Attempting to Drift my CRX

The Thrill of Drifting: A R32 Rivalry and AC Dreams

As I sat behind the wheel of my R32, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. My brain went to counter steer, a habit formed from years of drifting experience with all-wheel drive cars like this one. But as soon as I hit the gas, I knew I had to rethink that strategy. The R32's rear wheels were too loose, and I needed to find a new way to induce drift.

I remembered learning how to drift for the first time in an all-wheel drive car, and it was like relearning everything. But this experience was different. The R32's power delivery was smooth and linear, making it easy to induce understeer. All I had to do was rotate the wheels and point and shoot - it was almost too easy. I felt a sense of exhilaration as I drifted around the track, the car responding eagerly to my inputs.

But despite its handling quirks, I loved driving this car. The Honda tone was unmistakable, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia for the classic R32s of old. My dad's sedan was also an R32, and I had always been fascinated by these cars. They were like street-legal drift machines, with the added bonus of being solid and reliable.

One of my favorite things about this car is its rear-wheel drive layout. Unlike the all-wheel drive cars I'm used to drifting, this one requires a different mindset. You have to feel the weight transfer and use the rear wheels to carve through corners. It's a subtle difference, but it makes for a more nuanced driving experience.

As I continued to explore the R32's capabilities, I realized that its biggest limitation was also its greatest strength. The car didn't rev as high as some of its contemporaries, like the R34. In fact, it topped out at around 8,000 rpm - not far from the 9,000 rpm mark of my trusty old Mustang.

But despite this, I felt a sense of excitement whenever I floored it. The six-speed transmission was perfect for this car, and the power delivery was smooth and linear. It's like having the best of both worlds: the handling of a front-wheel drive car, combined with the added stability of rear-wheel drive.

Of course, there were some caveats to driving this car. One of the biggest challenges was getting it started - I had to use the handbrake to initiate drifting, which felt a bit old-school compared to my more modern Mustang. But overall, I loved every minute of driving this R32.

As I looked around at the track, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the opportunity to drive such an amazing car. The sun was shining, and the air was filled with the sound of roaring engines - it was going to be a great day. And as I pulled over to prepare for my next lap, I couldn't wait to get back behind the wheel.

But before I could even start my next session, I had to stop and inspect the car's AC system. Unfortunately, it wasn't working - and I needed to figure out why. It was a good excuse to take a break from driving and focus on getting the compressor or dryer sorted. After all, there's nothing worse than being stuck in Florida heat without air conditioning.

As I waited for my new power setup to arrive, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. This car had been a thrill to drive, and I was eager to see what it could do with a little bit more power. And as I headed over to Clutch Kickers' second event of the day - where I would be joining Engine Mike for a session of drifting and testing - I couldn't wait to put my new car through its paces.

The E36 Round Two: A New Challenge

As I walked onto the track, I could feel the excitement building. My R32 was ready to go, and I was eager to see how it would perform. But before we even started driving, Engine Mike had some good news - his E36's engine was finally refreshed and ready to go.

We spent a few minutes doing a health check on both cars, making sure everything was running smoothly and safely. And then, with a nod from the track officials, we were off. The first thing I noticed as I floored it was how much more traction this car had compared to my Mustang. The E36's rear wheels were still quite loose, but they responded eagerly to my inputs - almost too eagerly.

As I carved through the corners, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the handling of this car. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. And as we stopped for our first break, Engine Mike turned to me with a grin on his face - "You know, it's all about feeling the weight transfer," he said.

