Safari GTR - AWD Drifting + Jump Redemption

Summary

The script chronicles modifications and upgrades to a Nissan GTR for off-road and rally driving. Upgrades include a new limited slip differential to improve performance, new Ricaro racing seats for better support, and shock tuning to handle big jumps. Key events include successfully hitting a dirt jump without damage after adjustments, linking that jump to another in succession, and installing custom interior pieces like leather seats. Overall, the upgrades aim to make the GTR a highly capable off-road performance machine.

Takeaways

• 😀 The GTR performed much better with a working LSD, allowing it to drift and not understeer
• 👍 Adding a 2-way LSD and fixing the shock settings greatly improved the car's jumping ability
• 🛠 The interior is being fully renovated with custom closets, new paint, and vintage style seats
• 🔧 Adjustments were made to the seat sliders to get the seats as low as possible in the car
• 🏎 The Ricaro seats match the classic Porsche style that inspired the Safari build
• 🚗 Colette helped make good design choices like staining the wood beams dark brown
• 🎨 The house has been painted for 2 weeks straight before starting other renovations
• 🏡 A large glass wall will replace sliding doors to let in more natural light
• 👷 Matt is starting work on custom Obsessed Garage storage closet systems
• 👍 The white ceiling paint brightens up the space without removing the rustic feel

Q & A

What modifications were made to the GTR after the first jump attempt?

The transition on the jump ramp was made less steep, the rear shocks were adjusted to have proper damping, and more suspension droop was added.

What was the main reason the GTR nose-dived on the first jump attempt?

Adam lifted off the throttle right before hitting the jump, which caused the front end to dip downwards.

How did adding a working LSD help with the GTR's performance?

It allowed the GTR to send power to both rear wheels instead of just the one in the air, improving traction and handling.

What seats were installed in the GTR and why?

Recaro Pole Position seats were installed for better support and a lower seating position for racing.

What fabric was used on the new seats and why?

Papita fabric was used to match the vintage safari style Porsche builds that inspired the GTR.

What home renovations were done concurrently with the GTR build?

Painting and opening up walls with glass to let in more light.

What was the benefit of using BCS shocks on the heavy GTR?

It proved their durability by withstanding hard landings without breaking.

How did Adam's approach change between the first and second jump attempts?

He maintained full throttle throughout the second jump to avoid nose-diving.

What other interior upgrades are planned for the GTR?

Potentially matching door panels, back seats, and headliner with the Recaro fabric.

Why was getting the seat position low important?

To allow sufficient headroom clearance with a helmet on while racing.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Discussing vehicle modifications and testing

Paragraph 1 discusses modifying a GTR with a new LSD, sway bars, and shock tuning to improve performance for drifting and off-road driving. Adam tests the modified GTR on a ramp jump, successfully landing it after fixing issues from the previous failed jump attempt.

05:01

🏡 Touring newly painted interior of home renovation

Paragraph 2 shows Adam and Collette touring their newly painted home interior renovation. They admire the stained wood beams, new open concept layout, and discuss plans for new custom closets and flooring.

10:04

🚗 Refining GTR jump setup and technique

Paragraph 3 shows Adam's second jump attempt in the modified GTR, focusing on ramp adjustments and driving technique. He lands successfully and is happy with the improvements, though notes potential front suspension tweaks.

15:06

⚙️ Installing aftermarket seats in GTR

Paragraph 4 has Adam installing Ricardo racing seats in the GTR, which require custom brackets to fit properly and sit low. The vintage styled seats match the safari theme but may clash slightly with the interior.

20:10

🔜 Previewing upcoming GTR interior plans

Paragraph 5 teases upcoming interior plans for the GTR build, including matching seat fabric and further customization.

Keywords

💡GTR

GTR refers to the Nissan GT-R, which is the main car featured in the video. The host modifies a GTR for off-road and jumping purposes. He talks about upgrading the GTR with new parts like a Nismo LSD and BC Racing coilovers to improve its off-road handling and jumping capability.

