Dyno Shootout Coming Soon!!

Our official dates for the Dyno Tuner Shootout is June 17-19 2010. This is going to be so much fun don't miss out!
Huge Cash Prizes, Multiple Performance Classes, See how your car ranks in Utah!
Pony Cars, Import FI and N/A visit our website for full details and to register limited spots so get signed up!!! Entry fee is $95
www.turbolaboratories.com

Dyno Shootout -Is Your Car Ready-????

Since acquiring a Dynojet Dynamometer last summer we have been itching to have an all out Dyno Competition. It will most likely be held the end of April or in May depending on the weather mostly.

We want to see in Utah, all talk aside, who will put down the biggest numbers. We will have several categories for vehicles to be placed in and there will be BIG cash prizes for the winners of these categories.

I'll post more information soon but here's a few guidelines to give you an idea of what to expect.

Strict Rules:
$95 Entry fee, a portion of which, goes toward cash prizes. The more entries, the bigger the prizes!!
No Tuning during competion. All tuning must be performed prior to event.
3 Pulls to determine peak horsepower.
Vehicles require inspection (details coming soon).
All participants must sign waiver.

This Season

We are gearing up for a fun-filled race season and appreciate the overwhelming support with our minivan at the snowcross event! We plan on racing the MPRA series which we have just learned has teamed up with NASA. We will also be racing some SCCA, Redline, and invitation only events.

We are grateful for our sponsors, Ralley Sport Direct, and Forrest Motors who have helped us prepare for this season.

See you on the Miller track April 3rd for practice and April 4th for Race 1.

(Don't forget to visit our website if you want to know more about our services http://www.turbolaboratories.com/)

Miller Motorsports Park Annual Snowcross Event...with a Minivan

We attended Miller Motorsports Parks Annual Snowcross event on Saturday and well, the minivan was a big hit and a blast to drive as well. A big thanks to Forrest Motors in Provo for donating the 2003 Honda Odyssey and also to Rally Sport Direct in Draper for the brand new Sparco Seat and Harness.

There were quite a few chuckles when we pulled up in the minivan, no surprise. But even with 12 seconds in penalties from hitting cones we still managed to take home a second place trophy in front wheel drive.

We are excited to race this car this season and have some fun ideas for more mods we'd like to make. Currently it's stock. We gutted the interior cut out some floor panels and mounted up the wheels and tires from the nsx (they fit perfect lol).

MPRA Championship

MPRA Championship October 18-19, 2008. We had a great time and placed 2nd overall for the season...not bad for missing a few races.

Modified Mag Tuner Shootout 2008: A learning Experience

Dyno: 557 whp @ 12lbs...nice

First off let me say that I think it's quite impressive to finish the quarter mile backwards and still run a 12.7. However that being said we had many challenges over the weekend. We'd never been to Firebird Raceway before and tried to get as much info. as we could about the track and conditions of it. But there's almost no way to really be prepared without actually practicing on the track.

Sheering your wheel spacer and breaking your suspension during autocross does not help. Especially when you don't know yet your broke your suspension until you are shifting in to 4th gear down the quarter mile and your car decides to head for the wall. I must admit I'd never been so calm. I just let go of the wheel and held my harness. It all happened in such slow motion I realized I had a good chance of saving the car. I grabbed the wheel, got it under control, and crossed the finish line backwards, you know, the way real race car drivers do it. Headlights would have been a good thing for the Time Attack since we ended up racing at night and only half the track was lit. I'm not sure if it was scary or frightening going down the back stretch not knowing when the turn would come...

I had the completely wrong tires for this kind of an event. I won't tell you the brand...they are my ultra, top secret, weapons. But I will say they need warming up and there was no time for that at this event.

These are not excuses of course but these are the experiences I had that I will definately learn from for the future. The event was great everyone was nice and I'd do it again in a second...only way way better hopefully. It is definately frustrating having a car that performs so amazing and should have done so well at this event but the lack of knowledge/preparation deminished it's chances. BTW a big thanks to my good friend Adam Munoa of Munoa Performance who came down with me to help me get through all the events.