MTI Racing Camaro Fest 10/10/10 - 2nd Annual

In Oct 2009, MTI Racing hosted the 1st Annual Camaro Funfest at Little Talladega Gran Prix wihich ended up being the largest gathering of 2010 Camaros at the time. Over 70 people showed up to have fun in their new 2010 Camaro.

We announced at that event that we would do this again the following year…

So, without further delay…


MTI Racing announces the 2nd Annual Camaro Funfest to take place on 10/10/10 !!!



Here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday, October 10th, 2010
WHERE: Little Talladega Gran Prix Raceway in Munford, AL
TIME: 8am – 430pm
COST: $89

What is going on at the MTI Racing Camaro Funfest?
Track lapping around the road course! Drive your brains out! All levels of experience are invited. Driver coaching will be available for novices too! Passengers are allowed. We even have a challenge called “Beat the Stag”.

What in tarnation is “Beat the Stag”?
A certain British TV show has an anonymous racer dressed in all white called “the Stig”. Since we are in the South, we have the Stag. He wears all Black. The Stag will make a fast lap around the track, and you’ll have a chance to beat his time. Prizes will be given to the most valiant efforts. Beat the Stag and you get a special reward.

How do I attend?
Step 1: Must have a 2010 Camaro, borrow your neighbor’s Camaro, or rent one.
Step 2: Online registration is done at ClubRegistration.net. Use the following link to register. http://www.clubregistration.net/index.cfm?direct=3071
Step 3: You’re in!

Raffles:
YOU, the public, will determine what we will raffle off. You get to vote on it!
Here’s what you do…
Goto to the following thread (THREAD HERE) , hit REPLY, and COPY the link of the product from www.mtiracing.com that you nominate for raffle. (It must be a 2010 Camaro product from our website www.MTIRacing.com ). We will tally up the votes and announce the raffle prizes the week before the event.

Q: Do I need to bring anything?
A: Bring suncreen for the over-exposure to awesomeness. All you need is just your Camaro. However, if you do plan to drive the on-track festivities, you'll need to bring a helmet. Motorcycle helmet ok.

Misc Items:
- A detailed day schedule will be given at the event.
- The racetrack will charge a gate fee of $5 per person, so bring some extra cash.
- The racetrack will have lunch concessions open.
- On-track run groups will be determined as more registrations come in.
- Car Numbers are required. This will help identify cars for track workers. You can make numbers out of painters tape, shoe polish, or buy nice ones ClubRegistration when you register online.

Let's book our schedules, and have an awesome time!



Saturday Night Information:

Although there is no "Official Loitering Area", but we recommend the Fuji Japanese Steakhouse for dinner on Saturday Night. Plan on meeting Camaro people from everywhere there. Camaros will own the parking lot.

Meet at:
FUJI JAPANESE CUISINE
218 Davis Loop, Oxford, AL 36203 (256) 835-8788




HOTEL INFO:
We recommend you to stay at any of these hotels. They are all right next to each other.

Hampton Inn and Suites
210 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 831-8958

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Anniston/Oxford?
160 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 835-8768?

Jameson Inn?
161 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 835-2170?

Courtyard-Anniston Oxford?
289 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 831-7995?

Comfort Suites?
125 Davis Loop Road, Oxford, AL? - (256) 835-8873

Fairfield Inn?
143 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 831-1921?

Country inn & Suites Oxford?
100 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (245) 241-0950?

Hilton Garden Inn Oxford/Anniston, AL?
280 Colonial Drive, Oxford, AL? - (256) 831-0083?


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See you there!

Any questions/comments please contact MTI Racing at (770) 919-7774

2010 Power Tour Wrap Up

It was a long scorching week on the 2010 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour, but we would do it again at a moment's notice. With give or take 4,500 participants and thousands of spectators at each stop, every car enthusiast was in good company. There is no place like the Power Tour to find so many die hard car lovers. The participants varied from those driving their grocery go getter Buick Roadmasters to million dollar museum quality street rods.

