**A Long Day in the Shop: Dominic and Brian's Test Run**

Dominic and Brian have been working tirelessly in the shop, putting in a phenomenal effort to get their car ready for the upcoming Formula Drift event in Long Beach. The first couple of laps were great thanks to BC Racing, who provided them with three different sets of shocks with various spring rates. This allowed them to quickly change out the shocks and see what difference it made.

The team has been making significant changes to the car, including a new Mishimoto radiator coolant system, a different engine package, and a more efficient power delivery system. Additionally, they've replaced the rear end with a lighter version, which has resulted in a noticeable improvement in handling. The goal is to collect as much data as possible today to go into Long Beach fully prepared and knowing what their race-day situation will be like.

A typical test day would involve focusing on the engine package first, ensuring that it's running reliably and that the drivetrain is set up correctly. From there, they'd start working down the ladder, putting a little more grip into the car and dialing in the suspension. They recently did a fresh engine setup with a twin-turbo VQ, working with AMS Turbo and Fast Intentions to give them a simplified twin-turbo package.

Once they started putting power down, turning up the boost, and adding nitrous, they began laying laps and pushing out towards the wall, trying to feel the new suspension setup. With the all-new suspension and weight distribution, they've been able to achieve some impressive results.

**Testing is Now Complete**

After a long day in the shop, testing has finally come to an end. The team shook down everything, finding a few minor issues that need to be addressed before the first round of Formula Drift in Long Beach. Overall, they're pleased with how things have gone and are looking forward to making some adjustments.

**A Chill Spot: The Roof**

Despite having a long day in the shop, Dominic and Brian have managed to find a "chill spot" - the roof! They've been hanging out up there, enjoying a couple of beers, and talking about their ridiculous amount of effort that goes into these race cars. The team is feeling good about their rebuilds, which they've essentially done from scratch.

It's been a long road to get here, but they're excited about the upcoming event in Long Beach. They've even had some special visitors, including Larry McReynolds, the crew chief of Dale Earnhardt, who came by to check out their builds and took time out of his busy schedule to do so.

**Blackout Garage: The Grand Prize**

To win a trip for two to hang out with Krista and Dominic right here in LA, simply enter text "blackouts" 5678 on your cell phone. For all the details on the prizes, head over to Blackout Motorsports.com.

