welcome back to another episode of pasmags tuning 365
your weekly look at the world of tuning
from the track to the street and
everything in between
i'm pasmag editor adam gordon and i'm
randy bentia now this week we've got
another great episode for you guys
we have a garage tour with Sasha Anis
from onpoint dyno
adam unboxes some great new gear from
unitronic and of course
we get a look at some of the many
modifications and parts from our tuner
battlegrounds competitors
but first let's jump into what's
trending in this week's tune-up
under alberta health services rules and
social discipline guidelines
driven show officially announced that
their edmonton alberta event on
september 12th
is a go but this time under the covered
parkade at kingsway mall
originally planned for june and after
months of being postponed
this event has always had a great
turnout of cars and spectators
just have a look at this video by 403
media
head over to drivenshow.ca for
registration and more information
nominated as a top 50 installer in the
2020 ma awards
philip cantu the shop manager of
elevated audio out in denver colorado
finally gave us a glimpse of one of the
builds they've been teasing us with over
the months
featuring equipment from jl audio mobile
solutions of canada morel
and audioquest this ghostbusting toyota
fj cruiser
was one of the most elaborate projects
we have ever seen
it required non-traditional thinking and
design and the goal here was to stuff
seven amplifiers
two subs a dsp eight exterior speakers
six interior speakers a power supply and
a power inverter
while still leaving room for four movie
accurate proton packs
for all your paranormal and elimination
needs or an 80s retro dance party
give colorado ghostbusters a call
evasive motorsports out in santa fe
springs california recently unveiled the
new livery of the 2020 spec
pike's peak 86 piloted by none other
than
dai yoshihara in these photos some of
dai's sponsors are highlighted
like turn 14 distribution toyo tires
titan 7 wheels eneos kw suspension
garrett motion stop tech and os giken
and in this video dai was super stoked
to test the 86 at button willow raceway
claiming it was fast the next stop for
dai
his team and the evasive motorsports 86
is colorado springs on
august 30th and we wish them good luck
in the race to the clouds
back in february west jones auto in
rancho camaco california
shared photos and video of hert's toyota
a86 out of the shop and with new paint
and if you look close enough you can see
the shiny pearl in the paint job
over time hert has accumulated parts for
the 86
like bc racing coils racing service
watanabe wheels
and falcon sn250 tires and for the
interior
some custom goodies from energy and
ultra slice and carpets from expert oz
and shocked the mob both on instagram
when we saw this video of hert drifting
in the corolla for the first time
and with everything dialed in we just
knew he had some fun in it
hert said that he's been too afraid to
send it but that he was really surprised
at how it felt
he's going to be upgrading some front
suspension and steering bits in the near
future
so we'll have to check in with hert for
another episode possibly on national
pizza day
mcleod racing's marketing and sales
specialist joe macasaro
made the journey to new hampshire for
the hday event over the weekend
joe grabbed the win for the hday et
bracket 2 class with his 1995 honda
civic hatchback
and for those who don't know his civic is
equipped with mcleod racing's
magforce b
series twin clutch with over 6 000 miles
traveled
and over 12 days on the road joe
returns to the mcleod hq
in southern california with the trophy
congratulations joe
and good luck for the remainder of the
season
what's up guys i'm eric sass i'm from
hamilton ontario and this is my 2015
audi s4
thanks for your votes on
tunerbattlegrounds.com
so with bagged on rohana rfx 5s
airlift performance struts 3p management
with a custom trunk setup
ecs tuning rear carbon diffuser and high
kick spoiler
custom thule roof box with suction cup
mouth made by sea sucker
it's a stage two single pulley
dynode 383 all-wheel horse 407 all-wheel
torque
hi my name is jesse i'm from alamogordo
new mexico
and this is my 2015 subaru sti
thank you for voting for me at
turnerbattlegrounds.com
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welcome to yet another episode of pasmag's garage of isolation
today me and randi are joined by none
other than sasha anis our very first
canadian guest
and he's the owner of onpoint dino and
mountain pass performance sasha how you
doing
good man how you doing we're doing all
right we're looking forward to uh
getting face to face here
yeah totally um
could you give us a breakdown of onpoint
dyno and how that also transitioned into
mountain pass performance and what you
do at both
yeah real quick you know we started dyno
