1000hp RWD 2019 Toyota Corolla - Fredric Aasbo’s Drift Car

does not disappoint over here look at how pretty everything looks [Music] so we're back at it again with another build biology this time our guest he's a legend in drag racing absolute legend he's an amazing fabricator he's the most winning drift team in Formula Drift history right now let's just let him speak for himself this is Steph Papa Doc yes hello hey man how are you I'm good yeah high five yeah thanks for having me yeah man pleasure to have you on here what are we standing next to right now so this is a 2019 Toyota Corolla hatchback that's what it started life as I mean we've basically yeah it's 2018 I know Toyota had a couple of these pre-production cars they gave one of the cars to our team to then build into a drift car normally as front-wheel drive but our specialty is real drive conversions [Music] it looks amazing so is this more of what we're gonna see from a factory or is this all custom wide-body bumpers well this is a carbon-fiber hood but like the shape of that and the front bumpers actually Factory the roofline even though this one's carbon fiber the main modified parts are the the fenders the rockers you know the rear quarter-panel and then we have a TRD aftermarket wing that they'll have available for the stock car what what all is carbon what is metal the doors are actually metal really so because we built this car in such a tight timeframe three and a half months we had to pick our battles on what we would build composite so like for instance the hood is all carbon but what we do is when we build this car we unveiled the stock hood and we actually brought that down the reese Millan's place and he laid in and built us a carbon fiber hood using the stock metal hood as a mold and then we go and bomb that back on to the factory car that's incredible well I know you just came off of a victory so the debut feeling pretty good isn't it yeah it's so you know not in our wildest dreams that we thought we could start with a stock car in in basically December and have a winning car by April in December I I'd be worried about testing at that point like let's let's see if we can get testing in December but they got the car in December assembled it won the first round that's an incredible man yep and you know some people will ask like why don't you I didn't tell you to just get you just the body right why did they give you a whole car because the bodies are not available they only had a couple of cars and so we that's how we always start with these what are these big boys yeah some Motegi racing builds these for us this is their new wheel and the actual abilities here in California and Buena Park they start with a forge Center and machine it out to this this is cool mesh pattern yeah and then they assemble it with the offset that we want and then this crazy gold paint a lot a lot of time you talk about body kits right and that's like the tuner market but what we're doing here is we're actually creating whole new body panels so it looks like an over fender but the reality is like this quarter panel is one piece all the way from down here all the way to up here if you get close you can I really see a seam yep yeah I can see that here but yeah this is all integrated it's all it's all together with these drift cards they can get hit and so we don't have to go to the body shop and fix them we actually cut off the stock quarter panel and it's kind of cut like this underneath and this lays on top of the factory sheet metal and it's got a few rivets that holds it on so this would be open under here yes all right okay yep we cut these basically to the limit of what the rules allow yeah and then we put carbon panels that's that's incredible and the door still opens in the rear yeah so okay so this fenders all one piece here and then it's got an over piece here that fits on the gotcha the door okay and the doors are still steel but we cut them all out and this we do an alumina panel here so it's really nice it looks nice oh yeah yep yeah it's a really thin piece of aluminum bead rolled and then powder coated oh it's really nice let's move in to the rear here which you got going on in the boot now how easy is this to take off and in case of it crash it looks like everything's pretty but it's also flexible yeah so most of the stuff zip-tied yeah back in days we back in the days we would use like Zeus's and all these like trick fasteners mm-hmm you get hit and nothing lines up anymore yeah so we just do we do like more crazy brackets and then we'll zip tie to that take a look at carbon fiber hatch here still with shocks though the shots to support it so back here I mean some obvious stuff well it's not that obvious maybe no that's definitely not obvious that's the radiator yeah so the radiator is mounted in the rear and we try to get more weight in the rear for a more rear grip and then as low as possible for a lower center of gravity it's all separated through like a basically a rear firewall sure to keep the cooling system away you know from the driver and then that's that's almost directly where the back seats are yeah there's yes in the back anymore yeah yeah so the fuel cell is back here mm-hmm this tank right here is for the cooling system so this is where we fill the cooling system and it constant so the one line comes from the engine yeah from the highest point in the engine and then the other line comes from the highest point of