In 1998 Javad Shadzi, the founder of 034efi, was involved in tuning Audi 5-cylinder motors with CIS mechanical fuel injection systems. Being limited by the lack of tune-ability of the CIS system, and the performance limits it placed on creating power output past the 250hp mark, he began researching solutions to allow the true potential of the fundamentally good 5-cylinder platform. After researching many CIS modification options, he determined that electronic fuel injection was the best way to tune the 5-cylinder, and any other engine to its maximum potential.
The solution involved an ultra fast and powerful 32-bit Motorola processor, the most powerful ignition and fuel injector PWM drivers available, and a flexible, easy to use software interface backed by intricate algorithms.
Today, 034EFI is one of the premier fuel injection and engine management developers in the Audi/Volkswagen market and beyond. The flagship ECU model, the 034EFIStage IIc, features fully programmable coil-per-cylinder, degree based ignition with sequential staged fuel injection, closed-loop oxygen sensor and idle control, launch control, turbo anti-lag, boost control, data-logging and many, many other features. Constant development means more innovative features in the future and an ever competitive product to whatever comes along.
Due to an ever expanding line of product and innovation for more than just engine management, the company is now called 034Motorsport. As was the company's genesis, 034Motorsport is committed to creating engine management and motorsport solutions for your project application.
About Us
The "automotive aftermarket industry", like any industry, is filled with companies that operate for many different reasons. Some companies are a machine for profit, ie: Capital is invested into product categories that are in demand by a large enough, and accessible enough, portion of the market, in order to create a return on investment [profit] after the overhead costs.
Some companies are created by individuals who were a good mechanic or engineer, who have a skill for developing product, but their lack of business or marketing skill prevent the company from ever creating the value that larger, well thought out business plans create - economies of scale, diversified input, a thriving organization, innovation and efficiencies. They remain small, quirky product suppliers that struggle to ever create real value or innovation that ultimately benefit the end customer (the whole point of any company!).
034Motorsport is founded in a passion for the product, passion that drives development to high levels of refinement, and pushes innovation to levels that force others to imitation.
The goal at 034Motorsport is apply our passion, experience, skill, capital, resources and proprietary network of suppliers to create innovative, essential products for building the highest level of automotive performance. We are not simply a "distributor or reseller" of manufactured products (there are plenty of other companies doing that already). Our intent will always be to develop, manufacture and offer products that make us excited to unlock the doors everyday and put in 12 hour days that are essential to running a leading-edge business.
The Team
Javad Shadzi, President and Director of Product Development, Head Tuner
Founder of 034Motorsport and head of product development, Javad Shadzi combines his passion for fabrication and motorsports with a drive to create a company that is the foremost consultant to ultra high performance development projects. We call Javad the "Mad Scientist" as he insists on pushing his car's power and abilities to constant new levels. His daily driver has been driven less and less as of late, with over 900HP in a lightweight chassis we can understand his hesitation.
Christian Miller, Test Driver, Tech Support and Harness Development
When he's not stashed away in our harness room building your custom "034EFI Plug In Harness", or supporting you with your tech questions, Christian is out tearing up the track in the 034Motorsport World Challenge Jetta, his SCCA Spec Miata, his E46 M3 or his 500HP 034EFI powered, 20vt Coupe Quattro. Christian's passion for performance and motorsport shines through every time he picks up the phone or pins out a harness, and no one makes our products look better than when he's behind the wheel. Should you ever be so lucky, just be careful not to eat before he gives you a ride.
Lou Calderon, Office Manager
Lou comes to 034Motorsport with over 20 years of banking and book keeping experience, her job is to keep the money in order, ensure bills are paid in a timely manner, and also to make sure you've paid for your parts before they've shipped. Lou's motorsport ambitions are still in their infancy, however her Ford Minivan is begging for some 26" triple-gold-blangers and front-back-side-to-side hydraulics. Lou keeps all the guys in the shop in-line as well, ensuring everyone is washing behind their ears and paying off their employee purchases on time.
Nate Stuart, Product Development Engineering, Senior Tuner
When 034Motorsport needed a relenting, intricate, innovative product development specialist, we scoured the country - little did we know our candidate would materialize from the soggy, rustic, moose-enfused backwoods of Maine. Nate is no stranger to the rigors of motorsport development, his hands and engineering wit forged in epic Renault R5 back-road breakdowns, 034EFI turbo conversions and V8 twin-turbo, cone eating autocrossing initiatives. Nate was originally 034EFI customer number 3, he soon proved himself more than capable and enthusiastic of applying the power and flexibility of the system to many innovative applications - he now spends his sunny California days pushing product development of the system in new
and exciting ways.
