Since the early days of Volkswagen, a company has always been at the forefront, EMPI remained.

EMPI started in Riverside, California, by Joe Vittone, when he opened a Volkswagen dealership in 1954 with his business partner Holt Haughey. The agency was appointed Economotors and specializes in selling Volkswagen Beetles and buses, and spare parts.

Shortly after Economotors up shop, Joe was made valve guides with a level of surplus, and it was hard to find replacement valve guides. After contact with Volkswagen, it was said that it was better to be the valve cylinder heads together and replace them with new heads and discard.

Joe decided to produce due to its own valve guides. This has old or worn cylinder heads will be repaired rather than scratch, making the owner of Volkswagen with a large amount of money in spare parts and service.

Economotors seen an increase in customers who wanted to buy a new valve guides, said Joe founded EMPI (European Motor Products Inc.) in 1956. At that time in Germany, the power equipment company was known Okrasa and Joe decided to add the line Okrasa EMPI product, and thus led to the owners of Volkswagen performance parts.

However, Joe has a lot of VW owners do not think they needed high performance parts and were satisfied with the 36 hp engine, standard in the Volkswagen out of the assembly line. Relucently Joe Denzel said that the Austrian company, and its high performance and EMPI VW parts.

In 1959, Joe developed an anti-stabilizer for Volkswagen, and a rear stabilizer that prevents the rear wheels tucked under the wheel and in the corners. It was as if the compensator fall is known.

The company now has its name EMPI Engineered Products Inc. changed the engine instead of focusing on design and product development of its parts.

Speedwell few products that are designed exclusively for EMPI, namely a dual Stromberg carburetor kit. BRM began producing magnesium wheels famous GRP.

In 1966, Joe began with a new line of Volkswagen, which were equipped with EMPI performance parts. These cars were known as GTVs EMPI and four levels, depending on the number of parts EMPI were included.

EMPI increased to 28 distributors in the United States, most of these dealers as Volkswagen. Volkswagen of America was not satisfied with these new performance parts, and threatened to cut off their supply of new cars to any dealer who does not stop dealing with EMPI.

In 1971, EMPI was sold Dynamics filter to Joe could focus more on Economotors. At its peak, sold over six million pieces per year VW EMPI performance.

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