FOXY FOUST SCION TC Legal?

[Piner]

I dont understand I didnt think you could swap subframes from completely different cars doesnt that fall under the suspension pickup points rule? I mean a TC's rear suspension is nothing like a MK4 supra's

[fast-datsun]

As long as you get FD permission before hand its legal... as per the rules.....

[Mediaman]

OK guys, while your enthusiasm is laudable, it's not very practical. We now live in an era of government-owned car companies, two out of three by last count, and this particular government is way more interested in bubble cars with really long extension cords than any kind of specialty performance packages. Don't look for any special "drift editions" to show up in a showroom near you anytime soon.
But that doesn't mean that drift-centric aftermarket kits and products aren't in your future, and for a wide variety of cars, if technology and competition are allowed to take their natural course.
Look for folks like Austosport Dynamics, builder of Vaughn Gittin Jr's 2010 Mustang and DMac's right drive, RWD Sky and Rhys Millen, builder of the new Hyundai Genesis and Eddie Kim's RWD Subaru Sti to develop aftermarket drift packages and sign up selected dealers to sell and install them on new cars. It's similar to the way specialty packages based on NASCAR ands NHRA cars were sold by Dodge, Plymouth, and Ford dealers in the 1960s, prior to the gas and insurance crisis' that nearly destroyed the performance industry altogether in the 1970s. Strong buyer demand for those packages eventually turned the tide, and the aftermarket performance industry flourished.
So what does all of this have to do with T. Foust's Scion tC? For these aftermarket drift packages to eventually make their way to market, they have to be developed, which means the cars have to compete.
As drifting matures from a collection of enthusiastic amateurs, to a mainstream motorsport, this is the kind of commercially driven R&D brings non-endemic sponsors, true manufacturer support, and more $$$ into the sport, which brings new blood and more commerce. It's all heretical to purists, I know, but its the way of the world for emerging motorsports that want to become engines of commerce and eventually, a mainstream motorsport .
You want Kia, Nissan, Ford, BMW, and others to begin making great modern era drift cars you can buy? Then let the process play itself out. Aren't we all supposed to embrace change?
One day all the 240s and Hachis will be used up. Then what?

[N. Chen]

One day all the 240s and Hachis will be used up. Then what?

By then the 350z and other used cars will become the new 240.

[Justin Banner]

There are also Camaros/Firebirds, Mustangs/Capris, Miatas, 2WD Trucks, GTOs, and many old Ford and Chevy Police cars.

[Bebop]

Most of the ASD/Falken Mustang suspension and engine parts are availible online. And its not like they are super expensive, around the same price as aftermarket S13/S14 crap.

Very affordable and reliable drift chassis right there, for now and the future.

B.Wilkerson knows whats up.

[courantcom]

As long as you get FD permission before hand its legal... as per the rules.....

They supposedly had permission...but then now what? From the way the car came out, they had all the permission. The group that put that car together aren't going to "make" a car, and then see if it's legal after it's all done. From what I remember reading, Formula D was very involved in the entire build of this car from the get-go.