Dan Eckerman, Senior Sales and Customer Service
034Motorsport isn't some conglomerate shipping warehouse, so when it came time to artistically and chivalrously assembling each order that came in, we needed an equally delicate and passionate professional to facilitate this. But that's just the smooth outer layer, dig deeper and Dan is a motorsport enthusiast through and through with a history of turbo'ing NA 2.5l Subaru's and tearing up the tracks of N. California at driving events. When you need help with 034Motorsport parts or orders you've placed, rely on Dan to swoon you into motorsport heaven.
Mike Rohrbach, Senior Performance Tech
034Motorsports is a demanding environment with unparalleled standards that drives most "factory trained wrenches" to fall to their knees and weep at the complexity, non-linearity and creativity required to develop product and finish performance projects in such a dynamic laboratory.
How does a complex, custom fabricated turbo system go together? - ain't no Bentley manual gonna tell you that. Intricate wiring harnesses, interlaced with factory assembly procedures for complex cam timing with a custom-fabricated-bracket chaser is all in the cocktail for an 034Motorsport performance barista.
Mike came to us with years of factory Audi and Porsche training, topped off with crew chief duties for the 034EFI powered Randy Hill 1.8t powered Rault chassis race car. His 200HP normally aspirated, 034EFI powered bug was the cherry on top. Rest assured, Mike is part of the 034 crew that helps whip the lusty froth on your 034Motorsport powered project.
Niles Williams, Performance Tech
As in all departments at 034Motorsport, we are growing, and often we feel we're behind the demand of our customers. To combat this and get caught up more comfortably, we brought on fresh face Niles Williams. Hot off the Oregon Trail from the East Coast, Niles injected our service department with a manifest destiny spirit of conquerization! In his first month here he performed four 2.7t engine pulls and dozens of other advanced service projects for our customers. Audi trained and "mad wicked" talented, Niles is here to keep project deadlines on time, facilitate complex service and motorsport installations, and to ensure customers always leave with a smile on their face.
Adil, Jr. Performance Tech
The average day of an 034Motorsport hydraulic automotive lift is filled with a smorgasbord of high performance German sedans. In one day our Benwil lift could see a 500HP wide body Urquattro, a 550HP Stage 3+ B5 S4, a track prepped B7 RS4 or a bone stock 5000 Turbo Quattro simply getting an oil change.
Our lifts are busy, busy holding up cars for our techs to work on, one of those is now Adil. We brought on Adil to help take up the slack in our daily service schedule to ensure we can get customers in for service in under a week, often the same day. Adil is driven and that's what we love about him, years ago starting out as a shop runt at an independent auto repair shop and working his way up, he is now a talented and careful tech artfully completing timing belt jobs, suspension swaps, turbo conversions all in a day's work.
Sherwin Sandhu, Senior Fabricator
With the heavy, ever growing load of custom fabricated parts that 034Motorsport offers, capacity had to increase, and what better way then to have Sandhu on the job to help out. Sherwin is young, but the kid can weld, and he wears the most "bling-tastic" welding outfits West of the pimp ghetto welders in E. Harlem, New York. T304 stainless steel's worst nightmare? - Running into Sherwin in a dark ghetto alley-way, TIG torch in hand, there will be a beat down for sure, along with some serious heat and penetration, the base metal won't even know what hit it, YO.
Sean Sandhu, Fabricator
Sherwin Sandhu has been the 034Motorsport Senior Fabricator for several years now, but as our products became more and more demanded, Sherwin ran out human capability to get it all done. Though he could do the work of 3-men, we just needed more. What better way to meet this gremlin of a challenge but to delve into the Sandhu gene pool...
Sherwin becomes very focused when he's TIG welding, so one day when he was in the zone, we poured some water on his back. Soon his back started smoking, bulging and Sean Sandhu popped out. Though we still need to make sure the Sandhu bro's don't eat after midnight, they make an awesome team, cranking out high quality fixtured and TIG welded motorsport parts for our hungry customers to consume.
Rajvir Kalsi, Performance Manufacturing Machinist
In the world of Motorsport there are leaders and there are followers, there are copiers and innovators. In order to be a leading innovator you need experience, drive and passion to create new concepts and work them out until they are ready for consumption. You need tools and equipment that bring advanced concepts to life for testing, and you need skilled staff to bring it all together. Advanced manufacturing resources in house means that 034Motorsport can create virtually any product more quickly and less expensively than outsourcing. This translates to higher quality product and actually lower prices to the customer.
Raj fills his role at 034Motorsport by running our three Haas CNC machines, with over 10 years of machining and manufacturing work experience he can fixture, setup, machine and test our prototypes and products to the highest standard required.
Paul Gutierrez, Senior Shipping Manager
Shipping and inventorying product is a serious job here at 034Motorsport, if anything goes wrong in this area then customer satisfaction is compromised. Paul came to us with a bubbling enthusiasm for Audis, after some careful research, the fact that he owned three Audi 5000 Quattro's sort of tipped us off that he was keen to the brand. Paul has an almost military-like drive in his role over shipping and inventory, rest assured no standard is too high, no mission impossible.
