Get ready to drift – Jason’s S15 Silvia

Last March, Jason's S13 drift machine was given an honorary tribute on Gordini's Pit Stop before it had to be taken off the roads for a well earned retirement.

With Formula Drift coming up, Jason's back, this time at the wheel of an S15 Silvia, provided by his partner, Perfect Power Performance Garage. This workshop, located at Kaki Bukit, is specialized in building and maintaining racing cars. With a current specialty in making drift machines out of ordinary RWD cars, Perfect Power Performance Garage's high quality and affordable services are also gearing up to handle track cars with the coming of Singapore's Changi racetrack.

This Silvia has been painstakingly hand-built over the years by Vic, the owner of Perfect Power Performance Garage for his own drifting needs. This car's story to become a drifting machine worth the name became three years ago, when Vic bought it after deciding to give drifting a go. As his skills improved, the car's drifting potential was also honed by her loving driver's hands, adding, of course, and LSD, but also bucket seats with five point harnesses, a roll cage, a sports exhaust, an array of gauges to keep everything under control, and all the nitty gritty that turns a common car into a drift machine.

With his driver out of wheels for Formula Drift 2011, Vic decided to let Jason take the wheel and the Nissan is now being tuned to this drifter's preferences.

Two weeks away from the only official asphalt-tearing event in Singapore, the Silvia will undergo a heart transplant in the form of a new, bigger turbo to propel her heavy chassis sideways the way Jason needs it to.

GT Radial, Jason's main sponsor on his S13, is back again on the S15, providing him with a lifeline of racing rubber that gives him the chance to stand up to the competition in two weeks. Liquimoly Asia and Asia Apparels are also standing by Jason's side to power his drifts.

The only sad part is that this Silvia is, just like her predecessor, reaching the end of her life on Singapore roads, and the country's laws will, sadly, once again be claiming the life of a respectable drifting machine.

Jason's story as a drifter is far from being over, and Perfect Power Performance Garage has already received his next machine, which will be built over the coming months...

Get ready to see this candy pink S15 in sideways action for Formula Drift, representing Singapore under the colours of team GT Radial. Gathered under the tyre brand will be a total of five drivers coming from all corners of Asia, so keep an eye out for them as they mean serious business.