Fabstar performance fabrication

03/04/2025

Wheatland brawl at Kansas International Dragway is also brought to you but Bill Suenram owner of rieda pest control in kingman Kansas. Bill is also a hotrodder and many true street guys have seen him or his boy in the white fox body’s. So make sure you utilize bill for your commercial or residential help with pest control and the guy is one of hell of a hunting outfitter and guide. Thanks bill!

03/03/2025

For years we fought implementing technology, wether it was fear from not understanding, fear we wouldn’t be able to implement it, whatever those fears were they blocked us from growth and maximizing our potential and creativity and they caused our ability to have any kind of profit evaporate due to lost time and efficiency of process. 24 hours into autodesk and the plasma table up and running and we’re already putting parts out. This little fl**ge will give racers a nice quality affordable solution that we’re excited to introduce that will give extremely clean results with low cost implementation stay tuned for the final product.

02/20/2025

Wheatland brawl may 31st 2025 Kansas International Dragway sponsor highlight, another small business that supports the racing community with passion, because they themselves love racing and race cars, Barry Smith owner of Smitty's Carry Out and everyone knows they have the best burgers and shakes around! And if you see one of these hot rods at the track shake his hand tell him thanks for supporting our sport and community, and if you want one of the best burgers in the state go to smittys!

02/11/2025

May 31st 2025 wheatland brawl Kansas International Dragway sponsor highlight is

Motor Sport Specialties LLC a locally owned speed shop that is responsible for serving the greater Hutchinson area for a very very long time, Frank Clune took the torch over and is keeping the name running providing access to racers and hot rodders when you need something. Everyone in the car community knows frank and the Clune family, their work ethic and their support of everyone they come across. They are investing in keeping hot rodding and racing alive so go see those guys, give them a like and follow and keep those guys in mind when needing parts!

02/03/2025

For years probably the biggest hindrance to our business has been that we have had to either outsource all of our tabs and bracketry or hand make it now that problem is no more. After years of pushing to make this happen and either schedule, funding or time blocked it every time we finally have a high definition cnc plasma table capable of cutting up to 1/2”! So put this thing to work! If you can make it out of cardboard we can turn it into metal. Brackets, tabs, panels, and we can brake anything up to 1/4” steel and 5/16 aluminum. This will be a massive addition to what we can accomplish and cut down on time and overhead with outsourcing.

02/03/2025

Kansas International Dragway
May 31st wheatland brawl sponsor high light is Matt Funkhouser owner of Funkhouser Racecars

I have been doing business with Matt for a long time now and one thing about Matt is he’s consistently a great person. We were talking about the race and some of the rules and he said man I want to help out put me down for 500$ for the second chance race…. Never asked him for anything didn’t even elude to it. And that’s the kind of person Matt is but his company builds top notch products the access to him is unmatched you need help he answers, you have a problem he helps provide a solution. You have a one of part you dreamed up? Matt and those guys will help with that. Unparalleled customer service and quality. So make sure to say thanks and hopefully schedules will work out and he can make it to the event! Don’t take my word for this guy though do the business and get the experience. His leaf spring products are top notch!

Funkhouser Race Cars

01/26/2025

Wheatland brawl may 31st 2025 at Kansas International Dragway sponsor highlight.

Elektrik Chair Tattoo put up 500$ to the main event winners payout!

I have known greg garcia my entire life, he was actually my first first friend we met in chips and have been friends for over 30 years, he’s a car guy! And their tattoo shop is incredible. They have an extremely talented group of artists and a clean fun comfortable studio. They take pride in the art they produce. Scheduling is convenient and how cool is it that they want to help this event!? How many race car guys have awesome ink? Post it up! And consider one of these artist for your next tattoo!

01/25/2025

May 31st Kansas International Dragway is the 1st ever fabstar performance fabrication true street race. It is 3000$ guaranteed to win the main event, the runner up payout to the main event is guaranteed money back but will go up with every car after 5 cars enter. Guaranteed 500$ payout for the absolutely free second chance race. That was brought to us generously by Matt Funkhouser of funkhouser race cars. All proceeds go 100% to the track and racers. But real quick I want to outline the people that are making this possible and you will see a theme here car guys taking care of car guys. And an event that is strengthening the racing community as a whole.

Frank Clune Downtown Automotive, LLC & Motor Sport Specialties LLC
Greg Dodson Darling Drilling Co.
Barry smith Smitty's Carry Out
Bill seunaram Reida Pest Service
Greg Garcia and team Elektrik Chair Tattoo
Matt funkhouser Funkhouser Racecars
Cindy bell, Clayton Boyer, Gwen Kelley Kansas International Dragway KID
Kenneth and Stephanie Watson Fabstar performance

Honorable mentions to David Brown and Jordan Werner for hitting me up and saying hey this is cool, I want to contribute. And we said hey come to the event if you can but the fact they just reached out and said this cool how can I help?

We will make no secret that this is a little more free than daily driver but more strict than true street and that’s the goal. We want to see those grass roots street cars come out and have fun and we understand unfortunately that even some of those cars won’t fit the rules. BUT! If this event gets the support and goes well we will introduce true street and daily driver into the next event but it’s in every fans and racers hands to see the success of this race and its continued existence.

We hope to see you all their weather permitting. Please go to the tracks page and follow the event page and help spread the word.

Special thanks as well to Chris Padgett and Bryan Bounds for using their awesome street cars on the flyer. We will start doing sponsor highlights immediately.