Josh Hale, Sr. Manufacturing Technician
At 034 we manufacture thousands of our own products in order to fill niches in often quirky applications that have been ignored by other companies. This is no small feat, many of these products besides being complex to manufacture, have different versions for esoteric differences in model years and changes VW and Audi constantly make. In order to ensure that product is not only on the shelf, but accurately made, we employ staff like Josh and Randy Brown to ensure what you get will fit your car and deliver as advertised.
Josh is a hands-on kind of guy, he originally started in our shipping department handling your packages, but quickly showed he had a passion for manufacturing. Josh has helped 034 create processes that help make parts more quickly and more accurately. From welding, to fixturing, running our CNC machines to quality control steps, Josh has his hands deep in all areas of 034 product manufacturing
Randy Brown, Manufacturing Technician
In order to keep thousands of 034 products on the shelf ready to ship at your every whim, it requires staff like Randy. Before each product is shipped, staff like Randy test fitment and quality to ensure it meets high 034 standards. 034Motorsport is not simply an order and sell sort of company like many are, we actually conceive, prototype, test and manufacture thousands of products in house, this means that we need more than mindless order takers and "box transfering" people, we need smart, dynamically thinking, creative "passionistas" to meet our high standards and lofty goals for product in the VW/Audi aftermarket.
Sam Resnick - Sales and Customer Service
They saying goes, as well as the truism, if you don't believe in what you sell, you won't be very good at selling it. Our sales philosophy at 034 isn't one of "selling", we're not trying to talk anyone into buying anything they don't want or need. We make products that people want and need, so "selling" is just a matter of assisting and supplying customers with the right information to make their best decision. For years Sam was a loyal 034 customer, and now he's joined us to help you with your go-fast decisions at 034.
We liked Sam, not only because he was already a user of 034 parts, but had a past in customer service. Sam genuinely wants 034 customers to be happy, and
he is willing to do what it takes to do just that.
Ryan Santos - Performance Packing and Shipping
We brought on Ryan after completing the Jim Russell Racing School Mechanics Training Program, a year long in depth plunge into performance and racing technical training. This showed us that Ryan was serious about a life long career in motorsport and performance tuning. Currently Ryan is responsible for carefully packaging all shipments that our facility, from small nuts and washers, to delicate electronic components, 034EFI Standalone systems to large exhaust and turbo systems. Ensuring these parts are packaged carefully, to arrive to you damage free, is a very important job, entrusted to Ryan, we know your parts are in good hands.
Max Stanton - Manufacturing and Online Marketing
Thanks to destiny, Max now works for 034Motorsport helping make our customer's go-fast dreams come true. Every once in a while, someone comes along, and they are just the perfect fit - Max was just that. A lot of guys, while in college, spend all their time going to parties, getting girls drunk and trying to shag them. Max was a lot different...in addition to those activities...he included pulling 2.7t engines for fun and helping friends upgrade their S4's to Stage 3
power. When a guy can squeeze performance tuning into a busy, busty college schedule, doors at 034 fling open so it seems. Since Max is such a "hands on" guy, we put him right to work in our manufacturing department fabricating and assembling many of the parts in our vast product line. He also helps out in our 034EFI Plug In Harness building department to build harnesses for customers running our 034EFI Standalone systems. You'll also see Max out on the forums representing 034 and helping answer or assist with tech questions.
Sarah Vasquez, Book Keeping
When you do as much "HP Delivery Service" as 034Motorsport does, the paper trail gets ugly unless someone is responsible for keeping it all in order. Sarah makes sure our accounting system is getting all the data it needs to take into account all the financial happenings at 034Motorsport each day. From paying bills, to getting invoices paid to the thousands of daily financial transactions, Sarah is ensuring everything balances out at the end of the day.
Javad Shadzi, President and Director of Product Development, Head Tuner
Christian Miller, Test Driver, Tech Support and Harness Development
Lou Calderon, Office Manager
Nate Stuart, Product Development Engineering, Senior Tuner
Dan Eckerman, Senior Sales and Customer Service
Mike Rohrbach, Senior Performance Tech
Niles Williams, Performance Tech
Adil, Jr. Performance Tech
Sherwin Sandhu, Senior Fabricator
Sean Sandhu, Fabricator
Rajvir Kalsi, Performance Manufacturing Machinist
Paul Gutierrez, Senior Shipping Manager
Josh Hale, Sr. Manufacturing Technician
Randy Brown, Manufacturing Technician
Sam Resnick - Sales and Customer Service
Ryan Santos - Performance Packing and Shipping
Max Stanton - Manufacturing and Online Marketing
Sarah Vasquez, Book Keeping