The week away from the track was used to make some minor suspension changes and repair a few damaged parts from Cobetto’s slight off after running through fluid on the test day off Turn 9.  Mostly cosmetic…or so we thought.

The car arrived at the track Friday and it was a lazy day of just bedding in brakes and seeing if the suspension changes made a difference for the better.  Got some driver feedback and the PAS crew made some more changes for Saturday mornings practice session at 9am.

Practice went well, but more changes needed to be made.  Summit Point is known for being slick when your car crosses over the sealer in the asphalt, making a car that pushes, push even worse.  Even still, since we use Summit Point as a test bed for Mid-Ohio, both tracks share the same characteristics.  Nailing the setup for Summit Point helps us a ton for Mid-Ohio so slick sealer or not, we have to adapt and make it handle.

Qualifying meant more changes and trying to make Cobetto a little more comfortable to push the car to go faster.  He was getting there and qualified first with Ed Hunter qualifying closely behind him.

Saturday’s race was a great one, with a very tough battle between Ed Hunter and Cobetto for 1st for several laps.  There was slight contact between Cobetto and Hunter going into Turn 1 under braking when Cobetto was thinking to jump to Ed’s outside and Ed braked early leaving Cobetto with just not enough room to slow the car down before Ed turned in.  The contact was very light and the damage is mostly cosmetic, but soon after the contact an unrelated problem arose in our car making Cobetto pull in to talk to the PAS crew to make sure everything was ok.  The car was acting as if it was starving for fuel  in left hand turns yet it still had half a tank.  To be safe Cobetto pulled the car in, we looked the car over quickly, snapped the front bumper back in place from the contact, and he took back off to finish the race and still get points.  We finished 5th on Saturday because of this issue.

After some brainstorming later we think we came to the conclusion that during Cobetto’s off last Friday during our test day something must of come up and hit the fuel tank, damaging either a baffle or the pick up, therefore when the tanks are half empty it can’t reach the bottom.  The tank will be removed and inspected once it gets back to the shop, but for now we’re going to have to top it off a few extra times and hope its enough to make it through the Sunday race.

The weather on Sunday was way more pleasant.  Sunny skies and a little bit warmer.  The track was still slippery, but we made shock changes throughout the day to see if we could dial it in a little bit more…and we did.  Qualified 1st once again with Ed Hunter nipping at our back bumper in 2nd.  Hungry off a win Saturday Ed was racing hard and right behind Cobetto from the start, lap after lap.  When Cobetto got a little caught up by a disabled Evo coming out of T3, Ed pounced at the chance to get a run on him into Turn 5, diving to the outside.  Unfortunately for Ed he ran out of track and spun right behind us, leaving Cobetto to finish the race out front and in 1st.  The fuel starvation problem did start showing up as the fuel level got low, but it was only in a few corners and still allowed Cobetto to keep his lead.

Even though we ended up winning on Sunday, we certainly did not want to see the race end the way it did.  About 10mins from the end of the race, Ed Hunter was charging back from going off behind Cobetto and went off in Turn 10.  While trying to recover in the grass at around 90mph the car ended up bouncing its way across the track and smacking the driver’s side HARD into the concrete pit wall, spewing debris all over the front straight and blocking most of the racing surface.  Instant red flag.  Even though Ed’s car was completely destroyed he popped out under his own power and hugged his family and was unharmed.  In the words of Chris Cobetto a few hours after the race “I love winning, but I would of much rather come in 2nd than see that happen to Ed.”  We all hope to see Ed back at the track sooner than later as his flat black, fire-belching, foxbody was a fan favorite to many and it seemed he was really starting to find his groove and picking up speed event by event.

As always we’d like to thank all our sponsors for all their support this season.

- Mustang RTR – Moss Muscle – HRE Performance Wheels – Ford Racing

- Kenny Brown Performance Suspension – Moton Suspension – Hawk – Baer

- OG Racing – Exedy Clutches – Sparco – C&R Radiators – Grassroots Motorsports

We have a little bit of downtown between no and our next weekend of races at Summit Point for Hyperfest on June 16-17.  We will most likely be doing a few more test days between then and now and if so you’ll hear about them right here on the PAS Blog.

VIDEO COMING VERY SOON…STILL PROCESSING!!!