tuning
i would say in 2012 um and kind of over
the years have been developing
our 350z race car kind of on the side
and then uh
in around 2017 we had the idea to do a
a conversion for a lotus evora to have a tesla
motor
we were one of the first ones to have a
tesla-powered
vehicle and you know got a lot of
traction did really well and we kind of
transitioned into
doing more ev performance and did
something that i've been
dreaming of doing or wanting to do for a
number of years which was start to
design and develop
parts for sale as opposed to just being
a service oriented business
and that's been doing pretty well and
that's kind of where we're at now in
2020 mountain pass is is doing really
well and we're the canadian distributor
for motec
so we're supporting a number of
different dealers and companies that
want to use motec for
you know all of the you know whether
it's data analysis
engine control or uh development
and onpoint dyno is still going
strong as well so it's been a brilliant
uh
pretty busy last few years but we're
yeah we're chugging along and
loving it and uh
yeah so just a little bit of what we do
we've got coilover kits and that sort of
thing as well
so while you're moving downstairs to the
garage i have a quick question
how much of the r & d and the product
development is done
right where you are is it all in-house
yeah 100
of it's done in-house we do all the
design development testing
but our machining is done uh in quebec
so that's the province
the east of us and all of our stuff made
either in canada or coilovers are made
in germany but everything else is made
in north america
we're trying to try to keep it in north
america as much as possible very cool
um so i don't know for your viewers
what's kind of the last state of kels
that they've seen
um but we've since run this hybrid
system on the dyno
and we kind of did this cool battery
inlet cooling duct
so if you can see that but we've got
this new 3d printer that that prints
this kind of carbon fiber stuff
and so if you appear in there you can
see battery
and then yeah so we've got kind of the
back of the car
here which is kind of where all the main
cooling for the hybrid system is
so we've 3d printed some ducts to this
rear heat exchanger
and i don't know if you can see the rear
heat exchanger but that's actually from
an old formula one car from the 90s
no way yeah so it's kind of cool
and then these ducts which are like huge
but we were able to 3d print them
because to make mold so the carbon fiber
would be like crazy expensive
right and yeah at your shop right now
it's kind of cool
yep yeah we do it's a raised 3d pro so
it
uh it can do about one foot by one foot
by two feet
and build volume that's amazing i can
see the um uh
since you have access to the 3d printer
in-house you're able to prototype parts
on the fly yeah exactly like we made
this little panel up here
on the b-pillar yeah if you can see that
and it's got a helmet duct built into it
here
um so i made like five of those in the
in a day or two because it's faster just
to like keep making different ones than
to try and take precise measurements i
didn't
didn't spend too much time measuring at
all i just kept printing some
so it's pretty cool what you can do for
sure
so for the guys familiar oh sorry
uh keep rolling here because this is
just gonna answer
that question
this is this is kind of the inside of
kels that's where all the hybrid bits
have been added so kels is a
naturally aspirated uh race car but
we've added a hybrid motor in line with
the engine
to give it around 600 620 wheel
horsepower
so that's the inverter there and these
are the high voltage cables that go out
to the motor
and you can see some of the motec
electronics down there doing their
thing we've also got an air shift
compressor there
feeding into an air tank that goes to
some valves talk to
operate the paddle shift system
and there's the dash what an insane
cockpit yeah it's pretty cool man it's
really cool and then there's this power
distribution box back here and what that
does is it kind of controls
the high voltage from the battery and
gives the power to the inverter
and make sure that if anything goes
wrong it can keep me from
dying
like myself and i'm sure our audience
can uh
can relate as well we haven't seen the
inner workings of the hybrid motorsport
vehicles this is
pretty awesome oh cool man yeah well i
mean it's hard to show you everything
because
the car is mostly put together but the
actual motor
sits inside the bell housing it's kind
of hard to see but
the um the motor kind of sits where the
flywheel and the clutch would be
and so now there's actually no starter
it uses the electric motor
while you're in gear there's no clutch
and you kind of just the motor just
turns and just forces the car to start
driving
