What do you do while you’ve simply received a Formula Drift championship? Buy a Porsche, apparently. Reigning FD champ Chelsea DeNofa simply purchased a 718 Cayman S to show it right into a drift automobile, and it is likely one of the coolest issues we have seen in a minute. A mid-engine Porsche might look like an unlikely drift automobile, however with some modification and DeNofa’s fast fingers, it really works extraordinarily nicely.
DeNofa is detailing the construct on his YouTube channel, and it is fascinating. The Cayman is surprisingly nicely fitted to a conversion right into a drift automobile. DeNofa was in a position to preserve the inventory rear suspension geometry, and easily put in new arms that permit for extra adjustment of roll heart and anti-squat and ditch the inventory rubber bushings for heim joints.
After dropping the gearbox, DeNofa put in a stronger clutch, beefed-up 2nd, third, and 4th gears, and welded the differential, all of which was surprisingly easy. He selected to go together with a Cayman with a turbocharged flat-four quite than a naturally aspirated flat-six for the large energy potential for the boosted engine. Right now, they’re working about 400 hp over the inventory 350, however the objective is to get nearer to 600. That ought to require a brand new exhaust, which is already fitted to the automobile, and a brand new turbocharger.
This will not be a Formula Drift automobile, so DeNofa is making an attempt to maintain as many Porsche elements as attainable. Aside from a cage, seats, harnesses, and naturally, a hydraulic handbrake, the inside is being saved inventory. He’ll possible do away with the small radiators forward of the entrance wheels for a bigger unit to be mounted at an angle within the entrance trunk a la the brand new 911 GT3 RS. That’s to maintain the radiator much less uncovered to impacts. DeNofa assumes it will need cooling upgrades too.
There was additionally the matter of electronics. With any trendy automobile, all of the programs discuss to 1 one other, and while you begin messing with one, the remainder go haywire. DeNofa does not go into particulars, however it took plenty of work to primarily “unlock” the automobile for it for use for this goal.
We’re excited to see this construct unfold. DeNofa dives deep on all of the points of the automobile right here, and there is a lot past cool sideways pictures of the automobile. Though, we’re blissful watching drift pictures again and again.