Our previous suspension, while it did set lap records…more than a few times, was purely a street suspension with limited adjustability.  It absolutely did its job amazingly well, but we had slowly out grown it and needed a new level of adjustment to have full control over our go-fast needs.

Our most important race of the entire season is at a track that we do not run on throughout our regular Mid-Atlantic season.  Nationals at Mid-Ohio is THE race to win.  A regional championship of course is extremely important, but we are out to be the best of the best, and that means taking the National Championship in September.  Of the two tracks that we do race at throughout the normal season, Summit Point resembles Mid-Ohio’s track characteristics a little bit better than VIR, so nailing down our setup at Summit Point is extremely crucial for our future.

Throughout the day we tried to make as many changes as we could, but with the layout of the track schedule, along with our driver needing to meet with the track officials for future events, we had very little time on track when it was all said and done.  But, even still, we were there to make a few laps, ran about 4 short sessions and learned enough to come back to the shop and make some changes before heading back this coming weekend to race.

Along with the PAS Crew, our customer Robert Korzen was up at this test day trying to see how his newly setup (by Performance Autosport) FR500S took to Summit Point for the first time this year as well.  Sadly his day was cut short due to a dying clutch and some rear end issues.  From what we discussed after his sessions he was quite pleased with the car and I actually had to bump his rev limiter an additional 300rpm because he was carrying more speed out of a few turns and needed to carry the gear a tad big farther to keep from making a shift IN the turn.  Going faster than normal is always a good problem to have.

Here is a video of a few laps from the day:

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RTR partners with Performance Auto Sport/Cobetto Racing for 2012 and takes the win on their first outing

WIXON, Mi. (3-26-12) – Mustang RTR has teamed up with Performance Auto Sport for the 2012 American Iron season and adds them to their list of elite Mustang RTR authorized dealers and installers. The RTR is the creation of Champion Drifter, Vaughn Gittin Jr., and is a new generation of Mustang comprised of a dealer-installed appearance/performance package available for 2011 and later Ford Mustangs’ at select Ford dealerships.

Performance Auto Sport has been part of the Ford and Mustang community for over 14 years and is home to the 2011 Mid-Atlantic American Iron Series Champion racecar and its driver, Chris Cobetto. Over the weekend, the PAS/ Cobetto Racing team took 1st place at Virginia International Raceway, making for a total of four wins this season.

With the overwhelming global success of the RTR brand over the past two years, it is very important to Vaughn and the RTR team to continue its progression and to continue pushing the envelope in regards to style and performance.

“We are excited to partner up with the very well-respected Performance Autosport/Cobetto Racing Team,” says Vaughn Gittin Jr. “”We chose to work with PAS and make them a certified RTR installer because of their in-depth experience and expertise. They are very professional and without any question will give our customers the experience we expect them to receive.”

Vaughn continues: “This partnership gives RTR the opportunity to continue its progression by testing and developing parts for the cars our customers can purchase at RTR dealers in real racing conditions. RTR is something I am very passionate about and it is very important we are out there competing and pushing our cars to the limit. “

It was only natural that RTR has chosen to be involved and support the American Iron series, since a production Mustang RTR with only a few standard race equipment upgrades and a good driver and team can be competitive.

“The fact that current and future RTR owners can now witness a variant of their car being successful in a Championship Series both in drifting as well as road racing is something we can all be excited about,” says Vaughn. ”It is our hope that through that excitement, they are inspired to go and have some fun on the track!”

“Vaughn Gittin Jr. has his finger on the pulse of the Mustang community and his passion is infectious,” says Mark LaMaskin, owner of Performance Auto Sport. “RTR knows what the enthusiast wants and gives it to them one hundred percent. The brand is always evolving and changing with the trends and needs of the Mustang enthusiast. That alone will help keep RTR relevant and successful for a long time to come.”

“It’s hard for me to contain my excitement about being a part of the Mustang RTR family,” says Chris Cobetto, 2011 Mid-Atlantic American Iron Champion and driver of the Performance Auto Sport Ford Mustang RTR. “The crew at RTR understands what appeals to those that simply love speed and traditional Mustang enthusiasts, as well as a new generation that might have never considered a Ford Mustang in the past. I want to win and I know that being a part of the RTR team increases my chance for champagne showers. “

Stay tuned as RTR is in the final steps of the prototyping phase for the brand new RTR package for all models of the new 2013 Ford Mustang. The RTR team is excited to introduce a very impressive street/track machine with the new Mustang RTR Spec 2 Package.

