Pit Stop - The Pit Products Blog

Pit Products is very proud to be partnering with West Michigan Sand Dragway this summer as the title sponsor of the 2014 U.S. Sand Nationals Race weekend at the dragway. The races takes place this upcoming August 1-2. West Michigan Sand Dragway has been one of the premier sand drag racing facilities in the USA since it was established in 1983 in Mears, MI. The Pit Products factory is located about 2 hours from West Michigan Sand Dragway and a couple members of the Pit Products crew race and/or visit the dragway several times each summer so it makes a...

Whether you refer to them as trailer door slider plates, trailer floor gap covers, trailer transition flaps, door flaps, or ramp threshold covers, one of the most fundamental enclosed cargo trailer accessories is trailer door slider plates. Slider plates are essential for trailer safety, trailer floor protection, trailer appearance enhancement, and for ease of loading and unloading your trailer.   Raise your hand if you’ve tried to roll one of those heavy tool boxes with small wheels up the ramp and onto your trailer floor. You know what happens…you forget that you need to lift the tool box over the gap when you...

Pizza boxes?   What?   The Pit Products crew visited the Formula SAE racing competition yesterday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan and everywhere we looked we saw empty pizza boxes!   I guess this is what happens when you get 120 college racing teams together, stick them in the infield of a huge NASCAR race track, and tell them they have to live and work there for 4 days straight to get their race cars ready to compete... Seriously though, what an amazing place to be. The student teams are so impressive. These "kids" have designed, built, financed,...