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Date: 2010-03-04
It's the first week of March and while the rest of the country is buried under the snow, we're fortunate enough out here in California to have great track day weather! It was a little cold at Willow Springs, but our second R&D Track Test of the year went really well.
Date: 2010-01-12
While the rest of the country is buried in snow, we are very fortunate to have sunny Southern California weather nearly year round. We took advantage of the sunshine in early January and had our first track test of 2010 at Willow Springs.
Date: 2009-09-28
GM’s latest Camaro may be flying off showroom floors, but the 1993-02 Camaro, Firebird, and Trans Am make excellent, affordable track toys with the right choice of upgrades. These cars benefit from a stiff platform, good balance and plenty of power – they just need a little help in the suspension department. Now you have maximum driver control and trackside tunability with the new Adjustable Rear Sway Bar from Hotchkis Performance. Date: 2009-09-28
As hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when sway bars were considered optional equipment. In fact, some B- and E-Body Mopars weren’t even equipped with provisions for them. While that didn’t matter much in the ‘60s when bias-ply tires kept handling expectations low, modern enthusiasts who don’t want to wallow through every curve used to be forced to swap lower control arms to get an end link mounting bracket – until now. To accompany its latest high-performance handling hardware for classic Chrysler B and E Body muscle cars, Hotchkis Performance released a new Control Arm Upgrade Bracket. Date: 2009-09-08
Fresh off their win at the Monterey Historics, comedian and radio host Adam Carolla interviewed John and Mark Hotchkis for his weekly CarCast, one of the most downloaded programs on iTunes and the highest-rated automotive podcast in history. Date: 2009-09-08
"Hotchkis suspension doing it´s thing! It would have scraped the rocker trim at this speed in stock trim!" - Jason Rushforth Date: 2009-08-23
Performance Therapy, a “social media car show”, launched this week with backing from top automotive aftermarket brands. The site, PerformanceTherapyContest.com asks enthusiasts to show the world how they enjoy their car by submitting a photo. The Grand Prize Winner will receive parts to build an incredible, high-performance supercar. Date: 2009-08-22
The 1967-76 Mopar A-Body is one of the last great performance bargains of the muscle car era, with pony cars like the Dart, Duster, Demon and early ‘Cuda gaining popularity thanks to wide availability, V8 power and a budget-friendly price tag. Now you can bolt-on improved handling, driver feedback and control with new Hotchkis Adjustable Strut Rods and Steering Rods. Date: 2009-08-21
Every August, the Monterey peninsula is overrun with the fastest, most exotic and rarest racing machines in the world for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. On August 15, Mark Hotchkis drove the Hotchkis/Lifeline Wynn’s 1986 Porsche 962 to victory against a field of historic racecars including a 1994 Kremer-Porsche Spyder K8 driven by ALMS racer Gunnar Jeanette (2nd), another 962 driven by Rudy Junco (3rd) and Patrick Dempsey in a Mazda RX-792P (4th). Date: 2009-07-21
Every year, we invite a car club or a group of enthusiasts to visit Hotchkis HQ, have lunch, show off their cars and talk tech. It’s a fun, casual way to learn more about our customers share information about suspension setup and performance driving. On July 18th, we invited the Southern California Chrysler community to an open house at the shop, and four five fantastic local car clubs showed up in force. Our typical open house turned into a full-blown car show, complete with famous rides, a rock star, burnouts, over 80 cars and even a Hemi-powered air raid siren. It doesn’t get much wilder than that. Date: 2009-07-15
Football fans have the Super Bowl, baseball guys get the World Series, horse racing aficionados have the Kentucky Derby, and for muscle car fans it’s all about The ‘Nats. For the uninitiated, the GoodGuys PPG Rod & Custom Nationals is the biggest event on the GoodGuys calendar, and thanks to a recent boom in muscle car attendance it can also be counted as one of the largest street machine events in the world. Date: 2009-07-14
Our friends at Hot Wheels originally built this beautiful ’66 Pontiac GTO for the 2006 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. They asked Steve Strope and the crew at Pure Vision Design in Simi Valley to build a car that could cruise to Southern California events, car shows and Hot Wheels themed conventions, and it had to make an impact. After a few years on the road with show car suspension, the Hot Wheels marketing department decided they wanted to replace the entire suspension system with a new setup that would provide the same killer stance, but with better road manners on the street and killer performance in the corners. Date: 2009-07-07
If you like muscle cars, hot rods, customs, autocross racing action, live music and tons of great food, then join the crew from Hotchkis Performance at the 12th Annual GoodGuys PPG Nationals July 10-12 at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus.
