VAD Design has Relocated.

It’s been over 12 months in the making but the 1st of July 2024 has seen us move into our new premises were we will team up and start working side by side with two companies that have been part of what we have been doing over the last 12 months, so relocating our business from the hustle and bustle of Birmingham to the tranquillity of Market Drayton in Shropshire, rose hill to be a little more precise has been the best decision that we have made in the last decade for our business.

We have a couple of reasons for relocation to Shropshire, the ever growing costs to have a unit and a business in Birmingham as well as the decline in certain areas, plus the and the opportunity to have a 2000 SQFT unit next door to your engine builder and fabrication partner is too good of an opportunity to miss.

The plan is to have the showroom where we can display all of our work from cars, parts, engines in Unit C20 with C21 being where all of the Engine building and fabrication work will take place, what this means is we can now manufacture and build in-house and be self-contained, the move is exciting for all involved and will enable us as a collectable team to do what we love and that’s build GT race cars for the road.  

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VAD Design Head Quarters

Wether its carbon fibre parts, an engine build or a full GT3 conversion get in touch to book an appointment and come and have a chat and see what we can do for you.

Showroom Unit C20 Rose Hill Industrial Estate

Rose Hill Road

Market Drayton

Shropshire

TF9 2UF

Workshop Unit C21

Rose Hill Industrial Estate

Rose Hill Road

Market Drayton

Shropshire

TF9 2UF

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Porsche 997 GT3 R with a difference

We are pleased to announce that our Porsche 997 GT3 R13 LS7 V8 is now officially complete, built by the extremely talented duo at LSX-Performance Kyle and Ashley, this is one Porsche that you will want sitting on your drive way, so let’s look at what makes this 997 so special.

It started life as a very sick 997 C4S and as with most of the 991.1 3.8 engines this one also had the very famous piston slap and not even 100k on the clock, which was the main reason for buying this particular car as we had discussed with kyle 18 month previously that this build would wear our forged 3 piece wheels, along with our R13 GT3R wide aero kit and he would build one of his very special bespoke LS7 V8 engines with this one pumping out 680 HP on its highly tuned AWD chassis.

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Porsche 997 GT3R

Porsche 997 GT3 R

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On this build we worked with Nitron Suspension fitting at set of the NTR R1, that work in tandem by the GT3RR manufactured adjustable arms, that position the wheels to perfection with all the caster and camber adjustable, the set up will need to fine tuning over the coming weeks, although we do like the Nitron set up, all builds moving forward we will be working with our long term partners Bilstein who will build us a system specifically built for our application.

The car needs a bit of fine tuning and the air intake system that GT3RR have developed now needs some miles and we have developed a new engine cover and rear wing assembly where the intake filters reside, the engine also needs its final map, then its just a case of getting this beauty out and about for people to see up close and personal.

We will be building this platform as a drive in drive out turn key conversion with everything done in-house with GT3RR and BCFAB at our new base in Market Drayton Shropshire, we have base models in stock ready to convert, so they are at the stage of choosing your engine specification along with body colour, so get in touch with us for further information.

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Porsche 997GT3R LS7 V8

It’s been a while since we have dropped a blog post and with a build like this one we have going on it needs to be shared globally as we have been asked over and over where is the build at and you will be please to know this build is almost complete.

This amazing 997GT3R build has been held up because we didn’t want to run a conventional GT3R race wing, that’s been done to death and its nothing new, we also wanted to have a 993 style GT2 engine cover with the side air intakes that used to feed air into the air cooled engine bay and its something we wanted to bring to the 997 LS7 V8 builds, but again the GT2 rear wing on a 996 or a 997 isn’t new and we wanted a different look than the usual GT2.

We managed to source a Gemballa style cover, but on delivery and inspection the quality was terrible and a part pretty much fit for the trash, so we decided to revamp and redesign with a cover that could be functional, so the side air intakes will have form and function.

Porsche 911

With any 996 / 997 V8 conversion the air filter will want to sit where the power steering pump is situation so you have to convert to electronic steering and relocate to the front boot, but we dislike that the filter system is getting no cold air as its sitting in the engine bay sucking hot air, with our new set up the panel filters will sit in the engine cover which is an exclusive set up for this conversion.

With the build coming to the end we will be out and about at many shows this year as we can, so follow our network to see where you can see the car up close and personal.

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