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                                                                    EXHIBIT 31.1

                                  CERTIFICATION

I, Kent H. Harle, Chief Executive Officer of Redline Performance Products, Inc.
(the "Company"), certify that:

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of the Company;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
   material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
   statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
   were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
   information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects
   the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company
   as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The Company's other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing
   and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange
   Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and have:

    (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
        disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision,
        to ensure that material information relating to the small business
        issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by
        others within those entities, particularly during the period in which
        this report is being prepared;

    (b) [Paragraph omitted pursuant to SEC Release Nos. 33-8238 and 34-47986];

    (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and
        procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the
        effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end
        of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

    (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal control
        over financial reporting that occurred during the Company's most recent
        fiscal quarter (the Company's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an
        annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
        materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial
        reporting;

5. The Company's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our
   most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the
   Company's auditors and the audit committee of the Company's board of
   directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

    (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
        operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
        reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's ability to record,
        process, summarize and report financial information; and

    (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
        employees who have a significant role in the Company's internal control
        over financial reporting.

Date: February 12, 2004

/s/ Kent H. Harle
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Kent H. Harle
Chief Executive Officer