Things have been busy. Nick has been working I think everyday of the week for at least two months. I’m so tired my post title is just a list and nothing really worth reading.  We’ve had a good run lately. I think that it’s  a bad time of year to confront challenges because our instinct is to simply finish things that are coming at us, like playing pong or something.

Scot and Bill went with Ramana Lagemann and Burak Tuglu of Team Rally-Tire (TRT) to STPR Rally and brought home a victory in Super Production as well as a place on the podium, placing third overall.  Ramana and codriver Chrissie managed to win two stages of the rally outright, the longest and the shortest.

photo STPR_Rally on Flickr.

Lagemann Beavis In Car STPR

The car is at the shop now if anyone wants to come see it. It’s getting better and better now that the team has been over it a few times. Matt tuned the Vipec and refined the anti-lag to Ramana’s liking, we recently fixed a few leaks and before Maine (New England Forest Rally)  we’ll be sending the Ohlins out for service and building a new exhaust for the car. The great finishes have created some interest for Lassa tires and the Arcasting wheels. We are sourcing some wheelsets for customers now and can get more if anyone’s interested.

This brings me to the next topic, our newest customer service liason Ben Rickard. Ben has worked in the industry for a while now and brings a lot of parts knowledge and professionalism to the table. He will likely be the one taking your order, scheduling your appointment and helping you get those parts on the way. He started this week and is most definitely a welcome addition to the team.

Recent Projects-

Summer means a bunch of broken stuff. We’ve been working on a clutch job that turned into a leak fix on a 5 speed subaru input shaft. When the transmission was apart we found a broken third gear! Terrible. Bill’s fixing that one. I’ve been working on some motors, one for Vlad’s track STI and another for BigHEAD Tony who had the misfourtune of running through a small lake during a thunderstorm. Nick did a clutch on an Evo IX today and a slew of other work, swaybar install, gauges, brake work, suspension installs.. he’s been the man lately. We installed a Tomei ExPreme manifold on an Evo IX yesterday to replace a junky Ebay one. The quality of the Tomei kit is really incredible. It comes with about $100 of OEM Mitsubishi Gaskets and high quality exhaust wrap for those interested in wrapping their manifolds. The stock heatshield also bolts to the Tomei Manifold.  Nick is also working on Ryan’s Civic track car, converting it from OBD-Zero to OBD-1 so Matt can then Tune it on the dyno.  Matt’s been tuning a lot of Subarus, soon a Turbo Miata with AEM once the injectors come, then a BMW running VEMS with a turbo the size of a big melon. The car might break 600whp. Matt also tuned another E30 M3 race car the other day in a collaborative effort with the car’s project manager, Mark from German Performance of Brighton.

Bill fabricated pipework today for a huge tube-fin intercooler setup, welded breathers for a Honda B series valve cover and worked on wiring the VEMS equipped BMW.

Racing News-
Nick is racing this coming weekend at Burke Mountain with the New England Hillclimb contingent. He’ll be bringing the Accord out of retirement for this event. Next race after that for DSG is going to be COM at NHMS 7/2-7/3 where I’ll try to get my lap time back from Bill who totally sniped me by 1/10th of a second. Then Okemo Hillclimb where we will try for FTD with the Pleasure Evo. After the party ends we get down to business in Maine at the New England Forest Rally in July to try to make wrenches turn with the same precision that Ramana makes the steering wheel turn.  Before all that happens Bill will be going to Sweden of all places. He was hired by Swedish race driver Alx Danielsson who was nearly an F1 driver to represent DSG in their effort to break the Nurburgring lap record with a twin turbo Ultima GTR. Bill will be traveling to Sweden to help prepare the car before it leaves to Germany. He’s leaving this Saturday!!

I’ll ammend this post with more photos tomorrow. For the very latest stuff check out our facebook page. We have a Business page and a Group page. The business page is way better.  Don’t stray from our site though. Facebook is sort of lame.