Turn Key Engine Supply

In a 14,000 square foot warehouse located in Oceanside California, Kolby Enger and 13 fulltime employees have been turning out complete engine packages for vehicles all over the world. In addition to the U.S. Turn Key has clients in South Africa, Germany, Dubai and Australia.

Turn Key's 14,000 square foot shop

Turn Key Engine Supply was created in the summer of 2002. A one-man show in a 1,200 square foot building, Kolby developed a Toyota Landcruiser conversion kit for the LS-1 engines. Kolby had years of experience working with metals in his fathers machine shop so building custom engines took his skills to the next level.

As Kolby grew his business the sandcar market was just beginning to take off. He saw a huge opportunity to start working on engine packages for vehicles in the sandcar industry. Today, with the new  regulations, Turn key Engine supply offers four V8 CARB emission packages for your sandcar or off-road vehicle. Currently they offer a 330 HP Aluminum 5.3 engine, 400 HP LS-1 and a 440 HP LS-2. They are also planning to have an Ecotec compliant engine package in the future.

The idea behind Turn key Engine Supply is to be a one-stop shop for a complete engine package. What sets Turn key apart from the competition is there are no additional parts needed for your engine. It’s all done in-house at Turn key with custom parts and once you install the engine there are 5 wires to hook up. Turn Key makes it’s own engine mounts, pulleys and adaptor plates.  They also offer engine dyno service, chassis dyno service and full machine shop services.

Sandcar on Turn Key's chassis dyno

Turn Key’s engine packages have been put in everything from sandcars, race cars and trucks, classic hot rods and even a few small aircraft. Turn Key is the exclusive supplier for TrophyLite off-road race trucks and were the official supplier of the Pro-spec engines in the CORR series before it ended in 2008.  Kolby and his crew will even provide customer support at the races.

Turn Key Engine Supply isn’t finished growing yet. With a full machine shop that includes a CNC Lathe and CNC Mill, Kolby’s recent project was getting their new engine dyno up and running. This year, Turn Key expects to turn out 600-700 engine packages for their customers. With that many engine packages being put in vehicles all around the world, you can expect to see one sitting in the vehicle next to you at the next race, car show or sand dune trip!

Story by: Curtis Guise & Shaun Oschner

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Rally America Championship Shift to New England

(Newry, Maine) – With the first five rally events of the 2009 Rally America National Championship in the record books already, the top Regional and National rally teams from across the United States and Canada will soon be making their way to the tiny resort village of Newry, Maine for the New England Forest Rally – home to the Sunday River Resort and round #6 of the 9-event Rally America National Championship.

Set for Friday and Saturday, July 17 & 18, 2009, as many as 45 or more top-level rally teams are expected to be competing on some of the fastest gravel and forest roads in the country for top honors at this always-popular rally event.

Sitting atop the Rally America National points championship right now and expected to be competing at this year’s New England Forest Rally is 3-time Rally America Champion and Freestyle Motocross legend Travis Pastrana who drives for Subaru Rally Team USA – the factory-backed rally team based in Colchester, Vermont. Along with his teammates Ken Block, co-founder of DC Shoes USA, and X Games & BMX legend Dave Mirra, the Subaru rally team will be looking for another overall rally victory at this year’s New England Forest Rally.
Also expected at the top of the charts at this year’s event will be Canadian rally Ace Antoine L’Estage along with his Co-Driver and fiance’ Nathalie Richard driving their John Buffum-prepared & Rockstar Energy-backed Mitsubishi Evolution X. A former overall winner of the New England Forest Rally, L’Estage is a very technical driver as well as a multi-time Canadian Rally Champion who can’t be overlooked regarding the overall victory in Maine.

New to this year’s New England Forest Rally will be a large contingent of Regional rally teams from across the Northeastern United Sates and Eastern Canada. These teams will be competing for their share of $15,000 in prize money as the Maine-based rally will be just one of three rally events in the United States that make up the 3-round MaxAttack! Championship for Regional rally teams for 2009 – the other two rally events include Rally Idaho and the Ojibwe Forests Rally in Minnesota.

