A few weeks ago Turbiini78 sent me a video of him drifting at the Botniaring on the 12th of june.

Even though the Carina now is running on 225/50 R17 it still likes to throw up big clouds and happily goes sideways! :)

I posted some videos of this Finnish Carina before and his car is getting more and more interesting! A few days ago he posted a new in-car video of a drift session on the Botniaring:

Even though the sound of his Carina does not match our expectations (no high revving 4A-GE, but a bi-turbo 2L-T) he surely can throw the car sideways as it should with all that (slow) torque!

Apparently I was truely wrong about his project two years ago when he posted up the first videos on StreetFire...

Remember the video of the diesel powered Carina A6 coupe I posted several months ago?

It just got posted again 16 hours ago on Youtube:

Apparently now it has been posted by the user called toyotawiki who is reposting a lot of old videos with spam in the description (pointing to some wiki page on toyota-wiki.com). He even reposts videos from Riceboy.tv! Oh well, I expected this kind of behavior to happen on Youtube sooner or later anyway...

At first I thought "oh another engine swap" on a Carina coupe, but that was untill I saw the black cloud of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe! WTF!?!

1982 Toyota carina

I can understand a lot of engine swaps and I can understand it if you want a powerful modern diesel engine, but why this archaric 2L engine??

The owner says that he wants to drift with it. Ofcourse diesels have a great torqueband and it is twin charged, but still... Revving takes forever and the redline at 4500 rpm?! Power output can't possibly be exceeding 120hp and it is smoking like a steamtrain.

One nice thing about it is that it clearly can make nice smoke-rings. Maybe it can even write your name in smoke while drifting. ;)