So he bought the 24 Hours Of Lemons car that me, Tony, Vaughn and Chris all went in on. Well, not destroy it, but take it out to smash bumpers and corner panels and everything. Me, Tony Angelo and Chris Forsberg pretty much started it. Chris was actually the first one that decided that he was gonna buy a crap car and just destroy it. I think it was kind of like a co-op thing. What’s going on with your missile car? Who do you think started the whole North American missile crisis? Larry: Okay, so now onto my favorite car. I don’t think I’m gonna find anything quite like that, but I’ve got some other ideas that can be equally as entertaining and fun to watch. I went to him to try and see if I could rent the property and his insurance company shut me down. The venue I used got purchased by somebody. Larry: So, are you planning another off-season video? Hopefully it will be 100 percent ready to go by then. Next week at East Coast Bash will be the true test. I pretty much haven’t driven that car since the off-season. I originally built it for another car, but since my motor was grenaded I just said screw it, I’m gonna put this 1Jz in the car. Luckily I had a 1Jz just sitting around from another car that I purchased and everything was just ready to bolt in. He grenaded the whole engine on me when I was at SEMA. I had an SR in there for the off-season video, and my buddy borrowed it and destroyed it. The lip and over-fenders really shows everything off. I really wanted to build an eye-catcher and I always wanted deep-dish wheels, so I got the Works on there. I wanted a nice paintjob on it and I didn’t want to worry about getting it destroyed from drifting.

The concept for my black car was just to have a super clean 240 that’s not for Formula D. You were actually laying fresh tire marks.

I loved that there were not a million tire marks on the ground. I remember seeing it in the off-season video. But if I had those options, I would definitely consider that if I could put the right sponsors in place. So It would be very costly and a NA is definitely the best way to go as far as affordability and reliability. But that would require some of those super-expensive Garrett turbos and changing them literally every two events. Ryan: Yeah, because I’ve never driven an anti-lag setup and I’m thinking it probably would be on a par, the amount of torque and that you could get out of it. Larry: Wow, really? Versus building a naturally aspirated car? I always wanted to do a really cool turbo setup with some legit anti-lag on it…

Ryan: If I built one from the ground up? I don’t know, if I had an option to do different things I would think about doing maybe a turbo engine, depending on what kind of budget I had. Larry: So, what would you do differently if you built one from the ground-up for competition? I never had that kind of stuff on a 240 before.įrom a competition standpoint I had high-end parts when I was driving for Gardella but I’d never had that before on a 240sx, so it’s one of the best cars with that particular chassis. We got some really good suspension parts from KW on there, and Part Shop Max hooked us up with their rear-drop knuckles that helps out with the bump-steer correction. In fact it’s probably one of the best 240s I ever drifted just from the simple fact that it’s got a lot of really nice parts on it, a good engine and a great transmission. I applied all my knowledge into that car, you know? After drifting all these years I’ve learned a thing or two about the 240sx chassis. Ryan: Yeah, I definitely took it under my wing. I’ve taken it upon myself to adjust the suspension as well as other things myself and I’ve made the car competitive this year compared to how it has been in years past. Ryan: The competition car… That’s the only one that I don’t personally own, but I guess you can say it’s mine as I do most of the work to it. Larry: I see you have brought all three of your drift cars. Would the real Ryan Tuerck please stand up? I had a chance to sit down with him to talk about the three similar yet very different drift machines. Ryan Tuerck is leading a triple life at the moment, with his Formula Drift persona mirrored by his off-season hooning and missile car madness – the latter ably abetted by Tony Angelo, Chris Forsberg and Vaughn Gittin Jr. Ryan lives just a half a day drive away from Wall Speedway so when Formula Drift came into town he decided to bring all three of his drift cars along.

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