Lots of Time and Effort Yields :  A Racecar

It’s science, really.

If you put a group of gearheads in one garage with piles of car parts, ~20 cans of paint, more tools than your local Sears, and a bare chassis, it’s expected that a car will materialize. This week (affectionately dubbed “Hell Week”) found all members of Professional Awesome working at full capacity. The [...]

One coat of green down, four to go!

Just a quick update for the evening, but I feel compelled to share with everyone the progress of our roll cage.
It’s green.
Not just any green, but a shade of green that is so damn awesome that you can’t help but feel a sense of awe when you look at it. Seriously, this green is just [...]

The FedEx and UPS Men Know us by Name.

Is it a bad thing when the UPS and FedEx delivery drivers know you by name? Well, this is the case now, as we’ve been seeing a very steady influx of performance parts at our base of operations. This month, KW Suspensions and 5Zigen made two large deliveries, our Raybestos brake pads and Titanium backing [...]

Progress on the Evolution: Crunch Time!

This has been a big week for Professional Awesome so far, with the Evolution being fully stripped and getting a full interior and engine bay painting, wiring rework, and a refreshing of the engine.

The engine bay and interior are going to be painted a lovely shade of flat gray for a variety of reasons. While [...]

Keep Yourself Safe From Indecent Exposure With an Official PA! T-Shirt!

Do you find yourself constantly running out of sweet shirts to wear? Are you concerned that your current crop of clothing isn’t supporting your favorite race team? Now you can put those worries to rest once and for all with a brand-new, hand made (in our friend Craig’s basement), official Professional Awesome T-Shirt!
Revel in all [...]

JM Fabrications Sponsors Professional Awesome!

Progress continues on the Professional Awesome Evolution as we welcome JM Fabrications to our family of sponsors.

JM Fabrications is the brainchild of Jim McKeone Jr., a DSM (Diamond Star Motors – Mitsubishi Eclipses and their Chrysler cousins) enthusiast who began making parts for his own car as a hobby in 2004. Word of Jim’s handiwork [...]

Professional Awesome Gets Caged!

Don’t worry, no one got thrown in jail or captured, but we did find a new use for 100 feet of steel tubing!
In creating a true race car, one key ingredient is the roll cage. In order to have a cage that lives up to the high standards set by Professional Awesome, we needed to [...]

First Stop for the Professional Awesome Parts Train!

As Professional Awesome continues to gain sponsors, our goodie list just keeps growing and growing. Our first shipment of parts arrived earlier this week, so we decided to put our most photogenic member of the team (yours truly) in front of the camera to showcase our first batch of parts.

That’s genuine excitement kids, we can’t [...]

The Sponsors, They Love Us! So Should You.

Professional Awesome would like to welcome our five newest sponsors:
Cosworth
Cosworth leverages its successful motor sport pedigree, performance technology expertise and globally recognized brand to provide high quality engineered solutions for a growing customer base across diverse industries.
Over the years, Cosworth have developed in-depth knowledge of engines, engine components and engine management systems. This has been [...]

PA Welcomes Grant Davis, Master Mechanic

Professional Awesome is proud to announce the addition of our newest member, Grant Davis. Grant will be leaving the glitz and glamour of Iowa for the excitement and thrills of Indiana within a few short weeks. All sarcasm aside, Grant is a well-accomplished mechanic who shares the same love and obsession with auto racing and [...]