the radiator here so it's always constant bleeding this is the overflow mm-hmm for the cooling system and this is the breather tank for the the dry sump oiling system gotcha and if you look close you might see somebody pies right here's one holding on the rear bumper gotcha yeah you can see down in there all there that tube work oh here's another zip tie a couple even the taillight yeah yeah reason for the radiator lying flat like that we want the radiator lying flat to get that lower center of gravity yep and and it's pulling air from the bottom in correct like there's a hole on the bottom air comes from the bottom of the car and it's a puller fan and then it basically then brings all the air back here and then out the holes okay yeah so I mean traditionally what I see these guys doing scoops from the top yeah I'm coming down through the bottom yep instead of coming underneath the car but I mean it's like a plane wing almost so you want some to rush underneath the car as well these cars are drifting and there's dirty air everywhere like we want to think we know what we're doing with aerodynamics the fact the matter is that unless you have all the smooth panels everywhere it's just turbulent air all right yeah yeah so basically for you it's just more of a weight displacement yeah so and then let's see the big adjustment sway bar here yeah so we're out of space underneath so we mounted the sway bar up here and we have a few different holes for adjustment and we can also change the different thickness sway bars and if we want to get it out we can actually we push it out that little hole a little bit oh wow yeah this here and then it'll actually come out okay like so yours you push it out through here and just weave it up exactly got you yep that's pretty cool that's a slick setup it's kind of difficult to see in here it's pretty dark but the bash bar is pretty nice as well well she's got a little kink in it already yeah yeah somebody somebody put it on the wall I guess let's take a look inside these guys this is all ducted this is where the radiator sits and that's all aluminous is all yes yeah cool I like all the beadwork and if you look behind the driver's seat you'll see his little Parker bumpers like a helmet air pump yeah so that's what that big tube pulls from the roof if you look at the top there's an academia Macintosh right here and that's gonna give him fresh air yep that's cool and then behind the passenger seat is the nitrous bottle hiding down there oh yeah always gonna sneak that nitrous in and then what has changed up front here how about this I say what's not changed we have part of the stock - yeah that's it everything else is garden stuff yeah the pedals are gone the air conditioning the heater everything else is gone and we've replaced it with all racing components yeah the whole pedal assembly so we use a drive-by-wire pedal so the pedal is actually just electronic there's no actual throttle cable that goes into the AEM infiniti ECU yeah and then the throttle body is also drive-by-wire everything's drive by wire cables anymore and then the brake pedal runs off of two master cylinders and then the driver can change the bias with a little knob that's on the center console over there a little black knob there yep exactly and then standard clutch pedal yeah so the whole steering column has been rebuilt and we try to make it really stiff we machine this tube and we put a needle bearing in there okay so it's all really low friction because these steering wheels are flying around either way you know so we want to make sure that the steering column is as little friction as possible right and there's a really cool quick-release it's a there's zero play all the play that you see is actually when he's when he's moving that a little bit I mean that the steering was always higher so yeah so there's no splines on this it's actually like this oh wow yeah it's like a trick wedge shape the - let's let's turn the sucker on and I can show you the keypad so the way the electronics work it's very modern there's no relays there's no fuses everything is through a thing called a motek PDM Power Distribution module and that's all solid-state components so back here I don't know have you ever been here before you might regret telling me on it that's okay everybody can know so this is a like a master kill this is the only thing that's an actual physical switch because we want to make sure that we can disconnect everything so that turns the main it basically hooks the battery yeah right so go ahead and press the ignition and then watch the - ooh Papa Doc is racing it's not that one in there - can log everything happening on the car yeah so of course engine rpm and throttle and boosts and all those things but the pdms the ones that handle the Power Distribution they'll tell you you can log oh the fuel pump is at 12 amps yeah fuel pump - is also at 12 amps the radiator fan is on so you can look back at logs and you can see what all of your your radiator fan everything has been doing as far as like voltages and amps and you can try to diagnose a problem before it happens sure yeah like if something seems weak like yeah we better if there was a problem you can go back and see what it was yep it's like the black box on the airplane yeah exactly the cockpit looks amazing I just like a clean cockpit looks great let's work around under the hood let's see what we got this a little shock yeah that's nice so