With just 5 days before our first round of the season in a brand new car, we finally got to properly test the car. Of course it being a brand new very complicated build, it wasn’t long until we broke it. But the test session was very useful, and as the video shows, if it’s […]
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Team Driftworks 2014
We’re really happy to finally be able to announce that for 2014 Richard Grindrod and Chris Smith will be joining Phil Morrison as part of Team Driftworks. Rich will be driving his E36 M3 with a supercharged LS V8, and Chris will be driving his forged SR powered S14. Both guys are entering BDC Pro, and […]
DW86 Complete Build Thread / Timeline. DRIFTWORKS V8 NASCAR AE86
The ASCAR Prepping Throttle Bodies Fire up Arches Paint Build Up Dynotune Smoke Autosport Burnout Dry sump Drift Finished PostSeason Spec DW86 Meets the ASCAR So you’ve bought an old ASCAR on a whim, and it’s sitting next to an old tired Toyota AE86 Corolla that doesn’t run right. What do you do? Well, when […]
Chased down by a Turbo E30
Being chased down by a Turbocharged, S54 powered BMW E30, weighing in at 1000 kgs, with about 600 horsepower , is indeed extremely exciting. Especially when the driver knows what he’s doing. The footage was made from the back of a Renault Clio RS197. […]
GasMonkeyGarage’s reply to Driftworks Burnout Nomination
You may have seen we did a rather large burnout nomination in our second unit using the Driftworks R32. Phil nominated Richard Rawlings from Gas Monkey Garage for the next burnout, and he’s only gone and bloody done it! […]
DW86 first test.
Today we managed to get the new car out for it’s first ever test. It performed incredibly well considering how much of it is custom fabricated. Just a few tweaks to make back in the workshop, then we should have the arches back from Magic Aero and can head out for another test sesh! […]
Driftworks DWR32: Burnout Nomination
This Burnout Nomination thing is really catching on. Phil was challenged by Pieter Gouwy, and he got a little carried away in our second unit (away from our stock). It still managed to fill our entire 12,000sq/ft facility with smoke for 3 hours though. The car he decided to use this time is our 620bhp […]
Driftworks JZX110 Mark2: Little Burnout Test
We just fitted a new ABC Clutch Twin plate clutch to the car, along with a new rear section of the exhaust made by Dynotorque (we removed the rear silencer, and made it twin exit) In Phils eyes, there’s only one way to test it! […]