Front Wheel Drive Racing Guide

The FWD Racing Guide is done and being sent out now! This final version will get sent to all, along with any updates/revisions. Please pay pal me $20 for all of this information. Please include your car specs and venue along with your basic ruleset. I won't take your money unless I think that the book can help you and your car.

"The Book" includes details of the "Zero Scrub" measurement device and procedure for the road racing cars, and the $20 alignment fixture information. If you follow the book and really don't go anyfaster, I will refund your $20. I started collecting oval track data because there was no really useful FWD racing help. I have also successfully raced ITB cars for many years and have been running in the Chump Car World Series for the past few years as well. Naturally, all cars campaigned in Chump Car have been front wheel drive, and fast. All of the physics are the same across disciplines! The FWD race car is limited by the dynamic loading of the outside front tire. Follow this guide to reduce that loading and you will go faster.

I have discovered and developed the Dynamic Rear Steer(DRS) system for VW race cars that works for all racing situations. The details are included in the bookl. This is the single most successful speed improvement for VW that I have stumbled upon. Please email or call me with any questions.  Contact email is mwogren13@gmail.com 

   or call/text at 1- 352 4288. Nine 83..   USA code 

IMPORTANT: When purchasing the guide, make sure your spam filters are set to allow email from mogren@tampabay.rr.com. If you do not receive the guide within 2 days, please call or email as it is probably caught in a spam or junk mail filter, and we can arrange alternate delivery.

 When new info is discovered, I make updates .  

MM

I'm Mike Ogren, owner of Protech Racing Services. I have been racing for 30+ years. I started autocrossing with the Sports Car Club Of America (SCCA) in a Pinto. Many stock class wins and some college time later, I raced and won a few class championships in stock cars and ice racing. My racing expertise has been in data analysis and low speed aerodynamics. Most recently, I have designed, built, and flown a tandem wing Ultralight airplane.

My thousands of miles as a "Performance Driving School" instructor has led to many race coaching, car setup, and crewchief jobs. I have set lap records at Sebring International Raceway, and have helped many drivers go faster, along with offering setup suggestions for various cars. This amount of track time led to the renting out of track cars and race cars, usually VW ITB class cars. I have raced VWs of some kind for about 20 years, always near the front of the pack.

My son Michael has gotten me back into the racing scene.. We raced karts for a while when he was younger, but speed and safety considerations led us to take up "Ministock" racing . The local track was Citrus County Speedway, about 1/2 hour from my shop.

As a parent of a young racer, I want the best chance for him to succeed. As a result of this desire/obsession, we had evolved our race car to be the fastest in the class for 2008.

The result of our impressive speed, accomplished with the smallest engine in the class, was that the track added 50 pounds to our car. This forced further development of my dynamic rear steer system to get back the dominant speed. Alas, for every three wins, the track adds 25 pounds and we had become firmly enthrenched in the top three speed-wise. The racing was very close, with the top three cars all within the same tenth of a second in lap times.


 As of 2/23 , the Protech Racing/ FWDracingguide.com   VW Scirocco has set 3 lap records at  Sebring in it's last 3 outings.  

 The full course  record of 2:35.7 , held by Ron Bartell in his very well prepped and driven  Full race Spridget, was obliterated  my Michael S. Ogren  on  Jan 13th , 2023 to a new time of 2:34.728.  

 The North Short course record was reset to a time of 1:18 .9 .  , on Oct 16 , 2022

 The South short course/school course Record was set by Mike W. Ogren  to a time of  1:32.4 , on Sept 4. /2022

 This car use all of the seed tidbits in the FWDracingguide .  There is not one thing that makes the cars so fast , but multiple little things that add up.  Death by 1000 cuts.

 Going over data each round helps gain speed where it comes a little harder. 

Protech provides a complete line of services for your race and street cars:

• Race Car Prep
• Engine rebuilding
•  VW racing transmission building .
•  Dyno testing and tuning .
• Microsquirt engineering and tuning. 

Welcome to Protech Services, home of the Front Wheel Drive Racing Guide!

  We also have a chassis dyno for fine tuning your car. Spring Hill Chassis Dyno.    Protech/Mike Ogren built racing engines , tuned on the dyno, has resulted in  one of the fastest VW racing in SCCA H Production.  (1/23) 

 The latest cam designed by me , has  made  the best power and more importantly, class leading torque in the racing RPM range of 5000 to 7200.  This cam is designated  G6 .  It sells for $400, shipped in the USA.  There is a 10 week order time frame required.  It meets the SCCA limit for HP of .425 lift.  

Are you racing a Front Wheel Drive car on oval or road courses? Are you racing a Volkswagen? Then the Front Wheel Drive Racing Guide is a critical key to getting the most from your car and driving style. The information in this guide will help you keep up with the rear wheel drive cars, or dominate your FWD class!

As you can probably tell, I am much better at making cars go faster than I am at designing websites. If you are impressed by really slick sites and waxed race cars, then I may not be the guy for you. However, if you want to go faster and are impressed by results and speed, then I can help you. My race cars are not fancy in any sense. The things that matter are seldom visible, and I like it that way.

Rental cars

•  The  SCCA  H Production VW  Scirocco can be rented at $2000 per weekend plus transit and tires. This car holds numerous track records and can race in HP, FP, GTL , SPU.   
•  Protech will soon have a T5 Mazda 3 available .  Call for details. 
•  1-  352 428 8nine83 .   USA.