Finally, a car show!

COVID put a huge damper on events on the West Coast and pretty much everywhere throughout 2020 – all the usual shows cancelled, including the highly anticipated SEMA and PRI Shows. In August, we had the opportunity to make the trip out to Pennsylvania’s Pocono Raceway for CSF’s first ever MPACT East – but that was about it.

This year is a weird one. A lot of our day-to-day activities and things we see as “normal” have been altered or taken away completely. As we approached the end of October – things sort of felt out of place. We weren’t scrambling to get our booth shipped, sorting out transport for cars, rushing to get new products to debut – and for the first time in a long time, we didn’t spend Halloween in Vegas.

In the span of four years, the CSF Evo X has gone through a tremendous transformation. Purchased by CSF at the end of 2016, it went from a crashed Pirelli World Challenge car long forgotten and collecting dust at the back of GMG Racing, to being one of SEMA 2017’s stand-out builds. The media buzz circling the “World’s Best Evo X Ever Built” going into 2018 catapulted the car to three top magazine covers, numerous online features, and an episode on season two of Hoonigan’s Build Biology Series.

Built over the course of the last year+, this Turbo S has been an insane partnership build with the best names in the industry. Built for half-mile racing, yet refined for daily driving, the 1,000HP build has tackled a 187MPH run at ShiftS3ctor, is among the top 10 fastest 991 Turbos in the world, and has headlined multiple prestigious publications.

It’s been 7 years since we first partnered up with Michael Essa. As one of the first major partnerships CSF secured as the company debuted into the racing and high-performance markets, its also one of the most close to us. Fast forward to 2013 – Michael had won his first Formula Drift championship, behind the wheel of his E46 M3, completely cooled by CSF products. 

We’ve been all over the West Coast. Based in Rancho Cucamonga, CSF attends most all major shows here in Southern California – from the big ones like Wekfest and Bimmerfest, to more niche shows like the Eibach Honda Meet and Players Select (hosted here at our HQ). No matter what you drive, if you’re local to us, chances are you’ve seen us at a show here.