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Cole Powleson, Diesel GTR, Diesel Swapped GT-R, Ford Power Stroke 6.0, Frank 6.0, Frank the Tank, LYFE Motorsport, Pikes Peak, Riffraff Diesel -

Cole Powelson: "There was! The diesel record. It was attainable." "We thought hey, if this R35 chassis and this Power Stroke Diesel come together it might be the right formula." It moved from just an idea to execution. O.P. Andersen: "I think from day one I was very skeptical about the project" Mark Hermansen: "We worked from sun up to sundown, and even through the night, it was crazy crazy, like 20 hour days non-stop the whole week" Andersen: That's how you prepare for Pike's Peak, and seeing other very big teams go through the exact same struggles that we've gone through,...

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Cole Powleson, Diesel GTR, Ford Power Stroke 6.0, Frank 6.0, Frank the Tank, LYFE Motorsport, Pikes Peak, Riffraff Diesel -

Are you really putting a Power Stroke engine in a GTR? So when LYFE started building GTR's we started with the chassis named Frank. I named it Frank the Tank because it was such a tough car, it put up with a lot of abuse. As we started to take Frank apart to build Sydney it was kind of sad and we didn't know the fate of Frank at that point but Frank got put under a car cover in the corner of the shop and we didn't know what the next step was..So after six years of essentially being...

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It wasn’t the driving that made Long Beach Grand Prix so special, it was our efforts off the track. Thanks to our family, friends, sponsors and the Global Time Attack community for making this dream a reality.  They're revved up and running at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach "This is the streets of downtown Long Beach. The street circuit itself is is unreal, the features where you're going around the fountain, and you're blowing underneath parking structures."  - Cole Powelson Well engines will be roaring through long beach this weekend the Acura Grand Prix is back after it was put...

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