Here's the latest news with the car...

Just thought I'd update you guys on whats been going on with the car so far, and what's changing.
All this season I've been having trouble keeping the car running well. It blew atleast 3 pairs of head gaskets. Most of this was due to the hugely increased power by upgrading our supercharger system, but not the stock motor. We ran the car for 3 or 4 years on the stock motor with an old blower at about 3-5 psi, and never had any troubles. This year we have been running about 10-15 psi on that same stock motor. After spending lots of money on machine work, expensive head gaskets, etc etc. I was pretty tired of it. In the meantime, I've been having my BOSS 347 built up. It was an all new long block assembly, sponsored by the awesome guys at Ford Racing.
The motor was finally ready to be used just before Irwindale, and instead of trying it out in the new car (Drift Patrol #2), I decided to break it in at Irwindale. At Irwindale however, something odd happened. The car was running great during practice, but near the end of the day we had issues, and the car was down on power. We scrambled to find the issue, but the issue seemed to point to tuning or something sensor related.
Next weekend, I'll be heading to the Red Bull World drifting competition, but not to do battle with the worlds best. Unfortunately, I'll be there to reclaim my FD license (which is required by all FD competitors not scoring enough points during the regular FD season). To give you an example, qualifying for the top 32 is ONLY worth 1/4 of a point.
More bad news....
I put the guys at Paxton in touch with my tuner, frustrated with the cars lack of reliability, and eager to get the situation figured out. The good news is, the problem can be fixed. The bad news is, its gonna cost lots of dough. Here's the general problem; the cars fuel system is incapable of keeping up with the motor and superchargers need for fuel. I upgraded everything this season, from injectors (to 42), a custom MAF (Pro Mass Air Systems), fuel pump (255 Trick Flow), and fuel pressure regulator (shipped to Vegas to install at the track!!). We even backed down the boost on the new motor (to protect it) to about 6-8 psi. Unfortunately, its still not enough. For some reason, the car would always run scary-lean over 5k RPM. See, drifting is unlike any sport when it comes to throttle-use. My motor sees 5,000-6,500 regularly. Another problem is heat. Drifting is also very hard on cars when it comes to heat, and the lack of air-flow. We run the shit out of our motors, ringing them out with harldy any air moving through the front grills (because we're sideways, and cars air-flows arent intended to work sideways), then we sit on grid behind other hot cars, unable to properly cool them down.
The Solution
After the tuner and Paxton talking, it was realized that the entire fuel system NEEDs to be upgraded. Fortunately, Vortech (Paxtons sister company) makes an entire fuel system upgrade for the car, which includes dual external pumps, inline filters, large diameter in-take fuel pick-ups, fuel line, and fuel rails. I definately didnt have the cash for this, especially with a $400 entry, $400 in gas (for the truck to make the 700mile roundtrip) and my air-fare from Chicago to Cali. Through some very fortunate circumstances (which is extremely confusing, lucky, and not worth explaining), I may have lucked into receiving the entire kit, sponsored (by someone other than Paxton). Either way, we'll have to install the kit when it arrives Tuesday, then tune the car Wed. Did I mention we are also trying to install our newly aqcuired aftercooler kit too? Its gonna be a lot of work, in a very short time. But hopefully, this will be the solution to our problems, and the end of our reliablity problems. Additionally, my tuner is confident we can safely make tons more power. :-D
I certainly hope so, otherwise I may be watching FD from the grandstands in 2009.