Hasport Performance
Have race track will travel.
This post is mid March 2016 as some of the team members traveled to Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, California.
Winter is just starting to thaw in Alberta and some of our team members are heading down south where the weather is warmer for an event held by ProAutoSport in Arizona California. Which means the other team is hard at work putting together the livery (slaving away in the garage) - NSX race car.
The first place we stopped by is at Hasport Performance and we visit Brian and Keith. We met Brian earlier at a race event and from there he noticed how our TSX header that's been welded over and over again from the motor mounts moving. A few months later and we have a front and rear motor mount for the TSX.
Brian gave us a tour of the Hasport facility and I am pleasantly surprise. I'm thinking I would be seeing a bunch of CNC machines and seeing how they go from R&D to producing the mounts. Instead I am shown race cars and race parts around their shop - real race cars that are being prepped.
Obviously the conversations turns to race setups and comparing trials and tribulations - which means I didn't take many pictures.
Ofcourse, we come across Project Epiphany sitting in the backyard and Project Epiphany Too (another Honda Insight) as Brian is aiming to return to the salt flats soon. This time it will be a all motor K and then boost.
There's a few really cool race cars that Hasport has acquired (we can't divulge too much) , but one of the projects we should see it for the upcoming 25 Hours of Thunder Hill in 2016.
We then talk about back in the day and the hybrid setups - These are not the hybrids you are thinking of. I'm willing to bet many of you are thinking of electric cars. We are talking about LS/VTEC conversion and the frankenstein setups of the day in comparison to J swaps and K20/24 builds.
The end of the tour we see the CNC machines and Keith is sitting at the end of the assembly line hand polishing mounts for customers. How cool is that?
Anyway, on to racing in the next post.