Due to the financial issues that the country is currently in, Phipps Engineering has decided to focus it's efforts on the Winter Heat season in 2008. In the mean time, much reserach is being conducted on our legends cars on part failure analysis. Other planned summer reserach includes aerodynamic fender research and risk/reward with lightening suspension components.

Past Year's news.....The sedan was brought out of retirement last year with the addition of a new front clip and numerous chassis updates.

The sedan made an appearance at Langley speedway for testing and was run at South Boston Speedway a week later. The car was strong but was had engine problems all day long to produce a mid pack finish after tangling with another car on the backstretch.

We are proud to announce the addition of Jody Archer to the Phipps Engineering team from Edmonton, AB Canada. Jody picked up 3 tenths on the competition with our setup in the car and with a little tuning should be able to pick up a little more on everyone up there.

Recent analysis has been conducted with the lightening of suspension spacers for weight savings. It has been observed on several other cars that aluminum spacers have been used in place of the stock steel spacers. We took this to the next level with several types of aluminum and analysis with another disclosed material. A spacer compression analysis was set up in solidworks to determine how much the spacer would compress under the bolt torque load.

This is just a screenshot of one of the compression tests. All in all, the weight savings of doing this is minimal, and you run the risk with aluminum of the spacer crushing enough to allow bolts w/o locknuts to loosen up during the race.....