SNP Speed Innovations New to Tacoma World...Kinda.

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Hello Tacoma World community. I have just come to the conclusion I have not posted in this section yet and feel I should have started here first lol. Sorry if this is too long, I feel there should be a back story about my technical experience to show I am not a rookie out of my garage even though that’s where I started lol.

My name is Gabe Salazar and I am the owner of SNP Speed Innovations. We at SNP Speed Innovations specialize in EFI tuning and offer EFI tuning solutions for the Toyota 22R/E, 2RZ, 3RZ, 5VZ, 2JZ engines along with supercharger and turbo applications. Some of you may have heard of me but I assume most have not. Although I am new to the Toyota forum community, I am by far not new to the Toyota world.

I first started my Toyota venture when I started working for L.C. Engineering in 2003 while I was actually drag racing my Nissan 240SX. My first task at LCE was the header department. I came in to help finish the first batch of headers LCE made under their own roof instead of outsourcing. Within the next few months I was designing/redesigning headers and exhaust systems and eventually ended up managing that department until I moved on to cylinder heads.

I eventually ended up managing that department as well and in my time building cylinder heads I ported over 600 heads in total, most were 22R/E heads, others were 2RZ/3RZ, 5VZ, and 3VZ. Many of those cylinder heads were flowed on a flow bench. We were also involved in a race program where we built 40ish 3RZ (Race) heads which were big power builds consuming 42 hours of build time each but supported 11,500 RPMs and over 70 lbs of boost. When that race project came to an end I continued building cylinder heads and moved into machining engine blocks as well.

In 2008 I left LCE to work at a local turbo shop doing inconel welding and machine work. The owner of the shop brought me in as well as a few other people to do some R&D for a new train turbo contract. This was put to an end by a new engineer who came into the picture as we were finalizing our development and shut the whole project down, so back to LCE I went.

My return to LCE in 2009 brought me less production work and more custom work along with dyno tuning, since at that point I already had over 6 years of EFI tuning during my personal drag racing career, from my side hustle out of my garage. This experience plus my past history with LCE as well as the turbo experience lead to my position as LCE tuner, R&D, product development, and machinist. This kept me plenty busy until the economy finally caught up to us at the same time the engine builder retired, so I became the next engine builder and we shut the dyno services down.

Conclusion, 10 years ago I decided to start my own business and here I am. I have learned even more in the last 10 years in my travels to many race tracks, working on many different types of vehicles including

• Twin 2000 hp engine boats doing 145 mph on the water at 25% throttle,
  
  
• 3000 hp drag cars
  
  
• 1100 hp 40lbs of boost 4 cyl sand drag truck (I built the engine)
  
  
• Desert race trucks
  
  
• Rock crawlers
  
  
• Road race cars

and a ton of street vehicles before I decided that staying in my shop and manufacturing is where I needed to be.

I have been fortunate to have a great following and customer base which fuels me and my team at SNP to want to build our business to accommodate as many as our customers needs as possible, as we grow. With the help of great people like "1997tacomav6"(in this forum) and his 750k mile truck spreading our legacy and increasing our reputation amongst the Tacoma/4Runner 5VZ community, our business continues to grow and we are forever grateful. We strive to grow and to help the Toyota community grow together.

Thank you for taking the time to read my rant, I feel it was time to give some history about my technical experience to better explain my position and ability in the business we love.

Gabe Salazar, SNP Speed Innovations

P.S. I also own 2 Tacoma's and 1 4Runner.

 

Welcome to TW!
The supercharger and turbo members will be very happy to have you here with all your years of knowledge.

 

Welcome aboard Gabe

 

Thank you very much.

 

Thank you very much