Scion Turns 5, Drops Limited Edition Xd
Time certainly flies by quickly-Scion celebrates its fifth year in the automotive game producing the cool and compact B-specs that we love to love and hate. How will Scion continue to stay on top? We're not certain, but if they stay on target with unique platforms, the prize will be theirs for years to come. In addition, the first Release Series of the xD is now available as the xD RS 1.0, which comes in a smokin' Hot Lava burnt orange color, DAMD body kit, TRD lowering springs and other limited edition accessories. Source: www.scion.com/RSxD
Formula D Updates
* Coming this November, Formula D and Red Bull Energy Drink are going to throw one of the most anticipated drifting events ever: the Red Bull Drifting World Championship, featuring 32 of the world's best drifters from the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada and Europe. It's all going down at the Port of Long Beach, California on Saturday, November 15. A special course is being designed with features that are going to push the drivers' limits promising entry speeds in the triple-digit realm.
* Formula D judge, Alex Pfeiffer steps down from the judging panel to rejoin his peers as a driver for the remainder of the '08 season. Alex made his return at the Las Vegas event this past summer and will be working hard on a full team for next year. Ernie Fixmer is taking over Alex's role; he's a longtime veteran of the American drift scene having been one of the first Americans to obtain a D1 license and to compete in FD's early years.
Who you tryin' to get crazy with, sa?
SA Studios/Konsole Kingz kicked off E3 week at the Last Laugh in downtown Los Angeles to launch the Gears of War 2 and Madden games. The crowd made up of hipsters, homeboys, athletes, artists and actors came together for carne asada tacos, silky jams and playtime with these hot new games. Celebrity attendees included Ryan Phillippe, Ray Lewis, Murs and our favorite drifter, Dai Yoshihara.Source: www.sastudiosglobal.com.com
Word On The Street
Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge Update
The final stages to complete our Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge engine is drawing nearer and our man Bisi Ezerioha is ready to take on the turbocharged heavyweights in this battle. We recently added a couple more key components to making sure our F22A runs smoothly, efficiently and most importantly, powerfully. Don't forget, log onto www.SyntecTopShopChallenge.com to vote for our engine and also for a chance to win it after we smack our competitors down on the dyno. Now, we'll pass the mic to Bisi:
"We experienced something very interesting recently in our own race program, and that's how critical it is to monitor and tune individual cylinders, especially in an inline-four engine. There are different things that occur in engines where each cylinder may or may not receive the same amount of air and fuel, and each exhaust primary may or may not receive the same amount of combustion elements. With that being said, we noticed some challenges with longevity and we could not figure out why it was happening all of a sudden. After using Innovate's LC1s (a built-in O2 monitoring system) we were able to find out that one of our injectors had trouble metering a fuel properly, as if one of the injector coils were bad. Since we're monitoring our air/fuel ratios through the collector, which takes an average of all the cylinders, we couldn't see this problem. The other cylinders were running richer than normal and was canceling out a lean mixture in the cylinder in question, which was cylinder one.