MTI Racing was lucky enough to run the Power Tour alongside Jerry Magnuson and his team from Magnuson Products, maker of Magna Charger supercharger kits. MTI's Magna Charger equipped 750hp 2010 Camaro spent the week sitting in the Magnuson booth along side Jerry's famous custom 32 roadster, dubbed Magnitude. Jerry's roadster would most likely get the award for most expensive car on the tour. With eight years of work from Jerry and Chip Foose, the roadster came in well over the one million dollar mark. It takes a true car guy or girl (Maureen Magnuson) to take a priceless hot rod with less than 20 miles on the clock on a cross country road trip.

The big highlight for everyone at MTI was meeting all the enthusiastic drivers that we ran into on the road and everyone who stopped by the Magnuson booth. We met drivers of all sorts, but we were especially surprised at the overwhelming amount of new Camaros, C5 Corvettes, and C6 Corvettes.

Below is a compilation of our favorite Power Tour Twitter, Flickr and Facebook posts during the week, enjoy:

Power Tour Day 2 (our first day) - Springfield, IL:

3am + 700+hp = Route 66 by noon


Downtown Springfield, IL


Power Tour Day 3 - Du Quoin, IL:
Lunch at Mid America Motorworks


What is wrong with this picture?


Eat your heart out Mark Hamil!


Finally made it to the show in Du Quoin!


5th Gen Camaros On 2010 Power Tour:
We just love new Camaros and here are some of our favorites on the Power Tour...


Power Tour Day 4 - Bowing Green, KY:
GM was doing their part to help broken down Power Tour participants.

See full GM Power Tour blog article here...

It was a long hot afternoon in Bowling Green, but the spectators came out in droves.




Who would win, MTI Racing's Magna Charger Powered Camaro or.....


Power Tour Day 5 - Chattanooga, TN:
It was a rainy morning and everyone was trying to get their cars clean for the day.
You have to respect any woman who drives a Grand National in heals!


We still can't figure out who was more popular, Jerry or the Magnitude car. When Jerry stood in front of the car, no less than 10 people whipped out their cameras.


Power Tour Day 6 - Birmingham, AL:
Alabama must the most humid state in the Union, but it sure did bring out some nice cars to the autocross!





Cone Killer


So wrong it is right...


3 Holden VE Ute's (red, white,and blue) were shipped over by our friends down under. The unsubstantiated rumor going around was that each car took 3 months to get through customs and cost $10,000 to bring over. Could've been an El Camino if GM hadn't killed the project.


Power Tour Day 7 - Mobile, AL:

Here is a real long hauler!


A little turbo E-Tech action..


Take a look at the nice valve covers and alternator on the GM project E-Rod.


It is good to know that GM's Performance Parts team is still playing with 4th Gen F-body cars. Gotta love the LS9! We will be posting a new article on this car soon, so keep checking the blog.





Jerry and Maureen Magnuson receiving recognition from David Freiburger for driving their famous Magnitude on the Power Tour.




Magnitude Video:


Jerry and Maureen On Stage At The Power Tour:

GM Power Tour Help - 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour

Although GM has been through some hard times lately, MTI has always been very fond of their products (especially those that make lots of horsepower).

This year GM went out of their way to send a team of techs on the Hot Rod Power Tour. The team’s directive was to “keep people moving from each stop to the next,” says Gary Mulder of the Warren Tech Center. Whether you needed a set of tools, a trained set of eyes, or a team of mechanics to change your transmission, GM’s guys were there.

This wasn’t just any team either. GM brought out its top guns for the Power Tour: 2 techs from GM’s Desert Proving Grounds in Yuma Arizona, 2 Techs from the Milford Proving Grounds in Milford Michigan and 2 more from the GM Tech Center in Warren Michigan.

These very able mechanics were armed to the teeth with every tool imaginable. They drove in two specialized vehicles that could have passed for military convoy trucks. One was white and one was military green, both painted up to look like medical disaster relief vehicles.

If your car needed help, no matter what the make or model, GM was there to help on the 2010 Power Tour. Thanks guys.

Hot Rod Power Tour With Magna Charger

We are proud to announce that MTI Racing will be going on the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour with our good friends at Magnuson Products, makers of Magna Charger superchargers. While we are encouraging all of our customers and friends to pack their bags and join us, we know that everyone won’t be able to make it. The next best thing to being on the tour will be watching our latest Power Tour videos, pictures, and stories on our blog, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter pages.

