We all know the brand name K&N Filters.  They are huge sponsors of all types of motorsports and

their presence is everywhere.   Ken Johnson and Norm McDonald founded K&N Engineering in

1969 and was essentially a small family run business in Riverside.  It has since grown to over 700

employees worldwide and annual sales in excess of $150 million.  Still located in Riverside, they

are  the largest manufacturing company in the county and when they offered a private tour of their

facilities, I knew our Club would enjoy it.

We had 35 Vipers show up for this tour !  We got an inside look of  the manufacturing, testing, R&D,

and shipping.  Really incredible, state of the art facility.

John and his grandaughter

Justin, Mike and Bruce

Lisa, Mikan and Ron

Dave

Raj

Miraslova and Ted

Denny

We arrived at the K&N facility right on time

As usual, getting all the Vipers parked took the longest time.

Brent

Cher and Luke

Ted

Hirk with his 3rd donut of the day

Corvette with a Tramp stamp

A huge Thank You to Rich, Darrin and Bert for spending their day off touring us around the facility today.

Dyno room

Carbon fiber lay up room

Air flow testing room

Engine dyno room

Garage where they kept some of their really cool cars

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You don't get a true sense of the immense size of this building with pictures....so take my word for it,

it is *^&*#ing  HUGE  !!

Their inventory control system is state of the art computer controlled

This is one of the machines that fuses the filter media with urethane

After the walking tour we ended up in their conference room where Patsy Sulpizio and Raj Champanere

were the luck raffle winners and were given certificates for free filters.

Club member and CEO of K&N Engineering, Jerry Mall's Viper

After the tour we headed back into old Riverside for a great Mexican lunch

You don't see this often, a pair of '06 black and silver sinister coupes.