originally this car's front-wheel drive comes with a four cylinder engine now it's rear-wheel drive still with a four cylinder engine and the question always is how did you guys make it real drive yeah the simple answer is we turn the engine 90 degrees and we add drivetrain to the rear that transmission driveshaft and then a rear end and axles the fabrication involved is we do custom engine mounts in the front and then that just looks incredible you know something that we machined at the at the shop yeah and if you sneak under the intake manifold there you'll see another red motor plate yeah engine mount so what that does is it adapts our our toyota four-cylinder engine to a small-block Chevy bellhousing something I didn't use the NASCAR yeah and then that then we can use the NASCAR type transmissions so so what what transmission is in this it's called g-force GSR it's something it's not for street is something that's using like the NASCAR's in order to get all the stuff to fit the tunnel and the firewall doesn't allow for the bell housing and the transmission to fit sure so the rules allow us not all the cars to cut their their firewall a little bit to allow the bell housing yeah but we're not allowed to bring the engine rearward of the stock firewall gotcha so that's one of the reasons we actually run the 4 cylinder engine is because a front one car that use to be front-wheel drive is called a cab forward design and the cab forward design the firewall is really forward right to get all the occupants farther forward so if you look at where the the centerline of the front axle is kind of about here mm-hmm and the firewall is only you know eight or ten inches back from that so most of the engine is actually in front of the front axle right which for a race car you don't want that you want your your weight as far towards the center as you can so if you were to have an inline six you'd be sticking way out to here put a lot of front weight out there yep or a v8 or anything like that yeah it wouldn't be it wouldn't carbon handle as well so the little four-cylinder motor that's really light this engine weighs 220 pounds and maybe another Wow 80 pounds for intake manifold and turbo and all that stuff so the power that we're able to make for the weight it's really and what was this motor from factory this is they call the Toyota 2a RF II and it comes in like the late-model Camry rav4 the Scion tC from 2014-2015 okay all kinds of cars come with it in 2.5 liter and 2.7 liter versions and what are we sitting at now we're at 2.7 liter 2.7 liter and how much is the output we make 850 horsepower on just the turbo and then we have 150 horsepower of nitrous on top of that so makes a thousand Wow yeah that is incredible that's really pushing it to the edge you've had these in and out in record-breaking time from as far as I'm concerned like I've seen like oh they pop the motor and then bang they're back out on the grid again so yeah so the limitation on these has been the head gaskets I'm trying to keep we got crazy head studs and trick gaskets and everything but we're actually starting to flex the cylinder head now because we're reaching the limit of what just the castings can deal with yeah so we always have a spare engine and we have to be good at changing it because that can happen a couple times it's and so how what have you learned to help you get this engine out in a reasonable amount of time I mean because the time between practice and qualifying is not much and the time between qualifying and top 32 is not much but when we have an hour maybe two so the key is when you're designing all of the components that they're easy to work on yeah so everything can be worked on simultaneously you could have three people under the hood someone can be pulling out the intercooler someone can already be pulling off the exhaust system and you can actually pull the header off from the head and the whole turbo wastegates this whole assembly comes off as one modular piece yeah same thing with the intake manifold you can unbolt it from the head and the whole the whole thing comes off as 1p yeah and by the time that stuffs off someone could be underneath the car pulling the transmission out mm-hm and then now you know once you get the fluids out the engines already on the way out sure and then ready to go back in so it has terrible you it's called a BorgWarner EFR 83 74 and we run these on the smaller tracks like Long Beach where we just were but then the bigger tracks like the big ovals will run the 91-74 which is their bigger version so that's a little bit more lag but we can make like another 100 horsepower we try to adapt as much to what the driver wants so Osmo will say hey on this track I just want as much responses I I can get and you don't need a thousand horsepower so we'll we'll have a combination that will give them more response a big track where it's you're just on this Bank for you know ten seconds rip in it you don't need a bunch of response you need a thousand horsepower to keep the wheel spinning at 100 miles an hour so depending on that application you I will change it Wow just the setup itself up here looks incredible like the whole batch bar setup in it and assume you have multiples note would you just do the one and I'll show you how this is set up so the rules for Formula Drift allow you to do whatever you want to the front of the car in front of the forward-most suspension component yeah so we cut the