After weeks of looking for the right shop to do my engine, I finally found one just a few minutes away from my house. When went there last Monday, there was a Ferrari Testarossa parked in the grarage. The engine had been yanked and was undergoing a rebuild. Next to it was an MR2 undergoing an engine swap. I asked the chief mechanic (who seemed to be the owners son) what engine he was swapping in and he said that the owner of the car wanted to swap in an Altezza engine. "What a waste" I thought to myself, and I think the chief mechanic was thinking the samething. There was a yellow thing parked in the corner. It was just a frame that was undergoing reenforcement. I asked the chief what it was. "We're building a race car based on the BMW M3", he said.

The owner, a man who appeared to be in his late fifties, invited me in and I explained exactly what I wanted. When I said I had a turbo Type R, his eyes lit up.."wow!" he said. "So what do you want us to do you for you" I told him that I wanted him to replace the pistons that I had fried. He grinned and told be that he could do that, but that's not what what they are all about (not completely anyways)

He then proceeded to explain what kind of customers he gets. (Ferrari's, BMW's, GT-R's...you name it...its been here.) "Turbo ITR?" I asked... "you'll be the first" and he grinned again. "But there's nothing we can't do"

He proceeded to explain that most shops would simply rebuild my engine, drop in in the car, and cut it loose. But in his shop, he will make sure that engine is race worthy, even if its only for street use.

This is the device the use (it benchmarks the engine at the crank before it even sees the engine bay.):



It allows them to gauge the the ideal operating environment of that engine and tune it accordingly. So when I get my ECU tuned, I can simply dump all that data in to the ECU and be set. My engine will be tuned here and I will be there to witness it all...I will bring my digicam and documenting all of it.

This shop simply rocks the house! Here is some more pics of some of the cars they've done in the past.

Alfa-Romero


Toyota Celica GT-S


Your guess is as good as mine..looks awesome though


Porsche


Fiat


Another Alfa (I think)



More to come soon

 

whats the car behind the red one last pic.
has an 88 on it i think.

cool

 

not sure what that is...maybe just an old skool race car...they have tons of them going in and out...

 

damn.. id love to take my car there for repair.. to bad im in cali.. and you're in yokohama

 

The silver car is some type of Masaraite (spelling?)

The red one seems to be some type of Alfa?

Nice pics none the less!!

eric

 

awesome

but for this kind of service...how much are they charging?

 

i love the testing benchmark. that thing rocks, wish shops over here had that kinda stuff, i would pay top notch for that service.

 

Lets put it this way..its EXPENSIVE AS ****! (in the thousands)...but I get my engine rebuilt, they'll inspect my turbo too and rebuild it if necessary, clutch installed, head inspected and repaired if necessary engine benchmarked at the crank and tuned before going into the car...for one set price that we agreed on...


[Modified by MiraiZ, 2:43 PM 1/11/2003]

 

It's called an engine dyno, alot of places over here have them. They are pretty expensive to use though.

 

Slant nose Porsche.......rare, and hot as hell

 

cant see the pics sounds like an awesome deal though..

 

definitely good pics...keepem' comin

 

isnt that an engine dyno? measure hp at the crank... anyhow jg engine dynamics has one of those.

 

you got the hot part rite my friends slant nose burned down the ground a few years ago

 

looks good... wish i had a shop like that near me (and the $$$ to take my car there)...

 

Looks Like R.E. Amemiya Driving

 

Yeah, it's a Alfa romeo spyder, a 3.0 V6 beast
My dad says that the grey car on the back could be a jaguar because of the way the hood opens, but i tought that it was one of those race porsches from the old times

 

that first alfa reminds me of an intergrale.

 

Because it is, Lancia Integrale HF. And that red one wouldn't be a spyder, spyder=convertible.

Brian

 

I think that is actually a Lancia...might be wring though

that is an old maserati....not sure what model though

i was thinking the car in the background was a old porsche 550 spyder....thats wat it looks like from the little bit i can see but im not sure