Now that I’ve shown you the cutting demo. We took a short tour around the shop. Below is a shot of some of their parts inventory. This reminds me, it’s worth noting that Pemberton Raceworks bought out another company called T2C in 2011. T2C made a bunch of different parts for EDM cars such as front kickup plates. This purchase gave PRW a huge jump in EDM part inventory, and they use those parts in conjunction with their chassis. They also gained the rights to the designs.

Next we went out into their workshop area where they work on their cars. Sitting out here was their brand new chassis for the new SJ10 pancar. The new model is called the SJ10 Chief. They changed a few things from the old chassis, such as making the ESC mounting area a little larger to accommodate the popular Castle Creations Mamba Max Pro 1S speed controller. They also tweaked their pivot block rear suspension to be a bit more stable on longer tracks (they are keeping their original design in production, as it is an unstoppable short track car). Check out the new car!

Joel holding the new SJ10 Chief

SJ10 Chief up close

SJ10 Chief rear suspension design

For comparison, this is the original SJ10 design

Lets take a look at some of the other products Pemberton Raceworks is making. You’ve now seen the old and new SJ10 pancars. Well here is a shot of their SJ12 oval pancar.

SJ12

On this car you’ll see they are running their all new front end. I believe in years previous they were using the front end from other manufacturers, but now they make their own. Here are some shots of that (starting with CAD shots).

This has caster built into the design of it

Carpet oval not your scene? Prefer the dirt? Well, Pemberton Raceworks has that base covered too. They have a full line of dirt oval stuff.

Check out the SJ27 Sprint car! This thing is sick. Steve said it took them quite some time to get everything figured out. In the rules, it said that the nose, cage, body, and rear pod must all be aligned. Where other guys are trying to run different length arms to offset their chassis, PRW chose to offset the body. The car uses all symmetrical parts, so it won’t handle as if it has messed up suspension geometry.

Not to be confused with the SJ27 Sprint, is the SJ27 EDM. The SJ27 EDM is their Eastern Dirt Modified car, although I believe it could be used for 1:10 Late Model class as well. This is the same chassis I showed you earlier in the first part of the post. Notice the T2C kickup we mentioned earlier.

A little note about the name SJ27. It’s obviously not a 1:27 scale, as the previous PRW models use for a naming convention (SJ10, SJ12). This car was PRW Team driver, Dave Peek’s concept. Dave is a leading oval racer on the team and a developer for new product design. Dave’s father, Harry Peek, was a legendary oval racer in his own right in full scale cars many years ago. The number 27 was always Harry’s number, and calling this model the SJ27 pays homage to both Dave and his father.

They also offer another EDM chassis called the SJ10 MV. The MV stands for Mike Valentine edition. Mike was the lead designer on this model, and hence he gets credit in the model name. Here are some shots of the SJ10 MV.

The final product we’ll mention today, you can see in the pics above. It is their 2-4-6 Precision Machined Delrin Transmission Case. This is a revolutionary concept. It used to be in oval racing that you could either run the RC10 3 gear transmission, or the higher ratio’d RC10B3 transmission. Well, this case allows you to run 2 different ratios by just moving the idler gear to a different hole. Before you had to basically have 2 different cars to adjust your ratio to a certain track. This case is precision machined from a solid delrin block. So precisely machined in fact, that the tighter you screw the case closed, the freer it spins (unlike a molded tranny case that will sometimes bind if tightened too much).

That pretty much sums up our shop tour. We ended our meeting with some “Meet The Pros” articles with the guys. Come back to see those posted across the next couple days.

Hopefully we’ll someday get to test some of PRW’s fine products, maybe do one of our infamous build ups. Time will tell, but rest assured Pemberton Raceworks has some NICE stuff out right now. If you are at all interested in going fast, and turning left, chances are they have something you want. They’re always open to new ideas as well if you want to contact them. They do make stuff for other companies as a source for custom parts if you are looking for something special.

Check out their brand new website at www.pembertonraceworks.com, where they will have all of their stuff available for your drooling pleasure. It is currently under construction, and they are adding all of their product to the easy to use shopping cart system for easy ordering. You can still go there and bookmark the site. You can also friend them on Facebook. If you want to get ahold of them outside of those 2 methods you could also email them; for Steve, pemberton@roadrunner.com. For Joel, joelwinnicki@gmail.com, or the company at pembertonraceworks@gmail.com or call 315-292-3586.

We had a fun time checking out the operation, I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to Steve and Joel for the opportunity.