Another big well done to Paul Krausz for featuring & also appearing on the front cover of Zoom magazine.

We recently tuned our customer Justin's 1976 Ford Landau. It was such a neat looking car that we asked him for a quick run down on the history of the vehicle & mods he had done.
Justin bought the car in 2006 in its original condition and his plan right from the start was to build a cruiser.
The car was stripped to bare metal & Justin welded all of the rust which took him a good 6 months to complete. Next step was taking the car to the panel shop for body work & paint - 12 months later the car was back in Justin's shed!
The first mod was removing the vinyl roof off the Landau & replacing it with one that flowed with the lines of the car & then after this he smoothed out the panels under the bonnet to give it a cleaner look.
The suspension including bushes, springs, ball joints etc. were all replaced.
The interior is in the process of being done & it will be re-trimmed in full leather keeping the original design.
The Drive Trains consists of the following:

Engine: 378 Cleveland Stroker
Trans: C10 with 3500 Stall
Diff: Standard 9" with 3:5:1 Ratio
Wheels: Set of Billet rims from the States
Exhaust: Twin 3" with X Pipe & Mandrel Bends

Justin first brought the car to us in November this year to run it up on the dyno & see what the old girl had which to him was a disappointing 270rwhp. When the car was brought back to us this month to tune we got 318rwhp, making Justin a much happier man.

THE TEAM AT INDEPENDENT MOTORSPORTS WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A VERY MERRY XMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WE ALSO WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN 2009 & LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL IN 2010.

PLEASE NOTE WE WILL BE CLOSED FROM THURSDAY 24/12/09 & WILL BE RECOMMENCING BUSINESS AS NORMAL FROM MONDAY 11/01/10.

The team at Independent Motorsports want to say a BIG congratulations to Paul Krausz on running a 10.60 pass @ 127mph at Calder Park on Friday night.
Paul owns a HR with a standard 2JZ motor and a GT42 turbo running 18psi on a very conservative tune.
This is one car that is definitely a sleeper & you need to keep your eye on next time it is out on the track.

I thought I would post up the most recent progress on our drag car.....
We spent the whole of last weekend wiring up the new ecu in the drag car.

We have recently swapped from a Microtech to a Haltech Platinum Sports 2000 with full data logging.

This week we have had the car on the dyno at any opportunity we get in preparation for the drags at Calder this Friday. Saturday was going to be a closed meet for Comp Cars, but we have just been advised that this day has been cancelled. So Friday it is - lets hope the weather holds up because it will be the last meet of the year.

Just in case you are wondering what the contraption is hanging out of the gemini's exhaust - well that is something that we had to put together before we started tuning the gemini so our fellow neighbouring businesses would not complain about the noise! As odd as it looks it definitely did the job!