"For as long as I can remember I have been interested in high performance," this is a quote from President and Owner Bob Johnson of Johnson Engine Technology™.  Every little boy dreams of driving the fastest vehicle.  For Bob Johnson his vehicle is the harley, and it is the fastest.  While in high schoo,l his drive for high performance stemmed from drag racing muscle cars (now vintage).  After he left the navy as a machinist mate he took up drag racing again, but in a little different style.  Johnson drag raced mainly Suzuki GS 1100 Japanese motorcycles.  His successful drag racing career landed him the National Motorcycle Racing Association Championship. 

In the 1980s he was a critical part of a design team at Aston Martin's re-entry into Group C racing in Europe.  This is a form of  European automotive endurance racing.  In this form of racing, the cars can only run so much fuel (only 93 Octane).  The goal was to design an efficient engine that would run well on 93 Octane, be fast enough to win, and reliable enough to make it to the finish line with the limited amount of gas.  The program was a success and an adventure. 

In 1992, after Bob finished working on this project, he opened up his own business in his backyard garage and began to primarily focus on Harley Davidson® high performance, meanwhile doing a little more drag racing with the Sportster® to the left.  What was the then called Johnson's Tuning was growing too large and too fast for just himself and his home garage, thus making it time to expand.  He changed the name of the business to Johnson Engine Technology™ and moved the business to a larger location in Westerly, Rhode Island.  Now that Johnson Engine Technology™ is growing even more, I wonder where he will move to next.

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