King Motorsports: 2006 Davis Acura Grand Am Cup Race Team
Grand Am Cup Street Tuner Endurance Racing; Testing For the Real World

We all love modifying cars; taking what is ordinary and enhancing it to fit our need for performance and to reflect our own personal style. Just as the rockabilly culture embraced it in the 1950’s, today’s bass thumping generation is tricking out their daily transportation in an expression of self. “Self” being much more than the car… the message boards, the group of friends, the events, the meets, the races… it’s a culture, it’s who you are.

In the last 10-15 years a whole business market has exploded around/within to support this culture’s need. That market is defined by many categories with one of the broadest being “Performance” – those parts that actually improve a cars ability to accelerate, turn, and stop. Unlike mass-market consumer products, manufacturers of performance parts don’t have to spend crazy money on market research to figure out what parts to make. The equation is defined – make parts that improve a cars ability to accelerate, turn, and stop.

Since the beginning the industry has been using Motorsports, or racing, as the testing ground for parts that will be made available for general consumption. If a part can survive a 3 hour endurance race it’s most likely going to work pretty well in the relatively moderate conditions of daily and spirited driving. As a manufacturer/distributor in the business we too use racing as the key proving ground for parts we make and sell.

This year King Motorsports is involved with the Davis Acura/Meccanic Shop Grand Am Cup racing team. The Grand Am Cup series, Street Tuner (ST) Class. ST is limited to four and six cylinder engines producing between 170 and 240 horsepower depending on the car while minimum weights range from 2,200 to 2,925 lbs. Bolt-on suspension and engine modifications are allowed, so the cars end up being very similar what our customers drive on the street — safety equipment aside.

When setting up the Davis cars our own Scott Zellner looked for those parts that have a proven track record of performance and reliability. Below are the key parts chosen to outfit the cars:

Sponsored by Davis Acura
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