Who: MTI Racing, Magnuson, the Hot Rod Magazine team, and thousands of other hot rods

What: 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour with our 700+hp 2010 Supercharged Camaro

When: Saturday June 5th - Saturday June 12th

Where: At the Magnuson booth and haulin’ down the road

Power Tour Schedule:

Saturday June 5

Newton, IA, Iowa Speedway

Sunday June 6 - (MTI Racing Arrives)

Springfield, IL, Downtown Springfield

Monday June 7

DuQuoin, IL, DuQuoin State Fairgrounds

Tuesday June 8

Bowling Green, KY, Warren County Airport

Wednesday June 9

Chattanooga, TN, Chattanooga State Community College

Thursday June 10

Birmingham, AL, Regions Park Stadium

Friday June 11

Mobile, AL, Downtown Mobile

Saturday June 12

Mobile, AL, U.S.S. Alabama

(Long Hauler Awards)

Get Directions and Info HERE

MTI Racing is your source for the latest Corvette and Camaro Performance Parts

Supercharged C5 Corvette Convertible

Here is one of the cleanest C5 Convertibles we've ever seen. Trust us, we don't say that often.

Mike and Travis have a 2001 Corvette Convertible that breathes fire through a 6.0L truck block, forged crank and pistons, and a stainless steel header system. On top of that sits a polished Procharger supercharger feeding a mean camshaft that makes the earth shake. Due to National Security concerns, we cannot disclose the ridiculous amount of power, but we can tell you this... If you sit shotgun in this car, you better have good bladder control.
Other modifications include an Aeromotive fuel system, driveline support bracing and transmission shift kit. Under the hood, MTI Racing Corvette Billet Accessories set off the engine compartment. It wears Aeroquip AN fittings everywhere, MTI Racing Billet Vent Tank, MTI Racing Billet Valve Covers with Billet Coil Brackets, and the red MSD coils top off the engine with attitude. This show winner also sticks to the ground with QA1 adjustable shocks, MTI Racing Big Red Corvette Swaybars, and 20 inch Nitto Invo Tires.

All though this C5 corvette may look like it is all show, it has plenty of go.


Corvette, Camaro, and GM Performance Parts and Service.

460 hp Camaro Camshaft Only - Customer Review

Alright everyone, this is an unedited customer review of our stage two camsaft in a 2010 Camaro LS3. Amazingly this car made 460 hp to the wheels with a simple cam shaft and MTI tuning!

Customer review:

Hey all,

I recently took my car to MTI Racing to get some mods done to it and I figure Id be kind and post a review here.

When I dropped the car off, I already had these performance mods done to it (some cosmetic mods as well, but this is the important stuff):

Cold Air Intake from CAI, Inc.
Kooks 1 7/8 LT Headers with high flow cats
MGW Short Throw Shifter
GMPP Exhaust
Dyno and Tune
SLP Skip Shift Eliminator

AT MTI, they did the following:

MTI Racing Stage 2 Camshaft Upgrade
Install Richmond 4.10 gears (I bought these previously through ZZ Motorsports—great vendor)
MTI Sway Bars
MTI Racing Coilover Suspension
BMR Subframe Connectors
BMR Transmission Tunnel Brace

I’ll do the overall impressions first, then go into each mod real quick in detail:

OVERALL

I have to say, it’s a night and day difference. It was a smooth, powerful ride before. Its still smooth, although not as smooth as before. However, now it’s a total beast to drive. Great power, handles like a dream or a much, much smaller and lighter car (that large feeling you get with the factory steering is gone). I have great power on demand throughout the entire range, accelerating hard and driving fast and turning quick are just complete pleasures. I loved the car before but it is really awesome now.

As far as the dyno goes, they dyno’d my car with my original mods at 378 RWHP—which is lower than the original dyno I had done which put it at 409 RWHP, with mods. No big deal, every dyno is different, and it’s a tuning tool more than anything else. I certainly cant complain about the results. I now dyno’d at 458 RWHP, so it’s a significant change no matter how you look at it.