💡jump

Jumping refers to using ramps to launch the car into the air. A major theme of the video is the host attempting to successfully jump the modified GTR without damaging the car. He attempts multiple jumps, makes adjustments to the car, and finally lands a successful jump.

💡off-road

Off-road refers to driving on unpaved, uneven terrain like dirt or gravel roads. The host modifies the GTR to handle off-road conditions better with parts like new coilovers and tires. Off-road capability is important for the Safari theme he is going for.

💡Safari

Safari refers to a style of vehicle modification focused on enhanced off-road capability. The host draws inspiration from Porsche Safari builds. The modifications to handle jumps and off-road driving align with the Safari theme.

💡coilovers

Coilovers refers to the suspension system on the car. The host upgrades the GTR's coilovers to BC Racing to improve handling for off-road and jumping. He also adjusts the shocks and spring rates for better control when landing jumps.

💡LSD

LSD stands for limited slip differential. The host upgrades the GTR's differential to a Nismo LSD which improves traction and control, helping resolve the GTR's one-wheel peel issue when attempting jumps previously.

💡modifications

Modifications refer to the aftermarket parts and changes made to customize the GTR for off-road and jumping. Major modifications include new coilovers, LSD, seat upgrades, and more. The video focuses heavily on modifications to create the Safari theme.

💡land

To land refers to how the car touches down after a jump. A smooth, controlled landing without damage is the goal when jumping the GTR. The modifications aim to allow the GTR to land jumps cleanly on all four wheels.

💡interior

The interior refers to the inside of the car, including the seats, fabrics, etc. The host upgrades the GTR's seats to match the vintage Safari theme he is going for in terms of aesthetics and safety.

💡theme

Theme refers to the overarching style and objective for the build. The host follows a vintage Porsche Safari style theme with the GTR build, modifying the car for off-road capability and adventure while retaining a classic aesthetic on the interior and exterior.

Highlights

The GTR performs well off-roading after installing a new LSD and fixing the shocks

The automatic AWD system works great for drifting the safari GTR

The GTR has crazy body roll which likely caused the one wheel peel issue

The GTR no longer understeers with the new LSD installed

The GTR feels wildly visceral when drifting with the improvements

Successfully jumped the GTR a second time after fixing rookie mistakes

Biggest lesson was to not lift off the throttle when hitting jumps

The BCS shocks held up well to jumping the heavy GTR

Added Recaro seats to improve interior aesthetics and support

Custom mounted the seats low to the ground on sliders

The Recaro seats match the vintage safari style well

Have enough matching seat fabric to extend the theme to other areas

The automatic AWD system works great for drifting the safari GTR

Successfully jumped the GTR a second time after fixing rookie mistakes

Added Recaro seats to improve interior aesthetics and support

Transcripts

[Music]

that was sick I'm talking

wow she bought us and it looks fantastic

that's

crazy all right guys we're diving into

Safari GTR yet again today except we are

not going to hopefully break it and

destroy it like last time everything's

fixed post jump nothing really bent just

a couple things you know need to get

moved back around but the big thing that

we finally get to test it with is a

working aftermarket LSD I put a Nismo

one and a halfway in it which can

actually be converted between a 1.5 and

a two-way we're going to leave in 1.5

way cuz that might help a little bit

with turn in on some of the off-road

stuff but the biggest problem the car

had is onewheel peel specifically I

think because of these tires being so

squishy having a sway bar and having

really soft spring rates basically when

the car would get loaded up on one side

it would actually pick up the inside

wheel and with the factory LSD maybe

because the tire is so heavy I don't

know it wouldn't send all the power to

the wheel that was still on the ground

like it's supposed to it would send it

mostly to the one in the air and then I

would essentially be just under steering

so hopefully now with a working rear LSD

it'll let us do some all wheel drive

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dri first up let's see how it does in

rear whe

Drive

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that worked good I don't know if you can

