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A few days ago Gary brought his gorgeous WRB 2011 STI Sedan to our location here in Marietta, Georgia for a frenzy of high end motorsports grade suspension upgrades. This STI will be seeing many HPDE events in the future and Gary wants to make sure the car is more than capable putting down some brutally fast lap times. With the help from our long term friends over at JRZ Suspension Engineering, we hooked this STI up with a set of RS1 Coilovers. This is a single adjustable monotube damper from the same company that builds the dedicated race shocks you see in action at events such as American LeMans Series and Grand-Am. The RS1 is built on the same production line and shares components with their pro racing applications so we know Gary’s STI will feel right at home on the track as well as the city streets. Along with the shock upgrade, an assortment of chassis braces from GTSPEC and Whiteline bushings were installed to assure this STI stays planted through every turn at Road Atlanta. After all components were expertly installed, we wrapped things up with a FP Spec corner balance and custom alignment. Here is a full list of the parts we installed on Gary’s STI:

• JRZ RS1 Coilovers
• GTSPEC Rear Control Arms
• GTSPEC Fender Braces
• GTSPEC Rear Trailing Arms
• Whiteline Front Roll Centre Bump Steer Bushings
• Whiteline Front Control Arm Bushings
• Whiteline Rear Control Arm Bushings
• Whiteline Rear Toe Arm Bushings
• FP Spec Corner Balance and Alignment

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This past weekend the Forged Performance Motorsports Team traveled to Savannah, Georgia for a weekend on Roebling Road Raceway with our friends at Flat Out Motorsports. As always the guys over at FOM were a class act that produced two days of perfectly organized track time for some of the Southeast’s quickest high end vehicles. Cars from Lamborghini, Porsche, Nissan, and many others were in attendance with drivers with all skill levels participating. With only 43 cars and 4 run groups everyone was able to see more than enough track time to satisfy their desire to go flat out. We would like to take the time to thank the entire FOM Crew for the time and effort it took to make this event possible, please make sure to check them out and give their Facebook page a like to keep up to date with future events: FLAT OUT MOTORSPORTS FACEBOOK PAGE

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Well that time of the year is quickly approaching, as the summer season starts to come to a close and the number of track events slowly starts to dwindle we begin preparing for our annual Open House & Dyno Day. This is a unique event that will give you the opportunity to peek inside our garage doors and see what goes on behind the scenes at our facility. You can expect to lay your eyes on a variety of performance automobiles on display and witness power tests throughout the day on everything from high horsepower GT-R’s, high-end exotics, fully track prepped Subarus and Evos, and MORE! Of course, Forged will provide lunch, catered by our friends and fellow motorsports enthusiasts over at Grand Champion BBQ. You have not experienced proper BBQ till you have given their award winning platters a try.

The event starts at 10am sharp and we encourage you to arrive early. We are expecting upwards of 500 attendees throughout the day and parking and dyno spots will be on a first come first serve basis. So mark your calenders and don’t be late!

For coverage of last years event CLICK HERE

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Forged Performance recently hosted a two-day High Performance Driver’s Education Event at Atlanta Motorsports Park which was open to all makes of cars and levels of drivers. AMP is one of the Southeast’s newest private motorsports tracks and has proven to be one of the most technical and rewarding tracks on the East coast. Throughout the weekend I traveled around the outskirts of the track, camera in hand, making sure to capture the event in both photo and video forms. You can read our full write-up and see over 30 high quality images:

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Forged Performance: Atlanta Motorsports Park Track Event from Forged Performance on Vimeo.

This is the first of three very large scale builds coming out of Forged Performance in the coming weeks.  Builds like this always capture everyone’s attention and imagination and involved much more than just power adders.  Everything has be customized exactly to the owner’s liking and the end result it very tasteful, artistic, yet brutally powerful.  Todd, a long time customer and friend of the shop came to us a while ago with plans to further upgrade his GT-R. He previously had a stock block, HKS GT800 setup with a mild transmission upgrade. It was quickly decided that more power was desired and the HKS kit would not be sufficient to get the job finished. This is without a question one of the more exciting builds we have had the pleasure to work on. No expense was spared on this project. Todd decided on our 4.0L FP1R reinforced shortblock and FP1R head package as the heart of the build. This time around we went with the JUN Billet Wheel GTX35R turbo kit with a goal of over 1200 whp. To support this power we went with our in-house prepared Stage 4 transmission build using a full PPG 1-6 gear set and Dodson ProMax clutch assembly, and countless seals, bits, and small parts.  Todd added countless additional parts along the way which really turned this project from a basic high hp build into a very special project. This beast is now up and running and we will be tuning this week. We will update this thread with power numbers as soon as we can but we are shooting for 1200whp+.  Modification list and pictures below!

Power Upgrades:

  • Forged FP1-R 4.0 Shortblock
  • Forged FP1-R Head Package
  • Kelford Camshafts
  • Twin GTX35R R35 Turbo Kit
  • Greddy XL FMIC w/ IC Piping
  • Greddy RX Intake Manifold
  • Greddy Billet Throttle Bodies
  • GTC 102mm Titan Exhaust
  • ID2000 Injectors
  • AMS Alpha Fuel System
  • FP Spec Stage 4 Transmission
  • PPG 1-6 Gear Set
  • Dodson  Pro Max Clutch Assembly
  • Dodson Upgraded Shift Fork
  • Dodson Fasteners and Small bits
  • DriveShaftShop Front and Rear Axles
  • OS Giken Rear Differential and HKS Kansai Front Differential

Too much to list…

Interior/Exterior:

HRE P44SC 20×10/20×12 Gloss Black
Toyo R888 285/315
Forged Performance R35 GT-R Bolt-In 4-Point Rear Cage/Harness Bar
Schroth Profi ASM Harnesses

Suspension:

  • JRZ RS Pro Silent Coilovers
  • Forged Performance Sway Bar and Racing Endlink Kit
  • SPL Rear Camber Arms
  • SPL Rear Toe Arms

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Sharif is done with the dyno break-in and patiently waiting for one of the most exciting developments in GT-R engine management: Motec M1 ECU! Stay Tuned for Dyno Results!