Lowrider
Hey, Lowrider: It's an engine building contest, not car-hopping. Yeah-engine...you know-the heavy, outdated chunk of iron in front of your cars, hidden beneath all the chrome, that causes your fuel gauge to fall to "E" even at idle? No? Well here's an idea anyway: Why don't you take the biggest, stupidest old-school V-8 you can find, like a 427 Chevy, and try to get it to make more power-per-liter than we're going to. You'll be looking at about 1,540 hp naturally aspirated or 3,000 with a blower. Can't do it? Well at least you can airbrush some moonlit wolves on the valve covers and go out strong!
Sport Compact Car
These guys crack us up! First, they decide to enter a VQ35DE in the competition. Not a rev-up engine, but still not an entirely bad choice. Then they go to Cosworth to build it. Very good choice; Cosworth wrenches on F1 cars for fun...safe bet they know what they're doing, but here's where things go genuinely SCC-they decide to go naturally aspirated. At 3.5L, they're practically at the same displacement as our built SR20 with the forced-induction penalty. This means that, pound-for-pound, they'd have to churn out about 770 horses to even be competitive. Ain't gonna happen.
The Hitmen
G-Dimension, City of Industry, CAThese guys have been in the game since the beginning. Literally. Owners James and Leon Chang lay claim to doing the first stateside SR swap ever, over 13 years ago. These are the guys who built Jack Tsai's 460whp RB-swapped S14 240 that appeared in the November, 2007 issue of 2NR, and they're currently wrenching together a 800+whp, 2.4L SR20-powered S13 drag car. When it comes to calling shots and tuning, these guys got it covered.www.g-dimension.com
Mazworx, Orlando, Fl
Titleholders to the all-time high horsepower SR20DET record building quadruple-digit SRs is what these guys do for a living. Mazworx is fielding three SR20-powered S-chassis drag cars in this year's NOPI series, including their newest addition, PRL Racing's 1,300+ whp, 7.41-second S15 killer. The best part is they're building an SR20VE head for us, to 100whp spec; wanna talk flow? Slim Shady ain't got nothing on this beast. www.mazworx.com
Speed-O-Motive, West Covina, CA
With over 60 years experience building engines, Speed-O-Motive is widely known as SoCal's go-to guys for any major project. On their plate at the moment is an RB25DET build commissioned by the Drifting.com crew, an RB26DETT for an upcoming RB Motoring project, and oh yeah...our nuclear-warhead resistant SR20DET bottom-end. What do you get when you combine in-house CNC capabilities, digital balancing and DTS Engine-dyno fine-tuning with over six decades of gearhead knowledge? We can't wait to see! www.speedomotive.com