I smiled back, knowing exactly what he meant. The E36 was a true drift master, and I was honored to be driving it. And as we pulled over for our next session, I couldn't help but feel grateful for this amazing opportunity - and for the chance to drive such incredible cars.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to today's video quick reminder there is less than one week left to get entered for a chance to win this chaser and ten thousand dollars cash on the dyno right now tuning in with jamie we're gonna do a 93 tune we're gonna do an ethanol tune you guys are about to see what it's gonna make um uh and we have your power numbers luckily we have a lot of good data i've been running the ecu master emu black in my yellow chaser for a while and the map's pretty refined so it made jamie's work pretty easy on the dyno cleaned up fueling and it made a whopping 396 horsepower on pumpcast that was about 17 psi on the g3660 turbo i do think it probably had a little bit more in it 70 psi and pump gas is on the conservative side you could go upwards of 20 but it starts to get into a window where you could get into dangerous territory if you have a fueling issue i'm really happy with that almost 400 on pump gas put some ethanol in it and we got all the way up to 484 horsepower you'll see 1js have a pretty nice power band i feel like this turbo is pretty well suited to it this motor stock cam so it spools pretty good and we are making almost 400 foot pounds of torque by 5 grand so that's pretty good um ecu master has a blend table so if you're running you know say 50 ethanol 50 pump it will blend in between the two and it can target the right fuel so your car will run great and you're gonna have a good time and you'll be able to unlock many other capabilities with your ecu if your heart ever so desires if you want to turn it up you turn it up but it's got stock head studs so i feel like 25 pounds on ethanol is kind of my comfort mark but if you want to push it you're welcome to no warranty all right guys this is your event reminder i will be coming to puerto rico for tuner evo next week wow that's coming up really soon i'm still going to go out there i'm stoked to meet a lot of you guys i know there's quite a few of you guys in puerto rico that are watching this channel and uh i'm so excited to meet you and then i go straight from puerto rico to our event that we're doing the 4th of july atlanta motorsports event put on by bc racing hosted by drift hq i'm going to be there i'm going to be drifting the green s15 with its new transmission i'm stoked to go do some laps in that thing meet a bunch you guys if you're a driver and you applied to enter to drive make sure you check your email a few people have had their emails pop-up and junk and have been asking where their emails are if they've gotten accepted or not make sure you go check that i'll put more information about the events down below you all are sick of seeing 1jv tis with turbos and drifting and jdm cars so we're back to the usdm4 cylinder with a jdm four cylinder maybe we haven't decided there's so many acronyms and letters i want to enjoy and appreciate this car in all of its different iterations and forms i don't want to just go throw a bunch of parts off it right off the rip however i can't really rip on it right now because if you remember the shocks are not really even connected anymore so the first thing i wanted to do before doing anything i want to put a set of good suspension on the car so then i can figure out what else needs to be dialed in in terms of arms alignment drivetrain so we ran over to the bc warehouse and picked up a set of nice all br coilovers best bang for your buck on the shelf ready to rip also available at lzmfg.com and can get you ended for a chance to win that chaser that you just saw got tuned not gonna win you crx though so plan is power throw these things on and then see how it feels and actually appreciate the power since it'll be able to put it down without wheel hopping a billion times this is my first coilovers i've ever done on a honda they look the same you smell that what it smells a bit skunky get it now i didn't go on the honda forums to look at the diy probably this but it looks pretty self-explanatory you got a single jungle in here i gotta separate it i hope i do something wrong so you guys can be like i was working on hondas when i was 16 and you didn't know to disconnect that i don't know if this is correct that's what we're gonna try the brake line is attached oh that's part of the skunk let me eradicate that everything's so small small car small car parts i feel like i made a mistake bye i'll put a nut up here actually actually actually what i'm flying at the back of it this is why i ruined my nice ford hats he keeps whacking him against the dirty cars yeah i keep buying all these hondas yeah there you go ash ketchum there we go do you ever think like at some point in time people might care about this car like they care about my cream s13 like 10 years down the road this might become an icon of the compound and this coilover that i'm about to throw out is going to be sitting in some junkyard and i could have had it on my shelf as a memory well you got three more that you could make that decision with before this is also why my shelf is full of