Date: 2009-06-26
When the designers at Mattel wanted to release a cool first gen Camaro, they called us up and asked for some ideas. We talked to them about pro-touring, high-speed handling, low-profile tires and cool paint schemes. Then, a few months ago, they unveiled a Hugger Orange ´69 Camaro with a white graphics package and our name emblazoned on the side! Date: 2009-06-12
The all-new 2010 Camaro is a stellar performer straight off the showroom floor, but like most modern muscle cars it suffers from significant body roll and understeer. Whether it´s a Super Sport, Rally Sport or V6 model, installing a bolt-on Hotchkis Sport Sway Set is one of the fastest, easiest and most dramatic modifications you can make to the new Camaro. Significantly improve handling, driver control and overall fun factor in less than an hour with basic hand tools.
Date: 2009-06-05
When it debuted at the SEMA show last November, the "E-Max" 1970 Challenger R/T was loaded with a variety of prototype suspension parts and a showroom stock 340 six-pack. Six months later suspension designs are in production and Team Hotchkis put them to the test at the 16th Annual Goodguys Summer Get-Together in Pleasanton, California with outstanding results.
Date: 2009-06-04
The picturesque town of Pleasanton looks like most small suburbs surrounding the California Bay Area: clean city streets, well-kept houses and lots of white picket fences. It also happens to be home court for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, and on May 30 and 31st the tiny town was overrun with the hordes of brightly hued hot rods and muscle cars for the club’s16th annual Summer Get-Together. Date: 2009-05-21
From split-bumper ´70 Z28s to low-slung "Bandit" Trans Ams, second generation F-Bodies are storming the muscle car scene, thanks to a plentiful supply of inexpensive cars that are easily modified for serious performance. Now you can dramatically improve the overall handling, high-speed stability and tire adhesion of any 1970-81 Camaro, Firebird or Trans-Am with new Geometry-Corrected Upper and Lower Tubular A-Arms from Hotchkis.
Date: 2009-05-12
In the mid 1960’s, engineers at Chevrolet designed a new coil spring and trailing arm suspension system for the C10 that provided work truck capability by day and a comfortable ride for nights and weekends. Four decades later the 1967-72 C10 is an incredibly popular platform for sport truck enthusiasts, thanks to cool lines and muscle car style suspension.
Date: 2009-04-07
There’s only one way to describe an event like the 2009 Goodguys Del Mar Nationals: Perfect. The three day event ran April 3-5 in the tiny beach town just north of San Diego, and we couldn’t have asked for a better show, from the perfect clear blue skies to the enthusiastic crowds and over 1,000 incredible muscle cars, hot rods and customs. Date: 2009-04-06
Chrysler B & E Bodies like the Charger, Barracuda, Challenger, GTX and Superbird are icons of the muscle car era. Owners of these classic muscle machines have had to choose between poor 1960s handling and a new K-member using “Brand-F” technology – until now. The engineers and handling experts at Hotchkis Sport Suspension have developed a new bolt-on Tubular Upper A-Arm kit for Mopar B & E Bodies that corrects excessive caster gain, creates the proper negative camber curve and reduces bump steer. The result is dramatically improved handling, traction and road feel, all while preserving the classic Mopar soul.