For more information about RTR, please visit www.MustangRTR.com. For more info about PAS, please visit www.PerformanceAutoSport.com.

Coming off two wins, two pole positions, and a new track record definitely helps start off the season on a good note, but here at PAS thats not enough. We have an obsession with going fast and fast isn’t fast enough. We have 16 races left of the 2012 season and we are looking forward to each and every one of them.

Big changes were happening at Performance Autosport between the February and March events. With these big changes came BIG news in the form of a partner ship with champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s company, Mustang RTR. With this partnership came lead sponsorship of the Performance Autosport American Iron Mustang race car and because of this the entire look of the car was refreshed to convert the car into a Mustang RTR.

Full details of the Performance Autosport/Mustang RTR partnership can be found here:
http://www.mustangrtr.com/newsletter/3-26-12.html

Since the car had to be taken to the body shop for the damage caused in the last race, most of the yellow vinyl was removed as was the Saleen body work. The car was returned back to stock cosmetically with the addition of the RTR body pieces including: Front bumper lip/splitter, side skirts, and rear bumper with diffuser. The next step was to come up with the new livery for 2012.

After a bunch of late nights and many emails back and forth to and from sponsors there was a look that was agreed upon and the decals were made and applied.

As a part of the new livery, we sent a set of our bulletproof HRE R40 wheels back to HRE Performance Wheels in California to change the color of these awesome 18″ wheels to a darker charcoal gray to match the theme. They came back and looked absolutely stunning!

Along with the new look we also got some new parts to try on the car. Our sponsor Kenny Brown Performance sent us the new KB AGS 4.0 GT-4 Suspension System to put under our 2011 Mustang GT. Another fellow sponsor, Moton, made sure we had the shocks to accompany such a great suspension system and sent us a set of Moton 3-way Coilovers! Up until now we have been running a completely STREET set of coil overs with just custom spring rates. The exact same coil overs that came off the shelf for a performance minded, street driven Mustang have been under this car for a year including running at Nationals, but it was time to move to a more hardcore RACE set of shocks. More on these specific products will be covered in future blog postings, just wait!

More on those awesome products later!

Here it is right before going on the trailer to head to the track on the dyno verifying that the horsepower level is legal for it’s weight, which is required in the American Iron Series.

Soon we were at the track with our beautiful, new PAS Mustang RTR and everyone was loving it! I made sure to get up early to take some photos around VIR while the sun was still coming up. Made for some great shots.

After running the car during the test and tune on Friday Cobetto was DEFINITELY feeling a difference from all the suspension changes. The car felt more stable all over the track and turned in nice and crisp and let him jump on the throttle with confidence earlier than before. It will obviously take some tweaking to get absolutely perfect, but the results are there! The Motons provide the level of control we never had over the previous coilover setup and allow us to truly dial the car in depending on the track and even weather conditions. The Saleen coil overs did an amazing job and were responsible for countless 1st places and a very hard caught 2nd place at Nationals, but the PAS team decided we needed to go a little more hardcore for 2012. The Kenny Brown AGS 4.0 GT-4 Suspension System just provides grip for days and solves all our previous problems of having the car a little pushy under turn-in and loose on exit. The whole marriage between these two companies is exactly what we’ve been looking for and we are excited to be using their products this year.

This of course leads us into Saturday and the weather had already turned sour. Friday night the rain rolled in and by Saturday morning it was absolutely pouring. The paddock was flooded and anyone who didn’t have full rain tires was asking for trouble by being out on track. Standing water was everywhere and as you can see in this video from our new “Dash Cam” if you went off track, you didn’t slow down.

Here is 2011 CMC National Champion Erik Sjoblom almost collecting Chris Cobetto in the PAS Mustang RTR while entering Oak Tree in the rain. A mix of horrible track conditions and unfamiliarity of the track placed him just slightly off line and into no-man’s land. When Erik jumped on the brakes, it was all over.

Saturday’s qualifying session was on a damp track. The car was still in it’s rain setup and with a 2:28.434 Chris Cobetto placed the PAS Mustang RTR on the pole. PAS Customer and fellow American Iron competitor Robert Korzen placed on the outside pole with his freshly gone-over FR500S by Chris Matthews of Performance Autosport. More on Korzen as well in another blog posting!

