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It was a tough 2009 debut race for the www.IPGParts.com Drag Civic. Racing in the season opening Battle of the Imports Event at the Orlando Speedworld at least gave us a close to home event to make the first couple of passes on a new gearbox. The 4 month layoff as evident as we just couldn't get the car dialed in as quickly as we would of liked but overall it was an enjoyable event and we didn't break any major parts so that always makes us happy at the end of the day. An ugly 1st round qualifying pass...

It has been a little bit of time since we have had an update here but we are working very hard to get things lined up to really get kicked into high gear. Organization for the impending mass product upload is underway so over the next couple of days and weeks check back as thousands of products will be available for sale here soon. Not to mention a great array of Race Parts, Used Parts and Clearance Items. Recently we received in a new gearset for our 1992 Honda Civic Drag Car. We have decided to try the Pfitzner Performance...

What a great weekend at the PCA (Porsche Club of America) April 4th-5th, 2009 Roebling Road HPDE event. Arriving early enough Friday evening to actually get a good night’s sleep set the stage for an enjoyable weekend. The 260 mile trip from IPG Headquarters to the hotel just off of I-95 in the Savannah, GA area finally gave us some decent gas mileage in the STi, although still not great at 22.6 MPG. I am still amazed at the crappy gas mileage that this car gets. The 22.6 MPG result was driving around 75-80 mpg on the highway. But that...

We just received in a new toy to the office that we will be utilizing this weekend as we travel to Roebling Road in our 2008 Subaru WRX STi to attend a PCA (Porsche Club of America) High Performance Driving Event. The GoPro Motorsports Hero Wide camera. This compact and waterproof 5 megapixal digital video camera will allow us to record up to 56 minutes of video on a single 2GB SD Memory card. We have seen these around for the last few months and our growing interest got the best of us and we decided to order one to...

In addition to general updates about the goings on at IPG and new product offerings we can also utilize the news section to release tech and news articles that we will be working on. For our introductory Tech Article we discuss an important process for any drag racing wheel/tire combination. This particular article features the popular Weld Magnum Import Drag Wheels with Mickey Thompson ET Drag Slicks. It seems like this subject comes up about once a month, here is how we have installed rim screws for reference to aide in future inquiries. Here are the parts you may want...