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A Snapshot of our Journey to Drag Wars 2015
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We’re back from racing everyone, and we’re just catching a moment to breathe since we hit the ground running on return. Grab a seat and check out a few pics from our prep for Drag Wars 2015 in Saint Lucia.

The Build

Race Prep Collage

We’ve been at work on our Skyline for a while now, so most of the larger hurdles had been out of the way well ahead of the competition. Aftermarket intake manifold? Check. Fuel Rail and 550cc injectors? Check. 400lph Fuel pump? On board. T66 Turbo and aftermarket exhaust manifold with custom down pipe? Where did you think we were spitting those flames from? šŸ™‚

Mr.Murphy decided to pay a visit to our shipper though, and put us on the razor edge of completion. Our shipment from SPEC, GFB and M&H all decided that they like Miami more than our little slice of Paradise and stayed behind, arriving a week late (The slicks actually arrived a day after we left #logisticsfail) . So in the last 2 days before we were set to leave, we dropped the transmission to install our Stage 3 SPEC Clutch, mount our drag racing slicks (we had to use smaller narrower rubbers that we had in stock… nowhere near optimal, but still better than street tyres), redo the cold side intercooler piping to integrate the truly awesome GFB SV50 blow off valve, install the GFB atomic boost controller and get the car driving in order to make it in time to the boat after applying…

The Livery

A3 Racing Livery

There is a reason why Multigraphics motto is “Bringing Ideas to life”. Absolutely gorgeous work done by Dwight @ Multigraphics, integrating Ā our logo, our sponsors and their signature look together beautifully. Speaking of sponsors, we can’t thank ours enough. Multigraphics, e-mages, Intellect Solutions and Subway SVG. A special note of thanks to Mark Sardine of Ultimate Auto Works body shop who typically does our body work. He’s one of the best in the business

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Check out the fullĀ AlbumĀ of the Drag Wars 2015 event at “The Base” on our Facebook page.

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