Date: 2009-04-01
When it made its debut in 1992, the E36 platform BMW 3-Series was a revelation. A powerful inline six, roomy interior and aggressive styling made every model from the 325i to the vaunted M3 world-class sports cars. Seventeen years later, these cars are an affordable yet highly capable performance bargain. Their one flaw is excessive understeer and body roll, even on the M3. Now you can eliminate understeer, increase traction, reduce body roll and improve overall vehicle balance with a set of new E36 Sport Sway Bars from Hotchkis Performance.
Date: 2009-03-30
Every year, Mopars at the Strip holds a charity raffle for a freshly restored giveaway car, with all the proceeds going to charity. The plan was to show people that our new Hotchkis suspension system for classic Mopars is so easy to install, you can do it anywhere with hand tools. Steve’s idea was to find an affordable vintage B-Body, then do a “live build” at the show where he’d install our suspension, plus big brakes, cool wheels and tires and a few other mods. Date: 2009-03-27
As you know, we’ve been heavily involved in the muscle car community for over 15 years, and we’re always eager to meet new people and talk about the cars they care about. For the past few years our friends in the Chrysler community have been telling us about a fun, exciting all-Chrsyler show in Las Vegas called Mopars at the Strip, and with the recent release of our new suspension systems for classic B & E Bodies, as well as the new Challenger, we thought it was finally time to check it out. Date: 2009-03-18
The 2009 car show season lept off the starting line March 14 and 15 at the Good Guys Orange County Get Together in Costa Mesa, California. The Hotchkis team was at the show in full force, with our new rig setup behind the Good Guys auto cross course and our Project E-Max 1970 Challenger on display. The auto cross was a crowd favorite all weekend, drawing dozens of participants and hundreds of spectators, and by the time the last tire rolled across the finish line on Sunday, Hotchkis customer Mary Pozzi and her 1973 Camaro topped the podium with the fastest muscle car time of the event, 29.1 seconds. Date: 2009-03-16
What do you get for the man that has everything? If you’re the scion of a century-old family business that has dominated the car care world for decades, an icon of “car guy” culture and a friendly face known around the world as a business leader and television personality, you can basically drive anything you want, but how do you make your dream car handle like a dream? Date: 2009-03-03
Four months ago, we debuted several new Mopar suspension systems at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Now we have partnered with renowned builder Steve Strope of Pure Vision Design and is heading back to Sin City for an exciting live vehicle build for the 2009 Mopars at the Strip event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Date: 2009-02-24
Chevy High Performance ran a story in the latest issues about the best "bang for your buck" performance mods, and they listed a Hotchkis TVS as one of the top five. Date: 2009-02-23
Most gearheads got their first taste of high-speed racing action with a bucket full of Hot Wheels and an orange plastic track. In our opinion, those little metal cars are still just as cool as they were all those years ago, and now the wonderful folks at Mattel have honored us with a Hotchkis-themed Hot Wheels Camaro! Date: 2008-02-08
Latest BMW Sport Suspension Package Put to the Test at BMW CCA LA Autocross
Fontana, CA, Feb. 03, 2008 – The Hotchkis Sport Suspension BMW 335i driven by John Hotchkis finished second in class D at the opening round of the BMW CCA LA Autocross at California Speedway.
Date: 2007-11-04
740hp Prototype Porsche Racecar Driven by Mark Hotchkis and Tuned by John Hotchkis, Founder of Hotchkis Sport Suspension
Date: 2007-05-14
2007-05-14 Hotchkis Chief Engineer wins SCCA Solo autocross
Aaron Ogawa, Hotchkis Chief Engineer wins the SCCA AutoX STX class at California Speedway. Aaron piloted his Hotchkis equipped 2005 Mini against tough competition from some super quick Subaru WRXs.
Date: 2007-04-01
Santa Fe Springs, CA - Hotchkis Performance now offers premier suspension installation for the serious driver. Have your car outfitted with the latest Hotchkis Sport Suspension by our suspension experts. We offer suspension restoration, track day preparation, specialized computer alignment, brake upgrades and much more.
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