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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 07:33 PM
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Hi to all! Just wanted to share some pics with the community! For people that have never been in Puerto Rico, here are some pics of our shop, we have been working with many customer cars in the last few months. AMS work is very well known here as you already know. And many great projects coming in the future! Of course everything with the support of the experts at AMS and using just the best parts!



Dont even ask for that AMS barstool! Its a Limited Edition Forged Barstool! It was forged with parts from the AMS shop cars!


There with the magazines you can see a lot of AMS posters we give away for free to our customers, they have the new images of the TA1 and drag car(Thanks to Rich for the high resolution pictures). Sometimes customer come to the shop just to ask for those!

Here are some small pics of the posters:



Now we are printing posters of AMS girls!
It has the logos of our sponsors! Because they pay for it!
Remember we give this away for free! And they look amazing! Everyone wants a shop car poster around here!





This is supposed to be the AMS parts corner! But we sold everything this week! All intercoolers, mini batteries, crossmembers and lower pipes are gone! We need to make a new order this week! And we do our own stickers here!

Hey! You gotta have something for the guys with regular Lancers and Lancers 2008! Not everyone has an EVO!



This is our master mechanic Ricardo Alvarado! This guy is old school! He worked as a mechanic for the race team of Sakura, which was the fastest door slammer on the planet at some point in the 90s! And has been working with all our engines since we started! And now with AMS parts everything he builds is bulletproof!

This is a 2.3L AMS stroker kit we are doing for a customer!






This is the motor of our shop car, now wearing a GT37R thanks to AMS! 9 seconds here we go! The motor is waiting for some cams from GSC that are already on their way here! After that, the motor is going to the car and to the track!







We are always looking for new services for our customer, we now offer Powder and Ceramic coating service:




This looks orange in the picture! But believe me! Its very red in person! My camera sucks!


This is the color we choosed for our shop cars! Its a metallic red and black(our teams official colors) paint scheme with some amazing texture! Looks beautiful in person!





Not everyone is lucky enough to live near AMS in Chicago! But at least in Puerto Rico you can get almost everything from AMS here!
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 07:37 PM
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This is the car of Randy, he just installed his new AMS GT3076R Kit today, just wanted to share some pics he sent! This thing should be great for Road Racing! Its a 2.3L! He won in his class last year with another Turbo Kit! I am sure he will do the same this year!










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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 07:47 PM
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Wow predator, que lindo!!! I really am impressed by how clean the shop really is and I'm more then sure all the EVO's know where the one stop shop is en la isle! I wish you the best, and I can't wait to see the shop car do 9's!!

Best wishes to you!
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 08:25 PM
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Nice pics and shop

Tom
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 10:20 PM
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Good shop and awesome service = Predator Performance
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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Thanks Rafa
Good luck to both of us this 2008 season.

Props to the AMS guys
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 09:31 AM
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I used to live in Puerto Rico when I had one of my 1G's and I ran down at the track in Carolina. Now that I'm back in the US, at least I'm lucky enough to be within an hour of AMS. Having you guys around 8 years ago would have helped out so much.

Remember when everyone used to street race down by the Citibank building in San Juan? Hell, even the cops would get in on the action.
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 11:22 AM
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Wow.. the place looks amazing! Are you guys building motors in the showroom?! Sweet!!
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by ScottR126
Wow.. the place looks amazing! Are you guys building motors in the showroom?! Sweet!!

Yeah, lately Ricardo has been building the motors right on the showroom where there is air conditioning, instead of the back of the show where the cars are!!

We have to start charging for admission, lately many customers stay in the showroom to see the process and ask questions.

But we dont mind, we have many customers that are regulars and they come every weekend to hang out at the shop and see the projects. We have a big family here, everyone that works here have been friends for a very long time!!
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 12:23 PM
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Beaityful shop and engine guys, keep up the good work
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 01:25 PM
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yeah!!!
the shop is getting more and more atention every week this has helped us achieve an awesome reputation we are all realy proud about!

regards!

samm
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Old Jan 20, 2008 | 06:51 PM
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wow great shop. I was born in San Juan and most of my family lives in Caguas. I can't wait to visit them and of course visit your shop. Good luck on reaching 9's.
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 11:39 AM
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Everything looks great, thanks for sharing!
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 03:59 PM
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BAD *** RAFA!!!

Looks like we need some more AMS product on those walls.

Eric
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Old Jan 28, 2008 | 06:33 PM
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BAD *** RAFA!!!

Looks like we need some more AMS product on those walls.

Eric
Very badly! Get me my order ASAP!
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