AUSTIN, TEXAS · INDEPENDENT R&D · EST. 2025

This is the work.

Sanchez Performance is not a studio. It's not a consultancy. It's a working R&D shop building things that don't exist yet and documenting every failure along the way. The products come from here. So does everything else.

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Past

What got built. What broke. What that taught us.

File 01 · Past

Started as a vacuum-holding problem nobody had solved in PA12 CF at this geometry. Third generation failed on infill. The failure forced the breakthrough — overextrusion sealing, microporosity elimination, print-in-place barb geometry. Five hardware generations. Now ships.

PRESION catch can render PRESION quarter cutaway — internal baffling PRESION exterior — hose barbs and brass drain port PRESION fourth-generation prototype

File 02 · Past

Pump-free water methanol injection via choked flow. The question was whether tank pressure alone could drive atomization at useful velocities. It can. Nine generations of internal geometry refinement. Currently under revision — PPA failing under hose clamp compression and heat creep. PA12 CF next.

ATOMIZER nozzle ATOMIZER Gen 7 and Gen 8 nozzles ATOMIZER internal nozzle geometry

File 03 · Past

Custom CFD approximation using ray-cast geometry to derive drag coefficients, downforce estimates, and surface pressure heatmaps from STL files. Built because commercial CFD tools were inaccessible, not because the math was simple.

Raycasting aerodynamic solver — surface pressure heatmap output
Present

What's on the bench right now.

File 04 · Present · In The Field

Dual tandem damper, pushrod-actuated rear suspension on a 2005 F150. Adjustable motion ratios. Laser-cut PA12 CF composite rockers with bronze bushings. Built in four months on a $500 BOM. Validates the manufacturing method and the design philosophy before either gets applied to the UF-1. One damper blew on output — currently being rebuilt with in-house printed valve blocks.

The post-runner. Proof of method. A pushrod suspension system that doesn't exist anywhere else at this price point on this platform. The red rocker is PA12 CF. The dampers are tandem. The geometry is adjustable. It works.

F150 post-runner pushrod suspension — rocker detail F150 post-runner pushrod suspension — rocker installed F150 post-runner pushrod suspension — assembly F150 pushrod suspension mockup — red PA12 CF rocker F150 post-runner traction bar weld

File 05 · Present

Born from the F150 build. A fully rebuildable monotube damper with a 3D printed flow-control valve block replacing a traditional shim stack. The geometry is the valving curve — adjustable by reprinting, not by sourcing. Donor bodies from the build. Matched pairs for tandem applications.

File 06 · Present

A staged-elastic bump stop for the post-runner — manage the terminal energy of a bottom-out so the last inch of travel isn't a frame-shock event, and return that energy instead of packing down. Rejected the thin buckling skin (hard TPU folds like paper at ~700 lbf). Rejected the solid crush puck the market sells. Landed on a thick graded annulus that compresses and bulges into its own open tapered bore, with a full-height Yoshimura diamond relief shaping the force curve into a plateau. Rev F prints as one watertight unibody, base-down, no supports. The physics is settled to first order; the printed-TPU modulus isn't — one compression coupon collapses a ~7× force uncertainty before any number gets trusted.

POLYSTOP prototype installed on the post-runner frame POLYSTOP prototype above the leaf pack, frame side POLYSTOP rear — full-height Yoshimura relief POLYSTOP section — graded wall and tapered bore POLYSTOP front variant for the lower control arm
Future

Where this is going.

File 07 · Future

The reason this all started. A ground-up hypercar designed around driver experience, not economies of scale. DOM tube frame. In-house axial flux motors. A 2-stroke V8 with blow-diffuser scavenging, pulsejet assist, and compressed air supercharging. 3D printed carbon fiber and fiberglass body panels over printed molds. The F150 is the first proof of method. The UF-1 is the destination.

File 08 · Future

Proper shop space. Carbon fiber layup capability over printed molds. DOM frame fabrication. The manufacturing method is already defined — what's missing is the space to run it at scale.

File 09 · Future

Pedestals. Every part that failed and taught something. Every part that wasn't supposed to work and did. The third-gen catch can that broke on vacuum. The PETG shims that outlasted the theory. The rocker that cracked so we knew exactly where the limit was. These aren't the parts that build cars. These are the parts that build engineers.

The industry optimizes for the wrong variable. Smooth is not fast. Fast is fast.

This is where the work actually happens. The things worth building are usually the ones nobody has a business case for, so they get built here first and proven before they ever reach the shop.

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Sanchez Performance decal — Smooth is not fast. Fast is fast.

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