CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF PERFORMANCE

It’s our birthday, but you’re getting the present. AWE Tuning is proud to be one of the oldest Performance engineering institutions in the US. So over the next 20 days, AWE Tuning will take you through our two decades of Performance engineering history – a drive down memory’s fast lane. And over those 20 days, you’ll be receiving special pricing on the AWE Tuning catalog.

AWE Tuning’s “20 years in 20 days” starts… NOW. And runs through October 4th. www.AWE-Tuning.com, 1.888.565.2257, 215.658.1670 or performance@AWE-Tuning.com.

 

Happy bday but no reason to make 4+ threads of the same post, thanks.

 

It’s 1991. Philosophy graduate and German Car Enthusiast Todd Sager hangs a shingle over a single bay garage in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Armed with a telephone and tools, “Air and Water Enterprises” opens its doors (well, door) to early GTIs, and pretty much anything German that would pay the bills. Well, almost anything German.

The company is focused on wrenching on German autos, restorations, and retailing vetted Performance upgrades.

Stay tuned for more of our “20 years in 20 days,” and enjoy the special pricing on the AWE Tuning catalog. 1.888.565.2257, 215.658.1670 or performance@AWE-Tuning.com.

 

1992 - 1994

Our first employee. Air and Water Enterprise's' first employee, Eric Savage (who went on to start Helix Motorsports), is hired and the company's origins in restoration start to shift gears into Performance retailing and installations. Crazy camshafts and, porting and polishing cylinder heads start to make a local name for the company, as a mid-Atlantic Performance boutique for German Performance services.

Stay tuned for more of our "20 years in 20 days," and enjoy the special pricing on the AWE Tuning catalog. 1.888.565.2257, 215.658.1670 or performance@AWE-Tuning.com.

 

 

Time to hit the track. As demand for Performance products increase, track testing becomes essential to the Air and Water Enterprises product development process. The company continues to sure up its footing in upgrading, changing, and perfecting Performance parts; priding itself in filling the gap in the market, where OEM and other manufacturers stop.

Stay tuned for more of our “20 years in 20 days,” and enjoy the special pricing on the AWE Tuning catalog. 1.888.565.2257, 215.658.1670 or performance@AWE-Tuning.com.

 

1996 - The birth of Air and Water Enterprises products. European car service continues, but this year would turn out to be a pivotal point in the company’s history: Air and Water Enterprises makes its own short shifter for the GTI VR6, Jetta VR6, Corrado VR6 and Corrado G60. This short shifter would lay the ground work for the next 15 years of business, creating handmade, in-house Performance Products.

More “20 years in 20 days” goodness lives here.

 

So awesome seeing these old pictures!! And happy birthday!

 

Enter G.I.A.C. Thanks to venues like GTI-VR6, the Corrado-Club of America, and several VW newsgroups, the Air and Water Enterprises name begins to traverse the country. Air and Water Enterprises President, Todd Sager, comes across a company called Garrett Integrated Automotive Corporation, founded a few years earlier, owned by Garrett Lim. Lim and Sager team up, and Air and Water Enterprises is a test facility for this new breed of tuning. Early successes and partnerships between the firms are publicized nationally, and a new industry is helped along into existence.

More “20 years in 20 days” right here.

 

1998: The A4 1.8T. Air and Water Enterprises strategically points itself toward The Business of Performance, and eliminates all repair work from the offering. The company moves to a 2,500 square foot facility, expanding to include a customer service department for burgeoning global demand. Factors of growth in 1998 include the Audi A4 1.8T’s tunability. Air and Water Enterprises becomes one of H&R’s first warehouse distributors, moving the company toward its destiny as a one-stop Performance engineering solution.

Special pricing to celebrate, online, all weekend.