Got an electrical problem? We diagnose and repair electrical system issues daily, on both over the road and performance vehicles.

No start? No problem

Never started it before and want some experienced help? We have fired and broke in hundreds of engines, fire them on the first crank and break them in right.

Weird noise? we’ll take a listen.

Sometimes a problem is caused by incompatible parts, sometimes by maladjusted parts that are physically fine. Sometimes by misinstalled parts. And a lot of time by parts flat wore out. You name it, we have seen it and we can fix it. We have access to the most current OE technical information, tools and equipment, this gives us flexibility and capability that a lot of other facilities do not have. Let us put these things to work on your special interest car.

Reinforcing, modifying and re-engineering your current control arms and suspension components can be a cost effective way to improve the deflection and overall strength of your cars suspension. The pictures below show both ends of the spectrum of what we do here at Fast,  boxing in factory control arms and replacing the bushings with poly or delrin, or completely cutting out a factory suspension system and installing a new hub to hub setup as the pictures show.

Brakes keep you from crashing. They are the single most important safety system on your car, regardless of what you are doing with it. This is not the area to scrimp a few dollars. This is also an area where if your not sure, seeking our experienced and professional help will most likely save you money in the long run. We do a lot of brake systems, ranging from street to competition, using everything from one-off  AP calipers, to factory performance parts.

Old hot rod, new race car, we can make it STOP.

Gear swaps. We do alot of them here. We do them right, we do them quickly, and we do them on most any axle. If you are looking for a quiet and pain free ring and pinion swap for that kick in the butt that big torque multiplication provides, give us a call. We use top quality parts, top quality fluid and top quality processes. Every gear set is checked for end play, run out, back lash and tooth pattern before they are buttoned up and rolled out. Our gear sets are almost always done in a single day for easy scheduling. We also install lockers, rebuild factory posi assemblies and will service 3rd member style rear axles.

We also do performance tires. And we are competitively priced. Open track, drag race, off road and performance street tires. Selling an average of 500 sets of tires a year means we  know how to mount and balance your performance tires properly. We dynamically balance your performance tires for a smooth and long lasting tire. No shortcuts are taken. No dinged rims, no torn beads, no leaky valve stems.

Other services included shocks and struts, sub frame conectors, control arm replacements, bushing replacement with urathane or delrin componants, lowering springs, lift kits, leveling kits, sway bars, subframe swaps, ect. We can get the power to the ground.

The dyno gives us the ability to control the testing environment, but you have to be able to manipulate the car to realize any true performance improvements. Here at Fast Specialties we utilze a wide range of tuning systems. SCT, Diablosport, Megasquirt, Holley, Fast, Accell, and a slew of others. Is your car carbureted? If so we have you covered there as well. Holley modular carbs, Edelbrock/AFB, Weber, Solex, Mikuni, 1 carb, or multi carb, turbo charged/supercharged blow-through or draw-through, e-85, propane, or pump gas, again, you name it and we have probably tuned it.

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So weather its a track car, drag car, off road crawler, fast street car, or the Sunday driver, we have your tuning needs covered.

Engines, supercharger kits, turbo kits, exhausts, camshafts, cylinder heads, clutches, shifters, gauges, nitrous, transmissions, cooling systems, gear swaps, you name it, we have installed it before and can install it for you. Don’t let your lack of tools, space, time, or experience get in the way of having the parts you want on the car you own.

Superchargers!, Vortech, Paxton, VMP, Kenne bell, Tork Tek, Procharger, Magnum Powers, Powerdyne, Whipple, Magnuson, Edelbrock, SMS, you name it we got it covered.

Engine swaps and installs are a common type of modification when it comes to increasing a cars performance. Weather its upgrading/updating a factory installed engine, or installing an engine that was not native to your chassis, getting it assembled, installed and running properly is what we do.

These Fuel cells were modified to include there own pumps, filter and wiring, making them a stand alone fuel system for a secondary fuel source while running high boost. One cell assembly is shown using dual 255 pump assemblies, while the other uses a larger in line pump for higher flow.

Down pipe fabrication is something we do a lot here at Fast, this one is built for a dsm engine with a 2.5″ v-band outlet flange and a recirculating waste gate.

Here are a few more examples of downpipes built to clear tight obstructions. Our downpipes are Tig welded and back purged.

Pre-turbo fab work means custom turbo manifolds. For a lot of engine a commercial manifold is available, but when a one off or custom solution is needed, we build it. Weather made from schedule 10, 40 ,tube, stainless or steel, we got it covered!

On the cold side of the turbo is the inter cooler, again, when a kit is not available, the custom fabrication begins. This includes air cleaners, compressor housing mods, charge piping, bead rolling and boost bracing.