car off at that point yeah and we have a little tubular chassis so from right here yes go for the frame rail and everything is cut here yeah and then we build what we consider like a strong kind of triangulated sub structure like the mainframe again yeah and then you'll see the flanges and then this is the crash bar the the struts that go farther forward these are inch and a half oh nine five well on the big bar up in front as inch and a half oh six five so it's a thinner wall okay you think all chromoly man it's incredible work we saw I performed yeah I want to see underneath and I'm I'm really curious to see how you made everything rear-wheel drive his bench and set up what your knuckles are everything it does not disappoint over here look at how pretty everything looks that's uh working with a new car and we were just talking off camera he's powder-coated everything whole chassis is powder-coated yeah so we tear it down and we paint stripped the whole chassis but then once we're finished with all the fabrication we have a powder-coated and we have a local powder coater that can actually turn it around like 24 hours let's talk business about the first things that I can see right now let's talk about the steering because this is what we couldn't see before let's talk about the kit you have built for the angle stock this cars electric power steering and it's a rear steer we actually convert it to front steer which means that the rack is in front of the call it front axle okay this deer is this the steering arms are on the front so normally it's back here yep and then the steering arm would be on this side okay of the ball changes yep so we do front steer this rack is actually out of a like a 98 Toyota Supra late model Supra we do custom control arms these are all fabricated in-house what are they made of these are chromoly yeah you know this is the trick this is what every wants to see right they want to turn so do you know the degree of angle you're getting out of this I've got 68 degrees 68 yeah it looks insane again with the forklift look I can see that here's directly straight out and the tires looked nice and flat too yeah it's actually limited a little bit Wallace drooped out if this thing's that right height it'll go you know for sure sure yeah and then the steering all all this everything's custom right so this is a full billet spindle or upright that we designed in the machine in-house and then the custom brake bracket and then all the custom brakes like everything is all one-off what was the idea of moving everything forward to begin with was there even an attempt to try the other steering or everything was just we're going with the front this is like a sixth generation steering that we've evolved over a lot of the drift cars that we've built and now the cars that we're building are all McPherson McPherson means it's got you know the strut that has them on mount at the top and then the lower control arms just to have two mounts down here so once we know what geometry that we want we just duplicate that on the next car or we'll Inc will evolve it a little bit yeah so actually the uprights we they used to be steel on this car they are aluminum mm-hmm but it's the same bolt pattern everywhere yep and then we have a bolt on this is for use a Lexus is350 hub ok reliable so it apart so start to finish on this how long this something like this take for you in the shop this this knuckle here rd included oh call it a week we yeah so within the shop we can go from like paper napkin design all the way to like a final product so we'll design it I'll sketch it out or we'll decide on what we want go into the computer CAD design it computer design it and then we can actually manufacture in-house so these these struts are from our SR mm-hmm suspension they're actually s 14 style struts so the pattern yeah and the length and everything is all s 14 because there's so many parts available for that that worked really well and then we designed the custom top pillow mount wow that is crazy and you can see the different holes yeah that allows us to clock it differently so we can get different caster angles okay yeah okay what kind of brakes really run these are all from stop tech so they make the the rotors and the calipers but again they don't make anything that bolts on to this so we manufacture the the hat for the rotor and then also the caliper bracket okay Wow and we can pull all this stuff off too so you can check it out later pull off a wheel for ya be pretty cool to look at yeah this is our dry sump pan mm-hm and nobody makes dry some stuff for this this engine is such a rarely used engine this is something that we've designed and built in-house as well from the front-wheel drive engine now made it up to rear wheel drive that looks really cool even even the crossmember here yeah the role of trans yep it's nice and the GSR fits fits pretty nice in here I thought there'd be a little less room actually well so the rules allow you to cut a tunnel or the transmission yeah so then we have some room for the transmission and that's all stainless yes yeah it's all stainless act too and Oh yep and then the preference to go to an oval is just the clearance yeah clearance issue carbon driveshaft yep it's nice really huge if you check out our drive shaft loop it's all integrated into the the chassis so it's uh it's a drive shaft loop and the exhaust amount so what it's the rear-end meant so this is a late-model