so it's pretty cool it's a little bit
violent because it has to actually start
spinning the engine as well
so those first few pulses of the engine
it's kind of uh
we have some marks on the floor here
because when you first start driving it
kind of spins the tires a bit
there's kind of no way around that is
there anything you're not
allowed to tell us about this setup i know a
lot of motorsports guys have closely
guarded secrets and this is pretty
cutting edge
no you know i don't really i'm not a fan
of those secrets like people are going
to figure stuff out anyways you may as
well just show people what you've done
if you're proud of it
good policy so yeah how does this
electric motor cut
the flywheel out completely yeah yeah
there's no flywheel
uh basically the rotor of the motor is
the fly and um
there so imagine where you have a
flywheel that's now the
magnetic rotor of the motor and that's
kind of encased in the
uh in the rest of the motor inside the
bell housing
so there's no clutch there's no flywheel
the transmission is always connected to
the engine
and because it's a sequential gearbox
you don't need to clutch when you shift
gears anyways
right so it kind of works amazing
in theory yeah we haven't got to the
racetrack yet so we'll see if it
if it all falls apart there you said
you've dyno tested it what kind of power
gains did you get out of that
yeah we it added about 120 horsepower
now we were expecting 200 horsepower so
um there were some issues with the way
that the motor
is set up so we're getting new windings
for the motor that hopefully will allow
us to make
to make that 200 horsepower does it make
additional noise from that electric
motor
it does but the exhaust is so loud
but if you run it yeah
sure mike did a good job on that exhaust
for sure
um if we run into electric only mode
it's like it does make really cool
kind of electric futuristic sounds with
the with the gearbox and the motor kind
of mixed in together
um but i like the way this engine sounds
the most
now is there anything else we can see of
the shop i know
you've mentioned there's some other
secret stuff
yeah yeah we can't go we can't go too
far but we've got the model 3 here so
we've got a stop tech big brake hit that
we
were developing so that is
basically using a an st60 uh
trophy caliper with uh with the custom
rotor and bracket that we designed
so that's pretty cool that's something
we're working on but stop tech is closed
at the moment so we can't get
calipers to fill any orders
and uh otherwise
what else do we have here we've got this
motec dash in the model 3. that's kind
of cool
yeah so it's kind of a similar design to
what we have in the z as well
so that's pretty cool it kind of shows
you your lap times and everything about
the battery because the model 3 doesn't
have a
doesn't have a dash right it has nothing
in front of the driver right it doesn't
right application for that if someone
was to bring you their tesla model 3
and they wanted to go track it what are
some of the first
things is brakes and the the suspension
really the the lap time reducer right
now
yeah actually we don't even install any
parts that we make we just we just kind
of sell them to
either end users or to shops that are
installing them but yeah uh
the main problem with the model 3 is the
brakes
and then i mean the car won't even work
on the track with the sock brakes uh
mostly the fluid in the pad and then
after that the factory suspension is
super
soft and um yeah it's
it doesn't i mean it's like three or
four seconds to just do brakes and
suspension so um maybe more than a
normal car
well sasha we don't want to keep you too
long and thank you so much for the tour
this has actually been really awesome
the shop looks amazing
by the way i don't know if it's always
that clean but you did a good job on
short notice making it look
pristine as possible appreciate it all
right guys thanks so much
stay safe out there yeah same to you man
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so this week our friends at unitronic
have sent us a bunch of stuff so we're
going to dig into that right now in our
hot new products unboxing
all right so once we've opened all those
many boxes from unitronic we were
greeted with some really cool stuff
so the very pretty carbon fiber stuff
right in front of me here
is unitronic's four inch air intake
system
for both the rs3 and the new ttrs
upon first glance it's really obvious
that this stuff is very well made the
carbon fiber looks
absolutely incredible but it's also
functional as well
this entire system improves air flow by
up to 88
with smooth air transitions for proven
increased horsepower on the dyno
so the combination of all the really
nice carbon fiber stuff
all fits together and this is one large
air intake system
and utronic was even nice enough to