The wind picked up and the rain stopped allowing the track to dry out. The grid was set and Cobetto rolled to the green flag. Here is a video from the roof of the first lap. Watch how Cobetto can absolutely FLY up the uphill esses with confidence with this Kenny Brown/Moton suspension combo under him and haul this 3,600lbs beast down with no problems with these massive Baer brakes and Hawk pads.

For Saturday we started 1st and finished 1st with Ed Hunter placing 2nd and Robert Korzen in 3rd. After finishing the race Ed Hunter and the PAS machine were sent to the dyno to be verified and both passed easily…even though getting these two cars with their massive splitters ON TO the dyno was the bigger challenge!

Sunday was a toss up on weather. With the forecast of a 60% of rain/thunderstorms ALL day it was one of those days where you were constantly looking at the radar trying to pick which tires to run. With a constant mist in the air, but a relatively dry track we went out for qualifying in our dry setup.

Here is a video from the PAS “Splitter Cam” during qualifying. We definitely are digging this new view and will be using it much more in the future!

As you can see Qualifying had a LOT of traffic, but Cobetto still managed to squeak out a pole position with a 2:10.139. Get this, the top 3 qualifiers were only about 4 tenths of a second apart! Second place was again Robert Korzen with a 2:10.206 and Ed Hunter in 3rd with a 2:10.559! Talk about tight competition!

After qualifying we had a few hours to stare at the weather updates and try to predict what was going to happen throughout the 45mins we had on track. The mist would come and go, sometimes it would actually rain, then it would clear up. Man do we hate days like this! At the very last minute we decided to go with our rain setup and boy was it the right choice. The first 15mins of the race was clear and the track was drying fast, but soon the rain came and the majority of the Thunder group were in their dry setups and started slowing down drastically. Thankfully Cobetto had placed the PAS Mustang RTR out front from the start and not only finished first in American Iron, but actually had passed everyone in Thunder to place 1st overall!

So we arrived at VIR with a new look and lots of new parts. The cars livery was accepted with lots of positive reviews, the parts obviously changed the attitude of the car for the better, and we came home with two more pole positions and two more wins. We had a great time at NASA’s March Madness.

Next event will be held at Summit Point on April 28-29th and we are already looking forward to trying out all these new parts on a tighter and more technical track. More tuning will definitely be taking place to ensure Cobetto can keep this PAS Mustang RTR out front!

Thanks again to all our sponsors, without your support none of these wins would be possible. We share all our wins with you!

- Mustang RTR
- HRE Wheels
- Moss Muscle
- Ford Racing
- Kenny Brown Suspension
- Moton
- Baer Brake Systems
- Hawk Brake Pads
- OG Racing
- Exedy Racing Clutches
- C&R Radiators
- Tranzilla Transmissions
- Grassroots Motorsports

Full Gallery of photos from the weekend can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flimflam13/sets/72157629307573288/with/6871545816/

Look for more information on our Kenny Brown/Moton suspension including more photos of parts and installation as well as the full run down on what we did to make Robert Korzen love his FR500S again on track! We had so much going on at the track this weekend I’ve got to break it up into different postings!

Thanks for reading,
-Kevin

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!

Performance Autosport is now not only a RTR dealer, but also an official installation center and will be building serialized RTR cars for the public.  If you are interested in any RTR parts or even converting your car to the entire RTR package we can handle it.

There are many S197 owners out there that don’t know what RTR has to offer and thats what PAS plans on changing!  PAS and RTR will offer upgrades piece by piece or by the whole car-load.  From simple cosmetic changes to the full performance package we can build a car to suit your needs.

Want more?

PAS is the ONLY authorized RTR center to build you a complete track terror!  Let PAS convert your S197 in to a full Track Day Toy from mild to wild.  We will be offering complete turn-key packages to take your bone-stock Mustang GT and have it prepped and ready to lay down record breaking lap times.  Whether you are looking to make your daily driver a little faster and safer on track, or want to come race with us in American Iron, we will build it for you.  Something you will ONLY get at thru RTR at Performance Autosport.

Want more?

