one year that turned into eleven (and counting)

Hey my name is cole, I'm from canada. I live in the united states now (mistake). after the cressida wagon i built with drift union proved to be an uncontrollable mess for a first time drifter...

 I bought this s13 in august of 2011 to get some seat time. i wasnt really a nissan guy so it was just meant to be a stepping stone, a placeholder, until i could get back into another toyota.

at the time i felt like i paid way too much (2k cad), it was auto, single jingle, and its fair share of rust underneath, but i knew i was likely gonna crash it anyway so if it drove that was enough for me. first order of business was to 5 speed swap, coils, wheels, and a welded diff.

second order of business was drive

after a couple rain events and wet floors i found a hole and made it bigger before i made it smaller. can you tell it was my first time welding?

did some other mods too

made the mistake of ruining a trunk for a tire rack

so i drove and crashed

drove

and crashed

hard parked

drove to the track and back

got stuck on stuff

cleaned up a lower km motor for it

street drifted it

cruised with the homies

as i grew more comfortable with driving i started thinking about looks a tiny bit more. found some oem canadian chuki side skirts

had some good days

had some bad days

in 2013 i drove a fuck ton, added some modded knuckles and a 4.36 diff and the car was a certified reliable shredder for just a single cam

after 2013 she was looking a little haggard so i did my best to clean things up a bit

in 2014 i did some competitions and won some competitions and i guess put an r32 gtr front lip on?

did a ton of local events and started to really stretch my cars legs. driving all over bc and the pnw and drove all the way down to 2 bash 2 future where i met max and dom of goldstar fame

got to drive with joe ayala and he ripped a hole in my quarter lol

added an evo 1 wing to the car and did some more comp stuff

this honestly was and still is my favourite stage of the car

decided i was going to drive asb 2014 so swapped to dual cam so i could actually make it around the track and got caged up so i could pass tech

had an incredible raod trip to california, drifted a bunch, had so much fun i forgot to change my oil when i swapped motors the month prior

was an expensive tow home to canada

so i decided to come back harder better faster stronger with a budget high comp ka

tested it out and it worked pretty good

so i put some fiberglass fenders on and packed it up to drive across the country to my new home in massachusetts

since then ive driven less and less and the car has become progressively more neglected but ive done a few cool things. put in some supermade lights

made my motor go doot doot

got a veilside rear lip

proceeded to crack the rings with a bad tune on the high comp itb ka

slapped something back together and drove it to final bout with my friends even though i wasnt drifting

drifted a tiny bit more more

gave up for a little bit and parted it out, sold the shell to a homie who just had his s13 written off

imported a silvia

traded the silvia for my car back plus cash and bought a celica and turned my daily driver cressida into a d-car so i could put some real time and effort into making my car nice again

and so began the year of body work

all that work to make it white again, but added the bomex usa stuff all around. i wasnt super stoked on the quality of the mirrors or the front lip but the skirts and rear valence were fine

took me no time at all to destroy the lip

taped it back together, crashed into a gaurd rail streeting, bondo'd it back together for a drift event and broke it agian lmao

got a veilside lip locally to replace it

got some good go tails and jdm bomex mirrors too

then i got an ozba front bar and a b-wave wing and finally rounded out the 90's ish style i had been chasing the past 10 years

oh yeah, at some point i swapped in an n/a sr20 (mistake)

and made purple signal lenses

it drifted fine-ish, but i miss the torque of a ka

then i popped the head gasket on the sr

and its been sitting like this ever since