Who is Nameless Performance?
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Who is Nameless Performance?
We are a manufacturer of performance parts located in La Center, WA. Here is a bit about who we are.
I have copy and pasted our intro thread, it was written by the other owner of Nameless, Jason Griffith, enjoy:
Hello,
I'm Jason Griffith, I am one of the owners of Nameless Performance, Inc. This is going to be the 'story of our company's life and what we can do for you' post, so you may want to get comfortable... :cheers:
We're just a handful of enthusiasts who jumped ship from our day jobs as engineers to come together and do what we love - build fast cars and constantly learn new ways of manufacturing a wide variety of engineered and fabricated parts. We have each held jobs in a variety of engineering fields during our careers: Aircraft, consumer electronics, automotive, industrial manufacturing, embedded systems and robotics. And while we were drawn to these fields because they allowed us to seemingly create things out of nothing, we really wanted to work in an environment that took the best elements of each of these forward thinking businesses we worked in and bring them together to build cutting edge designs in the areas we loved. And not just automotive designs, but designs for fabrication tools, designs for automation systems that improve manufacturing and assist small businesses like our own to 'insource' more of the operations that we would usually be commodified and outsourced overseas in our markets. For example, 99% of all exhaust tips available through retail and wholesale outlets in the US come from China. It's a fact. Last week we made our own stainless double wall exhaust tips. For a year we thought 'there is no way for us to compete with an off the shelf price for a finished product like that - it's a labor war and we can't win it.' Then we tried it. And while that previous statement is true for some designs, we have just released an exhaust that only comes with our in house exhaust tips. They look like this:
Two of them are part of a $299 AxleBack exhaust we make for the 2008-2010 Subaru WRX Sedan, and it is 100% Hand Built in the USA - and all either at our shop or within 30 miles of our shop. It looks like this:
Just to give you an idea of what our manufacturing capabilities are, here are some details on the projects we have been working on lately:
Full mandrel bent T304 stainless steel exhaust systems and components - from high flow catalyst downpipes to schedule 40 fabricated exhaust manifolds and catback exhausts, we can build it. We specialize in 3D profiled CNC milled flanges promoting perfect transition of gases - whether it's out of a rectangular cylinder head port and into the circular exhaust manifold runners or out of an internal wastegate and into a divorced downpipe.
And specifically our downpipe for the Sonata Turbo:
We also specialize in air to air and liquid to air intercooling systems as well as a wide variety of intercooler control and secondary heat soak management systems for track days, autocross and drag racing. We have our own line of custom intercooler cores which feature a variety of optimized design details such as perforated and offset fins, proper aspect ratio between charge air and charge cooling rows based on overall system design requirements.
Here is our front mount intercooler kit for the Hyundai Sonata Turbo & Kia Optima Turbo that we developed recently:
High Performance two and three row aluminum radiators with optimal balance of increased frontal area and core cross sectional design. Our radiators feature billet aluminum and mandrel bent aluminum fittings and inlet/outlets, optional multi-pass designs, fabricated CNC laser cut and CNC formed end tanks, TIG welded with 5356 rod for perfect color should you chose to have us anodize your system.
A wide variety of chassis bracing and structural chassis improvements for optimal handling and translation of engine torque to tractive effort. This is an area we love to work on. Using a 4 channel load cell datalogging system, we can dynamically graph chassis torsional forces in real time to determine which locations make a difference and which don't. We're also working on a line of diy or weld-shop installed boxed suspension arm and unibody gusset kits for a number of different vehicles. We also specialize in skidplates and undertray replacement panels.
DOT Certified Stainless Braided over Teflon Brake Lines. Perfect factory style fit, not just 'built to DOT specifications' or 'made to DOT guidelines' like a lot of the ebay cheapo competition, these are DOT Certified and carry the DOT Whip Test cert numbers right on every line we ship. We can build anything in quantities as low as a single set. And of course, this means we have the ability to use the same technology for turbo oil lines, custom oil cooler and dry sump hose kits, cooling system lines and a wide variety of other hydraulic and fluid transfer system components.
Intake manifold and induction tract design and manufacturing - we've got a number of induction projects we are working on right now - from swapping GSXR throttles onto a '72 BMW 2002 with standalone fuel injection to some higher end R&D projects involving top mount injection and 3d profiled roller barrel throttle assemblies. We're also working on a new Supra intake manifold flange design for use with fabricated turbo manifolds.
Engine management and electronic devices - we are currently developing a modular plug and play distributor replacement with coil on plug programmable ignition as well as a number of other sensory and control systems for standalone engine management applications and induction control systems (think variable vane turbo controllers, intercooler ancillary control systems, etc).