Lastly, the team is now focusing on something new - building a car for the Blackout Garage show! Each of them has been given $25k to create two builds, and they're eager to hear from you guys what they should build. Like and share the video, and let them know in the comments below what you want to see them build next!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhere we aren't Ray's service to the home of blackout we got all kinds of things going on here and all kinds of people here as well there's projects galore we've got old projects we've got new projects me and Turk are rebuilding our Formula Drift cars I got my zeal on the lift we're getting it ready we're doing a whole new ER and all kinds of crazy fabrication going on we have Turks Pro over here getting some work as well we even have Dillon down here on the ground he's whipping up some fab tables because we need a place to work we need some horizontal space and speaking again work done we got Turk digging for gold dude gold Turk Gold I tell ya of course the Ferrari cars here and present because this thing is incredible it is ready this is probably the only cars ready to go right there yeah that's a good thing that's not bad I even got busy building motors now they're ahead of us yeah thanks man all right so we're installing the camshafts on our new race engine this year we have Brian here who is very experienced he's gonna do it properly so the first thing we're gonna do is put some assembly Lube in here after we get the caps off and I am slacking on that one of the main reasons for upgrading cams is to essentially just get more power out of the engine this year we're going with a bigger series camshaft is actually a 272 Brian car calls a stage 3 cam from his stage 2 cam and that reason is trying to get more high end power so this motor we're gonna Rev higher than we ever had about nine thousand and ninety five hundred rpms and with that we wanted to go with a bigger camshaft to allow more air and more fuel into the combustion chamber for a longer period of time in order to keep that power rolling to the top-end of the power band with a mild camshaft or an even stock camshaft they like to have a lot more torque so power on earlier and then plane off a lot sooner so we're trying to just maintain with the port job that we have from OCD works is maintain good torque all the way through and make sure that that power keeps climbing all the way to the redline so one of the nice things about being in SoCal is that we have guys like Tim from Garrett being able to stop by the shop and explain to us some of the differences between the new housings and the old housing so that we don't have any issues when were working with these new configurations the higher flow of these small frame turbos changes the inlet diameter to a larger size versus this one as you can see so he brought by a couple of these little machined trim rings that we can use to press in and be able to adapt these new turbos to old man we had this massive box show up from vibrant these are I'm already a halfway unpacked but this is filled with pretty much everything we need as far as fabrication components our exhaust system flex bellows you know v-band flanges exhaust tubing so I'm looking forward to open up the rest these boxes so that I can start organizing and getting them on a shelf like forsberg or something like that organization is necessary sometimes so I'll see you later all right this is our billet lower intake manifold from RJ manufacturing these guys make this out of one solid piece of aluminum cut it all out and this actually will adapt from the vq to a GTR lower manifold flange so we can bolt on our AMS billet carbon upper manifold but just a really nice looking piece gets hidden underneath a lot of stuffs and this is what I was just talking about the AMS alpha carbon billet upper intake manifold for the gt-r of course this thing is just the icing on the cake this thing is it's absolutely beautiful and very functional as well some people were a little cautious of it but they test these things to over 50 psi and not a single one has failed so ain't you worried about well I hope I don't use all this stuff part of the offseason prep is just dialing all of your spares package right now we're going through all the wise fab stuffs everybody knows that I've been known to damage a rear suspension link or two so yeah plenty to go around and we should be set for the entire year for the pro forma t car on this episode's product spotlight we're going to be using black magic no scrub all wheel cleaner this stuff is amazing we use it all the time on the drift cars because they're getting covered with brake dust I mean Ryan Turks got new white wheels he's going to be going through this stuff by the case but this stuff removes all kinds of brake dust road grime anything that comes in contact with the wheel it's super easy to use and it's safe for all wheels because it's pH balanced all you do is you spray it on let it sit for a few minutes hose it off and wipe it clean we have the transmission bolted to the engine this about to go in the car this is the Hollinger rd6 the 6-speed sequential so that's six forward gears one reverse gear this is pretty badass transmission that Mike Daigo a lot of guys use this transmission it's really phenomenal for drifting you can do the flat shift where you can just stand on the gas and just pull the gears it makes life a little bit easier behind the cockpit one less thing you have to worry about so anyway this is now bolted on with the new AC T triple play clutch it's about to go into the car for the last time we hope fingers crossed and then we'll move on to the next stage of pain-in-the-ass car build we're here at MSR Motorsports for the