Westy hard parked in our friend Eric’s driveway in Richmond, Virginia. The camper shell is starting to get better covered in stickers and vinyls. You can help us out by swapping stickers with us – send us some of your stickers and we’ll ship you out some Keep Drifting Fun stickers.

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Project Westy has had a rough week. Trailered around Atlanta to Formula Drift and South East Drift at Turner Field instead of being driven. Things are about to change – Westy is getting a new motor. An upgraded motor a remanufactured 2 liter to replace the blown stock 1.8 liter original. Hydraulic valve lifters – yes!

Stay posted. We will be back on the road soon. For now we are in Atlanta – Keeping Drifting Fun with Andy Sapp

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Saturday April 17th was Vegas Drift # 18 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. We had the van out in full effect. Pop top up, running a fan, the stereo, and recharging batteries with our new solar setup. Look closely at the front fiberglass shell – you can see the two panels tucked in the luggage rack indentation.

Our next stop is in Phoenix, AZ where we will be getting the van wrapped by Blue Media. Come Monday night, the KDF van will be looking good.

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After a few weeks of grinding, sanding, removing old paint, bondo, and fiberglass repair – the Keep Drifting Fun Project Wetsy is painted.

We asked our friends on twitter and fans on facebook what color we should paint the van. The answer was a resounding Orange. To keep it the stock/factory color.

It was important to quality of the exterior without spending a fortune. That limited us to a single stage (no secondary pass of clear coat) paint job and just basic DIY body work.

I stripped the entire van’s paint and ground off the surface rust with an angle grinder. After a week of grinding my skills improved. The photo above was from a few hours of work in a single day. Stripped and multiple passes made with different grit discs.

The front end was a mess of bondo and body filler. I ground it all out and started over. It was important to me to see what was left of the front end. The previous owner had the front spare rack drilled through layers of patching fiberglass. Fiberglass was no’t going to support a full sized spare wheel & tire for long.

On the backside of Project Westy there was some rot that went through to the engine compartment by the taillight/side indicator. It was easily patched with fiberglass cloth and filled with a new layer of body filler. The sheet metal was too thin for my welder. We tried to tack a fresh sheet metal cover over the rot, but it kept burning through – even on the lowest MIG setting.

This photo really shows the warped and aged metal panels on the driver’s side. Project Westy is not a show car and was never intended to be – its going to be driven… a lot. To the south east atlantic coast, up the atlantic coast, across the midwest, to the pacific northwest, to the Bonneville Salt Flats, through Nevada, and back to Los Angeles.

Besides this Project is about keeping things fun and this build was fun. Ask Pete, Aya, my neighbors, Hobo, and everyone else who helped out. There is something about a DIY project that is contageous.

Next steps are replacing all of the exterior components, pop top shell, install the new hardwood floor, and rear bench seat.

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In this Project Westy update, Josh “Hobo” Herron came out to Los Angeles to work on the van. We finished priming and then sanded down the primer. Next we took the van to get paint estimates. Check out the van as it passes Hobo’s s14 240sx with some power!

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Westy Update #5 from Keep Drifting Fun on Vimeo.

In Update #3, Will grinds the passenger side of Project Westy down to bare metal and continues to prep the van for paint.

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In Update #3, Peter Tarach and Will Roegge find a sticky situation in the top sleeping area of Project Westy.

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Go Pro HD Time-Lapse shot and edited by Peter Tarach. In this video we rip the pop top tent out of Project Westy, remove the sink, and grind more of the surface rust away – preping for new paint.

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Project Westy – First Update.

In this video, Memphis Speaker install, gridning rust down to bare metal, and priming for paint.

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Thanks to my neighbor Mike Kim for this shot. I’m sure the grinding when he gets home from work is a reminder that I’m frequently working on the van. Nice photo, dig the long exposure and capturing a great moment of ripping rust down to bare metal.

Project Westy is coming along. Another video walk around coming soon.

Thanks again to our current sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires, Memphis Car Audio, and Eazy Dolly. With more to be announced in the next few days.

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