young you know i was thinking earlier my typical adam thought presses where i start to like a car and i'm like man some of this interior stuff's probably hard to get it's got a lot of stuff but if i end up liking this car maybe i should put full interior back into it maybe i should get a worse one for the compound and that's how it all starts but i'm gonna try to do my best to enjoy this car and not fully restore it although i'll probably end up painting the bay and the car and putting some hardware on it i'll try my best now to put interior run there's very little left but if you pass me this side this side it's the ratchet we call the electronics dude it was funny he was tightening the other side i've never worked on such a light car where me tightening it literally was like lifting the car off the lift off camera i was showing off to my girlfriend popping v-tech and i developed a coolant leak good fun fact you can go to an autozone and you can rent a radiator pressure tester for free i recommend doing it on any engine swap anytime you have a coolant leak uh it just saves a lot of headache because a lot of times leaks don't present themselves unless you have pressure so you pop one of these caps on and then just pressurize the system it works better if it's sealed here no work on my my kit no work on honda radiator someone said to check the block and it tells you what kind of motor it is yeah where the stamping is like right up there oh it's on the upside it's b18 c1 that's what i have yep is that the good one gsr oh and the gst gdm uh it could be jdm i don't know but gs are good okay let's find the coolant leak see i thought that it was the guy way in the back up here because it's got like a split pipe or like a just an extension in between the two very slippery under here there's like eight different places it could be what it looks like to be is there's a hose on the intake manifold adam pull the plug i think it was that one i mean if you were able to just pull it off like that then it's very possible there's another one too oh yeah it was definitely that one all right both of those need hose clamps also in case you guys are wondering uh johan's had his hands full with e36 prep that's why i've just been kind of occupying myself with this thing uh also one of your cards in the air um always wiggle the wheel to find bad bushings right away i've got a bad upper control arm bushing couldn't tell that before because the struts were so blown let's check the other side this feels like something else um this is uh also has like disc brakes which is pretty cool yeah do you mind wiggling that for me well that's the whole upper control arm on the inside oh it's loose is it yeah look at the gap up in there above it see that oh well yeah it's loose so that needs to get tightened those are on the back side of the strut tower oh yeah yeah good catch big fine no sway bar in the rear sway bar key make drift rear is tight that front has a loose upper control arm this one has a bad upper control arm ball joint i'll order that online actually you might have it oh imagine maybe oh i need to remember to tighten that actually no those aren't metal ones what is it those are rear trailing bushings this looks like tie rods yeah oh yeah that's not spl that's ashtray got me again ride height's definitely not set uh but i'm going to try to get my baseline to see how the car feels let everything kind of settle and then i'll worry about aligning and vowing perfect oldest gas cap we got he's gonna ray he has no idea how i was even running on the gas with how old it is probably drain it but crash cache it's a lot more responsive it's about a rain so there's like a corner i'm gonna see how the suspension feels i haven't really gotten into a corner of this thing without it bouncing around i'm curious how it's going to come at a corner exit i know it needs a bar to be able to get it to rotate but we'll see hmm i need more yeah in an ideal world we'd be able to do that without having to use the handbrake to initiate yeah it's weird because my brain goes to counter steer but you don't counter steer because it's like driving an all-wheel drive car so like i'm counter steering and then it pulls me the other way that's why i'm like drifting and then it looks like i start going the other way but um you're riven though dude what's crazy is like i feel like this thing revs to like nine grand it's not far from there because it goes past the 8 000 yeah i mean it's a gsr so i i mean i need to brush up on my haunted knowledge too but i'm pretty sure they ripped past eight is it loud yeah it's got a good honda tone it's not like i love how it's super rice honda tone yet so i definitely got to brush up on my driving it's easy to induce understeer because of the lsd yeah so you got to kind of like you got to rotate and then just freaking point and shoot can i watch my little driftwood yeah ah i feel like talking to me when he learned how to drift all-wheel drive for the first time and then he like had to like relearn everything i feel like all my practice with this is going to definitely translate to the rtr mustangs so i'm pretty excited to brush up on my front wheel drive knowledge it's uh it's a different beast yeah it's a good time though i can tell it's probably some of my most fun memories