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Old 01-23-2010, 04:26 PM
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Default Calling out Tim at Speedforce Racing

I have a plethora of SFR parts cobbled together on my 951, and have also visited Tim in San Diego at his shop. I was always in awe of their welding and fabrication capabilities.

I happened to start on a big house remodeling project about 18 months ago and my wife decided she wanted some mongo potrack. Turns out the potrack she wanted was from some custom specialty folks in Chicago area and they wanted over $10k for this thing. I said no f*cking way. Wife was quite upset so I thought to myself - "I bet Tim could make that"

I contracted Tim to make this rack using only pictures from some magazine of the stupid rack. Tim said no prob and started fabbing. Well today I got the rack up and installed and everyone is just amazed with how great this thing is. As a guy I can't see getting all excited about some kitchen crap but this thing is truly BAD-***!!

Thanks Tim!!!





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Looks fast!

Lovely kitchen.
Old 01-23-2010, 04:29 PM
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That was an inspired idea.
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Can it be turbocharged at a later date?
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I really thought this was going another direction.

Looks great btw!
Old 01-23-2010, 05:10 PM
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How much for one with installation brackets made for my car. I like to eat on the go...

Maybe he should start a side business lol. If that goes for over 10k then he could sell it at half price and still be sitting pretty
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Glad you didn't ask me... Holy crap that was a lot of work. Great job Tim !
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Looks great and well constructed/finished.

Kitchen looks nice and large too. I would have gone for a bigger single sink though. Small or even normal sinks are a bain...well for men anyway. lol.
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Any reason you didn't go 3".. ?
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you had speedforce racing make you a kitchen furnishing?


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Looks very well made. It may even be better than the 10k rack.
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SFR is truely great. This is a side of them i diddent know of though :-D
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Default re: Heck!

Are you saying Tim is going into the "Pot Business"?????

Allllll Right TIM....... Way to go!!!! Can you start posting what you have on your site???


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Originally Posted by Techno Duck
Any reason you didn't go 3".. ?
probably backpressure, he doesn't want to lose his low-end torque. remember, this is the n/a model and i don't think its going to see much track time.
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Thanks for all the comments. Sometimes we take for granted some of the quality and ability of the vendors that we have as resources. Tim helped me complete my wife's kitchen for a fraction of what I would have paid otherwise, and that is for a copy that actually looks better than the original.

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Looks great and well constructed/finished.

Kitchen looks nice and large too. I would have gone for a bigger single sink though. Small or even normal sinks are a bain...well for men anyway. lol.
for scale the island is 11.5' long, the labrador is about 100#, and the dark mahogany cabinet between the windows is actually 2 36" refrigerators side by side.



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