01/21/2025

We need a couple of cool car pictures of cars that will be at the event for the 1st wheatland brawl true street race flyer. at Kansas International Dragway Saturday may 31st. So if you submit a picture we consider you locked in! Post them up guys! Thanks!

12/20/2024

Swipe to see how it started vs how it’s going 🤩

09/07/2024

Happy Saturday y’all! Just wanted to jump on here and let you guys know that my phone got broken at the shop yesterday evening. If you’ve texted or called, I haven’t gotten it. We are at Verizon now getting a new one but if you need to get ahold of us in the meantime, shoot us a message on Facebook messenger and we will get back to you. Go enjoy this beautiful day!

08/23/2024

We got to post about Andrew Lovetts dart, this is probably my favorite street car to ever come through the shop, because it’s extremely unique. Patina sleeper comfortable tight with new gen performance. I can’t say enough about working with Chris Lovett and the Wichita Dyno family. Super respectful, not pushy, communicated well and trusted me. With a big cube new gen hemi and a hellcat blower and th400 and hub caps this things down right awesome! Thanks again boys! Can’t wait to see it out.

We did the chromoly 8.50 cage, did subframe connectors, swing outs, chromoly tubular seat mounts, and bent everything up to stay tight and did it all with all the glass in the car.

08/20/2024

DO NOT SCHEDULE, SPEAK, REFERENCE,INQUIRE TO ANYONE THAT ISNT OUR PAGE DIRECTLY MYSELF (Kenneth) or my wife (Stephanie) we are the only people that have anything to do with our business. We are not liable if you speak with anyone claiming to be us and giving deposits or down payments or ordering parts. This is one of the reasons that we tell people to reach us on the business page not my personal account. Safety for both parties. It’s insane that someone’s brain even thought of a plot like this. But here we are.

07/30/2024

Bare with us this week as we do our best to navigate this wether with no ac inside cars in cover alls and long sleeves welding laying on hot metal and can’t have a fan on us 🥴🥴 I chose this life so I’m not complaining but shew someone can turn the blow dryer off. Thanks and stay cool!

07/19/2024

Current short turn around openings available!

Hello! We've been quiet on this deal lately, but we're still here! We know rumors can spread quickly, so we wanted to give our customers an update. We have the best customers - hardworking and passionate people who dream and have goals so we wanted to address you all. We've been playing catch-up with our workload for the past year and a half, which has been stressful and nobody wants to wait over a year to get rolling on their dreams.

We have two sides to our shop: small jobs (40-60 hours) and full builds (100s or thousands of hours). To keep our commitments, we decided to stop taking on new work for a period to close that back log of work, and that’s why we got quiet. Our backlog of jobs is caught up, and we're only accepting small jobs for now we currently have 2 long term full builds in progress and we remain committed to getting those projects completed.

With that being said we’re eager to help you guys with updates, repairs, safety additions etc. don’t hesitate to reach out during business hours to discuss how we can help you guys! Stay cool and keep dreaming! Thank you all so much for your continued support.

06/17/2024

My buddy has this nasty ram for sale, it’s immaculate and can pull anything. Pm if interested and I’ll link you up with him. He’s underselling what’s done to the truck for sure. Serious tow rig for someone.

2016 mega cab
133,000 miles
deleted
4 inch exhaust
ez link tuner
american force wheels
6klb winch
brand new heavy duty transmission
40k obo

05/12/2024

This car is something that just keeps sn*******ng and I learned real quick Ryan wasn’t scared he does it full on. Every structural component in the back half is now completed and we can knock the drivers compartment out now and then get to the carbon work! We have a Tin Soldier Racecars 4 link 9” housing, a mcamis wishbone slide, Hammer Concepts and Designs carbon fiber arb, Motion Raceworks steering wheel and tubular column, and TBM F1 drag drag brakes, Strange Engineering 10” ultra 3rd member. And we will be utilizing qa1 mod series shocks. WELD Racing alphas in the back and full throttle series in the front. The Advanced Engine Machine bullet with one of Jose’s GT55 turbos and some methanol the car is going to be awesome. A lot of top notch companies providing the stuff we need to put this in a lot of winner circles when it’s done. Maybe I’ll post all the other cars we’ve done too while doing this one too! 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ just keep pushing forward guys! Biggest thanks most of all to Ryan Sumner for believing in me and letting me glue these parts together and trusting my vision and trusting the process. On to the next part!

02/10/2024

This c-10 came in and we talked and this thing is going to see north of 1000hp at the tire so we wanted to make it work, but we wanted to keep it classy with a lot of the factory style stuff. So we built a fab 9 for it with some moser 35 spline axles, a custom drop down wishbone so it cleared the bed and the drive shaft under hard squats. A arb that will keep the twisting to a minimum. We splayed the coil overs for more articulation control and some side load as this thing is going to see a lot of street miles with ac and heat and power steering. Tubular control arms with instant center brackets to give us maximum control over hard it hits the tires and we integrated the coil overs into the trailing arms for maximum control over the suspension. Putting a 9” in one of these trucks is difficult because of the ring gear centerline over a 12 bolt or 10 bolt. So real estate behind the housing gets slim. Static drop of 5” total in the back if we want it. Everything on this truck was hand crafted fabrication wise. It’s a 1 off deal designed to meet the performance expectations and be comfortable. I can not wait to see this one out. I’d tag the owner but he can be pretty secretive some times so I’ll leave that up to him but I can tell you he’s a great guy and has always trusted me to give him that one off flavor that works well.

In world full of hammers. Be a fu***ng welder.

Ps the fuel cell was just setting in the frame rails it’s not final mounted.