We as drifters know how hard it is to build and fund a drift car. Let alone drive it. From removing sound deadening on 40 degree days to installing a new motor. The frustration, the pain, the headaches, the constant abuse from the significant other are in the end are worth it.

Hopefully one day I will understand why we do the things we do. In another sense, who cares. Paint it - crash it - fix it -break it - repeat. This all apart of drifting which results in that giant smile to our faces, to go home and re-weld, cable tie what you fixed just did before that day. At the end of the day we have something to show for it, something to share.

Its not easy putting in the hard yards only to be turned down, loose in the qualifying, pop that new motor. But it’s the passion that keeps our hopes up and our spirits alive. I honestly could have spat the dummy about 5 times in my time of drifting, but there is something there that makes me want to keep spending that cash, working those hours. Its especially not fun seeing your car go onto a tow truck for the wrong reasons, but on the brighter side, its on that tow truck so you can fix it, to start again, so you can get back out there.

One example I’d like to share is about a good friend of mine and one of my main inspirations. One CA18DET, One SR20DET, and now at the tail end of a year long project RB25DET, the RB took a whole year to install, but he never seemed to stop and give up, 90% of the work was his own, and the effort and desire that went into this build was just inspiring to me, after the hard yards of his effort, time and labour, every time I’d go around to his house he was under the car, or coming up with some new ideas and new concepts for some of the smallest to the biggest things of the conversion, in the end it made an initial dyno result of 295rwkw, the mental sound of the external gate, just brang a smile to all our faces, on our first track day, he just got into and after a year of being off the track, he was straight back into it better than ever before. To me this was proof that the hard work does pay off in the end, all the days of harsh reality to that final start up or the photo’s of your car producing more smoke than a smoke machine at a year 7 disco makes it worth it.

These things don’t come easy, we all work for it, we all bleed, sweat and sometimes…….cry, for the things we love, and would you do it if you didn’t love it? Even to the personal side of drifting, I have an unimpressed girlfriend 70 per cent of the time as she believes I love my car more than her………no comment, but still she is there to support me and encourages me. But the party’s missed out, the nights out with your mates spent at home, cause your pocket is empty, we all go through it, we all do it, for that one reason. Drift. You aint alone! Keep Drift alive!

- Woods