well i took the r32 to get the ac charge unfortunately it didn't work uh i think i need to replace the compressor maybe the dryer in it so not a lot of driving this thing going on just because it's so freaking hot in florida right now but i haven't done a pull yet with a new power setup i'm about to do one and show you guys how she feels i will do a hit from second just kidding there's police all right we'll try to roll into it for a second it moves by themselves missed in fourth gear gotta remember to shift quicker because we get a stop like that a little do-over very very smooth it's weird how much it just keeps pulling up top i don't know if you guys can hear it but it makes me so happy yo this thing's sick i think it would definitely put up a fight against r34 let's see if we can get a little launch action in this thing's good what's funny is you'll notice i'm having the same problem i have in the 34 going from three to four it's got to be a get drag thing in these cars i'm not gonna lie i was never the biggest r32 fan lately especially after this car i've just been loving them my dad's car too i just really wish i started messing with r32s as street cars sooner i had my sedan but it was really a drift build and i didn't really do what i think these cars shine so good at is you can have the fun of like having an s chassis street car but you can have extra rigidity and the extra just nicer materials and heavier feeling car in the sense of having the uh upper a-arm front suspension that's a little less dirty than mcpherson i just really enjoy driving this car and if it had ac it would probably be one of my favorite cars to drive even with the old-school turbo setup it's fun i think the six-speed really makes it if it didn't have a six-speed i'd probably be about that stupid five speakers i've driven r32s before and i hate how the five speeds feel but uh yeah i'm enjoying this thing i'm either looking for the cooler weather i'm looking forward to getting ac picks i gotta find a compressor i found a dryer or i might end up just redoing the whole kit so we'll see we gotta wrap up this video because we are about to head over to clutch kickers round two e36 is back together big shout out engine mike getting the motor refreshed ready to go it's on the i know about to make some pulls do a health check make sure everything's good a couple test laps and then go over i think i'm gonna miss friday practice but it's all good we'll be there saturday sunday but i'm stoked to not drive it on the bank because that means that i can add a little bit more grip to the rear we have to have it a little bit soft just make sure you can do the thing on the bank but it's gonna be a good time so thank you guys for watching this video a lot of random stuff in it uh but i hope you enjoyed it i'll see you guyswelcome to today's video quick reminder there is less than one week left to get entered for a chance to win this chaser and ten thousand dollars cash on the dyno right now tuning in with jamie we're gonna do a 93 tune we're gonna do an ethanol tune you guys are about to see what it's gonna make um uh and we have your power numbers luckily we have a lot of good data i've been running the ecu master emu black in my yellow chaser for a while and the map's pretty refined so it made jamie's work pretty easy on the dyno cleaned up fueling and it made a whopping 396 horsepower on pumpcast that was about 17 psi on the g3660 turbo i do think it probably had a little bit more in it 70 psi and pump gas is on the conservative side you could go upwards of 20 but it starts to get into a window where you could get into dangerous territory if you have a fueling issue i'm really happy with that almost 400 on pump gas put some ethanol in it and we got all the way up to 484 horsepower you'll see 1js have a pretty nice power band i feel like this turbo is pretty well suited to it this motor stock cam so it spools pretty good and we are making almost 400 foot pounds of torque by 5 grand so that's pretty good um ecu master has a blend table so if you're running you know say 50 ethanol 50 pump it will blend in between the two and it can target the right fuel so your car will run great and you're gonna have a good time and you'll be able to unlock many other capabilities with your ecu if your heart ever so desires if you want to turn it up you turn it up but it's got stock head studs so i feel like 25 pounds on ethanol is kind of my comfort mark but if you want to push it you're welcome to no warranty all right guys this is your event reminder i will be coming to puerto rico for tuner evo next week wow that's coming up really soon i'm still going to go out there i'm stoked to meet a lot of you guys i know there's quite a few of you guys in puerto rico that are watching this channel and uh i'm so excited to meet you and then i go straight from puerto rico to our event that we're doing the 4th of july atlanta motorsports event put on by bc racing hosted by drift hq i'm going to be there i'm going to be drifting the green s15 with its new transmission i'm stoked to go do some laps in that thing meet a bunch you guys if you're a driver and you applied to enter to drive make sure you check your email a few people have had their emails pop-up and junk and have been asking where their emails are if they've