Wednesday, February 01, 2012

AVID RACING SIGNS ON TO SUPPORT SPEEDFACTORY RACING

University Place, WA – Avid Racing, a leader in enthusiast racing products ranging from motor mounts to traction bars has signed on as an Associate Sponsor of SpeedFactory Racing for the 2012 season.

“Having Avid Racing join our team is very exciting for both of us, and will be mutually beneficial this year as we both grow together.” says Matthew Hurlbut, General Manager of SpeedFactory Racing. “We are looking forward to another fantastic year in 2012 with Avid Racing on board!”

Avid Racing produces a full line of high performance components for Honda and Acura’s that range from daily driven enthusiast cars to full blown race cars. “We like what we saw from SpeedFactory in the past and we wanted to be a part of their success in 2012, this was an easy decision. SpeedFactory has shown that they are some of the hardest working racers in the industry, and we want to work with people that work as hard as we do.” says Franklin Vu of Avid Racing.

SpeedFactory Racing will be kicking off the 2012 season by competing at the Import Faceoff race in Las Vegas, NV on May 6th 2012.

SpeedFactory Racing is a high performance Honda & Acura tuning and racing development shop located in University Place, WA just outside of Seattle. Their mission is to provide their customers and partners worldwide with the best service, parts and highest quality custom work possible.

Avid Racing engineers products for the everyday enthusiast, from weekend racer to the pro’s. Through the years they have thrived on success by committing to research and development and strict manufacturing processes. View their full line of products on their website.

Contact:
Josh Mackey
SpeedFactory Racing
info@speedfactoryracing.net
http://www.speedfactoryracing.net

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

COMPETITION CLUTCH IS THE NEW TITLE SPONSOR FOR SPEEDFACTORY RACING

University Place, WA – Competition Clutch, the fastest growing performance clutch company in North America is proud to announce that it will be the title sponsor of the Competition Clutch Turbo Outlaw Civic which will be driven by James Kempf for the 2012 race season.

SpeedFactory Racing continues as a pioneer in import drag racing besting their previous year’s record with a new time of 8.72 @176MPH in 2011. “We’re very excited to have Competition Clutch as our title sponsor, we’re going bigger this year and we’re glad they’re on board to strengthen our team” says Matthew Hurlbut, General Manager of SpeedFactory Racing. The SpeedFactory Racing Outlaw Turbo Civic has been the most dominant Outlaw car hailing from the West Coast, and will continue to travel to events across the country once again in 2012.

Competition Clutch has been the clutch of choice for the industry and their commitment to SpeedFactory Racing shows their devotion to the import drag racing community. “This sponsorship demonstrates our commitment to the community and our customers, strengthening our bond with SpeedFactory Racing who are pioneers in a very loyal community” says Dan McCarney of Competition Clutch.

SpeedFactory Racing Outlaw Turbo Civic Hatchback - High Resolution Available Here

You can see the debut of the Competition Clutch sponsored SpeedFactory Racing Civic in its first major race this year at Import Faceoff in Las Vegas, NV on May 6^th 2012.

SpeedFactory Racing is a high performance Honda & Acura tuning and racing development shop located in University Place, WA just outside of Seattle. Their mission is to provide their customers and partners worldwide with the best service, parts and highest quality custom work possible.

Competition Clutch (CCI) is the fastest growing performance clutch company in North America. CCI contributes this growth to its commitment in the innovation and quality of the products that we manufacture and supply, complimented by a sincere desire to provide unparalleled customer service and delivery.

Contact:
Josh Mackey
SpeedFactory Racing
info@speedfactoryracing.net
http://www.speedfactoryracing.net

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(KENT, Wash) – It’s an earlier start and a later finish to the 2012 Pacific Raceways’ drag race schedule in 2012! And in between the first test and tune March 18 and the last Gambler’s race Oct. 21 there are 11 Summit Racing Equipment team point races, more full-day weekend races and something for every type of drag racer…and we’re not done yet. As they say in the fine print, this schedule is subject to change and the changes will be for the good!

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Things didn’t go at all as we expected. The track was TOO good, and air and track surface conditions were drastically different every time we came to the line. Every single pass the Outlaw car shook the tires horribly and we couldn’t get a clean launch to save our lives. We tried many things that we’ve never tried on other tracks and still couldn’t get a clean launch. From talking with the other Outlaw cars, it seems that nearly everyone on 26′s was fighting the same issue. We just couldn’t get the needed wheelspeed off the line without also shaking the tires despite trying various different combinations of tire pressure, launch rpm and boost levels, and suspension settings. The 24.5″ tire cars did much better, as they can always use more stick. We’ll be bringing some old hard 26′s for this race next year!

And on the passes where we were able to muster still crappy mid-low 1.5 sixties through the tire shake, the track was cold & damp or had something down in our lane and we had to lift because the car blew the tires off clear through 3rd gear and/or got out of control and started drifting bad past the 1/8th. So no new PB for us like we had hoped. Instead we ran a couple of 8 sec passes with the worst 60′ times ever. Nothing like running 8′s with a craptastic 1.71 sixty! We did learn a few things about the track at least and have some data to go off of for next year.

