Read Speed

Name: Read Speed
Address: Littleton, NH, 03561, US
Telephone: +16039915111

⚡️Welding, Fabrication and Machining⚡️

Motorsports to machinery and everything in between!

06/03/2026

⚡️Rally Car Rollcage Build Part 6⚡️

Door bar and sill bar design is unique to the customers specifications. They use stock Impreza door cards and like to retain as much of the card as possible so it’s a balance of functionality and placement.

The sill bars need to clear the stock seat adjusters so they are also a compromise of functionality and placement. I bend the ends up and away from the cage boxes so the lower cage legs can be welded completely as well as the sill bars themselves. If they met flush on the bottom I would have to remove portions of the rocker to get welding access.

05/24/2026

⚡️Impreza Rally Car Build Part 5⚡️

Do you have a 93-07 Impreza and live in the rust belt? If you answered yes to both of those questions chances are you’re or you’re going to experience rust on the rear strut towers.

This particular car had been repaired in the past and was done so in a way that wouldn’t provide a safe spot for me to add rear cage boxes too. I was able to remove the previous repair and what was left of the tower and weld in new .125” strut plates to hopefully stand up to the rigors of gravel roads this car is destined for.

The C-pillar or rear down bars as I like to call them are fashioned very similarly to the front a-pillar bars where there’s a 20° split in the bend planes. I was able to get these particular bars to touch the roof skirting as well as the c-pillar to be welded further into the process.

05/03/2026

⚡️Excavator Bucket Repair Part One⚡️

I do more than cars! With the addition of my new CNC milling machine I’ve been able to open the realm to all sorts of machining jobs.

This customer brought in a badly mangled excavator bucket that needed a new floor, lip, and cutting edge added on. Follow along as I make the new lip!

From repairs to custom parts, our in house CNC equipment can get the job done! Find me here or at my website: readspeedllc.com or give me a call/text at: 603-991-5111

12/16/2025

It’s always nice to help out a local business and I just happened to owe Myles of Barnes Tree and Landscape a favor when he called asking if I could do some quick work to his log truck.

I’m told the bunks on a log truck take quite the beating so it’s no surprise they were cracked. Gouging out the old welds showed signs of porosity which likely didn’t help the situation. While I’m no veteran behind a stick rod, I was able to get the bunk supports back together and the step panels back in place.

If you have any tree/landscaping work you need done Myles is your man. Give him a call at (603)-838-6104!

11/25/2025

I took a break from repairs last week to build a complete stainless exhaust for an Audi A4. I constructed the entire setup from vibrant_performance 3” 304L and backpurged the whole thing during welding.

Starting in the bay, I was able to snake the flex bellows, wastegate recirculating tube and hanger flanges all in roughly the stock location making the downpipe a modification-free install. The B7 tunnel allows for an almost dead straight midpipe allowing plenty of ground clearance. This customer opted for a single exit, blast pipe style muffler that they supplied. I added two flanges to the rear section allowing for the change to either a dual exit setup or for a different variety of muffler.

While I don’t get to fire up my TIG welder as much as I’d like to, that doesn’t mean we can’t handle any of the stainless, titanium or even Inconel jobs you might have for us. Have a project car you want out of the driveway? Let us finish over the winter for you!

11/16/2025

I needed a good excuse to try out my overhead hoist and the ripped belly pan of this brush hog made for an excellent test subject.

I stitched the belly pan back together with some strips of steel spaced every few inches. A previous repair prevented complete removal and the seam was far too large to simply run stringers down. I rebuilt the portion of the deck where the blades came through with thicker material to hopefully prevent further damage.

With winter fast approaching, now’s the time to fix all your equipment before it’s stored for the winter! Brush hogs, buckets, plows, cutting edges, and more, we will fix it all!

10/28/2025

I had a box truck come all the way from Bangor Maine for some magic!

The original boxes were some form of laminated wood sheathed in plastic with steel bottoms. The free floating nature of the boxes leaves a lot of strength on the table.

Rather than copy the OEM, I created a complete frame for each of the boxes that in turn was welded directly to the main structure of the box. I doubled the thickness of the floor of the boxes to help with whatever tools, chains, or other unnecessarily heavy things contractors throw in these trucks!

10/22/2025

There is never a shortage of rusty pickup trucks in the Northeast, this Chevy Silverado being no exception to that rule. Unfortunately the crossmember was getting a bit tender and showing signs of its age.

This one wasn’t so far gone and I was able to find good solid metal without losing too much structure. I bent up some 11ga cover plates that wrapped around the bottom of the crossmember and welded them in place. I made sure to add clearance holes appropriately sized for an Impact socket to be able to access the front lower control arm bolts.

Rust repair, when attended to early, is almost always easier on me and cheaper for you. Give me a call if you want your winter project off jack stands by the spring!

10/19/2025

Had a bucket from a mini excavator dropped off with torn mounting ears.

Rather than attempt to massage an already damaged bucket back into place I opted to cut the cross tube out and come to find out it’s not really much thicker than your average exhaust tubing.

I was able to replace the tube with a .250” wall piece of tube that I had in stock, get the mounting ears back to a usable location and buzzed it all back together.

10/15/2025

Had a repeat customer come in needing to finish mowing that very day after hitting a rather large rock. The deck was also cracked at the corners and looked like it had been like that for quite some time.

Time was short so I made use of the farm jack and pried the deck back down and ran stitches all the way around. I drilled and gouged the cracks and buzzed them back together as well.

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Littleton, NH
03561

Telephone

+16039915111

Website

http://readspeedllc.com/

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