gotten accepted or not make sure you go check that i'll put more information about the events down below you all are sick of seeing 1jv tis with turbos and drifting and jdm cars so we're back to the usdm4 cylinder with a jdm four cylinder maybe we haven't decided there's so many acronyms and letters i want to enjoy and appreciate this car in all of its different iterations and forms i don't want to just go throw a bunch of parts off it right off the rip however i can't really rip on it right now because if you remember the shocks are not really even connected anymore so the first thing i wanted to do before doing anything i want to put a set of good suspension on the car so then i can figure out what else needs to be dialed in in terms of arms alignment drivetrain so we ran over to the bc warehouse and picked up a set of nice all br coilovers best bang for your buck on the shelf ready to rip also available at lzmfg.com and can get you ended for a chance to win that chaser that you just saw got tuned not gonna win you crx though so plan is power throw these things on and then see how it feels and actually appreciate the power since it'll be able to put it down without wheel hopping a billion times this is my first coilovers i've ever done on a honda they look the same you smell that what it smells a bit skunky get it now i didn't go on the honda forums to look at the diy probably this but it looks pretty self-explanatory you got a single jungle in here i gotta separate it i hope i do something wrong so you guys can be like i was working on hondas when i was 16 and you didn't know to disconnect that i don't know if this is correct that's what we're gonna try the brake line is attached oh that's part of the skunk let me eradicate that everything's so small small car small car parts i feel like i made a mistake bye i'll put a nut up here actually actually actually what i'm flying at the back of it this is why i ruined my nice ford hats he keeps whacking him against the dirty cars yeah i keep buying all these hondas yeah there you go ash ketchum there we go do you ever think like at some point in time people might care about this car like they care about my cream s13 like 10 years down the road this might become an icon of the compound and this coilover that i'm about to throw out is going to be sitting in some junkyard and i could have had it on my shelf as a memory well you got three more that you could make that decision with before this is also why my shelf is full of young you know i was thinking earlier my typical adam thought presses where i start to like a car and i'm like man some of this interior stuff's probably hard to get it's got a lot of stuff but if i end up liking this car maybe i should put full interior back into it maybe i should get a worse one for the compound and that's how it all starts but i'm gonna try to do my best to enjoy this car and not fully restore it although i'll probably end up painting the bay and the car and putting some hardware on it i'll try my best now to put interior run there's very little left but if you pass me this side this side it's the ratchet we call the electronics dude it was funny he was tightening the other side i've never worked on such a light car where me tightening it literally was like lifting the car off the lift off camera i was showing off to my girlfriend popping v-tech and i developed a coolant leak good fun fact you can go to an autozone and you can rent a radiator pressure tester for free i recommend doing it on any engine swap anytime you have a coolant leak uh it just saves a lot of headache because a lot of times leaks don't present themselves unless you have pressure so you pop one of these caps on and then just pressurize the system it works better if it's sealed here no work on my my kit no work on honda radiator someone said to check the block and it tells you what kind of motor it is yeah where the stamping is like right up there oh it's on the upside it's b18 c1 that's what i have yep is that the good one gsr oh and the gst gdm uh it could be jdm i don't know but gs are good okay let's find the coolant leak see i thought that it was the guy way in the back up here because it's got like a split pipe or like a just an extension in between the two very slippery under here there's like eight different places it could be what it looks like to be is there's a hose on the intake manifold adam pull the plug i think it was that one i mean if you were able to just pull it off like that then it's very possible there's another one too oh yeah it was definitely that one all right both of those need hose clamps also in case you guys are wondering uh johan's had his hands full with e36 prep that's why i've just been kind of occupying myself with this thing uh also one of your cards in the air um always wiggle the wheel to find bad bushings right away i've got a bad upper control arm bushing couldn't tell that before because the struts were so blown let's check the other side this feels like something else um this is uh also has like disc brakes which is pretty cool yeah do you mind wiggling that for me well that's the whole upper control arm on the inside oh it's loose is it yeah look at the gap up in there above it see that oh well yeah it's loose so that needs to get tightened those are on