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This Month in the Hotchkis Garage: Auto-X Camaros, Fast & Furious Chevelles

Welcome to the very first Hotchkis Garage newsletter, and thank you for taking the time to check in. For those of you who dont know me, I was bitten by the modification bug early in life. I couldnt leave a bicycle or a vehicle alone. Through the years I was constantly moving from one car or truck to another and, of course, personalizing every one of them. After spending a few years on the road racing circuit as a pro driver, I founded Hotchkis Performance in 1993 with the goal of developing bolt-on suspension systems that make cars more fun to drive on the street and the track ..Full Story

Fast & Furious Sets Box Office Record, Uses Hotchkis Suspension

About two years ago, the producers of The Fast and the Furious franchise made two major announcements: Paul Walker and Vin Diesel were going to return for the fourth movie and many of the hero cars in the new movie would be American muscle machines, rather than the import tuner cars that have dominated the first three films. A few weeks after the announcements, we received a mysterious phone call from a production company inquiring about suspension systems for a Buick Grand National, a 70 Chevelle and a 1970 Dodge Charger. ..Full Story

In the future, well use this column to answer your tech questions. Since this is our first newsletter, were going to tackle one of the most frequently asked customer questions. To submit a question for the next newsletter, email sales@hotchkis.net and put The Garage in the subject line.

Q: Are solid sway bars stronger than hollow sway bars?

A: No. Sway bars work off of torsional force (twisting motion). Therefore, the material in the center of a solid bar plays little role in the resistance of torsional force. With this in mind, we have eliminated some of the center material and also moved some to the outside of the tube, where it is most effective. In turn, this produces a sway bar that is lighter in weight and just as stiff, if not stiffer than solid. For example, a 1'3/8" hollow bar is equivalent to a 1'1/4" solid. But the 1'3/8" hollow bar is 6% stiffer and 43% lighter than the 1'1/4" solid.

Like free parts and apparel? Good, because we like giving it away! Were going to give away free t-shirts every week to newsletter readers, plus we have a raffle at every car show to give away one free sway bar set and five free t-shirts. So far weve given away 17 T-shirts and three sway bar sets.

The sway bar winners from the first three shows of the year are:

David Hicks (Goodguys Costa Mesa, 1957 Chevy)
Barry Mickelson (Mopars at the Strip, 1966 Coronet 440)
Jacqki Leonard (Goodguys Del Mar, 1967 Chevelle)

Congratulations, and keep entering to win!

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Our first show of the season was the Goodguys Orange County Get Together in Costa Mesa, California, where Hotchkis friend and customer Mary Pozzi ran the fastest lap times of the weekend for a 1973 and earlier muscle car on the Autocross with her slick 73 Camaro. We met thousands of fired-up gearheads who couldnt wait to kick off the car show season and leave the doom-and-gloom of winter behind. Click here to read more about the show or to watch our video coverage

A few weeks later we went to Mopars at the Strip, a show best described as Woodstock for Chrysler fans. The three-day show featured drag racing, a huge car show field, a rock concert and more. Designer/builder Steve Strope kept everyone at the show entertained by doing a live build next to the Hotchkis booth, where he transformed a stock Coronet into a killer G-Machine with a Hotchkis TVS, Wilwood Brakes, Bonspeed Wheels and Pirelli tires. The car will be raffled for charity at the 2010 MATS show. Click here to read more about the show.

Finally, the Goodguys Del Mar Nats in San Diego is one of our favorite shows. Over 3,000 cars were in attendance, and we met hundreds of enthusiastic people that believe in having fun with their hot rods. Hotshoe Mary Pozzi used our booth for pit stops at the show, and walked away with an overall win in the Street Machine class. She also set the fastest unofficial lap of the weekend in Steven Rupps Bad Penny Camaro, which recently received a Hotchkis rear bar. Click here to read more.

Shes an ASE-certified master mechanic. Her car is a home-built, leaf-sprung 73 Camaro. A series of blistering, untouchable autocross times at the first two Goodguys events of the season have destroyed stereotypes and the competition. ..Full Story

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