**The Ultimate Drift Experience: Building a Four-Seater Party Car**

We're building a car that's not just for drifting, but for an entire experience. A car that will give you the thrill of riding along with a pro drifter, without compromising on safety.

So, why build something like this? The rule book is designed to be safe, not spectacular. The worst-equipped team in any series has to be able to build something that meets safety standards. Even if the bigger teams can make something better in a different way, firewalls, they have to stay intact because of the amount of work it takes to build a custom firewall and prove that it works.

Telling teams they can't change the firewall ensures at least a moderate level of safety while also stopping them from spending more money. And it evens out the playing field a bit. This build is head and shoulders better than any other car, so if it can't compete, why build it?

We want to ride in this car ourselves, and that's exactly what we're doing. We're building a Nissan 370Z, our pro drift racecar, but now with four seats for friends. It's not competing; it's just partying.

For years, drifting has been an amazing spectator sport, but experiencing it firsthand is something else entirely. So, I wanted to build something that we could give more rides in because one person at a time is very difficult. Drifting is awesome, right? But talking about it is one thing; seeing it in person is another, going for a ride is the top!

The Altima of the People! This Alta Maniac is built to give three times as many people the experience of riding along with a pro drifter, because it's not competing. There's no cutting corners for safety. It has to have more horsepower than a standard Formula Drift car to haul around four people.

As you sit in the back of this car, you're six feet from the pivot point, traveling a longer distance every corner in the same amount of time, experiencing more G-forces. This is where it gets wild!

We want to thank Chris Forsberg and his team for letting us follow this build through its inception. Obviously, Chris gave me a spin in his Alta Maniac, and it was wild.

Obviously, this has been like the most extensive build we've ever done. It's been a very long time; it's cost a lot of money, and there's a lot of theory in it. You know, that is yes, been proven on computer, but just, you know, what can we do?

If you want to ride in this car for yourself, click the link in the description below. It'll show you where this car is going to be at a couple of events around the country over the following year.

Hats off to them for being onboard with this project from day one. Follow us on Instagram here at Donut, @donutmedia. Follow me @jeremiahburton, till next week! Bye for now.

**Additional Information about the Altima Maniac**

The Altima Maniac is a Nissan 370Z built for safety and performance. With its advanced design, it can accommodate four people while maintaining high G-forces during cornering. The car's safety features include:

* A custom-built firewall that meets safety standards

* Advanced suspension system for improved handling

* High-performance engine for better acceleration

The Altima Maniac is not just a car; it's an experience. With its unique design and advanced features, it's the perfect vehicle for those who want to ride in style and safety.

**Upcoming Events**

To catch a glimpse of the Altima Maniac in action, follow us on social media for updates on upcoming events. The car will be featured at:

