Auto Verdi take their rod and pumps to success

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The Auto Verdi Company has during many years been working with different drag racing teams to develop their rods and oil pump for drag racing. They have also been a trustful sponsor for Pro Modified and Pro Stock classes for many years. And they intend to continue with that.

Auto Verdi is manufacturing rods and oil pumps of the highest quality and they gives their customers a winning racing concept. Most of the NASCAR and Pro Stock teams in the United States uses Auto Verdi’s products. The company have been investing in new products, including integrated oil pump with oil pan and even an oil pump to the Hemi engine, used in the Pro Modified and Funny Car classes, which is mounted on the original mounting point.

The company is diStefan Verdivided in two Steen Skodborg Auto Verdidifferent factories. One is located in the town Smedjebacken, about 200 km north of Stockholm, as Stefan Verdi, the founder of the company, lives there. He is manufacturing rod for all kind of racing vehicles. The other part is located a little bit further north, in the Djurås village, where Steen Skodborg is located. He runs the oil-pump part of the company.Both very skilled and high-tec productions as it shows at the NASCAR tracks in US for example.

It all started in the 1980s when Stefan wanted some more speed in his Alfa Romeo. First he went thru the whole car very carefully. And as he is a perfectionist he discovered that the rods was not in the Verdi-condition.

– I´m a trained and educated toolmaker and I had the equipment to manufacture new rods that suited me much better, Stefan tells.

1993 did Stefan bought his first CNC operated machine and moved from the parents garage to a more suitable place. 1996 did Steen Skodborg take place in the company with his skills in cad-cam processing.

– The first pumps was installed in Michael Malmgrens Pro Stock car, says Steen. Then we got in to the Trans Am-series, which was a good start. After that we went to the NASCAR teams and also to branch shows around US. 2000 Joe Gibbs Racing took in the pump in their engines and 2002 they got their first NASCAR series win. And that was the start of the US market. Our pump have been installed in the winner car all years after that, except for two year. Today about 80% Nascar teams have install our pumps and rods.

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The two guys are now also going for other motorsports like rally cross, track racing. And they are also class sponsor of Pro Modified.

– We wanted to expand the pump manufacturing the Pro Modified class was very interesting to work with and it was a class that we wanted to be involved in. So we did built two models for about a couple of years ago, says Stefan.

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The two models of the Auto Verdi Pro Modified pumps is easy to mount as they fit on the the original Hemi-engines. One is mounted to the original place as standard Stock Hemi pump are mounted. The second one have an integrated oil pan and mounts straight on the engine. Today there is a couple of European teams using the Auto Verdi pumps mounted, and more are to come.

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