We did get some really cool video from the weekend though, had a fantastic race against Tony and managed to be the last import standing in the Street Fighter class before losing in the Semi-final round. The Sipes’ All Motor car was able to post a new PB of 10.29 @ 129mph 1st round, then ended up missing 3rd gear and losing 2nd round.

Once again a huge thanks goes out to our fantastic sponsors for the 2011 season, it’s been a great year. Please help support these companies that support us and are a big part of our industry!

Albins Off Road Gear
Arias Pistons
Bill Miller Engineering
Competition Clutch
DG Machine
Drag Cartel
Golden Eagle MFG
Lightning Motorsports
NOS Energy
Precision Turbo & Engine

Here’s some video from the weekend. Enjoy!

SF vs T1 Round 1 Elims

SF NEWS (10-06-2011):

The 4th Annual Airwerks by BorgWarner Outlaw Street FWD Shootout and 3rd Annual All Motor Street Shootout held at Englishtown, NJ took place this past Sat. & Sun., October 1 & 2, 2011.

We made the 2,850 mile trek with both our Turbo Outlaw and All Motor Street cars driven by Kevin Kempf and Joel Sipes respectively to represent for the West Coast at the East Coast Shootout!

All Motor Street Recap:

We decided to test a new hood scoop for the #1 qualifier, and it ended up hurting power so we removed it. Due to oil downs and noise curfew, the #2 qualifier never took place on Saturday.  This left us badly needing the last chance qualifier on Sunday morning to dial in the tune with the scoop removed. The car ended up snapping an axle on the line and never made another qualifying pass. Luckily fellow racer and event coordinator Jake Gavio had on hand a spare set of axles that he was kind enough to let us run and continue competing.

So with only 1 qualifying pass the Sipes Brothers all motor K-series Civic qualified #4 out of 16 with a 10.41 @ 129.6mph.

Running with a best guess tune, Joel was able to win the 1st elimination round against Marc Podkowic of Florida with another 10.41 @ 129.2mph to Marc’s 10.55 @ 129.6mph.

Changes were made to richen up the tune as it had run lean – unfortunately air conditions changed drastically while waiting in the staging lanes and Joel was eliminated in the 2nd elimination round running a new personal best of 10.31 @ 129.5mph with the car running extremely lean & down on power to Jake Gavio’s 10.19 @ 133.8mph pass.

Not the showing we had hoped for, but we feel certain the car was capable of running in the teens as well if it wasn’t for the lean condition. Our 60ft times were the amongst if not the best in the class but the car was down on power and we weren’t able to put together the whole package this time around. We plan on posting a new best ET & MPH in a few weeks here though!

Outlaw Street FWD Recap:

We went into the event needing to dial the car in with a few recent untested changes to the cooling system, turbocharger, and fuel. Our strategy was to keep the tune real soft and go rounds to collect data and get it dialed back in with the new changes, getting slightly more aggressive with each pass.

For the 1st qualifier, we made an 1/8th mile hit for some data and let off, 9.84 @ 105mph on the brakes just to get on the board.

After datalogs verified that everything was working well, we decided to leave the tune mild and go ahead and make a full pass for our 2nd qualifier, which resulted in a new personal best 60ft time of 1.46 seconds and an 8.87 @ 171.6mph which was enough to secure the #1 qualifying position as well as low ET and high mph. The 3rd qualifier never happened due to time constraints.

Sunday morning came and we had a bye run 1st round. 2nd round eliminations resulted in another great 1.47 second 60ft time and a new personal best 1/8th mile time of 5.83 @ 138.97mph when mechanical issues prevented the shifter from throwing properly and damaged the 4th gear dogs, and we coasted to a 9.39 @ 118mph which was enough to beat our competitors 9.39 @ 162.5mph thanks largely to Kevin cutting a great light.

We had to perform a rush transmission swap to make the call for the semi-final round, which we were able to accomplish in a mere 38 minutes! At this point the event was being severely rushed to try and complete the race before curfew. The car that ran our lane previous to us trailed water onto the track and it wasn’t caught by anyone. This resulted in massive tire shake and an appalling 1.66 second 60ft time. Thankfully Kevin was able to drive through it and posted a 9.03 @ 173.03mph to take the win and move into the finals.

We were instructed to hot lap the car and return directly to the lanes for the final. Facing subpar track conditions and a heat soaked racecar, Kevin cut another good light (.098) and despite several issues with the run posted low ET and high mph of the event with an 8.87 @ 174.87mph to take the win over Rick Everly’s 9.14 @ 159.7mph!

The event was a massive success, with a great turnout of spectators and racers. Thanks once again to all of you that have given us your support and helped us to make this event and all of you who stopped by to visit and check us out.

The next event for us is the World Cup Finals in Mechanicsville, MD where we expect to run a new best ET and trapspeed to finish this year with a bang. See you all there!

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Check out the great article from Josh Mackey and the NWMOTIV crew here

http://www.nwmotiv.com/featured-content/import-faceoff-kent-coverage/?show=gallery