include all the hardware you'll need
some mounting grommets and some rubber
trims you can protect all your pieces
and keep everything
looking really nice so also included in
the kit is their
brand new intercooler upgrade kit if i'm
not mistaken this is one of the very
first
on the market as well as their new down
pipe with included mid pipes and both
these things are
really good looking and you can tell
they're made really well the
intercooler itself has 71 percent more
volume than the oem setup
so if you're running more boost you know
this is a must-have
upgrade so one nice thing about
unitronic stuff is it's all engineered
to work with factory mounting points so
just like the intake system up on the
desk which fits all on oem mounting
points
the down pipe with the mid-pipe is the
same way and it also uses your factory
oxygen sensor placement
factory hangers and everything like that
and we've been told it will not light up
your dash like a christmas tree
like most other downpipes for the
platform so that's really exciting
so in addition to all the hardware
they've given us that you can see here
there's also a software section and some
cool electronics
as well as improved fuel delivery so
we'll jump into another box really quick
all right so inside the smaller box
we've got a little more hardware
and a whole bunch of unitronic swag
which includes
a license plate a license plate frame
big stickers small stickers
some badges that you can put on your car
air freshener
t-shirt and a whole bunch of unitronic
branded stuff i assume this comes in
any
extremely large package like we got it
also includes
unitronic's mpi injector upgrade kit
so you've got your little harnesses five
of them because five-cylinder engines
are awesome
and then some bosch higher capacity
injectors which are e85
capable as well using these and a stage
two tune
you can already get an additional 183
horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque
also includes ngk racing competition
spec spark plugs again
five of them because five cylinders are
cool
and upgraded vacuum line for your
wastegate which will now be running
higher boost
a spacer for the adaptive cruise control
this is for
2019 and up audi rs3 they've been
changed from the 2018 and earlier
versions so you will need this
to keep cruise control with the
installation of all these parts there's
also a unitronic
intake adapter both the adapter plate
and hose
assuming the hose that's on your factory
setup will no longer be long enough
for this new installation so this covers
the gap
and the real fun stuff is in this little
pouch
this is unitronic's uniconnect plus so
this is where all your horsepower is
really coming from at the end of the day
so with the help of a tuner you can load
all of your tunes into the car and flash
your ecu in about 15 minutes
and this really allows you to tinker
with everything
on a software level
Im from oklahoma this is my 2013 scion frs
thanks for voting for me on
tunerbattlegrounds.com
a few key modifications um number one
would be the wheels
these were actually rebuilt by myself
they're 18 by nine and a half
negative three blitz techno speed z1
next would be the side skirts and
rear diffuser these were actually all
custom made by
me and one of my buddies it's real
carbon fiber
next would be the 326 power wing this is
probably
everybody's favorite at the show
thank you for checking out my car
what's going on guys my name is jorge
i'm from jacksonville florida and this
is my 2011 scion xb thanks for voting me
on tunerbattlegrounds.com
here are a couple modifications airtec
stage 3
air suspension kit 18 by 10 and a half
adonis wheels custom painted
hood and topper thanks to my boy kyle
ken style body kit
fiberglass custom eyelids prv system all
the way around
kazario custom seat covers
noise
what's up i'm rob doyle nine livery
wraps orange california
this is my 2013 scion fr-s thanks for
voting for me at tunerbattlegrounds.com
work L1 three-piece wheels
powder-coated champagne gold
uh airlift three-piece suspension spec D
headlights Vis
ams hood we have a pandem version 3d wide
body kit
custom trd old school livery done by
nine livery wraps
over to the trd carbon fender trim
and super off to the interior we have
sparco grid two seats
custom aluminum door cards trd livery
continued greddy steering wheel
glossy shift knob password jdm red
shift boot
those are just some of the thousands of
competitors who've competed in tuner battlegrounds
and viewers can still get their chance
to be in the spotlight right randi yeah
that's right registration is still open
for the eighth annual tuner battlegrounds
championship
to compete for the ultimate award the
cover of pasmag
so upload your photos and vehicle specs
today at tunerbattlegrounds.com that's it
for this week's show
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