What a fantastic day Saturday will be. With the annual Spring Car show in full swing and the promise of what looks like great weather and warm tempuratures, the only thing that could have possibly made it better is a trip to the Final Four for the Jayhawks. If you are planning on attending the [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Rock Chalk Final Four and the Spring Car show
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A diamond in a rough. A rebuild of a 993TT
Posted in 911 Porsche, 993TT, Forced induction, engine rebuild, turbo, turbo Porsche on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet the new project of the family. This is our nameless 97 993TT. She is nameless because every name I come up with Roxanne doesn’t like. After all this is to be her car. We acquired this 993TT with 9K miles on her. Yes, 9K. Sadly enough someone thought they needed the car more and [...]
10 Days and Counting…How the SCT Car Show Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Audi, BMW, Car Show, Corvette, Ferrari, griots garage, imagineauto, Lamborghini, mercedes, Mini, Porsche, SCT, Spring Car Thing, Viper, VW on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve ordered the tables and chairs, confirmed the Griot’s Reps flights to KC, turned in our favorite song requests to the DJ for Saturday Night and performed the No-Rain Dance. We’re almost there!
Thought we would provide you with some details about the Car Show portion of the SCT:
To date we have the following Makes represented: Porsche, [...]
Another day at iA
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Spring Car Thing is just around the corner but our shop is still in full swing. Projects keep coming in and we keep making cars faster. Some of our latest work includes another Boxter S supercharger kit: And of course our latest EFI conversion 930 Trubo: There is always a handful of twin-turbo cars in for [...]
X51 Cayman Install
Posted in Cayman, Porsche, porsche performance on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cayman Engine:
Cayman Engine Bay #1:
997 X51 Engine:
Cayman Engine Bay #2:
Any Questions?
Stay tuned as we slap a supercharger on this beast as well……
Shop Supervisor Tia Says…..
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blah blah blah, transmissions, shmansmissions, back to something cool.
Picked up the trailer from paint yesterday! Hopefully the final trim pieces will be here soon! Look at that reflection
And some added security….
A time for change….A 930 transmission gear swap
Posted in 911, 911 Porsche, 993TT, 997TT, Forced induction, Porsche transmission, Porsche transmission rebuild, porsche performance, turbo Porsche on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When one opens up a book and sees this many parts the normal person would run like hell. Many years ago when I opened that book I must have a laspe in sanity because I went, “COOL”! I think I can put that back together. I must be insane, but that probably has been well [...]
Trip to the Auto Show
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I took a trip to the auto show at the convention center down town. I haven’t gone for a few years but I recently picked up a new Nikon D80 camera and wanted to test it out so I made the trip. The Porsche section was kind of lacking with no Turbos, but [...]
Porsche Plant re-Opens
Posted in 911, 911 Porsche, 944 Porsche, 993, 993TT, 997TT, Personnel, Poppycock, Porsche, porsche performance, turbo, turbo Porsche on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those Porsche fans who have been residing under a rock during the last month you may not have heard about the explosion that rocked the Porsche Production Factory and put a halt to all 911 builds for about two weeks. The explosion was reportedly cause by a technical problem in the painting area where [...]
Sunday: Trailer day
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we finished off the exterior siding on the trailer. Tomorrow I will hang the side door and order the extrusion/moldings. Then we will start on the interior once we plan out our exterior and interior lighting.
The inspector came by to check out our work. Immediately she was not pleased to see another inspector already [...]
