2010 Formula Drift Round 2

May 6th to May 8th, I was at Formula Drift Round 2 at Road Atlanta working with Doug Van Den Brink on his red 04 Mustang.

We started testing on Thursday, so Doug could get use to the car again and also learn more about the new Falken Azenis RT615K. The Azenis RT615K have more grip which in our case we had to loosen the car up more than before. So after the first session we changed the sway bar to help free the car up in our second session of testing.

On to Friday, we started practice at 4pm and then we went straight to qualifying at 5pm. We went out four since this was Doug's first event of 2010 in FD. He put down a good run with a 65.7 on the first run and a 68.4 on the second which put us at 24th.

Saturday we started practice at 2:30pm before the top 32 rounds at 4pm. We had to get Doug step up to get use to following and get as close as he could so he would have a chance of advancing to the top 16.

In the top 32 first run we had to go up against 9th place Sam Hubinette in his new Dodge Challenger. Since Sam was leading first Doug need to stay close. As they left the starting line, Doug was with Sam until he hit 2nd gear and then Sam pulled a two car lenght gap that Doug never regained throught the run. Sam was leading on round 1 but now it was Doug's turn to lead. Doug had a good start but Sam was very agressive with his entry and even bump Doug. Doug had a good run all the way but it just wasn't enough to over take Sam.

We had a good weekend and the car is still in one piece, so now it's time for round 3 at Wall Speedway in New Jersey on June 4th & 5th. I just hope this year it doesn't rain like last years event where it flooded the infield so much they canceled Friday's event. I'll see everyone there!

Formula Drift Pro Am Road Atlanta 2010

I would like to Congratulate the team at Batlground for finishing 1st & 2nd in Formula Drift Pro Am at Road Atlanta on May 7th. Dan Willie took home 1st place and Chris Ward was 2nd. Good job guys! I look forward to seeing more of this out of team Batlground in 2010.
Dan Willie

Chris Ward

Import Showdown Spring 2010

May 2nd, 2010 is the date for the Import Showdown at Silver Dollar Raceway. We will be attending this event as we did last year. If you have time come out and enjoy this event with us. I will be traveling with 4G Performance on Sunday, so be on the look out for us on the roads.

Mitsubishi StarQuest Project Car Part 2

Now we're working on finishing the clean up and getting everything ready for a roll cage. We still have a long ways to go.


Installed the head lights so that anything the was cut away isn't needed.


The top core support will be replaced with something that can be removed so we will have plenty of room to install the 4G63 with ease.


We also have started cutting away at the very heavy doors and you will notice that the door brace is still there. It will be removed very soon.

Stay tuned for more pictures and how our project is coming along.

Mitsubishi Starion/Conquest Project Car

4G Performance and PHD are building a project shop car. The build is a 1988 Mitsubishi Starion/Conquest that 4G has had for a few years now. The main focus of the build is to display what both of our shops can do together.


The car itself needs work but as for the over all shape of the body is in good shape. Time will tell how well it is after we do a complete tare down.


As for the very tired 2.6L that came in this car, we are intalling a 4G63 from a Mighty Max or Montero because of the wide block 4G63 will bolt right to the bellhousing.


This car came complete with leather seats and top of the line options in 88', but that's about to change. We plan on putting in a roll cage, racing seats, custom dash panels, fuel cell, and much much more.


The tare down is almost complete, with the engine and transmission out. If you look close you'll see we need a new windsheild because ours has a big hole in it.


The only thing left before we pressure wash the car is to remove all the wiring so we can take out everything we don't need and see if the mouse that was living in the dash chewed any wires. Yes, that's right I said a mouse and you don't want to know how I found out.

Our goal for this car is to show what we can do together, plus to take it to the track. You might see it a the drag strip, time attack, drifting, or even riding down the road in the Atlanta area.

Stay tuned for more to come............

Male Y-blocks in black are here!!

Just arrived today is our new Male Y-blocks in black and these things look good. They will be added to our website by the end of the week so get those orders coming. If you would like more information please contact Andy at Performance Hose Distributing (PHD).

Aeroquip's 2010 Catalog is out!

The cover looks good, but it still has some of that plain Eaton/Aeroquip look.


Inside I noticed they fixed a few problems with the old catalog and they finally added black fittings to their line.


With the addition to black fittings, they have added a few new aluminum part numbers as well.


Over all the catalog looks good, but I still think it's a little to late for them to come out with black fittings. I've been asking for black fitting for about 3 years now and they finally released them.

If you're quote is " When it isn't just a question of being first.... but also being the best." you need to go by it.