Mandrel bent exhaust work, don’t fall for muffler shop crush bent exhaust, you spent the money to make the power, don’t leave it choked up under the car stuck in a pipe. While fine for normal cars, crush bent piping can ofter loose 50% of its cross section during a bend. You paid for 3″ piping, this means almost 10″ of cross section, not 5″. Leave the crush bent stuff to the daily driver, not the hotrod.

Other fabrication services include, roll cage work, rock sliders/running boards, suspension fab, brake parts, intake manifolds, and a whole lot more!

So if you need a part, built, modified, fabbed tweaked or desighned from scratch, we got it covered.

This 96 cobra is turning into a pretty dedicated open track car but it had a few issues once it was on the dyno. The IMRC system didn’t work correctly, it was way down on HP, the mixture was way too lean, and the ignition system was not keeping up. We pulled the upper plenum and the IMRC valves were stuck in the middle of their opening. The fix is to pull the IMRC plates, remove the butterflies, and then epoxy the holes up. Its kind of a big job, but with the ecu thinking the IMRC’s are flopping all over, the ecu can not control the timing, and mixture properly.

To do the job properly and get the little screws out without killing them and breaking the heads off, you really need a good impact driver such as this on.

Gt500′s start to break drive shafts at 600+rwhp if they run any kind of tire at the track. To get ahead of that problem, a new aluminum 4″ shaft is the ticket, also eliminating the carrier bearing cuts down on the number of drive shaft loops you need and the number of places a broken shaft can pole vault you. This shaft from Stage3 is a nice piece. It uses the factory rear flange and a machined steel locate/adapter for the rear of the shaft.

New TVS blower for the buggy showed up. ready to start mocking up on the engine. Really cool unit. Stock rods and pistons on the ls6 though, so were gonna run it pretty low boost till we get the rest of the rig sorted. I suspect a fully built 6.0 will be in the future, so we spec’d the blower we can grow with.

Starting a new LQ4 swap in a 69 Camaro. Got the engine stripped down for a new set of lq9 rods and pistons for the engine. Also purchased is a set of ls9 head gaskets, arp bolts, LQ9 camshaft and Microsquirt engine management. One of the cool parts of the swap is the simplicity of the motor mounts. Edelbrock supplied the ones we are going to use so we can use the factory style SBC mounts. We are also going to be running a carb style single plane manifold for the cathedral port 317 heads.

This engine will end up turbo charged when its installed, so the final compression with the thicker gaskets puts us at about 9.6 with the 317 heads. Pretty good for a turbo LS motor.

Another side project for the summer is a BBQ trailer. Mark had an old trailer chassis laying around and it was decided that we need to stack a few BBQ’s on it and give it a new life. So the old body was stripped, and the work got started on the frame. Figure it will be great for the car show season. Now we need something cool to tow it with!

Marks truck FINALLY got an exhaust last week. The neighbors can sleep easier now. We used a left over magnaflow muff and some 3″ tube we had left over. Added welder and BAM, we got a truck that only looks nasty now. Sure does run great. Mark has been using it to commute from washougal lately with no hiccups to speak of. At least new ones. I’m pretty sure the rear main fell out years ago, but aside from the leaks, runs hard. We ordered the parts and pieces to inter-cool it this week as well. Spent a whopping 125$. At the rate we are going, this 125$ needs to return 45HP or the HP per dollar is gonna start to slip a bit. I figure 14PSI will get us there. At some point our fuel system is definitely going to need addressing. 

We dumped the exhaust before the axle to keep it quick and simple. And we ran out of 3″ pipe and don’t feel like buying any more. So this is were it stops. With the exhaust on the truck, the turbo wistle is super promenant. This truck really shouldn’t sound  this good.

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Had a KB blown 3v mustang come into the shop with a cyl1 missfire code. Some testing and figureing found a bad injector for the number 1 cylinder. New injector and we are back in business. This is a simple, non intercooled kit that makes just shy of 400rwhp. Its a good running car that is big bang for the buck.

This 510 was rescued from a feild by the new owner. He wanted to get the thing running again and get all the fluids changed and start getting a game plan for the future. Its definatly got a long way to go, but they are really cool little cars with massive potential. I really like the 4dr cars as well. This already had a built l20 and 5 speed trans swap when the new oner aquired it. We drained the fuel, changed the fluids and got it running. The brakes are next. At some point this car got a rear disc brake swap installed, but there is a ton of sorting that still needs to be done.

2002 vette, procharged convertable. Really nice car, needs some suspension work to get the noises out, but thats what we do here.