A video tour of our new Lab while we dismantle the seemingly endless array of crazy shelving!
Author: Brent Picasso
Autosport Labs new Lab!
Yes, Autosport Labs is a garage business. One of tens of thousands across this country – and world- that, in aggregate, are making the next industrial revolution. And, the time has finally come where we take that substantial step forward, make that big investment and affirm: “this is much more real”. After many months of…
Megajolt Exposed!
I’ve been kicking around the idea of illustrating the birth of a Megajolt Lite Jr. (MJLJ) Programmable Ignition Controller. While fulfilling a significant order for one of our major distributors, Boost Engineering, I was inspired to snap a picture of a work in progress. Yes, it’s a step mid-process in the assembly. And trust me,…
Bringing sexy back with new Megajolt2 enclosure!
We received our first evaluation batch of cases for Megajolt2. We’re bringing sexy back with a new enclosure design- RED, better aesthetics, and with built-in heat sink finning. I must say, they’re pretty hot. What do you think?
24 Hours of Lemons Scrapes-n-Spins Video
Back from 24 Hours of Lemons, Arse-Freeze-Apaloosa 2009! Scott and I had barrel full of Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys fun while driving the Peugeot 505 Turbo. Here is our Scrapes-n-Spins video: no long boring sections of driving, just hoony carnage, plain and simple! And yes: that is yours truly getting rear-ended in the video (and…
A 24 hour LabRat!
We Finished! Battle-hardened LabRat, happy team After months of preparation we completed the inaugural ChumpCar Halloween 24 hour endurance race at Portland International Raceway! A fast and durable little LabRat was assembled by our crack team of Miata-owning autocrossers. In the weeks leading up to the race we were faced with the disappointment of having…
Dome, NACA intake, lights and a billion rivets
We love rivets. Rivets are fun. We don’t know when to stop using them- so we usually add 2-3x more rivets than necessary. Really, is there such a thing as too many rivets? Clearly, we will claiming rivets in our race car budget. Brain Dome When you put tall people into little cars you have…
LabRat tarted up!
Our talented artist and driver John Kimball recently invested in his own vinyl printer and used our LabRat as his blank slate. We are loving the results! We’ll let the graphics speak for themselves. Well done, sir Do you know the significance of number 82? A self documenting race car My personal favorite. More like…
LabRat painting montage
The LabRat receives it’s fresh new silver skin- all in Rustoleum Hammered silver finish and satin black. Kelley and Scott performed painting duties after Laura, John and brent swarmed over it the night before, masking areas to not paint. Here’s the progression: All done! those black things are rat ears. You'll see. 🙂
Messy business
Messy messy… Working on cars is often a messy business. Pretending our leaky, neglected and abused LabRat is a race car just adds to the fun! Here’s a gem we just had to share. Scott asks me for an oil pan to catch drips from the disconnected oil drain. Not a drop went into the…