Just thought id give an insight into myself and my company and the progression we made in 2009

2009 will be remember by me personally as the proper development year of the Falken Tire, Sears Auto Centre Saturn Sky. The car went from mild to wild, if you can call a 700+bhp 1000kg car mild

Let start in Feburary when i flew to Charlotte North Carolina to test the Sky after the off season changes

This was my first time at ASD, the people that build the Sky, Mustang and 350z. These guys are the best in the business and also the best bunch of guys you could ever meet. Pretty impressive shop they have but they have since moved to a bigger facility which im looking forward to spending time at in 2010


First of the new changes was the lovely new lower control arms fabbed by the guys. This control arm sadly met its end in Irwindale later in the year R.I.P lol


Another addition was the second EDFC, which allowed me to control the suspension stiffness of all four corners from the drivers seat


Moving onto the rear. New upper control arms were cnc'd by ASD and a new rear anti-roll bar was integrated into the roll cage which is pretty cool. It also makes it very easy to change roll bar sizes. This was by far the best set-up change for 2009


Test day 1 was at an industrial area pretty close to the shop. This turned out to be more of a shakedown in a wide open Tarmac area


Here it is wearing its new shoes for 2009 courtesy of SSR


A nice shot of the rear. All the right bits in the best modern drift chassis available


Day 2 was a bit more interesting. We headed to what was known at the time as Lowe's Motor Speedway for some proper full on testing


Lowe's is a proper motorsport facility. Not only does it have the Nascar oval, with inner Road course and karting track but it has a 4 lane Drag Strip and........


A half mile dirt oval!!


Here she is sitting in the paddock in Long Beach at Round 1. Long beach turned out to be a disappointment. Although we qualified second, the new suspension changes caught me off guard and i had a spin in Top16. The Long Beach street course with all its changes in surface is definately not the place to develope suspension!


Atlanta was next on the schedule. Atlanta had been good to me in the past, its where i first made my Formula D impact in 2007 in the trusty ae86 with a 2nd place podium finish. And with the new suspension parts we made quick progress with the Sky, we ended up with another second place which was much needed and the car started to handle really well, but if anythin it lacked a bit of forward bite


Falken also turned up in Atlanta with my giveaway guitar and it looked pretty dam cool! 4 leaf clover n all, how stereotype of them lol


And here is the lucky competition winner. Would have liked it for myself but he seemed pretty chuffed about winning it, so i signed it and he signed up for lessons i hope


As for MCNSPORT, we launched our incredably successful ae86 suspension which has hit nearly every continent in 2009. Well proud of the performance of these things and its MCNSPORT's first developed product and even more proud that its not made in China and just painted in our colour like all the other kits on the market