Fast is built.
First is earned.
Two brothers, one dyno room, and a rule their mother enforced before either of them could drive: no motorcycles. This is what they did about it.
The Blown-Up Bikes
The family garage · the ninetiesMom said no motorcycles. So the brothers bought the ones that didn't run — the only kind two kids could afford — and made them run.
Rings, seals, a carb somebody gave up on. They rode them until they broke and fixed them again. That was the first shop; it didn't have a sign. When the GoPed showed up they ported it, put a pipe on it, ran it on methanol and went racing, because what's the point of making something fast if nobody's lined up next to you.
Their father had been hauling them to the dunes since before they could ride. By the time they could, Dennis was building the fastest quads in the state — and putting his sons on them.
Packard Enterprise Racing
Sand drags · Fallon, Nevada · the ASDAGrudge races on the hill — Banshees and Honda 250s, whoever built it fastest — turned into the American Sand Drag Association: hundreds of bikes, two days of qualifying, one final.
Dennis built the engines. Jace and Jedd raced them, and they got very good at it. Dennis turned it into a business of his own, Packard Enterprise Racing — carburetors, porting, engine builds out of the home garage — and a reputation earned one start line at a time. Dennis built the power. His sons proved it.
Around 2005 the brothers started building their own: Jace on the YFZ 450, Jedd on a Raptor 660, then a 700. Friends started asking for the same, and a hobby turned into work.
The Side-by-Side Bet
Jace and their brother Jake started Vinco Racing — custom pit bikes, aftermarket cages — and when the Yamaha Rhino came out, they bolted turbos to it before most shops had taken one seriously.
Side-by-sides were about to swallow the whole sport, and the brothers were already on the other side of that turn. They turboed their Kawasaki Teryxes. In 2008 the Polaris RZR 800 landed, Jedd bought one, and they did to it what they'd done to the GoPed.
Jedd was working at Chase Bank. He quit. Half his week went to Vinco, the other half to Packard Performance — the brothers' own company, not their father's — building the first turbo kits it ever sold, until it needed all of him. Vinco sold and became Vent Racing under Deacon. Heretic Studios, the light-bar company Jace and Jake built next, sold too. Jake's heart wasn't in side-by-side performance, so Jace and Jedd bought him out. Two brothers. All in. Packard only.
Measured Power
94 13th St, Clearfield, Utah · nowToday Packard Performance runs its own machine shop, fabrication floor and dyno room under one roof — five-axis CNC mills cutting the billet, curves coming off the drum. Nothing white-labeled. Nothing guessed.
This is the shop that bolted a turbo and a supercharger to one 999cc Yamaha and made 550 horsepower. The shop that, with Oribi Composites, built the first thermoplastic composite wheels in powersports — half the weight of aluminum. The shop whose Pro R supercharger platform is rated to 550+ hp and 22+ psi on Rotrex's own books.
Every kit that leaves Clearfield leaves with a dyno curve. Because a Packard doesn't ask you to believe. It shows you.
Twenty-two years, on the rail.
- 1990sFamily
Packard Enterprises Racing opens the bench
Dennis Packard builds PER from the family garage: Lectron carburetors (a distributor for 25+ years), billet bowls, two-stroke porting for Banshees, race quads and snowmobiles. Two boys learn the trade at floor level.
- 2004Family · Products
The side-by-side era begins
The Yamaha Rhino lands. Jace and Jedd take the family standard four-stroke. Packard has been in the side-by-side industry ever since.
- The early yearsProducts
Affordable boost builds the name
Packard's early turbo kits were "known for being affordable" (Dirt Wheels). Working power, priced for the people doing the working.
- Jan 2018Press · Products
UTV Guide puts the YXZ supercharger to the test
A 19-step install and roughly 1,600 test miles later: "the easiest forced-induction swap we have ever done on a UTV" — and "we still have no idea how they sell this much billet for $2,700." The full test →
- Apr 2019Press · Racing
550 horsepower from 999cc
Dirt Wheels features the Packard Super-Turbo YXZ1000R — turbocharger and twin-rotor supercharger on one engine. The car takes second at the UTV Invasion sand drags in St. Anthony, Idaho, straight off the trailer. The feature →
- Nov 2021Products · Press
A powersports first: the composite wheel
With Oribi Composites, Packard launches the first high-performance off-road UTV wheels made with advanced thermoplastic composites — about half the weight of aluminum, dropping an average of 25 pounds of unsprung weight per car. CompositesWorld → JEC →
- 2022 →Products
The Pro R supercharger era
Rotrex-driven, billet-mounted, intercooled. 380 to 500 turnkey horsepower — a platform rated capable of 550+ hp and 22+ psi with supporting mods, on Rotrex's own product page.
- Every seasonRacing
Proven where it counts
Sand Sports Super Show builds. UTV Takeover at Sand Hollow. Sand Mountain, Little Sahara, Glamis. The dunes are the courtroom; the verdicts come in on Sundays.
- 2026Family
The next machine is already on the lift.
Twenty-two years in, the bench keeps getting bigger. The standard hasn't moved an inch.
All week, you take it.
Sunday, you give it back.
