TMCP #239: Scott Janson – General Motors Performance Engineering, Designing New Performance Parts – Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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This weeks interview is with Scott Janson, high performance suspension engineer and group leader at Chevrolet. I talk to Scott about entering the engineering job world and what it is like to work in the General Motors high performance skunk works Chevrolet Performance division.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 329. This week, a look inside |
| 0:05.9 | Chevrolet performance with Scott Jansen, an engineering group manager doing really cool |
| 0:11.0 | suspension stuff. Now, everyone takes a different path in life, and Scott had the dream of |
| 0:16.5 | being a crew chief on a race team, which eventually led him to Formula SAEE. Well, in college, which led him into the OEM supplier world. |
| 0:24.3 | And now to Chevrolet performance, where the stuff he gets to do is cool. |
| 0:28.9 | It's extremely rewarding. |
| 0:30.5 | We do a lot of different stuff. |
| 0:32.9 | It's a great job. |
| 0:34.2 | It's nowhere near easy. |
| 0:36.1 | A lot of the stuff we do is high visibility. Downright |
| 0:39.6 | hard sometimes our timelines are tight. And then Larry Callahan is up for the pro touring update |
| 0:44.9 | where we talk Good Guys Columbus and the Motor State Challenge. And by the way, by the time you hear |
| 0:50.6 | this, I will have already been to Cooter's last stand to see some general |
| 0:55.5 | Lee's burning, you know the sound effect to use. |
| 1:07.1 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. Brought to you by National Parks Depot. This is the Muscle Car Place weekly online podcast. |
| 1:11.4 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:14.1 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:20.0 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:26.3 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am |
| 1:31.4 | Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, we have a fun guest up here shortly |
| 1:37.2 | with Mr. Scott Jansen from Chevy Performance. And, you know, I was trying to figure this out. |
| 1:42.1 | I have done a number of interviews with people in the |
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