Mike headed down to the NC DSM track day at Fayetteville Motorsports Park yesterday to get some passes in. The progress of the car may not be as fast as Mike wants as he’s been dealing with a bit of bad luck parts breakage the entire season that has slowed his progress down. He has run a number of mid to low 9’s this year only to have the weekend end early due to some shit luck. Well this weekend it all came together for him and he got his first 8 second pass. The promising part is there is a lot more to be had out of the car. The 60′ times keep dropping as Mike gets used to the car and gets it dialed in more and I’d guess to say that this car has a 8.2-8.3pass in her the way it sits.

Congrats Mike! I hope that your dedication and perseverance are starting to pay off as your goals are achieved. We’re proud of ya brother!

Mike wanted to try out a new intake manifold from DV/DT and went up to P&L Motorsports to use there dyno. He’s still using the Borg Warner 74mm on the T4 set-up we built him a few years back. For 40psi this is a spectacular amount of power. The exciting part is that we have built him a new set-up for the car. It’s something a bit unconventional and IF it works the car should make another 200-300hp more.

Here’s another manifold that I’ve been wanting to build for a while. It’s not for the ultimate horsepower junkie but intended to provide a very wide power band, lower torque peak, and improve low RPM response & power. Auto-X, Road Race, and street car guys may find this manifold to fit there particular interests very well. It is built off of our EVO T3 fixture and fits up exactly the same as our extremely popular manifold T3 Manifold.Price is the same as our standard T3 manifold and is available for order immediately.

As usual with our product the attention to detail is the highest in the industry and the quality is second to none. One feature of this manifold that I feel makes it stand out from “the rest” of the small runner manifolds is the transition from the larger oval cylinder head port to the smaller diameter primary of the header. The entry to all of our headers feature the same large oval port size. The transition from this large port size to the smaller primary is achieved using a unique process to create a proper transition from the smaller runner to the larger port size. This is just one example of what makes our manifold stand out from the rest of the competition. Most companies offer an oval to round transition machined in the head flange. This transition takes place over the thickness of the head flange which is typically a distance of 1/2″, this creates a radical transition and is not optimal for exhaust flow. One manufacturer’s entry into the runner is actually SMALLER than the cylinder port and most definitely robs power. Cutting corners such as this isn’t acceptable in our eyes to make manufacturing easier/faster, or to make a few extra bucks.

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Sean Ivey brought his EVO out to Atco last night to make a few passes. His previous time at the track he found the clutch to be slipping and addressed the issue for last night. The car is a pretty basic build and is very much a near complete street car weighing in at 3050lbs. It is using our standard Divided T4 Manifold with a GT4294, E85 fuel, AWD Motorsports driveshaft, AMS intake, a few AMS lightweight goodies, has a full interior, all functional glass, and of course features an IVEY Tune on a HKS FCON.

Visit www.iveytune.com to check out Seans services. There isn’t a finer EVO shop in the New Jersey/New York area to get your work done at.

This has been on my things-to-do list for a LONG time. A customer who is currently serving over in Iraq contacted me about getting a Forward Facing Manifold built for a GT42 and I figured there is no better time than now to get it done. I am extremely pleased with how the final product came out. It’s designed to take advantage of the fresh air getting getting rammed into the compressor inlet as the car accelerates down the track. Gains of up to 7mph have been seen by switching to a manifold of similar design. This manifold is designed to fit GT42/45 or smaller turbos and fits perfectly inside the core support of a 1g DSM. It hangs twin TiAL 38mm MVS gates off the side of the collector pointing towards the drivers side. This is available as of 9/1/2009 and the price for the manifold is $1375.

2:30pm August 14^th came, it’s a Friday afternoon and we were in a rush to close shop and hit the road to make the journey to downtown Wakeman, Oh to attend Buschur Racing’s 17^th Annual DSM Shootout. For some it’s just another race weekend. For others it’s a gathering of friends from across the country, who may only see one another once a year, at this annual event. This year marked my tenth year attending the shootout and it’s the first year that I’ve felt “old”.  There has been a lot of disparity in the community over the last year and the enthusiasm from this new generation of DSM’ers was quite refreshing.

