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-kevin

At the end of the 2011 NASA race season, all members of PAS Racing had learned a lot about what it takes to build, maintain, and grow this race team. We had learned more than we had ever thought throughout just one season and in those short 8 months we took a street car and race by race turned it into a championship-winning Mustang.

For 2012 we knew we needed to go bigger and better. We had our initial season under our belt and it was time for the training wheels to come off. With all our success in 2011 getting noticed, in stepped our new main sponsor and partnership with Vaughn Gittin Jr’s company, Mustang RTR. A new design for the PAS Mustang and a new future was born in the very beginning of the race season.

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The week of Nationals is always a stressful one no matter how much you think you’re prepared. We just left Summit Point with a win after testing several different things to attempt to learn a little more about what may work at Mid-Ohio. Our car seems to be very happy at VIR, but when we take this relatively heavy car to the tight and technical turns of Summit Point we definitely have to maximize every advantage this Kenny Brown AGS 4.0 Suspension and Moton coilovers combination give us.

We arrived at Mid-Ohio on Monday Sept 3rd to unload for a long week of testing and qualifying races leading up to the big Championship race on Saturday morning. As predicted, the Ohio weather had a different plan for us as it rained Tuesday and kept us from doing any real suspension tuning. We still managed to go out and do a little bit of work in the rain, but the day was mostly a wash.

Wednesday the sun was out, the track was drying and we were looking for a few dry sessions to see how we stand up to the very tough competition that comes to Mid-Ohio for NASA Nationals. Every session meant big changes to try and make this car as happy as possible on a track we’ve only seen once before, but with an entirely different suspension in every way. Big changes meant trying to maximize our on-track time since our 2 test days got cut to 1, so we had to do what we could with what we had.

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Performance Autosport knows if you want to test the newest products you’ve got to keep moving. So it was time to sell our 2011 Mustang RTR and move into a new 2013!

Here it is, bone stock after bringing it home from the dealer…

And soon after PAS converted it into a 2013 Mustang RTR…

More coming soon on this shop car project including all the mods that we’ve done to it on top of the Mustang RTR conversion as well as our trip to the Ultimate Track Car Challenge at VIR.

Thanks,
-kevin

This years Open House was bigger than ever. HUGE thanks to everyone that came out and shared the day with us. Here are just a few pics I could snap off throughout the day while getting a bunch of dynos done.

Entire gallery with many more photos can be found here: Performance Autosport’s Flickr Gallery of the 2012 Open House

Thanks,
-kevin

PAS Racing heads back to VIR for a Heat Wave

After Friday and the Ultimate Track Car Challenge fun, we still had a full weekend of racing ahead of us. This weekends event is called the Heat Wave and it was very appropriately named this year. Not only was the track temps hot, but so was the competition.

There were some new cars in the pack this weekend as Steven Kent, who previously had a fox body coupe debuted his new 2012 Boss302S look-alike as well as Roddey Sterling, a 19yr old piloting a Boss302S Laguna Seca race car clone as well. Read More…

The Grassroots Motorsports Ultimate Track Car Challenge (UTCC) is always a great show.  It’s even more fun when you’re part of it.  Naturally, here at Performance Autosport, we aren’t happy to just sit back and watch.  So, we entered not one, but TWO of our Mustang RTR’s for Friday’s Ultimate Track Car Challenge.  This event is a run-what-ya-brung, timed event to see who can bring the biggest and baddest track car to VIR.  There are obviously different categories as a VW Bug won’t be claiming top honors against a Corvette that runs deep into the 1:50′s, but its a very cool event that Grassroots Motorsports puts on every year and we were happy to come bring our Mustang RTRs and go play!

The two PAS entries consisted of our 2011 American Iron Championship winning racecar and our 2013 Mustang RTR Spec 2 Shop car both being driven by our American Iron driver, Chris Cobetto.

The American Iron car was mostly in race trim except for a tiny bit more horsepower for this event via a “full-boogie” tune and a JLT Performance cold air intake.  The Spec 2 RTR was in full street trim and the engine was 100% stock at around 370rwhp.  The PAS Spec 2 RTR is a little different then what RTR offers as we took the suspension a little bit farther to find if we could customize an already amazing product while testing different available parts for our vendors and pass on the research to our customers.  The PAS Spec 2 RTR is using a set of AST 4150 adjustable coilovers, Whiteline swaybars and anti-dive brackets, and a Cortex Racing rear suspension.  For brakes we upgraded from the stock “track-pack” Brembos to Baer 6-piston 14″ brakes, pretty much the same as the racecar. There will be much more covering the build of this car as we shot a bunch of photos as it was going together, but haven’t had time to release much about it.  Stay tuned for more on this car, you’ll wana hear more.

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PAS and RTR Sweeps Hyperfest:

The PAS Racing crew rolled their Mustang RTR racecar out of the trailer early Friday in hopes of getting some test sessions in after making some suspension changes since the last race.  With the limited amount of free time from their driver and NASA Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, Chris Cobetto, they didn’t get much.  Hyperfest is the busiest event for Cobetto and driving his racecar almost takes a back seat to making sure the entire event goes smoothly, so getting him in his racing suit and strapped in is harder than one would think.

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PAS Racing and Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s Mustang RTR will be loading up Sunday morning and heading up to Kip Killmon’s Tysons Ford for their 6th Annual Mustang Round Up Car show.

Where: 8201 Kip Killmon Tyson Ford – Leesburg Pike, Vienna Va 22182

When: July 10th, 2012 – 10am-3pm

The event will again have VAUGHN GITTIN JR., with Custom 18 Wheeler. He will bring 3 of his World Class Ford Mustangs, one being his 1969 RTR-X. He will doing his World Class Drifting Demonstrations in the back parking lot. He will be doing Ride Alongs, Autographs, Autographing Hats n Hero Cards, Shirts, etc.

PAS Racing will have their 2011 Ford Mustang RTR American Iron Racecar on display with the rest of the RTR cars.

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It’s that time of year again folks!  The Performance Autosport’s yearly Open House car show, customer appreciation, BBQ-fest is a little over a month away.  We will be releasing more news on this event shortly.  Every year the turn out gets bigger and bigger and we expect that to continue for 2012.

• Car Show & Shine – All Makes.  All models.  No rules.  No judging…just come and show off your ride!
• Largest gathering of Saleen Mustangs/vehicles on the East Coast!
• All of the rare PAS Saleen’s will be on display – General Tire Racecars, SA-5, & more
• Performance Autosport Mustang RTR American Iron Racecar will be on display.
• Raffles, Discounts, & Giveaways all day!
• Delicious BBQ catered by our good friend/customer Capn. Rob Wilhoite
• $50 Dyno Runs on our 2wd Dynojet Dyno – Limited slots available for this – First come, first serve.  Sign up via email below
  
• Please email kevin@performanceautosport.com if you’d like to get on the dyno list.