Industry Insider: MTI Racing

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MTI performs upgrades and works on all kinds of cars.

Not interested in a crazy monster-power full-on race car? That's OK. MTI can handle less extreme things like installing nitrous kits or superchargers. MTI even does mundane work like general maintenance, oil changes, and more. If you're lucky, Matt Wilcox will work on your car when he's not busy being a professional BMX racer. Everyone has speed in their veins at MTI.

MTI Racing's in-house Dynojet.

When your car is all put together, MTI will bring it over to this area to tune it on their in-house Dynojet. This also helps them put their parts through the ringer without having to take them on the road. The sequential transmission in the Camaro has seen multiple dozens of 800+ horsepower pulls with no issues.

An organized shop is a productive shop – and one with happy customers.

MTI can handle working on a large number of cars at once, and each has its own project board and careful attention to every detail is recorded daily. You're in good hands! Do you have visions of racing grandeur? Do you have a big budget?

From mild to wild – MTI can build it all, and set records doing it.

How about this 1971 Datsun 240Z? Well, it started out as a Z. It is now 4” wider and 4” longer with a tube frame and heavily modified carbon fiber body work. It has a 600+ horsepower MTI LS7 race motor and weighs in at a scant 2600 pounds. Driver and MTI VP of Operations Matt Isbell refers to it as a “Violent love affair ”, but only while they are working out the kinks. It just happens to hold the NASA V1 lap record at Road Atlanta with a 1:26.2. The car also is run in NASA SU (Super Unlimited) as well as SCCA SPO. Numerous other track records and Championships fill out the list of achievements. Look for a full feature on this car in the future.

MTI is no stranger to endurance, either. How about some One Lap of America?

To further demonstrate the variety of MTI’s capabilities, here's a Viper that MTI is preparing for one of their One Lap of America customers. The Viper is also getting a version of the MTI sequential transmission, and it will be expected to flawlessly survive the 3245-mile journey. Of the two co-drivers, one is located in the Atlanta area, which has made it very easy for MTI to make changes to the car and then have the car's own driver test them out.

MTI has you covered on- or off-track.

Speaking of all this testing, MTI offers trackside support in addition to race preparation, and all of the other things they do. Low-end packages start at around $1,000/day for HPDE-type events, all the way up to full-on “arrive-and-drive”-style race support. If your pockets are deep enough, MTI can take you there.

Just some of MTI's finest.

So, if you've got a Corvette, or really anything else, and you want to go fast and use really trick parts and leverage the collective engineering, racing, manufacturing, tuning and machining experience of MTI Racing, you can find these guys in a little industrial park outside Atlanta. Oh, and this is barely half of the staff.

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