see the intense amounts of body roll

that it gets but that's got to be the

reason why it was happening before yeah

it's it rolls like crazy uh so now we'll

click on all-wheel drive I'm going to

leave it in Auto we'll see how the

automatic all wheeel Drive works for

drift

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slides

it feels ridiculous but it works yeah it

doesn't push anymore no it looks sick

yeah that feels wild there's so much

weird noises and things going on when I

do that I think it'll be a little bit

better suited for the dirt I don't even

think I need to go test on my uh my yard

anymore know that it works yeah wow I

wish I had this in Colorado it doesn't

push I wish I had a before just little

under steer every time I put on all

wheel drive yeah but yeah now she

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works dude for me not mud tires this

thing feels

insane the the auto in the uh all wheel

drive controller works really good

that's uh just basically apply flying a

certain amount of power to the front

once it sees the rear spinning I feel

like I might hear a little bit of

rubbing going on up in the front but

it's probably nothing too concerning

doesn't look like anything yeah it just

feels wildly visceral it's crazy it's

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to it Colette electric racing farm girl

Davis is joining me for what may be the

biggest transformation in the home

renovation process yet mhm they've spent

like 2 weeks now I think painting they

started painting weeks ago but like

really the last layer of paint and then

for two weeks so nothing else has been

done in the house except for paint I saw

some teaser photos looks insane we're

going to go check it out in person roll

the clip I'm rolling come on go about to

see it for the very first time let's go

he filming first re like not having this

what we kind of like not having the the

railing the railing here might keep

that

wow oh my gosh it feels so much bigger

yeah it is kind of crazy huh wow I love

the stained beams Colette that was a

good good

call it's pretty wild holy crap it

smells so new yeah I I didn't Noti that

whole time we walk in and I turn around

and I'm like wait a minute I feel the

breeze we didn't notice walking in that

there's that's going to look crazy

that's going to let a lot more light in

huh yeah so here isn't going to be a

sliding door anymore it's going to be

just like a big glass and over here oh

yeah well that well this is not going to

be a door oh yeah yeah this is going to

stay a door yeah this was a door why we

never I don't think we ever used this

once n as an actual door so this will

just be glass and then this will be a

big panel of glass that is a door that's

crazy oh and the trim have you showed

everyone the trim look at how much this

like U black charcoal paint makes this

glass work pop and actually looks on

theme with everything else hey look who

it is how are you guys how's it going

what up we love the beams yeah they look

great the beams are sick you get credit

for that I think thanks she was we were

driving over here she's like I told them

to do the beams the beams are going to

look great they're you're right no one

wanted the beams the dark brown looks

good that stain color is perfect it is

perfect yeah it looks great all right

Matt we trusted you on the ceiling and

actually I got to give credit to Colette

she fought wow I didn't even need to get

him to say it she fought us and it looks

fantastic the beams do look incredible

yeah I have to give it to her but the

wood looks incredible and well white and

that's what I was worried about I was

really worried that it would be too much

white and take away Along the soulle but

it looks perfect so good Matt's done it

he's been there a million times that's

why he's here he's helping us avoid

mistakes and it looks legit yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah I'm excited now was all

