Made a stop to see the VW MAN Lou Hodi at HODI'S PERFORMANCE in Englishtown, NJ.
Lou specializing in VW’s Audi’s and Porsche’s and is noted for his VW aircooled watercooled expertise. His business was started by his father back in the 70’s. When his father left the military he started working at a VW dealer for a few years, then started his own being in the industry for over 42 years he knows the ins and outs of these cars. In 1997 Lou took over the family business.
He’s not afraid of challenges he always finds a way. One reason why he still in business other than the fact that he does great work and he cares for the customers making sure their car is safe for the road. Or at least informing them before something bad go’s wrong.
Lou takes on bigger projects recently he built two 6 cylinder turbocharged 930’s for Rob Ida Concepts. Rob did the body and interior while Lou redid the brakes, suspension, motor, and trans on both cars that to SEMA. He also build high performance beetle engines for his customers. He just did a 2110cc bug motor in a 356 speedster kit. He fabricated the motor to look like a old Porsche motor when really was a high performance bug motor pushing about 150 hp to flywheel making that fiberglass kit car fly down the road.
In the early 2000s he built a MK3 GTI with a VR6 and put a EPI turbocharger kit on it. Lou was making his own axles when race axles at the time were $2000. He made the intake manifold, turbo manifold. Mostly everything on this car was fabricated by him or was a part that need to be fabricated to fit and make it work. It came to a point where they had the fastest front wheel drive VW in the world running 10.23 @138mph.
Check out more of what Lou can do for your VW, Audi and Porsche on his Facebook page, Instagram and YouTube pages.
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