Well, RTR will be the lead sponsor for the Performance Autosport American Iron race team for 2012!  Thats right, RTR has stepped in and named PAS as their EXCLUSIVE Road Race Team to be supported all year in the NASA American Iron Series as well as possibly some other venues as time allows.  Expect a newly revised PAS Mustang RTR to roll out of the trailer at VIR ready for battle very soon!  Photos and updates will be posted to Facebook as well as the PAS blog as the season progresses as always.

Want more?

Well ok then, how about the PAS 2012 Mustang GT Shop car has been converted into a serialized RTR as well!  Thats right, our first conversion will be on our very own project car.  The addition of the entire package: Front splitter, side splitters, rear diffuser, wheels/tires, badging/decals, the works…everything.  It’s has now become a serialized 2012 Mustang RTR #64.

This:

To this…2012 Mustang RTR #64:

Thanks,

-Kevin

The off season for the Performance Autosport crew was a very busy one.  Making more contacts, picking up new sponsors, and creating new relationships with companies that wanted to help us make 2012 another successful season.  Last year we were extremely happy to fly the Speedlab Saleen flag for our friends up in Detroit.  They helped us step by step, race by race to deliver a winning car, a championship for our region, and a great battle for the National Championship ending in a very respectable 2nd place for our debut season.  We couldn’t of been more pleased with our results and the fact that we could put Saleen back in the winner’s circle so many times.

Performance Autosport is determined that 2012 will be continue with more wins, crushing records, and going to Nationals with more momentum than ever.  With this event being the last we’d be running our Mustang as a Saleen, we wanted to make sure we went out with a good weekend for the Speedlab crew.  Also our good friend Mark Evans from one of our new sponsors for 2012, Moss Muscle, was at the track checking out the team and everything that goes down to win races.  Thanks for coming and hanging out, Mark!

There really wasn’t a lot done to the car during the winter.  The only thing that was “changed” on the car was a part of the engine harness.  We removed, boxed up, and sent our camshaft sensors/harness to the same company that makes them for Ford Racing after speaking to many of their engineers at SEMA, PRI, and over countless emails and phone conversations trying to nail down our mysterious power loss situation.  The brains at Ford Racing all summized that it must be a break in connection between the plug and sensor on one or all camshaft position sensors.  The Boss 302S/R and Cobra Jet cars made by Ford Racing have all those sensors hardwired so that vibration/heat/anything wouldn’t risk a break in connection of these very important sensors.  Any loss of communication in these sensors would mean the timing of that camshaft would stop advancing until the key is cycled.  It was highly to our advantage to have a custom harness made for us to ensure that this is not our problem.  It wasn’t a guaranteed fix for our problem, but a very good possibility.

Other than that harness all we pretty much did was dust the car off, change fluids, swap in new brake pads, and made a seat adjustment to get Chris a little more comfortable in the car.  Thats it.  We took Hoosiers off and replaced them with Toyo RA-1′s as American Iron went back to the Toyo’s as their spec tire…no more running R6s.  Threw the car on the dyno to verify that its still legal and after 3 pulls it was ready to be put on the trailer and taken to the track.

We arrived at VIR Friday morning ready for its first few laps to make sure everything felt ok to Cobetto.  First session out was bedding brakes, second session would be scuffing in new RA-1s.  No real hot laps, but everything felt ok to Chris so no changes were made.

Saturday’s weather was perfect.  Completely sunny, a little cool, but perfect for going fast.  And fast is what we like.  Practice went well, Chris felt comfortable with the car, everything was working as it should.  Qualifying went even better.  Even on heavily heat-cycled RA-1s from the beginning of last year Cobetto managed to pull off a 2:05.907 which is second fastest lap we’ve ever turned in that car, the fastest being a 2:05.8xx on Hoosiers last year.  That time placed us on the pole for Saturday’s race and had us just making a slight pressure changed before the race to adjust for the weather.

Here is a video of a few fast laps from qualifying:

Here is Saturday’s race.  We apologize to Moss Muscle for losing their decal off our dashboard during the first lap.  We’ll make sure the next decal is more securely attached!

During this race Cobetto knocked off a 2:05.834 which beat our previously set track record on Hoosiers!  He was rolling!  We started 1st, finished 1st, set a new track record.  Can’t ask for more now can ya?