the fun stuff put the closets in TV

cabinets all the finish work so the

painters will be back Thursday to finish

in a couple of days you can see they

chop the wall so the guys coming to do

the concrete

tomorrow together all right so next up

on the chop block Matt is starting to

work on the obsessed garage closet

system yeah I call it Aspire by

destination obsess garage cuz they're

kind of my closets we found them and

they private lab them for us but this is

the exact finish I have in my house

which works out in the style of yours

they're 1 in thick uh and then you guys

you we made a custom design to make sure

we can house all of your stuff it's

going to be really sweet and you guys do

that for other people too yeah yeah we

design it and then ship it out as a DIY

solution tion uh and so we teach people

exactly how to install it's pretty easy

it's going to be crazy you'll see when

it's

done all right this may look sketchier

than before but uh there's been some new

calculations made after the last video I

said I wasn't going to do this again the

biggest regret that I had was like the

number one rule is to not lift I lifted

right at the base of the jump basically

sent the weight forward and that's part

of the reason why I nose dived another

thing is the transition was too steep

the way that we had it before so this

way will kind of make the ramp a little

bit mellower it's a little bit longer

and I'm going to go a little bit slower

that way the the car has time to settle

and then the biggest change I made such

a major rookie mistake and when I put

the new shocks in the rear I didn't

check to see how many clicks were in

them they were completely maxed out

which means that I essentially had both

compression and rebound to the max so

the shocks weren't really able to do

anything you could see they literally

didn't even droop or do anything in the

air um and I also added a bit more droop

to the car how much that's going to help

I don't really know the biggest thing is

uh trying to avoid coming down on the

nose if I come down in the rear or I

come down flat I think it'll be good

yeah I don't know it's just one of those

things looking back at the footage I I

didn't want to do it again but I needed

to do it again cuz I didn't feel like I

gave it a fair shot to be fair it can't

be worse than it was before the biggest

issue I had was not so much the back or

the landing I think it was the Whiplash

from having a helmet on and Landing

actually speaking of which I'm going to

put my Hans on yeah do that that'd be a

good idea want want to see him jump in

the grass I didn't think so yeah no I'm

going to get my h

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all right here goes

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nothing all right wish me

luck

hell yeah that's what I'm talking about

baby the clutch

[Applause]

kick

that was sick it like bounced but that

was cool hell yeah you proved a point

all right the front wheel like came off

the

ground let's go that's what I'm talking

about that was way better yo so I was

like I wanted to roll into boost but

then it wasn't getting into boost fast

enough so I said it and I just clutch

kicked it and I think that was perfect

we could tell that was that sounded sick

I kind of want to go faster now so when

you landed the front wheel came back off

the front

like bounce so I wonder I want to watch

the video back maybe we add uh some

clicks to the shock just to slow it down

a little bit Yeah neck doesn't hurt at

all now hell

yeah all right run number two a little

bit

faster

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woo

it again heum it

again God

damn yo you're out of control bro yo I

linked the jump back to the jump baby

that sick hell yeah that was sick all

right no hurt Neck car didn't get hurt

now this this is what I call a success

we did it we figured it out the biggest

lesson we learned was don't lift and

look you could be told that in the

comment section you could be told that

on the internet but it's different when

you're hitting a jump for the first time

in a car to like have the confidence to

stay pinned it like it screws with your

head I bet but the limiter and air is it

seems like very like I think I was

trained from the side sides you don't

want to land on throttle because it

breaks belts but I was I was watching a

bunch of rally footage I'm like they

just don't give a but they're also

landing on dirt so yeah so you didn't

lift it all when you landed what's up

you didn't lift at all when you landed

no oh wow no and like one other point I

want to make there's a lot of comments

that people are being like why are you

using BCS for this they're not intended

for that you should get rally suspension

what better sales advertisement that to

show that I could take a 3500 lb car off

a jump and the shot can take it yeah

like that's a that's a tiny shaft and

everyone told me oh they're going to

break they're going to blow apart

they're going to snap but if you guys

know some of the that we do with the RTR

Mustangs with the drift cars I knew it

take it so good rig

H when you link it here I was like all

right go

again hell yeah the headlights are

perfect I know no front end damage the

bumps off are set good so didn't Munch

into the

chassis it's a trooper did it look

better the second time like after we

made the shock change it's picking up a

wheel yeah whenever it lands but it's

weird cuz it's only one side looks like

to be fair so like right now I I haven't

mentioned the spring rate that I have in

the car I've got a 4 and A2 in the rear

which is similar to what we' would run

like a competition drift car but then in

the front I've got a 5k probably a

little bit soft considering how heavy

the RB is I could probably go up in that

but I also didn't want it to be so stiff

that it's like bouncing and doing weird

stuff but I think maybe I want to go up

a little bit in the front I'm really

happy that was sick yeah yeah I'm

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fuming thear GTR is pretty legit I'm

