Three years worth of testing, development and championships have produced the ideal Evo X: The limited edition, fully-warrantied 311RS.

Last year we visited TX Mile with my OB Evo X. The car hit 180mph without issue and would have gone much faster if the car wasn't gear limited. I run a KAPS Group-N gear box in that car, and while it's perfect on track, it's not ideal for any sort of top speed run. But it was fun to run the car in full T/A-spec and see what it could do.

I'm sitting here trying to comprehend what we have just done. A few days back, we held our 311RS Premiere at Oakley HQ. Yes, that Oakley. They allowed us to premiere the 311RS and our short film at their worldwide headquarters. I couldn't have asked for a better location to premiere the 311RS Program. Really, Oakley's HQ is awesome.

Coming next week, we'll have a dedicated Gallery section filled with images available for download. But for now feast your eyes on these 3 gorgeous wallpapers to grace your computer, iPad, iPhone, Droid, high school locker, whatever!!

So since November, I've been quietly working to put together an event to launch the 311RS. And it's almost here! Finally. We needed a unique location that had room for the cars, displays, and most importantly, could play our "Promo Film".

Finally, here is the info for the 311RS Event via our web flyer. I worked with the folks at Phenom Global to produce this clean flyer to announce our event. I'm pretty excited about this event, it's at Oakley's HQ! What?! Yea, it should be really cool. We'll have the cars there, parts from each partner will be on display, there will be drinks and snacks, girls, oh, and a film premiere.

It's almost here! A few images have been shown online, some specifications have been laid out, but the time has (almost) come to reveal the full 311RS Program. Instead of launching the car at SEMA, it was decided that we'd hold our own event specifically tailored to the 311RS.

Each year with everyone still hungover from SEMA, Super Lap Battle puts all of those fresh SEMA builds to the test just a few days after they debut. Super Lap the original Time Attack race here in the US, and it's still the best. I've competed in each Super Lap since 2008, it's the only event I've always made a point to hit. But before Super Lap, there was some business to be taken care of with the 311RS.

We had been imagining, dreaming, planning and anything in between about this film shoot for so long. Jonny and Colt from Film Matters and I have worked on a few smaller scale films in the past, but this was film would be different. It was a our first chance to show what we we're really capable of when it comes to producing a legitimate car-related film. We had all of the components necessary to produce the film; an interesting car, a dedicated film crew of 23 people (!!!), helicopters, RED cameras, a track, and a real budget.

At this point, the 311RS looked the part - Wheels, tires and suspension, check. 311RS livery, check. Now it was time for some AMS power! The choice to go with an AMS engine package was an easy one. We had developed and tested a majority of them on my Evo X, I knew they worked properly and we were confident that the package was more than capable of producing the right amount of power for the 311RS. .

Painting the stripe on the car and wheels was by far the most nerve-racking part of this build. Jon Sibal and I worked together to create the 311RS livery earlier this year. I was pretty specific about how I wanted the livery to turn out and he nailed it, first try no less. The rendering was perfect. Even the color was on point.

The 311RS is starting to take shape! Look at this thing. I wanted the wheels, tires and suspension installed before the drive home to test how the package would handle a long distance trip with a couple friends and some film gear. The focus of the 311RS has always been street car. Track performance would come naturally, so this test was a great start to developing a legitimate street car.

After the drive from Sonoma, it was Tim to dig into the car and begin the process of building a 311RS. First, a few things we learned about the car on the drive home; It was beat! It ran pretty rough, the bumper didn't stay on, and suspension was blown out. But it was an Evo...so it had that going for it.

"This is it?" My first thought when picking up what would end up being the 311RS Prototype. Jonny from Film Matters and I drove up to Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA from LA to pick up a Wicked White Evo X GSR to build as the first 311RS.