20 years in the making
Founder and Engineer Victor Franco (left) at the original Techtonics shop in Riverside, CA with Darrel Vittone (right) in late 1986.
A passion project
Evolution Tuning was born over 20 years ago from automotive engineer and founder Victor Franco's passion for furthering the genius of VW engines. The endeavor started small, selling aftermarket parts and developing its first product: The "EVOheatshields" (phenolic spacers designed to block heat soak from the engine cylinder head to the intake manifolds). After a successful introduction of this innovative product, Evolution Tuning turned to focus on studying and developing intake and exhaust systems that mold the engine's character and extract new performance.
Prototype icengineworks™ Design and Modeling Blocks being used to design the first EVOheader in 2007
The birth of icengineworks™
The obsession with developing radical, high-performance exhaust headers soon led to early design explorations for the original EVOheader. This endeavor proved to be a challenge as header design offered two solutions: Designing with expensive and often inaccessible software using custom bends or using a trial and error method, which proved to be inefficient, inaccurate, and costly. Unsatisfied with these options, Victor Franco created the early prototypes of the icengineworks™ Design and Modeling Blocks to help him make the header system of his dreams. Leveraging this new way to design, the EVOheader was created in 2007. Despite its small production volume, the EVOheader was met with universal praise from the market and stayed a legend on forums for years after its discontinuation.
A return to our roots
Years later, icengineworks™ grew from its humble beginnings to be used by thousands of fabricators worldwide, sharing this same passion for pushing the envelope in design and performance. As a tribute to its origins, icengineworks™ is pleased to bring the Evolution Tuning brand back to the world and reintroduce the design that started it all:
The EVOheader
