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Fiesta… Fiesta… Forever… Forever…

Thursday, August 19th, 2010


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Yea, I like that song.

Batlground received its Ford Fiesta SEMA car yesterday and wasted no time ripping into it.  We are planning a widebody kit for the car, coilovers, big brakes, front racing seats in leather trim, a removable carbon fiber stereo box, cold air intake and exhaust system.  We measured everything today, ordered the stereo equipment, worked on the cold air intake, got the coilovers and brakes ordered, and arranged the leather upholstery to be installed onto the racing bucket seats.  Tomorrow is another day and we are trying to knock this thing out as quick as possible.

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Subaru WRX gets new socks and shoes

Friday, August 6th, 2010

We just finished up a 2 day long job on this beautiful 2003 wrx.  This car was purchased by its current owner 2 years ago and he decided it was time to start to modify it.  He came to us and we outfitted  the car with a full stage 2 package.  This included a full Invidia turbo back exhaust and a retune.  The car already had a Cobb short ram intake filter so the ecu mapping had to be modified to compensate for the change in the MAF sensor voltage.  After the tuning the car put down 219 all wheel horsepower and 225 foot pounds of torque.  This was pretty impressive due to the fact that the heat index put the ambient air temperature at 105 degrees Farenheight the day we tuned it.  The customer also wanted the car to have a more aggressive look to match his body kit.  We opted to install a set of Racecomp coilovers, 5 Zigen wheels, and BFG tires.  He wanted to occasionally take this car to the track so the coilovers were a great choice for him.

06.08.2010 Batlground Customer Cars, Batlground Tuned, Subaru 1 Comment

Chris’s Supra is Back in Action

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010


Just recently we finished up this MXIV Supra for one of our long time customers—and boy let me tell you has it been a long process. Unfortunately, this car was crashed over a year ago and it is just now getting back on the road thanks to an array of set backs  ranging from insurance company delays to parts on backorder. Little by little, it just all adds up to a really long time. There is something to say about taking your time in the context of this situation because I can definitely say that this car was repaired 100% correctly and it is virtually impossible to tell that it was ever damaged.  The insurance company was jockeying  to total this car out, but after we were able to talk some sense into them when it comes to the value of the parts that were on it when it was wrecked, they decided it was a better option to fix it rather than total it.  Being a Supra enthusiast at heart, I hate to see these cars get crashed and not make a comeback. There just are not enough of them in existence anymore.  Since the front bumper, hood and wheels were getting replaced the customer chose to upgrade them to a Stillen front bumper and hood. While he was at it, he decided to bump it up a notch with a new pair of new kicks—CCW SP500′s.  I’m excited at how nice it turned out! If I ever got my hands on another personal Supra, this is exactly what I would want it to turn out like.

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28.07.2010 Batlground Customer Cars, Batlground Tuned, Toyota 2 Comments

Old School Celica Supra Restored

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

This week a rare example of a Toyota Celica Supra Mark II stopped by for a dyno run. These vehicles are getting very hard to find these days, especially in this immaculate condition. This car has had a complete frame up restoration and you could not miss the attention to detail. From the pristine interior to the fresh paint on the exterior, not a flaw was to be found. The motor and drive train were removed for a complete rebuild, and the engine bay received a good cleaning and painting during the process. New tires, hoses and belts were added to finish off the project. The owner was very proud of the completed project and wanted to see how much horsepower the newly completed motor was able to produce. At just 213 miles since the full revival of the Supra it was pushing out 132.74 horsepower and 141.94 foot pounds of torque. Very commendable for a NON TURBO 30 year old stock vehicle, even in the earlier years the Supra was very nicely equipped.

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White Fluffy Power

Friday, July 2nd, 2010


I just could not help myself and had to make a blog post about this car.  It’s one of the nicest Supras I have seen in a LONG LONG TIME. I can remember years ago when almost every Supra I came across was this clean and well put together.  With more and more of them getting crashed and ragged out, its hard to find a nice one.

The car came in to get a full AEM EMS standalone tune, so we got it strapped down on the dyno and started the process.   It usually takes me about 4 hours to get a great tune with the AEM, but everything went so smooth on this car we were done in WAY less time.  This customer had everything done correctly and nothing glitched, not even once.   He wanted a conservative tune on pump gas for this session and decided he will be back for a race gas tune after the summer—with the fully built motor in it.  The car made 550 whp on a 69 mm Precision turbo at 22 pounds of boost.  I didn’t even make the car break a sweat, the knock sensors were silent and the customer was happy with that power level for now.  I cant wait for him to return with his built motor installed. Check back for updates later!

Dan

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Toyota Supra: Twin Turbo Badness

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

You get this my friends. This supra is in elite class to which all others should aspire. The list of parts installed on this Baltic Blue badass is one of dreams. Blitz, HKS, AEM, Titan, Virtual Works, Stillen, Sparco, Eibach, Aeromotive, Nitrous Xpress, Turbonetics and Wide Open Throttle. The parts list from HKS alone is enviable, with the twin turbo manifold, 4 row FMIC, all gauges, Drag Exhaust, Drag coil overs (currently in transit), and twin power.

This car boasts a 3.4 liter stroker, twin Turbonetics T3/T4 turbos, and a Turbo/Hydramatic 400 auto transmission. All of these parts mean nothing if you don’t have them installed right and even the tightest installation in the world is useless without tuning. That is where Batlground and Dan come in.

This customer has had more than his share of triumphs and failures with this car and other Supra’s. He was brought to us from another of our customers that we have had a long relationship with. He is also a soldier who has spent years fighting for our country in Iraq and is soon to be deployed to Afghanistan. It is an honor for us to be able to tune this car-which he has worked so hard for.

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Sick and Slick, I'm not just talking about the cars either.

