Very impressive! It gives me much hope to see someone as young as you go for it, work hard and be so successful! Congratulations on your successes, and I wish you many more!
Jim
Thank you!! It's definitely the hardest route I could have chosen but it's also the most rewarding one as well.
Congratulations to you, and to your parents in being your inspiration and giving you the stepping stone in making your dream come true.
I must say that young people get a lot of bad press these days, and to see someone your age with such a level head and excellent work ethic is fantastic!
I wanted to start my own place over here, but decided to go to university and study a motorsport powertrain engineering degree, now i'm stuck crunching data.... oh the envy! haha
Keep up the good work, i'm looking forward to seeing your company grow through your future posts
Mike
Thank you! I saw the opportunity and went for it. I figured why not go for it, rather than regret never trying down the road when I'm older. Still the hardest thing I have ever done, and that is true to even today haha.
Wow! Congratulations on your amazing business! Being 22, I also am considering starting my own business similar to this. If I am half as successful as you, I would consider it a huge accomplishment. Amazing job!
You are an inspiration!
If I can inspire someone else to follow their dreams then I'm doing my job
I'm 24 now and after 2 years of dedicating everything to this place it's been the hardest challenge of my life. You have to give up a lot to be able to do this, but at the end of the day I get to have my dream job. Just stay focused on your goals and there isn't anything you can't accomplish if you want it bad enough.
Looks great! Suggestion - When you add a dyno (you will), try to build an add-on to the building to keep it separated.
I like the night shot. One of my favorite pictures from our shop was a night shot tuning a car at like 2am...
Dyno will probably happen once I move to a new larger location. Right now the shop is still more of a private shop for my customers, rather than a walk in off the street type of business. The new location will most likely be right off the interstate and I can actually have a store front unlike how it is now.
Yeah, always burning the midnight oil out here...just glad it's warming up finally. I never like working in a freezing shop haha.
wats the plans for the DC2 in the last pic??k20??b18 turbo??im guessin its a 96 spec cos it has the 4x114.3 wheels an the non air bag steerin wheel.
wats it like tryin to get a rhd import road legal over there??
Yeah it's a 96 spec JDM ITR. We are doing a full color change, k24/k20 turbo build with a precision 6262. He's wants the engine bay as clean as my old civic build was that I posted on the first page so there will be a lot of custom work going into it. Over here most people just swap vin numbers with the usdm counterpart of their car and claim the car was just converted to RHD. Tennessee is more relaxed with jdm cars haha.
thats a expensive coffee table you have in the office
building looks good, Im a fellow Honda Fanatic so ive heard and seen some of the good work that comes from Track One
Thank you! Great to see so many honda guys on this forum. One thing I enjoy very much about this forum is the maturity level. I hate the typical honda and other import forums which is just a lot of immature kids bickering for the most part.
No problem! Thank you!
i hope one day i can be as sucessful as youve become. wow...
Getting there! Still a long way to go before I can say I'm successful but it's getting there
Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been struggling to find time since I'm running this place by myself. Luckily I finally made the decision to hire a guy I've been talking to for the past 3 years about moving here. Dan Hamilton is that guy, and he's gonna be the head technician over here. He just turned 29 and has been working at nothing but performance shops his whole life pretty much. He has worked on just about everything from Honda's to exotics. He has came down a few times for big car events just to help me get cars ready as well. He is definitely someone who is more about the company than just getting a paycheck which is exactly what I need right now. Most of my help has been lazy and just wanting to work 40 hours a week and go home. Dan knows its going to be a lot of hard work and late nights but it's going to pay off. I'm going to be able to expand my services with his experience and be able to turn around work much faster than before. I'm also talking to a fabricator who is thinking about moving here to join the team later this year as well.
Dan's first day is March 5th...less than 2 weeks away! I can't wait...it'll be great having good help in here.
So I changed the shop layout a bit and moved some stuff around. Had to move the large organization rack so I can walk around both sides of the lift finally. Plus it works better over here.
It also made for a perfect wall to mount a peg board for extra tools and to roll my big work table up against.
Putting a window in right next to the lift which will look right into my office. This will help just to keep an eye on things in the shop and make it a little less stuffy in the office area.
This corner will be the fabrication area, whenever I get time to build it that is haha.
Luckily with having such tall ceilings I'll be able to expand upwards as the shop needs more room. If I can get the fabricator working here in house sometime this year, most likely I will be expanding off the side of the shop for machining equipment.
More updates soon! Gotta get back to work
