EVEN MORE BIG NEWS FOR PAS IN 2012:
Performance Autosport and Vaughn Gittin Jr’s company RTR (Ready To Rock) have joined forces for 2012! This means BIG things ahead for both companies this year for sure and we are extremely excited to get started.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL RELEASE ON PAS AND RTR PARTNERSHIP!
Our brand new 2012 GT Shop car has been pushed aside long enough in effort to keep up with the massive demand to our customers. We know that customers come first so if we have to wait a little bit to get to play with our own car, then so be it. But we finally got a little time to throw some parts on the car, so here comes an update.
Yesterday our bone stock 2012 GT got a little bit of a change in a few different areas. First were the wheels. We chose to install a set of RTR 19×9.5′s wrapped with Falken FK452. With the current stance it’s not too impressive, but the car will be getting its new suspension on our next round of mods.
Before it left the shop it also got its big brakes up front which are StopTech 6-piston calipers with 15″ (380mm) two-piece cross-drilled rotors. Stainless steel lines, Motul 660 brake fluid, and a fresh flush and this car is going to STOP! Can’t wait to test it on the street when it finally stops raining here or at the track this season.
Lastly we installed a set of our prototype mufflers we’ve been working on. Should be something we will have to offer in a month or so as pricing has not been set. We will be supplying video clips of all sorts to give potential customers a solid idea of what it sounds like on their 2011+ 5.0L!
Keep checking back as we’ll be installing suspension next!
Thanks,
-Kevin
Performance Autosport is proud to announce a new suspension vendor for all it’s Mustang customers from years of ’64-’70 and ’79 thru ’12. CorteX Precision Racing Technology suspension systems are now available for purchase AND install through PAS.
Because the status quo was not good enough, CorteX Precision Racing Technology was born.
CorteX Racing began with a pursuit of products we wanted on our own cars. When no one in this industry offered what we were after, we went out and engineered it ourselves. Our passion is to provide best-in-class, optimized, professional caliber motorsports parts to the enthusiast and professional.
Our goal is to create automotive parts that will outperform all others at an excellent value.
Vintage suspension systems:
S197 suspension systems:
Performance Autosport will be running a CorteX fully adjustable Watts Link on the rear of their 2011 Mustang GT American Iron car for the 2012 race season. We are excited to have a partner to reliably deliver a great product with a lot of engineering and testing behind it. The Watts-link will be going on the racecar in the next few months before our first race in mid February so expect updates with install photos and feedback from the track!
Our website is in the middle of being updated to display the full line of CorteX products so if you are interested in hearing more, placing and order, or getting something installed give us a call at the shop – 804.358.2505.
Thanks,
-kevin
Performance Autosport just recently sold it’s one-of-a-kind 2011 Saleen S302 #18 shop car…
…and moved onto another car that we could use as a test bed for parts development.
A brand spankin new 2012 Mustang GT.
We are just getting started with this car as we’ve had it for only a couple of days, but we are slowly building the plans for this new project car. The overall idea is to test new suspension parts PAS is developing to be an affordable alternative to some other parts currently available without risking ride quality or most important, performance. A new brake package will also be tested on this car as well as few other things here and there. We haven’t really nailed down all the pieces and parts, but we’ll keep everyone updated as we make progress.
This car will be seeing track time during NASA events throughout 2012 not only for testing, but to show customers what the car is like. You’ll be able to find it close to Cobetto’s S302R in the paddock for sure.
We threw the car on the dyno today for a baseline dyno. With under 200miles on it and still with the dealership’s 87 octane in the tank it churned out 373whp/359wtq. We’ll update this once the 87oct is burned out of the tank and replaced with 93.
Full sized photos can be found here: PAS 2012 Mustang GT Shop Car Gallery
Thanks,
-kevin
kevin@performanceautosport.com
Performance Autosport isn’t just a Mustang shop. We should all know that by now, right?
We’ve branched out to all sorts of domestics. But wait, there’s more.