the back side of the strut tower oh yeah yeah good catch big fine no sway bar in the rear sway bar key make drift rear is tight that front has a loose upper control arm this one has a bad upper control arm ball joint i'll order that online actually you might have it oh imagine maybe oh i need to remember to tighten that actually no those aren't metal ones what is it those are rear trailing bushings this looks like tie rods yeah oh yeah that's not spl that's ashtray got me again ride height's definitely not set uh but i'm going to try to get my baseline to see how the car feels let everything kind of settle and then i'll worry about aligning and vowing perfect oldest gas cap we got he's gonna ray he has no idea how i was even running on the gas with how old it is probably drain it but crash cache it's a lot more responsive it's about a rain so there's like a corner i'm gonna see how the suspension feels i haven't really gotten into a corner of this thing without it bouncing around i'm curious how it's going to come at a corner exit i know it needs a bar to be able to get it to rotate but we'll see hmm i need more yeah in an ideal world we'd be able to do that without having to use the handbrake to initiate yeah it's weird because my brain goes to counter steer but you don't counter steer because it's like driving an all-wheel drive car so like i'm counter steering and then it pulls me the other way that's why i'm like drifting and then it looks like i start going the other way but um you're riven though dude what's crazy is like i feel like this thing revs to like nine grand it's not far from there because it goes past the 8 000 yeah i mean it's a gsr so i i mean i need to brush up on my haunted knowledge too but i'm pretty sure they ripped past eight is it loud yeah it's got a good honda tone it's not like i love how it's super rice honda tone yet so i definitely got to brush up on my driving it's easy to induce understeer because of the lsd yeah so you got to kind of like you got to rotate and then just freaking point and shoot can i watch my little driftwood yeah ah i feel like talking to me when he learned how to drift all-wheel drive for the first time and then he like had to like relearn everything i feel like all my practice with this is going to definitely translate to the rtr mustangs so i'm pretty excited to brush up on my front wheel drive knowledge it's uh it's a different beast yeah it's a good time though i can tell it's probably some of my most fun memories well i took the r32 to get the ac charge unfortunately it didn't work uh i think i need to replace the compressor maybe the dryer in it so not a lot of driving this thing going on just because it's so freaking hot in florida right now but i haven't done a pull yet with a new power setup i'm about to do one and show you guys how she feels i will do a hit from second just kidding there's police all right we'll try to roll into it for a second it moves by themselves missed in fourth gear gotta remember to shift quicker because we get a stop like that a little do-over very very smooth it's weird how much it just keeps pulling up top i don't know if you guys can hear it but it makes me so happy yo this thing's sick i think it would definitely put up a fight against r34 let's see if we can get a little launch action in this thing's good what's funny is you'll notice i'm having the same problem i have in the 34 going from three to four it's got to be a get drag thing in these cars i'm not gonna lie i was never the biggest r32 fan lately especially after this car i've just been loving them my dad's car too i just really wish i started messing with r32s as street cars sooner i had my sedan but it was really a drift build and i didn't really do what i think these cars shine so good at is you can have the fun of like having an s chassis street car but you can have extra rigidity and the extra just nicer materials and heavier feeling car in the sense of having the uh upper a-arm front suspension that's a little less dirty than mcpherson i just really enjoy driving this car and if it had ac it would probably be one of my favorite cars to drive even with the old-school turbo setup it's fun i think the six-speed really makes it if it didn't have a six-speed i'd probably be about that stupid five speakers i've driven r32s before and i hate how the five speeds feel but uh yeah i'm enjoying this thing i'm either looking for the cooler weather i'm looking forward to getting ac picks i gotta find a compressor i found a dryer or i might end up just redoing the whole kit so we'll see we gotta wrap up this video because we are about to head over to clutch kickers round two e36 is back together big shout out engine mike getting the motor refreshed ready to go it's on the i know about to make some pulls do a health check make sure everything's good a couple test laps and then go over i think i'm gonna miss friday practice but it's all good we'll be there saturday sunday but i'm stoked to not drive it on the bank because that means that i can add a little bit more grip to the rear we have to have it a little bit soft just make sure you can do the thing on the bank but it's gonna be a good time so thank you guys for watching this video a lot of random stuff in it uh but i hope you enjoyed it i'll see you guys\n"