Vancouver Tuning Shops

[Dimman]

I noticed in another thread that Jay mentioned AJ-Racing. I had not heard of them until that, so I thought maybe we could get a local list of tuners going.

(I'm not affiliated with any of them, but have had work done at a couple of them.)

Only ones I know about for imports are the following:

Garage 5 : In Richmond. Hondas mostly? A co worker had work done here on his B16-swapped EF hatch.

Racing Greed Don't know where the new shop is. I had some work done there, they have an in-House Mustang dyno. I believe that DSMs were what they originally started with, but they had no problems with my JDM Supra.

Forcefed: In Abbotsford. Started with rotaries, have a fast 8-second drag Supra. In-house Dynojet dyno.

Independent Speed Shop: In Langley. I've had work done here, by Bill. He has a good reputation as a wiring and tuning guy. The 'Tuned by Bill' stickers on cars are from here. He's got a pretty sweet AE86. Originally turbo with boxed ITBs, now I heard he's putting in a 1UZFE, also with ITBs. He likes VIPEC standalones, and has a lot of experience on Haltec as well.

Drive Hard: In Richmond. They have an in-house 2WD Dyno Dynamics dyno. I have not dealt with them personally, but I know that Bill from Independent Speed Shop tunes there.

Rocket Rally: In Squamish. Subaru specialist. Sponsor the Vancouver Impreza/Subaru Club on NASIOC, and are a Subaru Canada sponsored rally team. They apparently have a crazy giant fan AWD Dyno Dynamics room. Have not had any work done by them though.

A&J Racing: Richmond. Don't know anything about them.

There must be more. Anyone else?

[Mr.Jay]

Gearheads: Richmond based tuner shop. Lots of Evos coming out of there

Speed Syndicate: Burnaby based shop. They do a bunch of different type of cars. Ones I've personally seen and love are their s2k and an sti build

Monkeynutz: Burnaby based. Don't know much about them

MFRT: Vancouver based. Don't see many cars by them other than at the shop but usually got good deals on Apexi and Greddy gear.

Epic Autosports: Surrey based. Seen 1 car from them and it was just a b16a swapped civic.

Ztune: Burnaby based. As the name implies mostly Nissan cars. Bunch of really cool Z come from here (slight biase as I love the 240z and I've seen a bunch from them)

Staff's Auto: North Van based. Builded some crazyyy rotarys

Rev Competition: Richmond based. Euros and imports.

Evolution Autosports: Maple Ridge based. Don't know much about them heard they do some clean engine swaps tho.

AJ-R has a bunch of hondas and such. There a whole little fleet of champion white s2k that AJ-R cars



You've named all the other ones that are pretty well known

There are a couple more but I can't think of them off the top of my head

[Dimman]

Is Z-Tune still in business, or did they move? I used to live near them by Brentwood, but they're not there anymore.

[XIIIth]

Not really a shop but I will plug it anyway, sorry to topic jack.

You guys should sign up on Dori-Kaze for this car. It might be the community for older 86's and classic toyota's, but there are a lot of knowledgeable people who work at dealerships and who are either professional or at home mechanics etc.

I'm on there since I have an ae86 myself, but when the FR-S comes out I'm sure they'll be interested as well.

I take my car to Brian on DK who is a certified Toyota/Lexus mechanic and does installation, repairs, maintenance, swaps etc. at his place after work for a lot of people in the DK community. He'll most likely be getting a chance to see and work with this car for pre-prep before any of us get a chance to see it.

[adamturbo]

there is also me. amt machine & fab shop. i do alot of custom one off work and race, rally car preperation. parts for example, custom wheel spacers, steering wheel spacers, custom big brake kits, raceing seat installation, roll bars and roll cages, custom engine swaps. www.amtmachineshop.com

[XIIIth]

Right, sorry Adam! +1 for Adam, he's done a bunch of stuff for me, super knowledgeable and does fantastic work!