Parntership With Supercheap Auto
In 2005, the team rejuvenated after they announced that they partnered themselves with Automotive parts giant, Supercheap Auto who had some lean years with Ford and Steve Ellery Racing and had left in the middle of the Indy 300 round in 2004. More shock announcements came when Greg Murphy joined the team replacing Bright. The other announcement was that SCAR/PWR were going to use engines built by Perkins Engineering while still having ties with Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) by using older specification chassis originally used by HRT. The team had some early joy with Murphy winning the second round of the 2005 series in his native New Zealand. But when they switched to the Perkins "Aurora" engine after the Shanghai round, the team were struggling with reliability, poor consistency and both Murphy and Weel were complaining of an imbalance and handling difficulties. Murphy made headlines after tapping Marcos Ambrose into the wall at the 2005 Bathurst 1000 and the two had a heated argument.
At the end of the season, Paul Weel announced his retirement from full-time racing to focus on his aftermarket performance company, PWR Performance Products. The team signed Cameron McConville and the team was joined by finance giant No Limit. In 2006, the team had a string of bad luck, only scoring a couple of Top 10 finishes.
In 2007 Paul Dumbrell replaced Murphy. Another change was in order when PWR got outsourced chassis for the first time. These came from Dencar, the chassis engineering arm of Walkinshaw Performance. While still using the Perkins engine, the engines would be serviced "in house".
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