A workshop run
by car people.
Speed Tuning Shop started in a rented bay in Carindale in 2017 with one hoist, a laptop full of tuning software and a stubborn idea: measure everything, charge what's quoted, and never send a car out the door half-checked. That bit hasn't changed.
From one hoist
to three bays
Dmitri spent years tuning cars out of other people's workshops before signing the lease on Scrub Road. The first year was mostly ECU remaps done on a borrowed dyno — until the waiting list got long enough to justify buying one.
The dyno cell went in during 2020, Coop joined to run the fabrication bench, and Ang came on board for chassis work in 2023. These days the shop does everything from a same-day Stage 1 on a Golf to full turbo builds that take a week on the hoist.
Nine years,
short version
One bay, one hoist, a lot of evening remaps. First hundred customers mostly came from a WRX forum thread.
AWD chassis dyno installed. Everything since then gets measured before and after — no exceptions, no seat-of-the-pants claims.
Fabrication bench and a third hoist. Ang brings the chassis side in-house — alignments, coilovers, track setups.
Most weeks it's diesel utes and turbo hatches. Some weeks it's a full build that keeps the whole shop busy until Friday.
Three rules we
won't bend
Measure it or it didn't happen
Baseline run before, proof run after. If a job doesn't move the numbers, we'll tell you it wasn't worth doing.
The quote is the invoice
Fixed pricing on every job. If we find something extra along the way, we ring you first — you decide, not us.
No grenades
We don't write tunes that make big numbers for one dyno run and a tow truck after. Reliability margin is built into every map.
Who's actually
on the tools
Small on purpose. You'll know who worked on your car because they'll hand you the keys.
Dmitri
Ex-dealership tech who got bored of service schedules. Writes every custom tune that leaves the shop and still drives a modified STI to work, which keeps him honest.
Coop
Boilermaker by trade, exhaust obsessive by choice. Runs the TIG bench — dump pipes, custom systems, intercooler plumbing. His welds get photographed more than most cars.
Ang
Does the suspension, brakes and alignments, then tests them properly at Lakeside. If he suggests a sway bar, it's because he's felt the difference in his own car.
Cars out the
door lately
A slice of what's been through the bays — daily drivers, tow rigs and the odd full build.
Intercooler, intake, custom tune — 278kW at all four.
Torque map for towing, +95Nm where it counts.
Full bolt-on kit, E85 flex map — week on the hoist.
Coilovers, pads, fluid, alignment for Lakeside.
Same-day software, +41kW over the factory tune.
The coffee's average.
The tuning isn't.
Drop by the workshop or send the form — tell us what you're driving and we'll tell you what's worth doing to it.