Sunday’s race was going to be a little different as the weather was looking bad and getting worse.  Before the race started it was raining, then sleeting, then snowing, then back to rain.  No matter what it was freezing…literally.  We set the car to our rain setup and mounted up a brand new set of full tread RA-1s.  NASA decided to bump the race to an earlier time so our race started at 10:10am which left no time for a warm up or qualifying.  Our starting position was the same as Saturday, 1st, so it was looking like all we needed to do was stay out front and stay on track and we should be able to have a clean race.  But, as you will see there was some contact with another American Iron car going into Turn 1 on lap 2.  Steven Kent locked up under braking and slid into the back of us, forcing both cars to the grass.  Thankfully Cobetto gathered the car back up, got back on track, and we never lost position.  We ended up winning Sunday’s race as well, but obviously it was a much slower pace due to the slick track conditions.

Since our power loss problem only showed its head during the longer races it was never truly tested during the weekend since the track conditions wouldn’t allow for driving at 10/10ths for 40mins which is what we truly need to do.  Hopefully in March we’ll have sunny skies and be able to make sure that this power issue has been dealt with.

Here are the first few laps of the Sunday race:

Here are your two PAS sponsored winners from this weekend.  The #4 took 1st both days for American Iron and the #52 took 1st both days for Camaro Mustang Challenge (CMC).  It’s almost as if these PAS Mustangs really know how to win or something…hmmm.

Minus the contact we had a very successful weekend.  Two wins and a new track record.  Looking forward to March now as the car will have it’s new look with full 2012 livery displaying all our new sponsors as well as some new suspension pieces to get the car even more glued to the track this season.

Again, special thanks for Speedlab Saleen for a great season last year and this past weekend.  And a big thank you to our current sponsors for 2012, Moss Muscle, HRE Performance Wheels, Baer Brakes, Hawk Performance Pads, Ford Racing, VBD Graphics, OG Racing, and Grassroots Motorsports! Also thanks to Jon Felton for the video for Saturday’s race and Phillip Nugent for all the photography from this event.

Thanks,
-kevin

In the August 2011 issue GRM featured the PAS Speedlab Saleen 302R in a massive article.  Check it out:

Following that up, GRM used our car in their “MUSTANG MADNESS” issue in February 2012.

With decades of experience in the automotive aftermarket, Moss Muscle is one of the nations premier suppliers of performance, styling, and restoration parts for late model Mustangs.  With a staff of performance enthusiasts, huge warehouses in California and Virginia, and most orders shipping the same day, Moss understands the needs of the hobby.  And with their Virginia warehouse just 20 minutes away from Performance Autosport, a partnership between the two just seemed to make sense.

Having Moss just right down the road means a few things for PAS:

First, Moss has signed on as a sponsor for the Performance Autosport Mustang RTR American Iron Racecar for the 2012 Race Season.  The #4 AI car will be wearing the Moss Muscle logo proudly to help show the world that Moss is serious about the Mustang.  Moss’ local Director of Mustang Sales and good friend of PAS, Mark Evans, daily drives a 2011 Mustang GT when he’s not driving around  one of the several shop cars.  He’s a Mustang guy for sure and understands the market.  PAS is looking forward to working with this company and all the guys at Moss.

Secondly, Moss will be using Performance Autosport as an official installation shop for all Moss Muscle products, as well as all the Moss brands.  Not only will PAS be installing parts for Moss Muscle customers we will also be helping Moss in product development, testing, as well as sales.  We will be their feature shop for Mustang parts and will be doing write ups for their website, magazines, and tech projects.

PAS is looking forward to this partnership as it will help both of us deliver new products with tested results to our customers at competitive pricing.  PAS alone can’t house the millions of parts that Moss can, but being right down the street means we are open to a whole new level of customer service!

Tom from Cooper Corvettes brought us their latest purchase, a Lingenfelter Supercharged and tuned C5 Z06.

2011 Camaro SS LZ585 being tuned by Steve Williams of TunedbyFrost.com

Performance Autosport bought another Shop Car. A brand new 2012 Mustang GT. Here it is, 2 days old, on the dyno in BONE STOCK form as a baseline before we start throwing parts on it.

Scott brought us his 2011 VW CC (2.0 TSI) with goodies from APR to dyno. With an intake, larger turbo, and tune it put down a very respectable 300whp/310wtq.

Robert from Lufteknic, a local Porsche specialty shop, brought us a customer’s ’87 911 with a 3.8L, Varioram intake, and a few other goodies to throw on the dyno while they tuned it.

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