Vivid Racing of Chandler, Arizona had a dream. After abusing a number of street cars at the track on the weekends, their dream was to build a purpose-built competition vehicle that could be pushed to the limits. After all, when a car shows up at a track on a trailer, it doesn’t have to be running to get home. With the sport of drifting gaining popularity and more importantly, gaining massive support from a number of manufacturers, the decision was made to build a vehicle that would be competitive at D1 and Formula D events. After weighing their options, the decision was made to build their racecar around a first-generation Nissan 240SX platform. Vivid choose the 240SX since it could be fitted with a number of different powerplants and every suspension component they would need would be available through the aftermarket. A list of necessary components was written down on a build sheet and a budget of around $12,000 plus some sponsored components seemed like it would get the job done…
