My name is John Zeigler Williams. I have a degree from the College of Charleston South Carolina in Business and Corporate Communications. I have my pilots license and have over 450 hours of flying in Cessna 150’s and 172’s, Piper Cherokee and have over 120 hours of night flying. I used to love to practice taking off from the Hilton Head Island Airport and shooting over the Beaufort’s airport, practice some touch and goes and then come back. I was the line foreman at the Charleston International Airport at Hawthorne Aviation and became the FBO manager for the small FBO at the Hilton Head Island Airport.
I have been racing and trying to make engines go fast since I was a little boy. I started racing 5bhp go carts at the age of 7 and then worked my way up to motorcross and then tried my hand at rc qm-40 pylon racing where 4 race planes fly around the pylon course with speeds in excess of 190mph. Engine tweaking has always been part of the racing game and I learned many tricks about porting and polishing heads, cranks, intake ports and this has never left me. Just about every part on my 500whp saab engine and turbo and delivery pipe system has been ported from the head to the intake to the exhaust manifolds to the turbine housing of the turbo.
I have been working on cars for over 30 years now and I have done just about evererything from working at Jiffy Lube to being a Mazda Specialty Repair shop service manager. I worked 5 years as a service writer with Subaru and all the while I wrenched and worked on my own cars and other peoples cars. The racing bug never left me.
While working at the Mazda shop, our main tech Dan, brought in a 1994 9000 aero that he was thinking of buying. As I watched him grin and say I know how to get these to run, I watched as he turned the waste-gate rod of the actuator in to get more boost out of the car. He drove it over and over and adjusted the rod shorter and shorter until he hit fuel cut. I was then handed the keys and we headed up the mountain passes outside Boulder Colorado and as the turbo whistled and the twisty roads fell away, I was blown away at how fast the 9k could handle the tight twisty roads of Boulder Canyon.
I bought my own Saab soon after and now I own a ng900, one black 9k aero and two 9k cse’s. The modding started right away and I soon learned cranking down the actuator was not the right way to get the power out of the car and I ordered up a nice stg 3 kit with full exhaust, viggen ic and ecu to run it all. I have never looked back and have been building and modding my saabs ever since. I now have been through many upgrades and turbos, including the big T28, gt3071wg .64ar, gt3076wg .86ar and the soon to be Holset super 40 turbo. My 9k aero is a nice little stage 3+ that really moves and handles well.
I started tuning soon after t5suite came onto the scene and started spending countless hours comparing stock bin files to the tuned bin files and then started logging and gathering all my own data with the innovate data logging system, logworks and this combined with the tech2 allowed me to figure out some tuning drivability issues I had been having for a long time. I was able to dial out all the hesitation and funky idle issues I was having with my enem cams, light flywheel and previous ecu and now my ng900 with enem 268 cams, light flywheel and seimans 60# injectors idles great. I can now drive it around town with smooth throttle response, no hick-ups or hesitation and when you put your foot down, it screams to life and is a friggin monster.
While spending many hours doing research, I realized there was a market for tuning in my area and went to the local saab shops and tuned their cars to show them what I could do. Bear at East of Sweden, Boulder and Jerry at Mile High Body Shop in Denver seemed to be very pleased and my business has grown from there. I have been able to custom tune many cars now and have tuned quite a few Viggens, 9-5’s, 9000’s, ng900’s, 9-3’s and the numbers just keep growing and growing.
If you would like to try one of my tunes, contact me anytime and I will be happy to discuss the options for your car, what you want to get out of your car, what hardware you have and how you would like the power to come on. We can tune it for smooth gradual boost increase or come on hard and fierce and that is all up to you, I don't have set stages per say, I will custom tune each one to suit your personal driving style, you can have it roast the tires or pull a little higher into the rpm band, you can get a tranny strainer or a more modest tune, its all up to you, everything you want from mild to wild.
-John
