Jonathon Stancel has passed tech this morning with his V8 Is300 and is ready for some practice time on the track. Tomorrow the gates will fully open and the fun begins. Don’t forget to stop by the Batlground booth to say hello and pick-up your free “Save Drifting in Atlanta” sticker to show your support for the cause. Here is the link to the petition.
Who is ready for Formula D?
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Genesis Baseline
Friday, April 27th, 2012Today we are getting a baseline reading for this Hyundai Genesis 2.0T. In the coming weeks we will start modifying the car with a few simple bolt-ons and then measuring the torque and horsepower once again to determine the gains. Depending on the results, a larger turbo may be in this cars future.
S-13 in for some upgrades
Thursday, February 16th, 2012As you may have read in one of our previous posts, this owner just picked up his 13. Now he is ready for some improvements. We sat down with Anthony and came up with a plan. A larger 5130 Precision Turbo, Tomei Procams, Brian Crower valve springs and retainers were ordered, now it’s time for the install. After the install is complete the 240 will be traveling a whole 10 feet to our dyno for a fresh tune. A previously instated Apexi Power FC will be handling the engine management duties. We can’t wait to see the final results.
Turbo should have been a factory option.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012The IS300 is a great car, but low on power in stock form. This one has had a Swift Racing Technologies turbo kit installed with a Haltech Sprint 500 ECU. We conservatively tuned the Lexus for longevity on pump gas at 16 psi and it is putting out 436 WHP. Now it’s ready for the streets.
The Supra is one of the few cars that can pull off an automatic trans
Monday, January 30th, 2012All for one.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Yesterday if you guessed twin turbo V8, you’d be right! We are still working closely with the customer on this setup so a lot of the supporting goodies have not been finalized yet. Watch for updates as this project develops. 
LS1 IS300 gets headers, exhaust and tune
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Since no one makes 1 7/8″ headers for an LS1 IS300, we had to take matters into our own hands and make some. The passenger side header was pretty straight forward. Meanwhile, the driver side header had to wrap around the steering rack. After making sure the headers fit perfectly, the exhaust was fabricated. We used twin 3″ pipes going to an x-pipe and then through magnaflow cans. The muffler selection was made to keep the car a little bit quiet, but so the engine will still be heard over the spinning tires. After the mufflers the exhaust dumps just past the rear axle. The car was then put on the dyno and made a healthy 414 whp, and 378 ftlbs of torque. That is an improvement of 21whp over the old manifold/exhaust setup.
IS300 Clear To Drift pictures
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Here are some action shots from the Clear To Drift event last weekend. The car did well and the only issue was the mazda3 power steering pump not working, due to data turn on signal. Our shop 350z even made an appearance, but I have no pictures of that at this time. Now the car is back at the shop so we can complete this project with no huge rush. That means proper headers and exhaust, as well as making the engine bay not look like a 5 year old wired up the car.
LS1 Is300 runs
Friday, June 17th, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvUmmCxxjE
I will keep this blog short and sweet. Last night the LS1 IS300 started for the first time. It has been a long week, and it is still not over. This video makes the hard work worth it. Today there still is a good amount of work left; like tuning and brakes.
Drift IS300 update
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
We got some work done on theLS1 IS300 over the past few days. As you can see, some parts of the car are rough around the edges. After this event, this car will get finished with everything done do our high standards. Currently there is just not enough time for us to work on this car nonstop, as well as not enough time to finish everything. The harness is almost finished being installed. The exhaust needs to be made, the brake lines need to be finished, as well as a bunch of other little things.
