Blog — IPG Racing

Racing Season is Back !!! The IPG Race Team is headed to Sebring Intl Raceway January 11th-15th, 2012 for the Annual PBOC Winterfest Event. The week starts off with a qualifying session Wednesday night in preparation for the 6 Hour Enduro that the team will be competing in Thursday night. Fielding 3 drivers for the event (Louis Murphy, Russell McMullen and Richy Gonzalez) the team expects to be competitive and keeps the main goal of just finishing the race. The car being raced is the IPG ITA Acura Integra. The car will basically run in the same ITA trim that...

Courtesy of www.TurbobyGarrett.com. The journal bearing has long been the brawn of the turbocharger, however a ball-bearing cartridge is now an affordable technology advancement that provides significant performance improvements to the turbocharger. Ball bearing innovation began as a result of work with the Garrett Motorsports group for several racing series where it received the term the ‘cartridge ball bearing’. The cartridge is a single sleeve system that contains a set of angular contact ball bearings on either end, whereas the traditional bearing system contains a set of journal bearings and a thrust bearing Journal Bearings Ball Bearings Turbo Response –...

We are big fans of the Garrett Turbochargers. Over the years they continue to offer a great product with great value. Reliability is very important to us when it comes to the products we sell and use and the Garrett Turbo Product line are some of the most reliable turbochargers on the market. This excerpt is taken from the www.TurbobyGarrett.com website -- they are a wealth of information and we will do what we can to get the knowledge to our customers. http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbobygarrett/basic How a Turbo System Works Engine power is proportional to the amount of air and fuel that...

We had our recently completed Integra RS project out to the drag strip last Friday night at the Orlando Speedworld Dragway for some initial testing. We decided to put some MT 22" x 8" x 15" ET Drag Slicks on it since they are a similar size to the street tires that we are running so we can avoid changing the ride height for the various racing activities we want to be able to enjoy with the car. Unfortunately that tire size is not ideal at all for a 500 horsepower FWD car but we will keep on working with...

Everyone Loves a Winner. This past weekend (December 3rd-4th, 2011) the IPG Racing crew traveled down to West Palm Beach, Florida for the 2011 Season Finale of the National Sports Car Racing Association (NSCRA). The organizers of the NSCRA recently changed the class format which means that for this event both IPG Race Cars in attendance would be running in the Quick 32 Bracket Class. This event also marked the re-debut of the IPGParts.com True Street Civic after a several year hiatus. First round qualifying got off bright and early as James Innes piloted the All Motor Civic to a...