Supra so call it 98 Supra Turbo rear end turbo jay-z 80 yeah a lot of cars are still running winners quick change yeah this one is smaller lightweight and we just really like this rear end yeah it has more ground clearance there's a lot of benefits from this it is takes longer to change the final drive yeah we do most of our gearing changes in the transmission not in the rear end okay then looking at all the suspension bars back here and it just looks like artwork yeah so we want to try to get as much travel as we can within the rules and you're not allowed to cut any of this this frame or anything like that so everything is curved so it clears this once it's at bump travel and this is stuff that we yeah design and machine in-house the trailing arm the bracket the hole up right so all the stuff is one-off designed adults specifically for this car yeah and I noticed that when we were jacking it up that this has quite a bit of droop to it yeah it's got a bunch of bump to like it'll it'll tuck to like the wheel Wow and this looks like a really small fuel cell yeah it's eight gallons he gowns yeah and what about consumption how is that uh these guys will put fuel in every pair of tires which is about every two runs I think they put a gallon or two in it not it doesn't take a whole bunch and then all the fuel pumps are inside the tank and what pumps are there we run the AEM 380 liter per hour pumps two of them so on the scales how did this how did this way out I mean balance balance boys so 54% on the front okay and then was that forty six percent on the rear yeah yep wow that's amazing for what was a front-wheel drive car now what axles to use in this these are actually out of the box stock Toyota super axles they're that strong yeah you're putting a thousand horsepower down but we we see that all the time in a Sutra yeah so so we work for Toyota it works actually really well we get we have a pile of brand-new rear ends we got a pile of brand new axles and and then the hub's on the outside our Lexus is350 and the spline is the same as the Supra but they bolt on so we can build the billet aluminum up right and then bolt on are really robust so this Lexus this whole thing is just a crazy bastard child of all these Toyota sports cars but they've they've released and you've figured out how to put all the pieces together and the new Corolla yeah so we have a bunch of custom parts in the car but we try to find something that we can buy or get that has already made first yeah where does the idea come from though you just I know you've run this in the past you've done this forward Tanner's car which in my opinion has changed American drifting being one of the first big VA cars with front-wheel drive through a rear-wheel drive conversion I mean now it seems to be the norm yeah I've been doing this for over 20 years now so you never know we're gonna be inspired you know I we've we built a lot of drag race cars in the past done some road racing stuff some Lucas off-road short course truck racing obviously a lot of drifting the last you know 12 years and then I'll go to I know you never know when you're gonna be inspired could be at a motorcycle event or something like that and I just I like mechanical things I get a bunch of ideas just from the internet yeah it's just Google things and images and and just you never know you're gonna when you're gonna get inspired maybe we could pull the wheel off and you could check out some more other brakes and stuff I would like to I would like to pull the wheel off and check that out [Music] explain what we gotta go to I can see you've made a mount up here for the top as well yes of the way the rules are you have to use the factory or have the shock in the factory locations and this is the stock like boss that it the stock shock bolts to and then we made a little bracket and it allows the pivot point to be in the stock location which is how the is supposed to be factory yeah so we make that little bracket and this is a custom coil over setup that that RSR makes for us and we see the dual caliper so Dumanis are both massive they're massive but they're actually really lightweight so these are machine on like a crazy five access CNC and if you look there they're just pocketed all over yeah and then the rotor is actually quite thin and really lightweight as well these are designed for sprint cars oh wow well that's awesome man I'm glad we got to take a look at it very good work I'll can't wait to see what you build next yeah we just go to more FD events and try to try to win as much as possible yeah well you've got a good start already by being first in the season right now just coming off of your debut with this new car and a win so no better way to start that and man I really appreciate you coming by checking this out Drag Race legend and now a drift legend so I can't wait to see this thing again in Orlando and hopefully you guys carry everything on thanks 2x a lot man the rest of 2018 season this guys are gonna be a huge threat so keep up follow along

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Keywords: hoonigan, toyota, corolla, fd, formula drift, drift, drifting, donut, burnout, burnouts, supercar, driving, fast, build biology, rear wheel conversion, hatch back, donut garage, long beach, Stephan Papadakis, science, kill all tires, tire slayer, fredric aasbo

Id: IxOhP0v21Gc

Length: 28min 8sec (1688 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018