The best part is, we're just like you. We're made up of a handful of avid enthusiasts from a variety of employment and automotive backgrounds - almost all of us own overpowered visceral old beaters and their more finicky but refined CANBus/OBDII grandchildren. Whether it's the development of a period-correct looking front chassis brace for a '72 BMW 2002 or designing an intake and MAF housing to optimize velocity and power without spiking long term fuel trims, we've probably done it before, and if we haven't, you can be guaranteed we're having fun breaking new ground and thinking outside the box to come up with ways to validate our designs - whether it's the typical baseline/modded dyno pulls or some other method of tangibly measuring our results.
Our website is here: http://www.namelessperformance.com We have a blog there and the products and a few other articles.
We're also on Facebook here: FB - Nameless Performance, Inc. Everything we do on a day to day basis, updates, new product development, welding and tool tips, video of our entertaining hijinx (say, adding two shop vacs to a bonfire to make a blast furnace hot enough to combust the magnesium out of an alloy automatic transmission case), etc. We also like to shoot inanimate objects. Owning a shop deep in the woods in Southwest Washington has it's perks.
So that's who we are and what we like to do. We're nice folks and we love to work with our customers to build systems that will suit their needs. We all look forward to participating here on the forum and being able to work with you all on making your ideas turn into reality.
We are in the Portland, Oregon area, so the first order of business is for us to find some enthusiasts in this area who are interested in providing cars for us to take measurements off of and develop parts on. We can provide local and national references from people who have entrusted us with their vehicles from as far away as the east coast.
We are also equipped with a ROMER Absolute 6 Axis digitizing arm, which is a portable solution allowing us to translate physical data points from your car into our CAD system. Which means we can go on location, depending on the project, and gather the information we need. Right now we are looking for a Hyundai Genesis 3.8 and 2.0T to develop a variety of our designs on, but we'll pretty much build anything. Last week we did a Land Rover Discovery II high capacity radiator for a customer. Next week we have a set of Ferrari F355 factory downpipes and muffler bypass Y being shipped to us to develop high flow designs in place of the restrictive factory systems.
Feel free to email me at jason.g@namelessperformance.com or call us at the shop 360.263.5001 if you're in our area and would like to have us develop parts using your vehicle. We're particularly interested in late model Japanese vehicles as well as mid to late model European models.
Jason Griffith
Engineering Director
Nameless Performance, Inc.
I have copy and pasted our intro thread, it was written by the other owner of Nameless, Jason Griffith, enjoy:
Hello,
I'm Jason Griffith, I am one of the owners of Nameless Performance, Inc. This is going to be the 'story of our company's life and what we can do for you' post, so you may want to get comfortable... :cheers:
We're just a handful of enthusiasts who jumped ship from our day jobs as engineers to come together and do what we love - build fast cars and constantly learn new ways of manufacturing a wide variety of engineered and fabricated parts. We have each held jobs in a variety of engineering fields during our careers: Aircraft, consumer electronics, automotive, industrial manufacturing, embedded systems and robotics. And while we were drawn to these fields because they allowed us to seemingly create things out of nothing, we really wanted to work in an environment that took the best elements of each of these forward thinking businesses we worked in and bring them together to build cutting edge designs in the areas we loved. And not just automotive designs, but designs for fabrication tools, designs for automation systems that improve manufacturing and assist small businesses like our own to 'insource' more of the operations that we would usually be commodified and outsourced overseas in our markets. For example, 99% of all exhaust tips available through retail and wholesale outlets in the US come from China. It's a fact. Last week we made our own stainless double wall exhaust tips. For a year we thought 'there is no way for us to compete with an off the shelf price for a finished product like that - it's a labor war and we can't win it.' Then we tried it. And while that previous statement is true for some designs, we have just released an exhaust that only comes with our in house exhaust tips. They look like this:
Two of them are part of a $299 AxleBack exhaust we make for the 2008-2010 Subaru WRX Sedan, and it is 100% Hand Built in the USA - and all either at our shop or within 30 miles of our shop. It looks like this:
Just to give you an idea of what our manufacturing capabilities are, here are some details on the projects we have been working on lately:
Full mandrel bent T304 stainless steel exhaust systems and components - from high flow catalyst downpipes to schedule 40 fabricated exhaust manifolds and catback exhausts, we can build it. We specialize in 3D profiled CNC milled flanges promoting perfect transition of gases - whether it's out of a rectangular cylinder head port and into the circular exhaust manifold runners or out of an internal wastegate and into a divorced downpipe.
And specifically our downpipe for the Sonata Turbo:
We also specialize in air to air and liquid to air intercooling systems as well as a wide variety of intercooler control and secondary heat soak management systems for track days, autocross and drag racing. We have our own line of custom intercooler cores which feature a variety of optimized design details such as perforated and offset fins, proper aspect ratio between charge air and charge cooling rows based on overall system design requirements.
Here is our front mount intercooler kit for the Hyundai Sonata Turbo & Kia Optima Turbo that we developed recently:
High Performance two and three row aluminum radiators with optimal balance of increased frontal area and core cross sectional design. Our radiators feature billet aluminum and mandrel bent aluminum fittings and inlet/outlets, optional multi-pass designs, fabricated CNC laser cut and CNC formed end tanks, TIG welded with 5356 rod for perfect color should you chose to have us anodize your system.