dyno we finally made it this is one of the most nerve-racking days because of all the hours and months and time spent on building this car for the season this is the first true test of the car running you know the package that we're gonna have for the year so all the offseason work and logistics and everything is kind of coming down to this point the goals today are to really just get the car fully tuned we have John Reed racing one of the best tuners there is behind the laptop to numbness Motec m150 ECU we're hoping to break 900 horsepower at the wheel mark with some really good torque to have a better setup than last year so we're excited to see what she does my baby this is the dyno graph after John is making a pole this is what reads the horsepower and torque numbers so you have max power which is this graph this line right here that follows the graph up and then max torque which is this other graph that comes up a little quicker but then planes off so after John's done making a run he can refer back to this graph here to see if the changes that he made is what he's looking for when you look at a setup like this the first thing you think of is once it gets running you have to put a computer on it and get it to run but that goes for all cars anytime you're doing aftermarket parts onto an engine you're changing the overall way the engine runs the way that the air goes in the way the air gets out how much fuel comes in all those things change anytime you change an intake a turbo exhaust and any time you're running this much aftermarket on the car you absolutely have to put a computer on it sometimes even before you fire it up you want to plug in check your timing check that every sensor is firing correctly and you get that guy to come in and tune that motor to make sure that it's running 100% we're out here Willow Springs for the advanced autoparts detour this is our first time testing for the year we've been in the shop for far too long Dominic and Brian have been working their butts off doing a phenomenal job first couple laps were great thanks to BC racing we have three different sets of shocks with all different spring rates so we can quickly change them out and get back on a track and see what the difference is you know there's been a lot of changes to the car or the different Mishimoto radiator coolant system different engine package power delivery everything is all different on this car different rear end it's a lot lighter now so really we're just trying to collect as much data we can today to go in a long beach fully prepped and knowing what our race day situation is gonna be like typical test day we're more so focused on the engine package so we want to make sure that the engine is running reliably our drivetrain is all set up and then we started working down the ladder from there to start putting a little more grip into the car start dialing the suspension we did a fresh engine setup with a twin-turbo vq working with AMS turbo and also fast intentions to give us a much more simplified twin turbo package in the front end that we had in years past once we started to put some power down turn the boost back up and put the nitrous on then we started laying some laps down and starting to push out towards the wall and trying to feel the all-new suspension setup that we have here with the new weight distribution all right testing is a wrap for today it went about as good as it could we shaked everything down we found a few issues nothing major that we want to address before the first round to formula drift in the streets of Long Beach yeah overall we're pump the new necks and tires are phenomenal we know how we want to run Long Beach what gearing tire pressures and everything so we are just going to go back not in both the car do the changes and updates that we need to do and we should it be ready well it's been a pretty long road but here we are on the roof we didn't exactly have time to even leave the shop to go to a chill spot but not lately we got quite a chill spot here yeah up on the roof hanging out we're having a couple beers cheers buddy mmm talking about the ridiculous amount of effort that we put into these race cars but they are looking good feeling good driving great basically rebuilt them from scratch essentially so it was a lot longer of an offseason than we expected but yeah a lot of cool stuffs been going down we've had Larry McReynolds stop by who was the crew chief of Dale Earnhardt about 20 years ago so that's really cool he's he's just an awesome dude and he took time out of his busy schedule to come check out our builds and I brought me a carburetor which we were gonna try to install on our fuel-injected 2jz but I'll keep you posted so we're heading to Long Beach and we want to win we're both gonna win dude that's right we're both we're both gonna win we're gonna figure this one out but we also want you guys to win so go to www.sportsmedalabama.com glasses GoPro cameras advanced autoparts gift cards Nexen tires for your car and a grand prize is a trip for two to come hang out with Krista and I right here in LA a race service to be on the last episode of blackout garage so to enter text blackouts have five five six seven eight on your cell phone and for all the details on the prizes head of blackout - motorsports calm so finally we're basically done with the pro cars they're getting loaded up tonight which is awesome and we can focus on something else since we can never stay still there's always we got we're good we got to build something new oh yeah right so we have something introduced to you guys which is gonna be awesome gum out and black magic you're given each of us 25k to do two builds for the blackout's show so we got a lot of dumb ideas you know we're always