Despite the sun and blazing heat the weekend was a blast from start to finish. Saturday’s Dyno Day and Car Show packed the small town of Wakeman from one end to the other. The village put on an excellent BBQ with chicken and ribs for the taking. Some impressive machinery filled the grounds from Scott Glassbrook’s RWD Talon, Yusuf’s 9 second EVO 2 street car, to AWD Motorsport’s 8 second EVO, Buschur’s 9.0 EVO 8 street car, CBRDs road race car, and the list goes on.

Race time came too early Sunday morning as we rolled into the track with just 3 hours of sleep. The day quickly got HOT and the temps were in the mid 90’s most of the day. The cars were down on power from the extreme heat and the track temps were through the roof. In typical Norwalk fashion the track crew didn’t let the heat get in the way of delivering a top notch racing surface. The track was packed with racers and spectators and everyone was in great spirit as lots of excellent times were popping up on the score board. All classes had fast fields and the competition was tight in several of the rounds that I saw. Every year this race gets bigger and this year was definitely the largest to date.

I like to give a big thanks to all of the Shearer Fab Q16 competitors for making it out. There was an excellent turnout of competitors as over 21 cars tried to qualify for the field in hopes to take home the big payout put up by Shearer Fab and AWD Motorsports There was some excellent competition as the class got closer to the finals. Big congrats to Jared Early for taking home the $2500 top prize and also for running his first 8 second pass in the finals!

Shearer Fabrications/AWD Motorsports Quick 16
Winner, Jared Early, 89 Conquest, 8.961@154.26. $2500 cash
Runner -Up, Allan Friedman, 03 EVO, 9.784@145.75. $1500 cash
Semi-Michael Wohler. $500 cash
Semi-Nick Abele. $500 cash

I saw our product all over the grounds this weekend and I’d like to say THANK YOU to everyone who runs our product! The continued support is so appreciated that I could never attempt to put it into words. Also I’d like to give special mention a couple customers that finished in the money over the weekend, if I forgot anyone I apologize as this is coming off the top of my head.

*Al Friedman in his ’03 EVO took home 2^nd place in the Q16. Al drove his ass off in the last two rounds on competition and he brought home a well deserved finish.

*Mike Wohler for taking home a 3^rd place Q16 finish. I was routing for Mike as he had a very good shot at taking home the big prize money. Hopefully next year!!

*Eric Oberdorfer for taking third place in DSM Eliminator

*Curt Brown for running mid 9’s all day long until an axle failure took him out of the running. Curt street car is among the nicest examples of a DSM around. To top it off the car is fucking fast and drove it from Pennsylvania to race

*John Shepherd for cleaning up in EVO Eliminator. John 2003 EVO is a pure street car and he drove it to a multitude of 9.9x passes throughout the day like it was a bracket car.
*AWD Motorsports for cleaning up in the dyno competion on Saturday with a killer 800+hp on there T3 set-up. That’s an excellent number considering the size of the turbo and the number was made on Buschur’s “heart breaker” dyno.

Can’t wait to see everyone next year!!

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Welcome to it and hopefully I will stay on top of this with random babbling and news updates. I haven’t stayed on top of updates to the current web site or our forums lately as I have been overrun with work for a long time. I’ve decided to take a little more “me” time to enjoy life and keep things updated. A lot has happened here with products and typical random shit that I have not made public. The plan is to change that and keep this blog updated and find a way to enter old blurbs and updates that I’ve kept all to myself. Please feel free to leave comments and commence with the ball busting. With that said, Welcome!

Chris @ EVT Motorsports is working on a new web site that will hopefully be unveiled soon. I think it looks sweet and has all kinds of new behind the scenes gadgets to make it easy for me to update things. If anyone is in need of some design work Chris is the man to call.

One last thing for now. A wicked storm came through last night and I caught one cool picture. I have this cool picture to thank for frying the business file server and I no longer have access to any of the company files. The kick ass built in back up system hasn’t successfully completed a full backup since sometime in March. Fucking wonderful, and for anyone using a Raid 0 server I suggest you rethink things.

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