for the advice!

4 hours ago, Olaf said:

Constructive criticism:

Consider making a shot list and storyboard the things you want to talk about.  Then film them, without the monologue.  Record your voiceover using a vocal mic with pop filter, or a lavalier mic.  Edit your audio in Audacity or similar.  Then put it all together in iMovie or your preferred editing suite.  If you really get in to voiceover, you can build a vocal booth out of cardboard and foam.

Taking this approach tightens up your vlog, focusses on your messaging, avoids the wandering voice, and protects people from listening to your runny nose sniffs!  Be relaxed in a comfortable space when you do your voiceovers, you'll not be distracted by operating the camera and moving around. Your audience will tune in to your message as your interest and passion will come through in your vocal, telling the story.

I like the background music; consider using different tracks so it's not one repetitive loop through the whole clip.  I loved your cutaways to action shots to illustrate and reinforce what you're talking about.

keep it up, man!  I'll now edit in some links.

PS - I liked your intro graphics with the handprints.  How do you do that?

some solid advice there man, thank you! I didn't think about the voice over approach to vloging. I'll definitely give it a crack sometime. I'll try make a shot list etc for my next weeks video so I can plan ahead a little and then work forward from that.
I should have put a note or something about the annoying sniffing, I was super sick at the time, maybe should have waited but there's no time like the present

I know what you mean for the background music, tomorrows video will have a few different tracks. Its super hard to find something that i'm legally able to use that doesn't sound like a stick beating poos.

I made the intro in premiere pro. Took me a long time because i'm not computer savvy at all and i didn't know what premiere pro was before my flatmate showed me haha

Thanks for the great feed back and advice

ok so since Photobucket wants me to pay $400 to host my photos I thought it would be a good time to start a vlog. So here's my 1st instalment. Its jumping ahead in time quite a bit, but hey, its free! Have a watch! Give me some feed back, im new to this so some constructive criticism is welcome
 

On 18/01/2017 at 9:02 PM, zero said:

How has the diff held up?

same diff since! hasn't broken but holy zombie man its whiny AF. haha I've got a spare 3.64 med case but with the gearbox change I want something taller.

So being a gearbox down I needed something that would stand up to a little bit of a hiding. So off I went. To Silverdale. Straight to Hellbm haha. Ray sorted me out with a zf 5 speed and I went to work to install it. We ran into a few hiccups along the way.

Between the m50 and the gearbox sit a lightweight M20 flywheel and m20 6 puk clutch. So using the m20 release bearing resulted in multiple slave cylinder failures (because I didn't know what I was doing wrong). A simple measure up and sure enough the combo was too short, causing the slave to "over extend" and burst the slave. I then did a little research on the issue i was having and the answer was on the internet  

1x BMW e21 323i release bearing 21 51 1 204 525 was ordered from Gavin @ euroItalian (great place to shop), and that was it. Driving once again. Seems simple and quick when i'm typing this up, but it took a while... I had other stuff on the go while this whole gearbox drama was happening... good stuff! 

Making sure i can fit big tires at the ride height i want the e30 to sit

things were done to make it fit

Oh and I moved house sometime between all of this

So of course my mates had free reign in my garage  (Blasphemy warning)

I had a deadline given to me. There was a E30 meet being organised in Taupo and I was super keen to attend but I wanted to be a little different, so I started hunting for flares. I looked at the options from the states but they didn't really do it for me. I wanted something a little more "JDM" but my wife being the great person she is had bought me a birthday present... the flares I had on my eBay watch-list.

And with the magic of the internet, THEY'RE ON! (255/40R17 all round, Photo credit : Sam Boucher Photography)

I met some fantastic people and their cars at the meet. It was really heaps of fun! (some stolen photos from Facebook)

More soon

This is awesome! Maybe one day all us hooligan e30 sliders will be at the same drift day!

we need to go to the track before I break my e30 again

its been a while

The e30 has changed a lot since my last update. Ill try to keep everything in order..

We'll start with my 1st ever drift day on the track which was the 28th of May last year at Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park . Tragic. With no real prior experience and not really having a clue about what I was doing, it wasn't until the last lap of the last session I linked the drift section. (Again, tragic) But sure enough I left the day with a chip on my shoulder thinking I was the absolute sh*t, next drift prodigy. I immediately signed up for the next drift day that I could afford, which was in July last year. Boy, the humble pie came swift, and still no power-steering. 

As I said. I thought I was doing great and going into the next drift day at hampton downs club circuit I was super excited to show off my skills. But then I drove with some people that had a clue. The skill gap was YUGE. I found my self pushing harder and harder to keep up with them, but I still didn't really know what I was doing. Rather than being in control of the car, I was just reactive after the initiation. Basically the car was driving me. And of course the e30 took a bit of a beating.

I lie. It took a f*cking hiding. 

sh*t video for lols

Yep, I drove it to Hampton Downs, did an entire drift day. As I was exiting the pit for the last session of the day... BOOM! Rear wheels lock up and I couldn't find any gears, the getrag 260 had enough. No trailer, no way of getting back. Thankfully Sam from Hellbm didn't break his car, so we put my e30 on his trailer. Again, my friends save my ass.

Not much went on for a while. It was a rough time for me. But my wife graduated! YAY!

Will update in a bit. Need food.

Very cool! and that is a pretty healthy looking dyno graph

yeh nah, you dont need to take it off. but its also good to clean things! Keep it up

MINT! 

Ps. you dont need to take the intake off to get those two bolts haha

So will 15" tires fit on those wheels? or will need another metric set?

More updates on my excursions!

visited hampton downs to do some skid pan work. Trying to handle the car in a tight, slow environment was very... tiring. I don't have power steering and still running the e30 4 turn lock to lock rack. Also i'm finding that i run out of lock very quickly so will need to do something about that.

Despite all this I had an awesome time! Learning to drive this car *properly* is so fun. I need to attend more of these types of events and get as much seat time as possible!

My car was dubbed the cone eater of the day. my front lip had suffered quite a beating haha Hence its absence

Having great friends that always come to cheer me on, I had to take them all for some rides.

What better way to show off my new front end setup!

The more I drive this car, the more I need to change stuff. Some new bits and bobs incoming

Does it use oem oil filter etc? Pretty keen.

hmm might be keen on the crossmember

half shafts?

hmmmm