We aren’t just tied to the domestic market. We have a big customer/friend base that are BMW owners and racers and we love to help them out whenever we can, however we can. Whether that’s making sure their track car is ready for their next track day or getting them on the dyno to make sure their M-powered racecar is making the power it should make to stay competitive. Here is an example of three of my customers that cover all the most popular generations of the BMW 3-series.
Charlie’s Spec E30-to-be track car on the dyno:
Tim’s beautiful E36 M3 BMWCCA IP Prepared race/track day car:
Max’s NASA GTS4 E46 M3:
If you have a BMW that needs something small like service work or a place to keep your track car running at its best, give Performance Autosport a call.
We see all sorts of things on our dyno here at Performance Autosport. It’s hard to do a write up on every single car that passes through the doors here, but here are a few that rolled through over the past few weeks:
1986 Ferrari 328GTS: 216whp/180wtq – 100% stock, 40k miles. Owner just wanted to make sure everything was still running as it should.
This GT500 has been worked on by PAS previously as we installed a smaller blower pulley, idler, and some exhaust goodies. But, after the new wore off of 500whp more was needed. Soon, a 2.9L Whipple landed at our door and shortly after the keys to the GT500 were handed over. A big blower and a set of injectors later this GT500 can enjoy its newly found 140whp after a custom tune by PAS.
The owner was quite happy and we may even be finding more horsepower later as a smaller pulley can always go on the end of this Whipple’s snout and we’ll be deep into the 600′s.
The entire PAS crew wants to thank everyone that came out for the 2011 Open House. The weather couldn’t of been better, the turnout was huge, and the dyno stayed busy. I’m still collecting photos from all of those that attended so if you’d like to add your photo galleries to the mix please let me know and send me an email. Here are just a few that I’ve gotten so far along with some links to more.
As you can see by the diversity of our attendance, we are far from just a FORD shop now. Special thanks to the Cars and Coffee crowd from Williamsburg that made the trip up to check out the shop, the big Saleen attendance from he SCOA/SOEC guys, our BMW racer friends, all our new friends and loyal customers.
A little bit of everything hit the dyno, including a Spec Miata, Ferrari 430 Challenge, E30 M3 with s52, e60 m5, e46 m3, 04 Cobra, a beautiful z32 300zx, a 2011 V6 Mustang (auto) that shocked me making 278rwhp, a pair of ’93 Mustangs, a Mach 1, a Supercharged Bonneville, and a few others. A pretty diverse dyno list and it definitely kept things interesting.
-kevinMore photos can be found here:
Johnny Elias’ Facebook Photo Album
William Booze’s Facebook Photo Album
Craig dropped off his beautiful 1969 Camaro with us after fiddling with completing his LS6 swap for some time. The car was running and driving, but just not 100%. He contacted Steve, of Tuned By Frost (GM Tuning), to look the car over and give a good idea of what it needed so that it would be ready to tune. Well, after fixing some leaks here and there and swapping out a throttlebody, Steve realized in the process of tuning the car that the ECU in the car would not properly run the setup he was trying to run. Seems Craig was sold a ECU for a drive-by-wire, later-model 2004 Corvette…that most certainly won’t work with a cable driven throttlebody’d LS6. So, Steve set him up with a new ECU, we finished up our “to-do” list on the car and it finally rolled on to the dyno the other day. Through the automatic it still made a healthy 339rwtq/335rwtq. Not too shabby for a cruiser.
Our customer Vernon dropped off his own project for us to finish up with some last little touches and some tuning. The car was built by him and his son over the past few years and after being equipped with a 449hp Roush 342c.i motor…he thought it needed more. So, a single turbo setup was bolted on and now its here for it’s final stage of tuning. We’ve got a few other things to address like a slight overheating problem and some things here and there, but look for a video of this car to come soon on the dyno making glorious V8 turbo noises.
Vernon actually was a PAS customer several years ago at our shop in Goochland when we threw a smaller pulley on his ’03 Cobra. Good to see him back with his project Factory Five Roadster.
