This is DETO’s very first performance shop feature.  As you follow DETO, we will do our best to bring you tuning culture in it’s rawest form while trying to inform and entertain.  With that said, welcome to Jtune Performance, located right in Wilmington, Delaware.  Jtune is a one-stop shop for every grade of the racing enthusiast. 

Jtune specializes in everything from dyno tuning your daily driver to building fire-breathing beasts.  Here, Hok the owner, shows us where they do all of their custom fabrication and machining.

Jtune are able and ready to tune any make or model, but their specialty are Nissan and Infinities.  While I was there, Jtune was currently tuning a Nissan from every level of the spectrum…

10 second Z anyone?

Here’s a 700hp Z that is a repeat customer with Jtune.  Hok says that the owner of the Z won’t stop until the car is in the 9′s.  He enjoys the sheer bliss of walking Z06′s all day   And with that said, Hok made a good point.  After dropping 10-20k on your dream car, why would you take it to the local lube station just so the high school kid working there can strip the nut right off your oil pan? Regular maintenance is part of the package at Jtune.EVO tails on a Prelude, this one had me confused at first..Ahh,…an RB with a Tomei head+Cosworth block=match made in heaven.There’s Mike working on a secrete project for a customer of theirs.Here you are looking at a Nissan SR20 in a FF application.  Yes, you read that right.  You’d normally find this motor in a 240(or in Japan in the Sunny or Pulsar), but it’s being installed in a Sentra.  This customer has something special to show up all his Honda friends…I kinda feel bad, they’ll never see it coming… Mike(Jtune) and Tyrone(DETO) comparing pros and cons of Nissans and Hondas.

Here’s a pic of Niki being caught off guard…
So far I showed you where Jtune resides and what they do.  Hok invited me to follow them over to Wall Twp, NJ for round 3 of Formula D so I could show you Jtune in action.  The car you see is the V-LEDS drift car from Washington state being drifted by the young and talented Dean Kearney.  As you can see below, I had to maneuver around the Jtune staff as they quickly prepped the car in between practice sessions.It took all day, but i finally caught up with Dean.  Dean is from Ireland and went pro at 16 making a name for himself as a fierce competitor in the Prodrift Super Series, he’s now 21 and is determined to take the title here in the states.  All in together here is the Jtune staff.  Starting top left and going clock-wise is Mike, Hok, Niki and Nuri.  As you can imagine, there are plenty of performance shops here in the tri-state that I could have done a feature on.  I picked Jtune for many reasons.  These guys are passionate about what they do, they literally live and breath it from the sheer knowledge they exude to holding their very own track day at Englishtown Raceway.  They are the most down-to-earth group while being on top of their game at what they do.  Do yourself a favor and pay these guys a visit at:

JTune Performance
420 Century Blvd.
Wilmington, De. 19808