Hoo boy. I would be willing to hop on my dogsled and draft you all the way down there (to maximize pooch mileage) just to see that beast yank Mike's shiney new dyno out of the shed!

You can never have too many Canucks at a party, or drooling at a dyno session...

Mike/Neal, you could charge admission for this one

When would this be happening?

Cheers!
Nanook

 

Hi everyone,

The new shop we are in the process of setting up right now (we took the building a couple months ago, but it takes time to get the new dyno in, lifts, equipment, offices transferred over, more people hired, etc., etc) is actually located in Covington, Virginia, where we have been doing our mechanical work for years - it's about an hour away from the place we have held our last few Dyno Days (dyno "weekends," actually) at.

We're all about to drop from everything we have going on right now - even without everything that it takes to get a new shop set up, we were swamped! Luckily, we have some more good people coming on board with us to take on some new areas & help get the interior of the shop built out like we want it.

We custom-ordered a new eddy-current dyno that will be the only one of it's kind in Virginia, and will have complete 1/4 mile simulation for those who want to see what their 1/4 mile times are sitting still, 0-60 mph, 1/8th mile, etc.

As well as a lot of other stuff...............it's an unbelievable load on us right now, but bit by bit, we're getting there. Luckily for us, it looks like the timing of the build-out of the interior of the downstairs & upstairs of the shop should hopefully coincide fairly well with the arrival of the new above-ground dyno, 4-post drive-thru lift, etc.......

And of course, as always, we need more people, so we can have one of our current staff have the time to start adding everything we do to our web site, as for some time people can only see maybe 2% of what we do there - right now people can't even see our superchargers, suspension mods, gauges, cylinder head packages, cams, built engines, and all the other many things we do.

Someone said Rome wasn't built in a day, but good grief!!!!

Thanks for all the support, fellas, & Marc, I'll be calling you either this evening or tomorrow - sorry I didn't get back to you last night but we had to take a trip last night, for mental health - Anita said take her out to dinner or I die, so I chose to live! .

 

HI!... Sounds great MIKE! Too bad crossong the border is too much of a *PITA* or I'd come down and work for ya. Work here is getting tiresome and the boss and I have been battling lately. OH well, I'll just have to wait to see the new shop when I come down for the dyno tuning. So let me know as soon as your set up to do it.

 

Hi Neal,

We'd love to have you come work with us, you know I've offered that to you for some time now (though never publicly, before now!!) - so if you get PO'd enough at your boss, come on down and we'll have some real fun making these F-150's fly, & then you'll get a chance to see just how hard we work around here to make all the things happen that we do!!

The lift for the above-ground dyno should be installed roughly the last week of December, along with a new air compressor big enough to run an entire Ford dealership. Then the dyno will be here 3-5 days after that - they are both running about a week or so behind right now, and we're furiously coordinating the build-out materials & labor for the shop's interior to get it in some kind of functioning order!

It's a ton of work, and that's an understatement!

Anyway, plan on us being up & running with the new dyno by about the end of the first week of January, if not sooner, it looks right now. And then we're going to expect an invasion of all you Canucks, so I can finally meet you, Izzy-Eddy, JMC, etc all in person, you rascals - Lord knows we've been tuning & supplying parts for all those vehicles for enough years we should have met in person long before now!

See ya soon buddy,