trying to think of something but we want to hear from you guys what we should build as always like and share the video and let us know what you want to see us builds in the comments belowhere we aren't Ray's service to the home of blackout we got all kinds of things going on here and all kinds of people here as well there's projects galore we've got old projects we've got new projects me and Turk are rebuilding our Formula Drift cars I got my zeal on the lift we're getting it ready we're doing a whole new ER and all kinds of crazy fabrication going on we have Turks Pro over here getting some work as well we even have Dillon down here on the ground he's whipping up some fab tables because we need a place to work we need some horizontal space and speaking again work done we got Turk digging for gold dude gold Turk Gold I tell ya of course the Ferrari cars here and present because this thing is incredible it is ready this is probably the only cars ready to go right there yeah that's a good thing that's not bad I even got busy building motors now they're ahead of us yeah thanks man all right so we're installing the camshafts on our new race engine this year we have Brian here who is very experienced he's gonna do it properly so the first thing we're gonna do is put some assembly Lube in here after we get the caps off and I am slacking on that one of the main reasons for upgrading cams is to essentially just get more power out of the engine this year we're going with a bigger series camshaft is actually a 272 Brian car calls a stage 3 cam from his stage 2 cam and that reason is trying to get more high end power so this motor we're gonna Rev higher than we ever had about nine thousand and ninety five hundred rpms and with that we wanted to go with a bigger camshaft to allow more air and more fuel into the combustion chamber for a longer period of time in order to keep that power rolling to the top-end of the power band with a mild camshaft or an even stock camshaft they like to have a lot more torque so power on earlier and then plane off a lot sooner so we're trying to just maintain with the port job that we have from OCD works is maintain good torque all the way through and make sure that that power keeps climbing all the way to the redline so one of the nice things about being in SoCal is that we have guys like Tim from Garrett being able to stop by the shop and explain to us some of the differences between the new housings and the old housing so that we don't have any issues when were working with these new configurations the higher flow of these small frame turbos changes the inlet diameter to a larger size versus this one as you can see so he brought by a couple of these little machined trim rings that we can use to press in and be able to adapt these new turbos to old man we had this massive box show up from vibrant these are I'm already a halfway unpacked but this is filled with pretty much everything we need as far as fabrication components our exhaust system flex bellows you know v-band flanges exhaust tubing so I'm looking forward to open up the rest these boxes so that I can start organizing and getting them on a shelf like forsberg or something like that organization is necessary sometimes so I'll see you later all right this is our billet lower intake manifold from RJ manufacturing these guys make this out of one solid piece of aluminum cut it all out and this actually will adapt from the vq to a GTR lower manifold flange so we can bolt on our AMS billet carbon upper manifold but just a really nice looking piece gets hidden underneath a lot of stuffs and this is what I was just talking about the AMS alpha carbon billet upper intake manifold for the gt-r of course this thing is just the icing on the cake this thing is it's absolutely beautiful and very functional as well some people were a little cautious of it but they test these things to over 50 psi and not a single one has failed so ain't you worried about well I hope I don't use all this stuff part of the offseason prep is just dialing all of your spares package right now we're going through all the wise fab stuffs everybody knows that I've been known to damage a rear suspension link or two so yeah plenty to go around and we should be set for the entire year for the pro forma t car on this episode's product spotlight we're going to be using black magic no scrub all wheel cleaner this stuff is amazing we use it all the time on the drift cars because they're getting covered with brake dust I mean Ryan Turks got new white wheels he's going to be going through this stuff by the case but this stuff removes all kinds of brake dust road grime anything that comes in contact with the wheel it's super easy to use and it's safe for all wheels because it's pH balanced all you do is you spray it on let it sit for a few minutes hose it off and wipe it clean we have the transmission bolted to the engine this about to go in the car this is the Hollinger rd6 the 6-speed sequential so that's six forward gears one reverse gear this is pretty badass transmission that Mike Daigo a lot of guys use this transmission it's really phenomenal for drifting you can do the flat shift where you can just stand on the gas and just pull the gears it makes life a little bit easier behind the cockpit one less thing you have to worry about so anyway this is now bolted on with the new AC T triple play clutch it's about to go into the car for the last time we hope fingers crossed and then we'll move on to the next stage of pain-in-the-ass car build we're here at MSR Motorsports for the dyno we finally made it this is one of the most nerve-racking days because of all the hours and months and time spent on building this car for the season this is the first true test of