Wow! We have made some serious progress over the last month! The dedication of the guys during holidays, vacations, nights and weekends is really bringing the Hearse to life.
Shane, Lance & Greg were able to get the final prep done and the rear section of the 1 ¾ roll bar completed over our Christmas break. The guys will be completing the bar with removable door bars after the car is up and running.
The slower winter season has allowed us to continue to work on the Hearse a bit more in between shop projects. Lance has put lots of time into cleaning up the engine bay, weeding through wires, removing unnecessary items , etc. The harness Lance and Randy @ Yates EFI designed together came out amazing. The harness is fully installed and the layout really allowed us to clean up the engine bay.
We opted to remove the LS6 intake and in its place went a Victor JR intake, Aarons Elbow, LS2 TB & ID2000 injectors. This will be worth some power, support our future motor and really adds to the cool factor of the build. The fuel system is all complete up front and we’ll be addressing the rest of the system in upcoming weeks. Read more…
Well unfortunately we were unable to hit our goal of attending the Fall Texas Mile with the Hearse due to other shop priorities, but we are happy to be working on the project again. We are still pleased to have Shane Smith on the project finalizing the fabrication side of things and he has been turning out some trick stuff. Read more…
AMS Performance has been hard at work developing a power upgrade package for the Porsche 997. This package offers similar upgrades to our highly acclaimed Alpha 9 GT-R Package. We still have a few more steps before the entire package is complete, but with the prototype turbo system together, we plan to bring our Porsche 997 test vehicle to the Texas Mile in an effort to collect more performance data. Read more…
Yesterday our preferred car transport company Thomas Sunday dropped off the next batch of cars at AMS. This now brings the total GT-R head count at AMS to 15. It seems as soon as we deliver a few… a few more are right behind them.
First we have Jeff with his 2010 GT-R from Pound Ridge, NY. Jeff initially wanted an ALPHA 9 but the temptation for the ALPHA 10 was too great. Jeff’s goals are to build an 800whp Pump gas monster and we will deliver JUST THAT!
A little while ago our GT-R customer Zac walked into our showroom inquiring about doing an ALPHA 9 package to his new 2012 GT-R. We talked over the options and in addition to the ALPHA 9 estimate I gave him he also wanted an ALPHA 9 to 10 estimate. After showing his wife the info she replied with “well why don’t you just do ALPHA 10 in the first place and save some money doing it twice?” Talk about a keeper!
Shortly after that Zac confirmed the build and Tim Salefski our in house engine builder began working up an engine for him. Zac then dropped his baby off and our technician Eric Jones was put to work. The slated modifications for the car were as follows:
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