Also, the guys at MTI themselves were great. Each time I went over to the shop I got a tour of the shop itself, and Kevin and the owner Reese Cox himself showed me around. They’re all great guys—they’re just really into racing and cars, and seemed excited to be sharing that passion with customers. Dealing with them was a great experience. The A/C for some reason stopped working while it was there at MTI, and Reese himself came out to let me know that since I dropped the car off with working AC, Id get it back with working AC. They stayed after hours to fix it for me (which is great, because it’s a two hour hike from me to them). And all that was without me even asking. It was great customer service all around.

Only hiccup is my speedometer is now not in sync due to the 4.10 gears, but I should be able to take it back by this week to get it fixed, no issue.

CAMSHAFT

This thing is fantastic. The car has great power all the time. Idle is a little higher than before—although not too much—and while the ride is not quite as smooth as it was originally (not a big concern for me) there’s a satisfying old school muscle car feel to it. If old school muscle cars had this much power and fantastic handling. And while the power is great, the sounds the car makes are just as fun. The car now sounds like an old school muscle car both at idle and under acceleration, and I couldn’t be happier.

RICHMOND 4.10 GEARS

Another mod I would highly suggest. Launches are ten times easier than they used to be—the stock gears were kind of weird under heavy acceleration from first. Not anymore---these gears are smooth and responsive, and heavy acceleration in them from 1st to 4th is just a blast. My gas mileage hasn’t decreased that much, which is nice (though I don’t really care either way). 5th and 6th are also a lot more fun—they were definitely gutless gears stock—had to downshift to 4th to get really satisfying passing speed on the highway, for instance—but now even 6th can pass other cars with no issue, and DEFINITELY not a problem in 5th. My RPMs have obviously increased while cruising, but not bad at all- was expecting way worse. I still have to be doing around 65 before I hit 2000 RPMs in 6th, which is great.

HANDLING/SUSPENSION MODS

Makes more sense to do this together. The coilovers were a great buy—I swear its actually more comfortable than the stock suspension. Potholes that used to bump me pretty good I cruise over now. And that car sits lower and has a more aggressive stance, which is also cool. Overall, they just have a firm, sensitive, yet comfortable feel to them. Worth doing.

The sway bars and subframe connectors have really changed the driving experience of the car. It now feels very “point, shoot". It darts around like a much, much smaller vehicle, and the handling is very tight. Wheel hop is completely gone. Couldn’t be happier.



Thanks to the crew at MTI! I’ll be dropping it back off with you when its time to get supercharged!

Attached Images

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2010 Camaro 2SS/RS M6, Black/Black

MTI Racing Dyno Day 2010 Corvettes Camaros and More

Unless you are MTI Racing and are offering dirt cheap dyno time and free bar-b-q, it’s pretty hard to get people to show up for a Saturday morning party. MTI Racing’s Annual Dyno Day had well over 50 cars show up bright and early; the lineup included over 30 Corvette’s, 15 Camaros and Firebirds, a GTO, and many others. A large number of people just showed up to hang out and watch the cars lay down big numbers on the Dyno… or maybe they were just there for the free food; either way MTI Racing wants to thank everyone for showing up.

Here are some great highlights of the day:

2010 Silver Camaro SS:
This beautiful SS Camaro laid down almost 400 hp to the wheels with a basic induction system and exhaust headers.


Black 944 Turbo:
Ok MTI loves Corvette’s, but we do not discriminate when we see a 944 Turbo as clean as this one was.


Black 2008 Z06:
Proving the legitimacy of GM’s Z06, this black Corvette put down an amazing 462.64 hp and 446 tq in bone stock trim.


Atomic Orange C6 Sleeper:
Although it may look and sound identical to the thousands of other C6 Corvettes driving around your town, this Corvette will tear apart stock Z06’s from light to light. With a simple intake, cam, exhaust and tuning upgrade by MTI Racing, the Atomic LS3 Vette put down 483 hp and 446 tq to the rear wheels.


1966 mustang Shelby GT350:
What’s better than a Shelby GT350? This historically correct race prepped version.
Even with fouled plugs and worn out points, this carbureted 289 was able to put out 313 hp and 280 tq.


2010 Supercharged Camaro SS:
Take a bone stock Camaro SS and an MTI Racing/Magnacharger TVS Supercharger System… What do you get? 604hp and 602 tq on a very mild road racing tune




MTI RacingCorvete, Camaro,and GM Performance Parts.