very happy with how it came out

Aesthetics wise but one very big Missing

Link on this build has been getting the

interior up to par it worked out that

Tommy had these leather recovered stock

seats and it kind of fit the vibe but uh

yeah that that ain't LZ spec so we're

going to stick some seats in this I've

been patiently waiting for what I think

is going to be the most perfect seat for

this car so we're going to ditch these

ugly squeaky boys and uh we're going to

get a re seat set up in this thing yoink

it's a tight thread but don't cross the

cross thread

twice put the seats in I swear he's like

I left that bolt out for that

reason yo this sounds stupid but we've

seen this in the other GTR the factory

seats actually Flex quite a bit um so

we're doing offroads and gnarlys and

jumps and stuff uh it's probably not the

uh not the best thing so what did we do

for seats I'll show you none other than

ricaro pull positions their classic

edition I love these seats and

ironically they probably belong more so

in my 964 but this Safari build was

heavily inspired by all the Porsche

Safari builds and the papita fabric is

like in my brain just screams Safari

screams classic screams vintage uh and I

think it's really cool that ricaro

offers this so This shell is actually

based on the 964 RS seat which is even

cooler it's a little bit wider than the

pool position in my drift car so it

should be nice and comfy for Street use

but it's a proper fixed back seat that's

going to give us some support if I do

ever end up uh taking this thing and you

know doing some proper racing with it

good to have a seat that I can trust so

the challenge of this is in an S chassis

or an R chassis you always want to get

the seat as low as possible to the

ground the brackets that I have that

allow that the seat is a little bit

wider than them I don't want to fix

Mount the seat to the ground I want to

be able to have sliders so it's going to

require a little bit of custom

modification on the slider side but it's

going to be worth it cuz these are going

to look fantastic they're going to be

comfy and I should be able to have a low

seating position uh and give myself

plenty of headro

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yeah basically we had to elongate these

holes and widen them a little bit so to

space the BR R it out farther but by

doing this it allows us to mount the

sliders up above the bottom line of the

seat instead of having a traditional

slider that sits below the seat so we

can get it way lower to the ground where

the back is almost touching I wonder

though oh yeah there's no cat hump on

the other side so yeah we can just match

this side and we'll be golden sick yeah

maton Town those look expensive they

look like they belong in the porch it

look like I one fit in it oh you'd be

surprised they're actually like uh

pretty accommodating what model is that

this is their classic so it's based on

the Shelf from the 964 RS it's calling

sari yeah it's a good looking cheese

stick you got

there yeah you got any more where that

came from

thater snacks no I don't we should

probably mention that I we didn't really

measure this side we only measured the

other side so kind of praying that this

side just fits like the other

one all right let's see what the thing

so mind you sitting low in these cars is

a big problem like to get seats to be

low enough so you don't hit your helmet

on the cage mhm oh yeah they're good

right oh yeah bet there wasn't a

steering wheel right here I know you can

drive it all right that was a real

moment oh yeah we are we are pretty

reclined I like it though it's a

passenger but I don't know as a driver

you know we us old men cuz you're a now

old man you're like that's set up right

I'm thinking though most of the time I'm

going to be driving this I'm going to be

wearing a helmet yeah and with a helmet

it lets you kind of but I mean you've

got two fists yeah is that good or

bad I guess it depends who you're

asking yeah no this is great I'm real

happy all right the the real problem now

though is what are our thoughts it

clashes a little bit

huh I mean it's not it's so like it's

such a contrast that I don't think it

really messes with it I mean I guess

most of the time it'll be a human in

there but without a human it definitely

looks a little

clashy

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the interior is done not really though

we have a few more things up Our Sleeve

I'm trying to look around and see if one

of them is in here or

not it's not but one thing that I can

share with you seats obviously they look

magnificent but we were able to get a

whole roll of TOA fabric

from ricaro so what that means is if we

want to match anything else in the

interior maybe door panels maybe back

seat maybe even headliner if we want to

get wild we got that option and it can

all match and be the same exact fabric

those used on the seat which is very

cool so um that's it for this video I'm

very stoked we were able to take this

thing back on the ramp land it

successfully and uh yeah I think we're

going to wrap it up here and I'll see

you guys

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soon

when

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you nobody knows you like I do I do