Earlier this week I cruised by Falken Tire to pick up some new rubber. 



After leaving Falken I headed to City Tire to see John and get some tires mounted up on these guys...






I got to business and started mounting up some Falken FK 452's



I left it up to the pro's to seat the 265/35's to 12s..


Many thanks to John at City Tire and all the guys at Falken Tire for helping out!

So a lot has happened since I last updated things here...  Here's a rundown of the happenings..

So after things didn't work out with the Bergenholtz camp I started pursuing my own program for the 2010 FD season...  Just as things were starting to come together I get a call from JBrad at Falken corporate asking me to come down for an interview to drive the Teal and Blue Falken Ford Mustang.  After having a great meeting with Andrew, Nick and JBrad they offered me the position.  I do have to say that I'm a tiny bit sad that I won't be campaigning the green FC this year, but I'm EXTREMELY excited to be driving the ASD prepped Falken Ford Racing 2010 Mustang.  It's definitely going to be some big shoes to fill, since JR has set some pretty high standards for the car, but I'm very much looking forward to the challenge and can't wait to get behind the wheel to see what I can do in that thing!!  Here's the video release of the announcement...



With the help of Team Falken and the support of Ian and all the guys at ASD Motorsports (www.asdmotorsports.com) I'm sure i'll have all the tools to be successful this season.  I'd also like to thank JR for putting in a good word for me with the Falken guys which helped me get this great opportunity.

Alright, so u can obviously tell I'm super stoked on the Falken deal... who wouldn't be...   but a ton of stuff has been going on since I last updated here...

Hot Line has been crazy busy, we're currently back logged for over a month...  I guess that's a good thing.. or at least I'm not complaining... haha..

It's been busy enough that I decided to hire some help... after receiving an email from Ryan Clemans (TMF Opposition) I was blown away about his motivation to work at HotLine and his quality of work. After checking out his website and seeing his attention to detail I decided to give him a shot at working here... well needless to say I'm really glad I did. He's exceeded my expectations and he's doing a great job..

Here's some of the work we've been jamming out...

my street vert FC getting a roll bar...  just need to finish the TII swap now and get this thing back on the road.


John's (Oilcover) FC getting a spindle mod, coilover mod, diff mount, clutch and DTTS elim kit..


Kent Jordan's Caterham 7 getting a new wind screen..


Lex King's FC getting some socal love...  Full cage, spindle mod, coilover mod, Haltech E8, Hot Line Fully built S5 TII engine with FD internals, gutted dash and new center council plate..


Billy's 87 911 getting a full cage, strut tower reinforcements, crossmember gussets and some tin work on the rear firewall..


Front strut bar ties back into the main cage...


X door bars...


A and B pillars are welded into the A and B pillars...


new seat rails


Door bars fit ultra tight..


Rear firewall tin work... had to cut the stock metal to get to the rear suspension components, so we made this
aluminum panel to cover things up..


Shot from the rear engine bay.. you can see the strut tower reinforcements and crossmember gussets..


so that's about it for now... gotta get back on the rest of the stuff here... I'll post up soon about the new projects that just came in...

thanks for check in!

If you're interested in making an appointment to bring your car in, please email us at HotLinePerformance@gmail.com

thanks,
JTP

The last couple days i was down at Muellerized... owned by SCCA racer and suspension extraordinaire John Mueller.  I worked for him a couple years back when they were rebuilding their Muellerized widebody evo owned by Kent Jordan, which eventually won 24 consecutive races.  I recently ran into him at Willow Springs, we got to talking and he asked me to come down and do some work at his shop.

check out his site at:  Muellerized.com



John had me come down to do some quick work on a customer's Rx7 that will be hitting the track this coming weekend.  First thing on the agenda was putting a passenger seat and harness in the car.  One particular problem with mounting an after market seat in an FC is the trans tunnel.  One can use seat mounts but the seat sits really high and anyone taller than 5'6" might have clearance issues with the roll cage.  To solve this, i cut out the factory mounts, massaged the trans tunnel and fitted the seat extra low for 6'+ clearance.


Next up was a kill switch that would be needed to pass tech inspection for the event.  It was noted that it needed to be within reach of the driver while in a seated position, but also accessible from the outside in case of emergency.  I came up with a Kill switch plate and clean location to mount it..


That was the first day down there, along with helping out around the shop with some other stuff going on...  That evening I came back to Hot Line and whipped up a tow hook for the car, and installed it the next morning...


The last item on the agenda was to clean up the starter harness and incorporate the kill switch wiring so that it looked factory...


The car turned out great, and they were happy with the work.  I look forward to doing some more projects with them in the future!

i had to post up this pic of Oun's FD from Texas... it's really simple, clean and well fitted.  FD owner's take note!

after a couple days of sanding and prepping the car for paint, Sam's Auto Land laid some fresh Money Green Paint it the old Rx7.  I picked up the car on Sunday around noon, letting it sit overnight to ensure the paint was totally dry before assembling it.  Many thanks to all the guys at Sam's that helped out, especially Jim, George and Mario for staying late to spray the car Saturday.

after getting the car back to Hot Line and getting most of the body panels back on the car..


I had to take a break from assembling the car to finish up some work on a customer's car.
make an intake with re-circ greddy blow off valve and new hot side i/c pipe.



Also installed an old school Racing Beat boost gauge and boost controller for him.


Back on the car, got it pretty much ready to set back on the ground... changed the oil, replaced the brake master cylinder and did a once over on the entire car to ensure it was ready for a beating..


Threw some new stickers on the car, reppin all those supporters out there!!



El Patron made sure to keep a watch while i started packing up the trailer..


Met up with Andy from Formula D, Ron B, Matt Powers, Mike Essa and Joon Maeng at the drop off point.


so i made it... after an "ALL NIGHT LONG" session...

Alex and I spent the day at Sam's Auto Land getting the car prepped for paint. Its
leaving Monday for a demo in Panama. Its staying green but another
variation. The last pic is the sunroof cover. We used it as a test panel. It
hasn't seen clear yet. The new color is called "money green" by ppg.

Test fitted a set of my TE's on, customer/friend, Lex King's FC to check
fitment on his fender widths for future wheel decisions. Looks like a
perfect fit to me. I'm diggin the color combo too

well, it's not really new, but it does have a new look!!!  spent some time updating it to a cleaner look...  lmk what you think!

www.JTPDrift.com

So it seems like lately there's been a lot of  talk about "missile" cars... so i couldn't resist...

Here's the start of the JTP MISSILE BOMBER!!!!



To Do list:
-strip some more stuff
-install coilovers
-weld the diff
-make knuckles

MISSILE TIME!!!!!