{"id":11080,"date":"2026-05-08T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/engineering-a-microvan-into-a-monster-drift-car-speed-freaks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:06:48","slug":"engineering-a-microvan-into-a-monster-drift-car-speed-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/engineering-a-microvan-into-a-monster-drift-car-speed-freaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering A Microvan Into a Monster Drift Car | Speed Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Speed Freaks, the focus shifts to one of the most important elements of going fast safely: <!--more--> handling. <\/p>\n<p>As Zeph Eisenberg prepares for a 200 mph land speed record attempt on Pendine Sands, he knows raw power alone will not be enough. To understand car control at the limit, the team takes on a wild challenge\u2014transforming a tiny Daihatsu microvan into a fully-fledged drift machine. Alongside Zeph\u2019s own drifting lessons, the build becomes a hands-on crash course in oversteer, stability, steering angle, suspension, and driver instinct. <\/p>\n<p>What they learn could make all the difference when Zeph finally pushes for speed on the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Now available on SPOTIFY! \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2kr4kb2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2kr4kb2d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25baSubscribe \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Speed Freaks, the focus shifts to one of the most important elements of going fast safely:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}