Although the New England Forest Rally will be contested over two days and 125 plus miles of gravel and forest stages for the National competitors, the Regional rally teams will compete on the very same roads as the National teams, but in two separate 1-day Regional rally events run simultaneously with the National rally.
Friday’s Regional rally will be known at the “Drive Your Future Rally” presented by the National Guard and will be highlighted by a “Super Special” in the town of Mexico, Maine. Taking place at the Mexico Recreational Area located just off Rt. 17 in Mexico, spectators will be have the opportunity to watch their favorite rally driver or team complete an entire gravel rally stage, complete with a jump, from start to finish right in front of them. Fans will also have the chance for an up-close look at the service crews as they take care of their rally cars at the Service Park which will also be based at the Mexico Recreation Area. As a special attraction for fans of all ages, National Guard units from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will be on hand at the Mexico Recreation Area with a large display of state-of-the-art military vehicles to check out.

On Saturday, July 18, 2009, the rally action moves west along Route 2 to Coos County and the city of Berlin in Northern New Hampshire where rally teams will compete on a series of gravel and forest stages from Berlin north along the Androscoggin River to the sleepy village of Errol and beyond. A number of scenic spectator areas will be available along the competition stages where fans will be able to watch their favorite drivers compete. They will also be treated to a “Super Special” in Berlin on Saturday morning where teams will test their skills on a half-mile course that winds its way in and around the old Berlin paper mill site located on the north side of the city.

Also available throughout the 2-day New England Forest Rally will be a number of spectator buses provided by the Sunday River Resort in Newry, Maine. The busses will depart from a variety of locations and take interested spectators out to the designated viewing areas along the rally course. Tickets for the spectator busses can be purchased the day of the event and will cost just $5.00 per person!

Amateur photographers will again have the opportunity to participate in Rally America’s popular photo contest where they can submit their best shots from the New England Forest Rally for a chance to win great prizes – visit www.rally-america.com for all the details.

For ongoing live updates through out the New England Forest Rally or for more information regarding a detailed event schedule, lodging and an on-line Spectator Guide, please visit the official Rally America web site at www.rally-america.com.

Sponsors for this year’s New England Forest Rally include Subaru of America; DC Shoes; Endless Brakes; Exedy Racing Clutches; Q Racing Oil; the Army National Guard; Sunday River Resort in Newry, Maine; the Team O’Neil Rally School from Dalton, NH and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Rally car racing is considered the extreme sport of automobile racing and is often described simply as “real cars, real roads, real fast.” This all-season motorsport sees drivers and their co-drivers taking modified road cars to the limit as they achieve blistering speeds over courses that cover more than 100 miles of gravel, dirt or snow-covered roads known as stages.

The 2009 Rally America National Championship series consists of nine exciting events that take place throughout the United States in many different weather and road conditions. Top teams in the Rally America Championship are also invited to compete in ESPN’s Summer X Games, the leading action sports event broadcast live on ABC and ESPN. Eight top teams have already been invited to this August’s contest. Among the marquees typically represented in Rally America events are Subaru, Mitsubishi, Dodge, Ford and Volkswagen.

About Rally America, Inc.:

Based in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Rally America sanctions the premier rally racing series in the United States, the Rally America National Championship Series. In 2009, Rally America will conduct nine National Championship events at venues across the country, from Portland, Ore., to Newry, Maine. Rally America competitors reach speeds well over 100 mph in modified street-legal rally cars on natural-terrain courses consisting of gravel, dirt or snow.

Additionally, through a partnership with the leading sports network regarding action sports, ESPN, qualifying Rally America drivers are invited to compete in the Summer X Games, the annual leading action-sport event that is broadcast live on ABC and ESPN. For more information, visit www.rally-america.com.

