The last couple of weeks have been a little slower than we’d like but we’ve made the most of it, keeping busy with cleaning, taxes, organizing and corporate report filing. Damn the man.  We’re entering our 6th year of business! That seems strange and awesome at the same time.  In light of this I’d like to ask those interested in contributing to please email or post some suggestions for us below. What would you like us to be doing? What should we offer to stay fresh and current?

In car news:

Matt can now tune Nissan VQ motors and other OBDII Nissan motors using a program similar to that which he uses for Evos and Subarus. This means we can tune the car for whatever modifications you have and keep the car clean and legal. No piggybacks!!  Email Matt if you’re interested. It’s a license based program meaning we have to pay for a license per tune so it’s a little more than Evo and Subaru tuning. Just compare it to the cost of a stand-alone unit or an Emanage plus a tune and you’ll see that it’s a bargain. Matt’s email is mattk@dentsport.com if you want to ask him about it.

This week we’re starting Dan’s 2005 Evolution RS. This White CT9A is getting an AMS 750r Turbo kit. The car already has a nice HKS intercooler, cams and a fuel pump.  It’s ready for more. We did a compression test last week to make sure that the car is healthy, changed the spark plugs and did some other maintenance; fluid changes and checkover to try our best at securing a good outcome. The car is a street car so Matt won’t have to push the 4g63 too hard to make 400whp on this kit.

Talking to Dan has been a pleasure. It turns out that we both went to the same high school at the same time. We also share a love for the Mercedes C63 so he’s got to be a good guy!  To get started tonight I took off his DC tubular manifold and sprayed everything with penetrant so it doesn’t fight me tomorrow. We’re also doing a clutch on the car while the turbo goes in.

This is the kit if the reader chooses to check it out.

AMS Turbo Kit on their Site (we are an AMS dealer!!

AMS 750R turbo kit, manifold has a cast collector! PTE turbocharger

We’ll put some photos up soon of the installation process.

Nick has been working on Scot’s Red Integra, building a custom wiring harness for his Autronic ECU. We’re going to try for over 200whp from his 1.8 liter naturally aspirated car. Nick’s also been working on an S14 K24 powered 240sx (that’s a lot of numbers) and soon a really clean and rare Yellow Integra Type R which is in for headwork as of this afternoon.  I’m liking the cars at the shop right now. Two rally cars, a hillclimb Evo, a big power Evo street car and several track cars… Life is good!

Other recent arrivals have been Bill’s GC8 Rally car which we picked up on Monday in CT. Bill is in Afghanistan at the moment and when he comes home he’ll be doing some racing. We’re going to get the car ready for competition over the next couple of weeks. The gallery has been updated. Bill worked today at installing the Hella driving and spot lights into the pods. We’re going to order carbon door cards and Coralba door panel for it from Motordrive in the UK. It already has a lot of very nice carbon parts that Bill chose when we built the car. It also has RS+SP suspension.  We’re excited to see this car run.

Gallery of the Build 2.5 years ago.

I will update this post with more photos tomorrow.