* Grid Life

* Other ride-along events

Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience the thrill of riding along with a pro drifter!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(engine thundering)- Let's say you want tobuild a car to go competein any type of racing series,road, racing, drag racing,formula drift even.You can't just go build thecraziest thing you can manage.You've got to followthese things called rules.So what happens when aprofessional race teamditches that rule bookand makes the most insane,most powerful drift car toever lay down some rubber?Well, this happens.(tires screeching and engine thundering)Our buddy and pro drifterChris Forsberg built a drift car so sickit's not even allowed in Formula D.And today we're not only going to show youthis car for the first time,we're going to show you how it came to beand why breaking the rules wasnecessary for its creation.The Alta Maniac is its nameand producing streaks inyour underpants is it's game.Let's go.When Chris and his teamput this car togetherthey started with a clean sheet of paper.They wanted to do a few moreuntraditional things startingwith its chassis.Now it's sporting a full tube chassis,the same type in trophytrucks, monster trucksand it gives this four-seater Altimathe same type of rigidity and stiffness.- And so this was kindof an idea that we've hadfor years, building a tube chassis car.And so with drift carsgetting faster, more powerful,bigger, you know, drive trains, you know,we're starting to like seeand feel the twist of the chassis.And this is the bestway to strengthen that.- On a normal car, thechassis is made out of stampedout sheet metal, likely steelor aluminum, and this is cheapand easy to manufacture,but it's not builtwith the strength tosurvive a race weekend,even though the sheet metaland the tube chassis canbe the same material,a tube chassis is significantly stronger.And this comes from the physical shapeof the metal being used.When the directionof force is controlled for adefined area of square tubingwhen compared to its roundbrother, it's stronger.But when the directionof force is unknown, roundtubing is what you want.When you crash a race car for example,the direction of forcein a lot of circumstances will be unknown.Round tubing also has onecontinuous surface with no edges.And because of this,any pressure caused by aforce is evenly distributed.This reduces the chancefor unwanted bins or breaks.Round tubing, it's got no weak pointsfrom corners since there are no corners.So this Alta Maniac hasa full tube chassis.There's no structural sheet metal at all.It's all made of tubemetal that is laser cutperfectly to size.When Chris got the donor car,he had the entire car 3D-scanned,with a 3D laser scanner,the scanner uses softwareto drive the laser probeabove the surface of the car.And while the laser isscanning, camera sensorscontinuously record the changing distanceand shape of the laserline in three dimensionsas it moves along the surface,the shape of the object being scannedappears as millions ofpoints called a point cloud.And this process is fast andgathers up to 750,000 pointsper second, with a lot of precision,up to five, 10 thousands of an inch.That 3D scan then allowsChris and his teamto 3D design the tube chassiswith amazing tolerances.- You know, this whole thing,every plate, every piece,every tube came on a pallet,just a single piece,and they're all labeled.They all have a littlelaser etching on them,a little part number.And so we had to go throughthe actual CAD drawingselect each tube, pullthem out of the pile,lay them on the ground andget it all kind of situatedand slowly build thesame from the ground up.This was the first timewe've ever done this.And we took the stockchassis to this in 10 days.- A Formula D chassis can have2,000 hours of work into it.Chris' 370Z for exampletook the team over a month.Whereas this new chassistook 10 days to build.When they go to replicate it,it could be even quicker,so quick that they couldshow up to the race eventwith three spare chassisif they wanted to.This is how current spec racing worksfor other racing series.Now, none of this would mean anythingif the car didn't have a powerful enginefor this sideway sedan, FordsWorks team, they dropped inthe best Nissan could offer.The Alta Maniac is powered bythe VR-38 engine straight outof the Nissan GTR, exceptit's got a lot more power.2,000 horsepower to be exact,tons of billet aluminumparts went into this engine,billet crank, billet rods,billet main caps, billet girdlesand a dry sump oil system.The engine has been strokedto increase its capacityto four liters, add in 35 pounds of boost.And it makes a total of 2,000 horsepower.And that's on the stock block.Did you spec the motor outwhen you had them build itor did you guys work togetheror what was the process,was it just like, hey, Iwant to hit 2000 horsepower,do what you got to do?- Pretty much, yeah.T1 is, I would say the leadersin GTR VR-38 engine builds right now.They have the world's fastest GTR.They constantly win all the classesat like the Texas mileand everything else.And you know,so it's nice to see ateam that has just fullyproven high horsepower VR setups gettinginto the drift space.- So this team spent tens of thousandsof dollars building acar that's stiffer, saferand more powerful than anyFormula D car ever built,but they can't compete with it.Why not?This is the formula driftrule book, it's 40 pagesof what you can and can't do to your carin order for it to belegal for competition.Rules about how you can'tchange the OEM floor panor the factory strut towerpickups, or cut the firewall.Now these rules arein place for two mainreasons, safety and costs.And it's pretty much thesame with any motor sport.- Yeah.With formula drift, we arenot allowed to do any of this.And so, especially the factory firewall,you're not allowed to remove,you can open up the transmissiontunnel a little bit to fita different transmissionand you can skate themotor back a little bitbecause of that.But you cannot just cut the vertical planeof the firewall.The big thing is like, likeI was saying, once again,that's so that it keeps people in checkon what they do and don'tdo what their chassis.- The reason most of these kindsof changes can't be made is for safety.So how is Forsberg Altimasafer than an FD car?Well, for one thing,the rule book is designed tothe lowest common denominator.The worst equipped team in any serieshas to be able to build somethingthat meets safety standards.Even if the bigger teamscan make something betterin a different way,firewalls, they have to stayintact because of theamount of work it takesto build a custom firewalland prove that it works.It takes skill and money to do it right.And telling teams they can'tchange the firewall ensuresat least a moderate level of safetywhile also stopping the teamfrom spending more money.And it also evens outthe playing field a bit.This build clearly is head and shouldersbetter than any other car.So if it can't compete, why build it?- It's one of those things like, you knowdrifting is awesome, right?And it's like talking topeople about it is one thing,seeing it in person is another,going for a ride is the top, right?And so I wanted to build somethingthat we could give morerides in because you know,one person at a time is very difficult.It's hard on the car.It's a lot of, you know,materials and resourcesused to go for a ride.And so I was like, okay,if we can, you know, triple that, why not?And since, you know, events like Grid Lifeand these other ride alongevents are really taking off.It's like, well, there'smore and more effortand energy going towardsthese party eventsas we call them outsideof the competition.So, you know, we ofcourse have our, you know,Nissan 370Z, which is our pro drift racecar that we use for Formula Drift.But I was like, well, let's build the bestfour-seater party carthat we possibly can.- Forsberg has built this Nissan for you.It's the Altima of the People!This Alta Maniac isbuilt to give three timesas many people theexperience of riding alongwith a pro drifter,because it's not competing.There's no cutting corners for safety.And to haul around fourpeople, it's got to haveway more horsepower than astandard formula drift car.And the best thing abouta drift taxi like thisyou'll actually get toexperience more G-forcesthan even the pro drifters do.As the car drifts,the entire chassis pivotsaround the center pointbetween the front two wheels,the front wheels have the gripwhile the back wheels let go and slide.If you're in the driver's seat,you're only about 18 inchesaway from that center point.As the car changes direction,you would experiencethe acceleration of thechassis plus accelerationof your position relative to the chassis.Acceleration is a vector,meaning it needs a directionand a magnitude.So as you're drifting,you're actually accelerating.But if you're in the back ofthe car, you're now six footfrom the pivot point, you'retraveling a longer distanceevery corner in the same amount of time,experiencing more G-forces in the back,which is where I got toride in this puppster.(tires screeching and engine thundering)(upbeat music)We want to thank ChrisForsberg and his teamfor letting us follow thisbuild through its inception.Obviously Chris gave me a spinin his Alta Maniac and it was wild.So thanks for allowingme to be a part of this.- I mean, obviously this has beenlike the most extensivebuild we've ever done.It's been a very long time.It's cost a lot of money andthere's a lot of theory in it.You know, that is yes,been proven on computer,but just, you knowthe idea of like, youknow, what can we do?And, you know, it just takesa massive amount of supportnot even just from theguys here in the shop,putting the car together.But of course from,you know, like babblingto trust in me to have, you know,a good idea come to life, you know,because this has never been done before.So, you know, you want to make surethat you can pull throughwhen people support you and so,hats off to them for being onboardwith this project from day one.- If you want to ride inthis car for yourself,click the link in the description below.It'll show you where thiscar is going to be at,a couple events around thecountry over the following year.Thank you guys so much forwatching this episode of B2B.Follow us on Instagram here at Donut,@donutmedia.Follow me @jeremiahburton,till next week!Bye for now.