July 28, 2010
The owner of this beautiful R35 GT-R contacted me first to see if we could install a Harman Motive Mid-Pipe for him, which we did. Within a few weeks, he was back for more. This time around we installed the Harman Motive Intercooler Pipe Kit, Downpipes, and had the car ProTuned by Tim Bailey at COBB via an e-tune. Of course with doing the e-tune we had to data log the car, which I was fortunate enough to participate in. To be honest I was never a huge fan of the GT-R’s, I had an appreciation for them but that was about it,however, after having the chance to put some miles on one I have to admit that I am a convert. This car is wicked fast. The biggest problem with this car is that if you are going less than 80 mph, it feels like you are crawling. The car just doesn’t hit it’s stride until you are tipping into triple digit speeds.
Unfortunately we don’t have any dyno numbers for this car….yet. The owner is planning on coming back in the fall for fuel pumps, injectors, some suspension upgrades, a dyno tune, and possibly a few other goodies  Stay posted…. for now here’s a few pictures to wet your appetite of the recent work we completed.
July 8, 2010
We had a nice tune come in today. This car is pretty much stock except for a Cobb Downpipe, Tein Springs, and a ProTune from Verocious. The owner recently asked me to quote out maxing the power capabilities of the stock turbo, so hopefully we’ll see this car back in the near future putting down some higher numbers. For being in relatively stock trim though, I thought the car performed well on the dyno.
May 18, 2010
May 4, 2010
We recently had a chance to get our hands dirty on a GT-R. Nothing to crazy with this one, the car was brought in for a Harman Motive Mid-Pipe install. But let’s face it, we all like to gawk at GT-R’s when we have the chance.
February 17, 2010
This is a full 3″ 304 stainless steel exhaust we developed for the 08+ STi. The system starts with a modified COBB downpipe. Some of the highlights of the system include full v-band connections rather than traditional 2 or 3-bolt flanges. The v-bands allow for easy connect/disconnect of the exhaust components. In between the downpipe and mid-pipe there is a high flow metal core catalytic converter than can be swapped with a race/test pipe for trips to the track. The muffler features a centered inlet and exits into quad tips.
We tested a bone stock 08 STi on our AWD DynoJet, then installed our exhaust and tested it again. Simply installing our exhaust yielded an increase of 30whp and 2 ft. lbs. There was no tuning done to obtain these results, it was simply unbolt the stock exhaust, and install our exhaust.
September 1, 2009
The owner of this xB has JDM fog lights installed, which he discovered interfere with many of the air intake kits available for his vehicle. So, rather than spending hours searching for an intake he brought his xB to us so we could fabricate him a custom intake that would work with the space he had after installing the JDM fog lights.
August 24, 2009
The owner of this ’08 STi had his original motor let go on him while at the track. As a racing enthusiast, rather than going back to the dealership and trying to get the motor covered under warranty he decided to step up his game and take this car to the next level.
The stock block was tossed in favor of a Raw Performance Street Series Block. The Street Series Block includes forged CP Pistons with high performance rings, STi forged rods, and a STi forged crankshaft. The forged pistons in this block offer greater strength than the original cast pistons the STi comes equipped with. The new motor was assembled using stock heads for now, although our customer is probably going to have some head work done in the future.
The owner of the vehicle chose to run the P&L rotated mount turbo kit. At the heart of this kit is a GT35r with an .82 a/r hot side housing. Due to the larger turbo, the stock top mount was replaced with a larger TurboXS unit. Some of the additional supporting mods include upgrading to a TiAL 44mm wastegate, HKS SSQV blow off valve, Deatsch Werks 850cc injectors, a Walbro 255lph fuel pump, Perrin equal length manifold, a custom oil catch can, and a South Bend FE Series clutch.
The car put down 388whp on our dyno running 93 octane. (Dyno Chart coming soon!)
August 21, 2009
Here’s a car you don’t see around too much anymore. The owner of this Dodge Stealth R/T has been working on this project for the last few years. One out of the many modifications he made was to switch from the original twin turbo setup to a single big turbo.
To go along with the larger single turbo, he wanted a 4-inch custom turbo-back exhaust. After some strategic planning, we were able to fabricate and fit a full turbo-back 4 inch exhaust under the car, without it hanging too low, or being too close to the drive shaft. This exhaust is one of a kind, and certainly a nice showpiece. It was constructed so all the joints are v-band connections. The cat was installed with v-bands as well, so that our customer may easily remove the cat and install the test pipe we fabricated for him when he goes to the track.
The owner still has some things left on his sheet of modifications to wrap up, and we can’t wait to see the car when it is 100% done!
August 19, 2009
Here is a quick turbo inlet we made for a SR swapped 240sx. Per the customers request we reused his old air filter and silicone couplers, Dan fabricated and welded the aluminum tubing.
July 28, 2009
This ’08 Scion tC was previously in our shop when the customer had us switch out his TRD supercharger setup to a Dezod turbo kit. This time around the owner brought the vehicle back for some additional power upgrades as well as some upgrades to his automatic transmission.
After the turbo kit was installed the owner noticed the car would get hung up in first and second gear during wide-open pulls. Having already installed a B&M transmission cooler, he decided the next step was to upgrade the valve body. By upgrading to an IPT valve body, the transmission now shifts quicker, more precise and no longer gets hung up in gear.
To try and extract more power from his turbo kit, the owner upgraded from his log style manifold to an equal length turbo manifold. The equal length manifold has better flow characteristics allowing the turbo to spool faster.
With the installation of the new manifold, we had to fabricate new intercooler pipes since the turbo was relocated. Since we had to fabricate new intercooler pipes we switched the car over to a blow-thru MAF sensor. The blow-thru MAF allowed us to put the sensor behind the blow off valve on the cold side of his intercooler piping. The benefit of this setup is that we did not need to run piping from the air filter onto the inlet of the turbo. We were able to mount the filter directly on the turbo inlet, which saves room in this cars cramped engine bay, and in this case, the setup also ended up saving our customer some money since it cut down on some of the fabrication time and components. However, we did fabricate a inlet pipe for his turbo, just so we could try and get the filter away from the hot ambient air next to the manifold. He does always have the option to just stick a filter on it though.
After all the work was finished, the car was put back on the dyno for tuning where it put down 258 whp and 235 ft. lbs.
The mods proved to make a really fun and enjoyable street car, that can also put down some decent numbers at the track.
Not one to be satisfied, our customer is already thinking of future modifications, including a fully built engine and trans along with a GT3076R! We’ll keep you posted…
Here are the modifications that were done this time around:
Turbo Toyotas Equal Length Manifold
Turbo Toyotas Slim Radiator Fans
Verocious Custom Aluminum Intercooler Piping
Blow-Thru MAF
Verocious Custom 3” downpipe and 3” V-band exhaust
Verocious Custom Wastegate Dump Tube
Custom Vibrant Oil Catch Can Setup
Tial Q 50mm Blow off Valve
IPT Valve Body Upgrade
Tuned by Verocious
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