the car running you know the package that we're gonna have for the year so all the offseason work and logistics and everything is kind of coming down to this point the goals today are to really just get the car fully tuned we have John Reed racing one of the best tuners there is behind the laptop to numbness Motec m150 ECU we're hoping to break 900 horsepower at the wheel mark with some really good torque to have a better setup than last year so we're excited to see what she does my baby this is the dyno graph after John is making a pole this is what reads the horsepower and torque numbers so you have max power which is this graph this line right here that follows the graph up and then max torque which is this other graph that comes up a little quicker but then planes off so after John's done making a run he can refer back to this graph here to see if the changes that he made is what he's looking for when you look at a setup like this the first thing you think of is once it gets running you have to put a computer on it and get it to run but that goes for all cars anytime you're doing aftermarket parts onto an engine you're changing the overall way the engine runs the way that the air goes in the way the air gets out how much fuel comes in all those things change anytime you change an intake a turbo exhaust and any time you're running this much aftermarket on the car you absolutely have to put a computer on it sometimes even before you fire it up you want to plug in check your timing check that every sensor is firing correctly and you get that guy to come in and tune that motor to make sure that it's running 100% we're out here Willow Springs for the advanced autoparts detour this is our first time testing for the year we've been in the shop for far too long Dominic and Brian have been working their butts off doing a phenomenal job first couple laps were great thanks to BC racing we have three different sets of shocks with all different spring rates so we can quickly change them out and get back on a track and see what the difference is you know there's been a lot of changes to the car or the different Mishimoto radiator coolant system different engine package power delivery everything is all different on this car different rear end it's a lot lighter now so really we're just trying to collect as much data we can today to go in a long beach fully prepped and knowing what our race day situation is gonna be like typical test day we're more so focused on the engine package so we want to make sure that the engine is running reliably our drivetrain is all set up and then we started working down the ladder from there to start putting a little more grip into the car start dialing the suspension we did a fresh engine setup with a twin-turbo vq working with AMS turbo and also fast intentions to give us a much more simplified twin turbo package in the front end that we had in years past once we started to put some power down turn the boost back up and put the nitrous on then we started laying some laps down and starting to push out towards the wall and trying to feel the all-new suspension setup that we have here with the new weight distribution all right testing is a wrap for today it went about as good as it could we shaked everything down we found a few issues nothing major that we want to address before the first round to formula drift in the streets of Long Beach yeah overall we're pump the new necks and tires are phenomenal we know how we want to run Long Beach what gearing tire pressures and everything so we are just going to go back not in both the car do the changes and updates that we need to do and we should it be ready well it's been a pretty long road but here we are on the roof we didn't exactly have time to even leave the shop to go to a chill spot but not lately we got quite a chill spot here yeah up on the roof hanging out we're having a couple beers cheers buddy mmm talking about the ridiculous amount of effort that we put into these race cars but they are looking good feeling good driving great basically rebuilt them from scratch essentially so it was a lot longer of an offseason than we expected but yeah a lot of cool stuffs been going down we've had Larry McReynolds stop by who was the crew chief of Dale Earnhardt about 20 years ago so that's really cool he's he's just an awesome dude and he took time out of his busy schedule to come check out our builds and I brought me a carburetor which we were gonna try to install on our fuel-injected 2jz but I'll keep you posted so we're heading to Long Beach and we want to win we're both gonna win dude that's right we're both we're both gonna win we're gonna figure this one out but we also want you guys to win so go to www.sportsmedalabama.com glasses GoPro cameras advanced autoparts gift cards Nexen tires for your car and a grand prize is a trip for two to come hang out with Krista and I right here in LA a race service to be on the last episode of blackout garage so to enter text blackouts have five five six seven eight on your cell phone and for all the details on the prizes head of blackout - motorsports calm so finally we're basically done with the pro cars they're getting loaded up tonight which is awesome and we can focus on something else since we can never stay still there's always we got we're good we got to build something new oh yeah right so we have something introduced to you guys which is gonna be awesome gum out and black magic you're given each of us 25k to do two builds for the blackout's show so we got a lot of dumb ideas you know we're always trying to think of something but we want to hear from you guys what we should build as always like and share the video and let us know what you want to see us builds in the comments below