Thanks mate. Now you might have bit of an idea why I talk weird for an American. Be around people who talk like that enough and you absorb some of it. I'm not being pretentious or snooty. I just say "piss off" and "no worries" because I regularly communicate with people who talk like that. :D
I know you like your pictures and movies so I'll share a couple.
Here's the gearbox on the bench. You can see the different sections here.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1564181515.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1564181774.jpg
Here's the year I campaigned a car in the 24 Hours of Daytona. This was 2012. We came in 18th out of 25. I ran it with Bullet Racing out of Vancouver. I campaigned cars with them for 3 years, but this was the one year it carried my logos as a major part of the livery. We made the front page of the local Daytona rag next to Scott Pruitt's Lexus on race day and into a Porsche Motorsports promo video. You can see us at 1:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOKPqIu2p0
The irony is that in 2011 and 2012, most of the teams and drivers in the video were running my gears. We helped Leh Keen win that title in 2011 and worked with Brumos, Alex Job Racing, The Racers Group, and several others. We supplied the gears for 10 out of 18 Cup Cars entered that year. Eventually, Porsche got IMSA to rewrite the rules to effectively ban us from their series. There were some crazy arguments and the series sanctioned gearbox sealing mechanic was fired when he was caught by Porsche putting my gears in a car after the rule change. Lots of yelling that day!
And here is my favorite motorsports achievement. We spent 3 years working with Jeff trying to break the world record and get into the sub 10 minute club at PPIHC. This is the year he finally got it. He's got my parts in most of his personal cars, including he street driven 908 and his Colorado driver seen here. He's got a roof rack on it and drives around with a canoe and his dog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVmPoWImMTk
I didn't build the company, I bought it almost exactly 10 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary July 1st. I used to call myself the Dread Pirate Roberts because it was really Paul Guard's thing. But I've managed to make it mine, do some new things, form some really good relationships, and win a bunch of motorsports titles. For example, being the OEM for Ruf was his relationship. Being the OEM for Mosler, 9FF, Singer and making a product that competed with Porsche Motorsports directly on the world stage was mine. They've even talked to us about this gearbox and maybe putting it into the GT4 Clubsport rallycars. They are having Francis Tuthill help with the car, and they are one of my bigger Euro customers. I don't know if it was the bad history or just leaving it in Francis's hands, but he, and not Porsche made the call.
I don't talk myself up much, but since you rubbed the lantern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDWgqDBNXA