 |  | P3 Performance LLC formed its roots by a dedicated group of MazdaSpeed6 enthusiasts after a chance meeting at a local car show. Brian Wolken (CherrySpeed), owner of Willow Restaurant in Arlington, VA mentioned that Jason Jouet (Dadasracecar) and Charles Pettus (Charles) would be welcome to do install work in the parking garage under his restaurant on level "P3". As the weather in Northern,VA grew cooler and cooler, Jason and Charles were eager to began meeting and working there. Soon word spread on the various Mazda Internet forums that a few local Mazdaspeed6 owners were meeting in a parking garage on weekends to work on their cars. Soon others arrived to work too. During the cold winter months it was not uncommon to have 1-8 mazdaspeed vehicles on level P3 in some state of modification. We had lights, tools, and fans in a subterrian temperate climate. Jason Voss (JVOSS65) and Scott Fulton (y2kc0wb0y), regulars working on their MazdaSpeed's, soon befriended the original three and a once casually mentioned joke, the phrase "P3 Performance" was coined to describe the five.
As P3 Performance's reputation for quality work grew, people began approaching the five for install and tuning work on their vehicles. We did small jobs originally such as simple CAI installs and brake work but quickly graduated to complex installations like clutch, turbo and engine replacements. P3 Performance quickly realized that no real tuners for turbo charged Direct Injection platforms were available. Utilizing the founding members strong mechanical intuition and prior experiences, P3 found that their hobbie was gaining unsurpassable momentum to form a company and tend to the growing DISI communities needs. From this point forward the idea of a real business was hatched and through our connections with Custom Performance Engineering P3 was able to secure a permenant space - above ground - and a new state of the art fully coupled Eddy Current Mustang Dyno to begin tuning with.
Today P3 Performance LLC is a full service performance shop providing state of the art tuning, install, motor building, race preparation and new product development for direct injection applications such as the Mazdaspeed3, Mazdaspeed6, CX-7, and BMW 135i, 335i, and 535i among other direct injection and conventional port fuel injection cars. The automoblie industry as a whole has shifted its thinking to produce powerful cars that are yet still fuel efficent. Turbocharged 4 and 6 cylinder engines with Direction Injection are leading the technology bubble. As this new technology emerges, P3 has positioned themselves as performance experts to help you extract the most from your car's original potential. |