Sainz ahead of Al-Attiyah: change of lead in Volkswagen double

Wolfsburg (29 June 2009). 4:2 in the team-internal duel for stage wins; the “blue” lead has changed again: The Volkswagen duo Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz Senra (E/E) took the overall lead again on the sixth leg of the Rallye dos Sertões, narrowly relegating their team-mates Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) in another factory-fielded Race Touareg to position two. After his second stage victory at the cross-country rally through Brazil Sainz is now 5m 08s ahead of Al-Attiyah who finished the stage from Luís Edoardo Magalhães to Barra as the runner-up after a repair stop. After finishing the stage in fourth place the third Volkswagen pairing Maurício Neves/Eduardo Bampi (BR/BR) is ranking ninth overall. The sixth and seventh day of the rally form a combined marathon leg on which no evening service by the mechanics is permitted.

Kris Nissen (Volkswagen Motorsport Director)
“The sixth leg showed that in sport nothing is predictable – particularly not in cross-country rally racing. The smallest oversight may cost minutes, and perhaps even the whole rally. Nasser Al-Attiyah and Maurício Neves lost a lot of time today because of these imponderables. Like the ‘Dakar’, the ‘Sertões’ is an unrelenting rally which needs to be mastered before anything else. But we’re continuing to head in the right direction to successfully achieve this.”

#301 – Carlos Sainz (E), 1st place leg / 1st place overall
“A really tough and very difficult leg containing very narrow trails on the one hand and quick sections on the other, which made maximum demands on us drivers as well as the material. Tomorrow the second part of the marathon leg will follow without service tonight at the bivouac. That’s why we proceeded with caution today.”

#302 – Nasser Al-Attiyah (Q), 2nd place leg / 2nd place overall
“That was simply a case of misfortune. Apparently we hit a tree stump that was hidden in the grass stump in such an unfortunate way that we had to change the right rear tie rod. The repair cost us at least 15 minutes as well as the lead. Today you could see that the rally is tough and long. That is also true for the next four days.”

#309 – Maurício Neves (BR), 4th place leg / 9th place overall
“Today we lost some time again. We came to a place where the soil was heavily washed out, which hadn’t been marked in the roadbook. We braked but got stuck with the front end and had to be pulled out by a rival. That cost us quite a bit of time.”

Numbers of the day The roadbooks of the first half of the rally comprised about 300 pages and 2,100 pictures. The co-driver would issue instructions every 750 metres on average – at an average speed of 91 kph this corresponds to every 29.7 seconds.

Interim standings after Leg 06, Luís Eduardo Magalhaes (BA) – Barra (BA)
361 km/557 km SS 07/total

Pos. Team, Vehicle, Leg 06, Total time
1 Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz Senra (E/E), Volkswagen Race Touareg 2, 4h 04m 10.0s (1), 21h 38m 37.9 s
2 Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D), Volkswagen Race Touareg 2, 4h 21m 09.4s (2), + 5m 08.3s
3 Jean Azevedo/Youssef Haddad (BR/BR), Mitsubishi L200, 4h 46m 59.2s (8), + 2h 22m 28.1s
4 Riamburgo Ximenes/Stanger Eller (BR/BR), Sherpa, 4h 30m 56.7s (3), + 2h 30m 34.6s
5 Roberto Reijers/Marcos Almeida (BR/BR), Ford Ranger, 4h 44m 24.5s (7), + 3h 30m 56.7s
6 João Franciosi/Rafael Capoani (BR/BR) Sherpa, 5h 02m 47.1s (12), + 3h 50m 43.9s
7 Luiz Facco/Silvio Deusdará (BR/BR), Mitsubishi L200, 4h 59m 39.1s (11), + 4h 23m 38.5s
8 Felipe Bibas/Emerson Cavassi (BR/BR), Mitsubishi L200, 4h 42m 33.3s (6), + 4h 37m 04.5s
9 Maurício Neves/Eduardo Bampi (BR/BR), Volkswagen Race Touareg 2, 4h 31m 37.5s (4), + 5h 04m 00.6s
10 Romeo Franciosi/Deco Muniz (BR/BR), Sherpa, 4h 57m 57.4s (10), + 5h 10m 39.7s

Provinces GO: Goiás; TO: Tocatins; BA: Bahia; PE: Pernambuco; CE: Ceara; RN: Rio Grande do Norte

Volkswagen Motorsport public website: www.volkswagen-motorsport.com

Rallye dos Sertões information: www.dunas.com.br/ing

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