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Rallying from Mexico to Washington

The Black Rifle Coffee Company sponsored rally team of Travis Pastrana, Tom Williams, Texas Dave, Bucky Lasek, Mike Glover of Fieldcraft Survival and their trusty co-drivers had a big 2022. Innovative Tuning was along performing engine calibration for Texas Dave, Bucky and Fieldcraft Mike’s limited 4wd class Subaru rally cars built in the shop at …

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Caught Being Good: A thank you to SPL Parts, a comment on what makes a great aftermarket part, and the value of removing variables from a system.

I want to give a big shout out to SPL Parts for creating this spherical bushing replacement product for R35 GTR, as well as their rear spherical bushing replacements. I think it’s safe to say nobody at SPL sat down and said “we’re gonna sell a ton of these!” Meeting a customer need and solving …

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Turbo R&D for Garret Advancing Motion

In this article which includes excerpts from an article I wrote for Speed Academy, Garrett, often referred to as Garrett Turbo, reveals test results from a deep dive I took in testing multiple sets of Garrett turbos on my project Nissan GTR. Data included turbo shafts speeds, exhaust manifold pressures, wastegate positions and more, which …

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NARRA Post Season Interview

NARRA Interview with Mike McGinnis of Innovative Tuning. Mike McGinnis, a relative newcomer to our Whelen Engineering Company USTT series, finished the season in 3rd place in the TT-U national championship, 1st in the TT-U North Cup. Mike was also a Bad Boyzz Garage Hard Charger winner at Pittsburgh. He’s is an all around nice …

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2011 Series Champion!

Congratulations to Jason, the driver/owner of the Innovative Tuning built/tuned/sponsored drag Subaru for his overall season championship in CSCS (Canadian Sport Compact Series) drag racing!