COMP Cams, one of the leading camshaft manufacturers in the automotive aftermarket, recently took us for a tour of their production facility. There, we were given an in-depth look at every step of the process that goes into the finished product that resides in your high performance engine.
Few companies know oiling systems as well as Moroso. Founded in 1968 by a successful drag racer by the name of Dick Moroso, the company started as many do, by accident. Noticing Dick’s dominance on the track, other racers came to Dick wanting to buy his custom built parts.
One car builder’s sticker we continue to see on many of the record breaking Comp and Super Stock cars is B&B Race Cars. A few months ago, we started to do some research on the company and to our surprise we found out that they were located in our old stomping grounds of Middle Tennessee. Over the Christmas holiday we made the short trip west on Highway 412 to visit their shop in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Darren and Anne Breaud own B&B and is located southwest of Nashville in a 15,000 square foot building complete with an in-house paint shop.
Stenod Performance can modify anything on four wheels, from classic muscle cars, corner-carving street cars or 6-second race cars. There ability to build such a wide variety of vehicles makes them rather unique in the Detroit area. Joe Borschke is the owner of the Troy Michigan based performance shop and we recently stopped by to see what they were working on during the winter off-season.
Back in 1992, Detroit native Mike Moran made the tow down to Memphis Motorsports Park, the site of HOT ROD Magazine’s inaugural Fastest Street Car Shootout. There, he impressed the Chevy “heavy” field with several 8-second passes in a Ford pinto station wagon. Fast forward 18 years and Mike Moran has come a long way from his original one-car dirt floor garage. Today, he builds some of the most exotic turbocharged race engines in the world and is known as a top EFI and turbo tuning expert. Dragzine.com recently paid a visit to Moran’s Taylor, Michigan shop to see what he was up to.
In today’s world, if you build a high performance vehicle, every aspect of the car needs to perform at its best. Centerforce Clutches makes high performance clutches and flywheels for a number of popular American muscle applications for that exact reason. Come check out the behinds the scenes action at Centerforce Clutches.
Ford Racing opened up the 2010 Mustang Cobra Jet build facility to customers, vendors, partners and employees to celebrate the “Job Done”, the completion of 50 new Cobra Jets. Seventeen Cobra Jet customers made the trek to snowy Flat Rock, Michigan to pick up their factory built race cars. Check out and see who some of the people were that picked up the keys to their Cobra Jet first hand.
