Xtreme Drift Circuit Round 3 Orlando, FL

Well the season didn't start very good for the D'vanz team. Doug worked as hard as he could to get his Mustang ready for the south season opener at XDC Round 3 in Orlando, which he failed to get it finished and could not make the event. It's hard to miss an event but when the car isn't ready you just can not afford to go half a$$ and waist your time. On a different note the D'vanz team is excited about all the changes that where made to the Mustang in the off season and we can't wait to see what it will do.

Good news, the car will be ready in three weeks for the Streetwise Drift Pro-Am in Palm Beach with Formula Drift. So we will see you there on June 3rd & 4th.

Tim & Cale Roper's Project: 160MPH 79' Camaro

This is Tim & Cale Roper's 1979 Camaro that they are planning to run the ECTA (East Coast Timing Association) in Maxton, NC. They've already made one trip back in 2008, but this time they have a goal to run 160mph in a stock street legal Camaro. The first trip to Maxton in 2008 Cale had a speed of 128mph. They have a new motor being built so that they can get closer to their goal.

Below you can see I'm doing my part in this project, by supplying the plumbing needed to finish the motor.

PHD would like to wish them luck with the project and I hope you reach your goal of 160mph.

Mitsubishi StarQuest Project Car Part 3

Here I replaced the factory glass with lexan for saftey and weight reduction. Below is a picture of the factory glass in the rear windows.

Here I used the factory glass to make the new lexan windows.

Made sure the new windows fit and did any trim work.

This picture was after I drilled 1/8" holes for rivets and I had already painted the inside outer edge black to cover the frame work behind the window.

Last I made sure the top trim would fit back into place with no problems.

The weight savings was only 3lbs, but my plans is to replace all glass with lexan and that should save a lot of weight. Besides it's safer!!!

Derrick Rainey Dirt Super Late Model

I was able to plumb Derrick Rainey's Warrior Chassis Super Late Model last week. This was a fun plumbing job, because it takes me back to what I use to do before I started doing just plumbing work. Derrick has know me for years and after he had been racing in a Dirt Crate Late Model series, he has decided to start racing at local tracks again.

So, to do that he wanted to go back to Super Late Model and he installed a Ford engine from RaceTek with a dry sump pump system. My job was to plumb the entire dry sump system with Aeroquip's Startlite Hose and Fittings to keep the car as light as possible.

Here's the Mangus 4 stage dry sump pump (http://manguspump.com/) for a Ford, mounted on a Bert Bellhousing.

I also had to plumb the radiator and finish some of the fuel system.

All in all, I really enjoy plumbing cars and wish customers would bring more like this to me.

Thank you Derrick for letting me do what I do best!

Video from South East Drift ProAm at Gresham

Here's another video from SouthEast Drift ProAm at Gresham Motorsport Park done by Joseph Canady. At the end there is an interview with Doug Van Den Brink.

South East Drift ProAm - Gresham Park - 6/26 from Joseph Canady on Vimeo.

Great Video of Doug Van Den Brink from XDC Hyperfest 2010

This is another great video of Doug Van Den Brink from XDC Hyperfest 2010.

Doug Van Den Brink wins SED Proam

Doug is on a roll! He has won his second event in a row with a win this past weekend at Gresham Motorsports Park were Southeast Drift held round 1 of their FD Proam series. This event brought driver from all over the southeast from Flordia, North Carolina, Tennesee, and Georgia.

Doug qualified 1st and finished 1st, which made for a great day in PHD's home town. We would also like to give congratulations to Dan Willie of Batlground for finishing 2nd and Ryan Kaufman from Florida with his very fast RX7 in 3rd.

Here's a video that Batlground found of the event this weekend.

Southeast Drift ProAM Competition @ Gresham Motorsport Park from James Hunsucker on Vimeo.

We will see you at round 2 at Nashville Super Speedway on July 31st!