For the 2010 season of Formula Drift, The Gruppe-S Drift Team will be outfitted with specially designed clothing from the Exclusive Clothing Brand, "Crooks and Castles." Crooks and Castles is the industry trend setter, offering a unique style to street wear, with Celebrity Rappers such as Jadakiss and Jay-Z, and NBA Laker Player Lamar Odom rocking their designs.

Special Limited Edition Gear from Crooks and Castles will be available at each Formula Drift events for a special price, although you can purchase gear directly through our website.

-Steven @ Gruppe-S

The Subie returns this year sporting an all black exterior, although we have an awesome decal scheme planned out for the car, but more on that later!



Steven @ Gruppe-S

This just came in the mail straight from Cosworth USA, the Cosworth Nissan VQ35DE Twin Plenum Intake Manifold (PART #: 20000063). The Cosworth Twin Plenum inlet manifold for the Nissan VQ35DE has been engineered for increased performance featuring increased plenum volume for improved high rpm power with torque enhancing velocity stacks to maintain mid range performance. With performance derived from countless hours of development including computational fluid dynamics, the Cosworth Twin Plenum Inlet manifold is perfect for both normally aspirated and forced induction applications. Performance increases will be significant on engines with improved exhaust and intake system including optimized ignition/fuel maps with increased maximum rpm limiter. Cast from lightweight aluminum alloy with carbon fiber end caps and includes all required mounting hardware.




Steven @ Gruppe-S

To monitor the vitals of our competition GTR, our body work guru Jason Fajardo has mounted special carbon panel pieces inside the GTR's OEM Dash, modified of course to fit our needs. As painful as it was we had to let the luxurious climate control and radio system collect dust in a pile in the corner of the shop, although I think Robbie would not have minded leaving it in, although we are keeping the OEM Push Start Button. (We had to keep something OEM GTR in it)

Shown in the photo below is Keith Covey, our specialist brought in to help out with the GTR. Coming from the Sun Microsystems SPEED World Challenge GT Mustang Team, Keith is definitely adept to wiring this GTR. Utilizing an insane wiring diagram, feet of randomly colored wires, and work cubicle walled together with an R33 GTR and a Kouki S14, he's got his work cut out for him.







Stay Tuned for more updates!

Steven @ Gruppe-S.com

The Gruppe-S Subaru WRX STi receives a new power plant assembled by the Gruppe-S Engineers, taking the EJ257 and utilizing a BC Stroker Kit pushing displacement to 2.7 Liters. Full Specs on the Internals listed below.

Specs:
Brian Crower Crank
Brian Crower Rods
Brian Crower Valves
Brian Crower Valve Springs
JE Pistons
Portflow Ported Head
Cosworth Head Gasket
GT30R Turbo

Projected Horsepower 450+ on a Mustang AWD Dyno


-Steven @ Gruppe-S

This is not for our Drift GTR but I just had to take a couple shots of it and put it up. This baller FULL TITANIUM Exhaust System for the GTR is unbelievably light weight and no expense was spared in manufacturing this piece. I carried it up a flight of stairs with just my fingertips holding it. The Titanium construction and free flow design offers strong gains, a deep exhaust note and even has the merging portions of the piping cut and welded into a belmouth 2 to 1 design, maximizing the efficieny of air flow and squeezing every last HP/TQ gain possible out of the VR Monster. I'd just like to give a shout out to the customer who purchased this from us here at Gruppe-S.com, it is an amazing choice and that GTR is being built to a high standard if you're running this masterpiece.


for more information on Greddy Products check out their website @
http://www.greddy.com/

for information on this Titanium Exhaust system, any other greddy products or purchasing feel free to contact us at sales@gruppe-s.com or give us a call at 949-457-1234.








-Steven @ Gruppe-S.com

The GTR is a very difficult vehicle to put on wheels, since the Nissan engineers designed the car with very particular specifications. Stock wheel size is 20” and in order to compensate for the large 15” calipers we need to run a minimum of 19” wheels. With special sizing needed for this application, Hankook brings to the plate their world famous RS-3 tires, rear size 305/30ZR19.

For this application we needed custom offsets in order to accomplish the maximum width and we needed lightweight forged wheels.

Wheel Specs
MONO Forged wheels by Savini.
19x8.5 +10 Offset Front
19x11 +15 Offset Rear

Savini has really brought the best product to the plate. These wheels are the prototypes that were custom machined from those futuristic things we put up on the blog a week or so ago. The real deal will be here in 2 weeks.

BTW check our their website, you can see what the wheels will look like on their wheelbuilder. We even entered our custom orange wheel, and here it is. Don't try to copy our originality.







-EK