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Built in 1998, Paul Gentilozzi moved in after a massive expansion in 2003 bringing the square footage of the facility to 28,000. Nestled on a 10 acre wooded site in East Lansing's Northern Tier Developement, the RSR Headquarters houses the efforts for the JaguarRSR XKR GT program.

The facility features:

Truck Bay

  • 135 feet long X 65 feet wide
  • Space for 4 full size semi tractors with 53' trailers
  • Areas for storage / cleaning / pit stop practice
  • Due to weather at the time of construction over 4000 cubic feet of concrete were poured in one day for the floor and driveways

Main Shop

4 car bays with storage and Lista cabinets
Separate areas for:

  • shock assembly
  • gearbox
  • part inspection
  • part cleaning
  • electronics
  • carbon fabrication
  • CNC machining room with 12" reinforced concrete foundation

Full machine shop containing:

  • (2) Long bed Colchester Lathes
  • (2) Clausing Mills with Accu-Rite CNC Control
  • Allsteel 2-Axis CNC bender
  • Allsteel CNC shear
  • Manual fabriacting equipment, punches, shears, rollers, and notchers.
  • Surface and manual grinding equipment
  • Drill presses
  • 17' X 10' X 1" thick steel chassis table
  • Cooled TIG welding equipment
  • Kondia CNC vertical machining center
  • Colchester slant bed CNC lathe
  • Well over 4000 pounds of metal stock including: Titanium, four types of Aluminum alloy, ten types of Steel and Stainless Steel, Inconel, Brass, Bronze, three types of Renshape epoxy modeling board and prototype foam, Various other prototying and unusual material

Engine specific machine area containing:

  • 3' X 4' X 1' thick granite surface plate
  • Sunnen engine hone w/ hot honing capacity
  • Sunnen small hone
  • Sunnen cylinder decking machine
  • Sunnen guide and seat machine
  • Lathe

Dynamometer Test Cell

  • Sealed room utilizing Aereated Autoclaved Concrete panels with an 8 hour fire rating and sound supression
  • 1000 gallon captive water system
  • DTS 1000HP engine dyno
  • Fully controllable intake air / water feed and return / exhaust air
  • 40,000 cubic feet per minute room air exhaust
  • Dual 12 inch diameter GT Exhaust Systems silencers totaling 14 feet tall and over 1 ton in weight. apable of reducing a full race engine at 9500 RPM to 70 decibels at the point of exhaust.
  • 40 channel data acquisition system
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