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Churubusco, IN, NE of Ft Wayne
Born July-13-1964
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Your car (Camaro, Firebird, Trans Am, etc): 96, 97 & 2000 Trans AMs, all 6-speeds
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4 Jan 2016
NEW PRODUCT RELEASE!!!

Upgrade your 4th Gen F-Body suspension for optimum street to race performance with our double adjustable shock package. This package maintains the OEM mounting locations to give you a quality street ride but the ability to tune to track conditions. With our experienced and tested shock tune and wrapped in AFCO Racing shock technology, you are ready to out perform some of the best.

Click link below to pick up yours today!
http://www.shop.hoosierpe.com/4th-Gen-Fbod...y-Shock-Kit.htm


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Thank you for your time,
Jason Massey
General Manager
(260) 245-0352 | info@hoosierpe.com
www.facebook.com/hoosierpe
7 Nov 2014
November 8th, 2014 we will have our scales out and ready to capture weights of your car at $10 per car per weight taken. We will roll your car up onto the scales, enter the weights in our sheet, and print off these figures for you to keep.

Event starts at 9AM and will end at 3PM.

This is first come first serve.

Please, if you select "GOING" - please leave a comment if you plan to participate in having your car weighed.

Follow this link to join on facebook event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/661887460577200/

Approximate time will on scales should be about 15 minutes or less per car. The plan is to load up as many cars through the day as possible.

Please pass and share this event around to all those you know that could take advantage of this service.

Thanks, HPE Team.

Hoosier Performance Engineering
6930 Derek Drive, Suite B
Fort Wayne IN, 46803
260-245-0352
info@hoosierpe.com

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16 Sep 2014
93-02 CAMARO/FIREBIRD BATTERY TRAY

The battery tray is made of powder coated mild steel with stainless steel hardware for excellent abrasion, and acid resistance. It and sits on top of the coolant tank in the original location, and the installation is easy with basic hand tools, drill, and a grinder or file. The hold down hook is steel to improve durability over the plastic OEM part, and is available in red or black powder coat.

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Stop by our store today to order online or call us at (260) 245-0352

BUY NOW!!
19 Jun 2013
Greetings fellow F-body enthusiast!

I've created this new topic to introduce Hoosier Performance Engineering's first new product; a clean sheet approach to a billet front hub and bearing assembly for the 4th Gen F-bodies and C4 Corvettes. Many of the other hub/bearing threads are getting pretty long and don't really end with a sustainable solution, so I thought a new thread was in order.

I won't bore you with the details on HPE, other than to say a group of highly qualified and skilled automotive engineers have gotten together to create performance products for the 4th Gens and modern muscle cars. You can read more about HPE on the General Discussions forum where Kevin introduced HPE as a new sponsor.

I've been contemplating the 4th Gen front hub issues since I returned to Auto-X in the fall of '97 with the purchase of my first TA and began working in earnest on new designs in November of last year. What you see below is the result of two gear-heads' work for the past 7 or 8 months, plus over $6000 worth of invested in prototypes, tooling and CNC programming. Prototypes are installed and accumulating mileage and we will be ready to take orders as soon as the machine shop volume quotation is received and final pricing can is set. (Trying to wrap up pricing yet this week.)

I'll let the pictures do the talking first, and then will follow up with some detailed descriptions of the components. Enjoy.

Finished product:
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Here's a disassembled OEM hub and the new HPE replacement parts. Note the OEM uses ball bearings while the other is tapered roller. On Timken's website, the tapered bearings are rated much higher in every category vs. the ball bearings. Small bearing has a 1.25" ID and the large bearing has an 1.5" ID. For comparison, the old GM RWD cars used like 7/8" and 1" bearings with the front spindle design.
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We use an inverted spindle design, much like OEM part, except ours is a two piece design with a wheel mounting flange and pin (spindle) that we shrink fit together. The shrink fit provides three times the push out force of an equivalent press fit. Pin, flange and housing were all coated with a clear zinc treatment. The pin has been case hardened in the two areas where the bearing races will rest. The mounting flange is case hardened where the seal will run. Specs were per the Timken recommendations for the bearings used.
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Pin with locking washer, nut and small cap screws. The washer engages the key way in the in threaded end of the pin, the nut is added and torqued to desired preload, and when the threaded holes in the nut lines up with the holes in the washer, the cap screws are added as the retention mechanism, basically replacing the cotter pin in similar parts.
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Sub-assembly shown with dry bearings for clarity.
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These assemblies are completely rebuildable and repackable. Should be the last set you will ever need.

I will add some more pictures of the prototypes installed on one of our cars.

Please let me know what you think!
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