SEMA 2015: Race Ramps Shows Off Its Range Of Products

The Power Automedia team has become very familiar over the last few months with the products manufactured by Race Ramps, as we’ve put them to use in and around our shop and at the racetrack to make lifting and wrenching on our project vehicles just that much easier. We can tell you firsthand — these are some incredibly handy pieces to have around.

Race Ramps has a whole range of products for varying uses, from simply raising the front of your vehicle for oil and filter changes, driving up onto a set of scales or into/onto your trailer, and even displaying your car at trade shows and other events. Not only are they lightweight, but they’re virtually indestructible.

“Race Ramps are made from a solid core of EPS, which is Expanded Polystyrene,” explains Race Ramps’ Bill Jonson. “A company in Michigan supplies us with the core, and they make it for road-builders … they put it underneath highways. That’s a tow-pound density foam that they use, and they make a 2.75-pound density for us, so it’s even more dense. Depending on the application, we’ll put a laminate over the top of our products to keep any impressions out of them at all.”

Founded in 2004, Race Ramps has been developing new products each and every year, for a vast industry that is constantly growing in its needs.

A company in Michigan supplies us with the core, and they make it for road-builders … they put it underneath highways. – Bill Jonson

Race Ramps’ main product, that it first began with, were its Service Ramps. The company began with an eight-inch high product, and later added a 10-inch. The approach angle of the ramps are just under 11-degrees, which will allow them to put something even as low as a late-model Corvette on them for servicing. They later added a two-piece version of their solid ramps so that the tail could be removed, giving more access under the side of the car.

Since that time, they’ve added Trailer Ramps, their Flatstopper (which has a 30-degree radius to keep tires round in storage), and Jack-Assist Ramps, and Portable Pit Stop Ramps to the catalog.

Impressively, Jonson says the product does not slide, even sharing that their team has tested the ramps with a pickup truck on the ice on Lake Michigan, and they didn’t slide. This is owed to a patented coating they had formulated specifically for their products.

One of the newest products is the Restyler Ramp, which is 16-inches wide and 14-inches in height, is modular, and features a ‘bench’ in the middle that the vehicle drives over. An extender can also be added for very low ride-height vehicles.