A wide variety of chassis bracing and structural chassis improvements for optimal handling and translation of engine torque to tractive effort. This is an area we love to work on. Using a 4 channel load cell datalogging system, we can dynamically graph chassis torsional forces in real time to determine which locations make a difference and which don't. We're also working on a line of diy or weld-shop installed boxed suspension arm and unibody gusset kits for a number of different vehicles. We also specialize in skidplates and undertray replacement panels.
DOT Certified Stainless Braided over Teflon Brake Lines. Perfect factory style fit, not just 'built to DOT specifications' or 'made to DOT guidelines' like a lot of the ebay cheapo competition, these are DOT Certified and carry the DOT Whip Test cert numbers right on every line we ship. We can build anything in quantities as low as a single set. And of course, this means we have the ability to use the same technology for turbo oil lines, custom oil cooler and dry sump hose kits, cooling system lines and a wide variety of other hydraulic and fluid transfer system components.
Intake manifold and induction tract design and manufacturing - we've got a number of induction projects we are working on right now - from swapping GSXR throttles onto a '72 BMW 2002 with standalone fuel injection to some higher end R&D projects involving top mount injection and 3d profiled roller barrel throttle assemblies. We're also working on a new Supra intake manifold flange design for use with fabricated turbo manifolds.
Engine management and electronic devices - we are currently developing a modular plug and play distributor replacement with coil on plug programmable ignition as well as a number of other sensory and control systems for standalone engine management applications and induction control systems (think variable vane turbo controllers, intercooler ancillary control systems, etc).
The best part is, we're just like you. We're made up of a handful of avid enthusiasts from a variety of employment and automotive backgrounds - almost all of us own overpowered visceral old beaters and their more finicky but refined CANBus/OBDII grandchildren. Whether it's the development of a period-correct looking front chassis brace for a '72 BMW 2002 or designing an intake and MAF housing to optimize velocity and power without spiking long term fuel trims, we've probably done it before, and if we haven't, you can be guaranteed we're having fun breaking new ground and thinking outside the box to come up with ways to validate our designs - whether it's the typical baseline/modded dyno pulls or some other method of tangibly measuring our results.
Our website is here: http://www.namelessperformance.com We have a blog there and the products and a few other articles.
We're also on Facebook here: FB - Nameless Performance, Inc. Everything we do on a day to day basis, updates, new product development, welding and tool tips, video of our entertaining hijinx (say, adding two shop vacs to a bonfire to make a blast furnace hot enough to combust the magnesium out of an alloy automatic transmission case), etc. We also like to shoot inanimate objects. Owning a shop deep in the woods in Southwest Washington has it's perks.
So that's who we are and what we like to do. We're nice folks and we love to work with our customers to build systems that will suit their needs. We all look forward to participating here on the forum and being able to work with you all on making your ideas turn into reality.
We are in the Portland, Oregon area, so the first order of business is for us to find some enthusiasts in this area who are interested in providing cars for us to take measurements off of and develop parts on. We can provide local and national references from people who have entrusted us with their vehicles from as far away as the east coast.
We are also equipped with a ROMER Absolute 6 Axis digitizing arm, which is a portable solution allowing us to translate physical data points from your car into our CAD system. Which means we can go on location, depending on the project, and gather the information we need. Right now we are looking for a Hyundai Genesis 3.8 and 2.0T to develop a variety of our designs on, but we'll pretty much build anything. Last week we did a Land Rover Discovery II high capacity radiator for a customer. Next week we have a set of Ferrari F355 factory downpipes and muffler bypass Y being shipped to us to develop high flow designs in place of the restrictive factory systems.
Feel free to email me at jason.g@namelessperformance.com or call us at the shop 360.263.5001 if you're in our area and would like to have us develop parts using your vehicle. We're particularly interested in late model Japanese vehicles as well as mid to late model European models.
Jason Griffith
Engineering Director
Nameless Performance, Inc.
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That last pic has me 
Long have I dreamed of going with a nice set of ITBs with a custom plenum.
That would be especially sweet for the beta tuner because Airrams are so hard to come by and there really is no other aftermarket intake manny.
Long have I dreamed of going with a nice set of ITBs with a custom plenum.
That would be especially sweet for the beta tuner because Airrams are so hard to come by and there really is no other aftermarket intake manny.
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Welcome guys!
I am excited to come down and say hello. I will get in contact next time I am headed that direction.
I think you'll enjoy our community.
I am excited to come down and say hello. I will get in contact next time I am headed that direction.
I think you'll enjoy our community.
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Looks awesome, truly amazing what happens when you decide to become your own bosses, and fate agrees!
Do you guys do the CAM and machining portion, or do you send that out to another local shop?
Do you guys do the CAM and machining portion, or do you send that out to another local shop?
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