Monday, March 29th, 2010

On Friday I was out for half of the day when I lost a battle with some funky shrimp. I came in to find a 94 Honda Accord coupe and a 2003 Honda S2000. The owner of the Accord had purchased a Bride GIAS Kevlar seat from us and we were making custom mounting brackets. This wasn’t your mom’s Accord though. This beautiful white coupe had a H22A swap, and was sitting very nicely on some CCW wheels. I didn’t know you could get those wheels in a four lug pattern, and I certainly didn’t know that were folks out there willing to throw down that kind of cheddar for these wheels to go on their Accord. Obviously this is a man that takes pride in his car and I really appreciate that. Having had a 94 coupe myself I will always have a sweet spot for the car. Mine was not even close to this level though. This customer will be returning for a wire tuck in the near future. Maybe we can persuade a turbo kit in there too. ;-)

Another car was already on the dyno awaiting my return. On thursday we had received a 2003 S2000. This customer had previously been here to get a K&N cold air intake, one of our headers, and a GReddy CAT back exhaust installed. This visit we were installing a Innovate Wide Band O2 gauge, ported throttle body, AEM fuel pressure regulator, Apex’i AFC-Neo (with Boomslang plug-n-play harness), and an upgraded thermostat and fan switch. We also modified his stock fuel rail to accept a fuel pressure gauge. After all the new toys were installed I was to do some tuning. An original baseline run showed the car was making 185 whp. After all of the upgrades were done and tuning was finished the car yielded just over 208 whp. Thats a gain of 23 peak whp, with massive gains throughout the entire power band. The car feels completely different from 4500 rpm all the way to redline. There are not too many bolt-ons left for this car and a supercharger has already been mentioned for a future project. Our customer has stated that the vehicle will be paid off in early summer and that is when he will be looking to push it into the 300′s and beyond.

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Batlground tuned S15 featured in MAY 2010 issue of Import Tuner.

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The S15 that we blogged about a few weeks ago that was ” So clean it’ll make you wanna smack your momma!” is a feature car in the current issue of Import Tuner (MAY 2010). See? Told ya! Just further proof of the level that this car has achieved. I personally have read the article and viewed the pictures, I suggest it for your viewing pleasure. You can view it here: Import Tuner article

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When push comes to shove, hit em’ in the knee with a baseball bat.

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Today we will be broadcasting live as we make the final push to get the LS/Z tuned. Dan spent all day yesterday pulling the heads off the LS6. He had to modify the guide tubes for the push rods and adjust the rockers again. He stayed till 1:30 in the morning getting it finished. Thank you to Jason for his help yesterday, that allowed me to work on customer cars, and gave Dan an extra set of hands. After the motor was assembled again Dan was able to rev it all the way to red line. Previously it would stumble and break up around 3500-4000. We will see how it does under a load on the dyno. Broadcasting will begin between 12 and 2. Once again the link to view us is: HERE Please visit our gallery for all the pics of the build process and for all of our other photos.

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The work doesn’t stop just because we are having fun.

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Anyone that has been following Batlground over the last 2 weeks knows that we have been working very hard to get our new race car together. The LS6 350Z is the premier vehicle in the BG stable, it is by far the most impressive car we have ever built. We have logged extreme hours in the recent weeks just trying to get the car ready for shake down runs at the track.

That doesn’t mean that we have stopped working on customer cars either-its actually quite the contrary. Over the past 3 weeks Batlground has seen the most business since the beginning of the new year. Here are a few of the cars we have been working on and completed. Some of them you will recognize from previous posts, some of them are new.

First off the Prelude, thats all I’m calling it. I have completed this car and it is awaiting a break-in tune. We have a well documented history with this car. It tried really hard to beat me but so far I have prevailed…. so far. After getting this car started I let it down off the lift and it started making this HORRIBLE racket. I panicked and shut it off, lifted it back up and started it again. No noise, so while running I dropped it back down. As it lowered down it started making the noise again. Some head scratching ensued.  I was finally able to figure out the crank pulley was hitting the tension rod in the suspension as I lowered the car. I replaced the driver side engine mount and solved the noise issue. The motor sounds great and I can’t wait to see what the car will do on the dyno.

Next we have a 2nd gen MR2. Our customer had done a 3rd gen JDM motor swap and got the car running. It was not running well but good job considering the difficulty of working on that car in general. The car has some wiring issues and was running a mismatched ECU. The BOV needed its flange welded to the intercooler pipe, and we are installing a really nice downpipe and exhaust. We are still in the process of figuring this one out, but I know Justin can get it done.

The next couple of cars are getting various levels of work done, anything from general maintenance to motor swap. We had a 2010 Nissan Titan get a custom intake. A 2003 Honda Accord getting either a motor rebuild or replacement. There is a 2003 350Z getting a motor swap. We even had some time to dyno a FJ Cruiser, baseline numbers were 196 whp and 231 wtq with a factory 6 speed manual trans. I really look forward to doing some mods to that truck, as a supercharger kit is in the works.

We also had a visit from Todd @ AEM this past week. He wanted to check out the shop and drop off a new fuel pressure regulator for the LS/Z. We were able to get the car aligned this week and get it on the dyno. The car is having some issues tuning with a phantom cam trigger problem. Last night Dan also found out that the push rod/rocker/head combination requires modification to work properly. The first rockers we received interfered with the heads, these rockers fit in the head but require you to machine some material for the push rods to clear their guide tubes. That would have been really nice to know before we installed everything, but once again the supplier of the parts dropped the ball. We will get it fixed and we will have the car ready for the event this weekend.

Follow us live as we finish the LS/Z- we will be live broadcasting again on Friday the 12th.




11.03.2010 Batlground Drift 350z, Batlground Tuned, Chevrolet, Honda, Nissan, Toyota No Comments

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