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Congratulations to the BMT crew on this excellent article. Some of the best photos I've seen in a mag like this... and I think the only one where the car has been ripping a burnout!

Long live the 'FingerEater'!

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So - props to the BMT team, especially the SAU members involved: BMT, Dr Drift, Oyabun and JagR33 (the new truck looks good!)

Also - nice to see one our AutoSalon shirts in print :(

All the photos are great. Is good to see a tough-looking car in action too. So many photo shoots just show the car standing-still...

Is only the second issue of FF I have ever bought :(

Only got the one with GTR-700 in it for the poster...

Congratulations to the BMT crew on this excellent article. Some of the best photos I've seen in a mag like this... and I think the only one where the car has been ripping a burnout!

Long live the 'FingerEater'!

image.jpg

So - props to the BMT team, especially the SAU members involved: BMT, Dr Drift, Oyabun and JagR33 (the new truck looks good!)

Also - nice to see one our AutoSalon shirts in print :mad:

Yeah well done to the boys at BMT for building such an awesome car!!!! Yeah I was rapped when I saw the picture with the S15 on my truck, pity it wasn't much bigger!!!!

Thanks for the support from the SAU crew since we opened up, you guys have always been there for moral support, and even to lend a hand drooling on the T51 when we were so dehydrated we could not drool anymore...

The car is still running the 'emergency backup' motor from the friday night before the Glo-Show and the new motor will be going in soon...

It's spun up 395 rwkw on our dyno, but only made 378 rwkw on auto salon final battle cause they had to use third and couldn't get traction...

Stay tuned for new motor, more boost and DIRECT PORT NOS!!!!!

NEED NAWS mwahahahahahaha

Thanks for the support from the SAU crew since we opened up, you guys have always been there for moral support, and even to lend a hand drooling on the T51 when we were so dehydrated we could not drool anymore...

Well... it is tough work drooling over a HKS T51... but some of us have to do it :aroused:

hopefully one day my car graces a mag cover :D:D

:zap: :zap:

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