"About the Owner"
I have been working as a professional racing technician for the last 10 years. I started racing as a hobby, and won a few regional autox championships before going road racing, first in a MG Midget, and then in a Porsche 924 in GT3. I had mediocre success, and seemed to do better preparing the cars than racing them. After a few years working on my own doing track prep and minor restoration I went to work for a friend of mine at Carolina Speedwerks, a Porsche specific race shop in Mooresville North Carolina.We built and prepared cars for PCA,POC, HSR, NASA,nad SCCA Club and Pro racing. I worked with some of the most talented Porsche people in the country, and our cars did very well. We took a class win at the 24 Hours of Daytona, and have run at almost every track in the country.
I left Speedwerks to go Pro racing with Mirko Racing in the Speed World Challenge racing Mazda 626's with David Leslie driving. In the three races I was involved with the team we achieved 1 pole and 1 outside pole, a marked improvement for a team who hadnt qualified higher than 5th.
After leaving Mirko I did contract work for various Porsche Club and HSR guys, mostly weekend track events and between race car prep. I also did contract work for a BMW team in the World Challenge. However I was getting tired of the constant travel involved in "mercenary" track work, so I started to change my goals a bit. Shortly after that I was hired by 3R Racing/Automotive in Denver, and moved here. In the nearly four years I was with 3R I started to take yet another direction, wanting to work with more "street" cars than the pure track cars, and last year I left 3R to go to work for a local shop called Carz Performance. The shop was looking for a slightly different image, and I helped to move it in the right direction. I still wasnt 100% happy, and there was some friction in the shop, and so here we are- my own shop. Nothing against Lucas and crew at all, we just werent moving in the right direction together. AFAIK we are all still friends. My experience is mostly with racing cars, and mostly with Porsche's, a few BMW's, a lot of prototype/sports racers/formula cars( I still own a Formula Vee, and build them on occasion). I own or have owned many of the cars you do- I am on my second FC and have an FD as well, I have a Talon TSI that put down almost 500whp on pump gas, I just sold my MK3 Supra Turbo(conversion) and traded my 240 way back when to get the MK3. I have also owned 944's(na and Turbo) 911's, Fiats-X 1/9's and Spiders, Alfa's, MG's - B's and Midgets, Triumphs- Spitfires, TR7's, and TR8's. And the list goes on...
To answer some questions before they are asked
Anything to do with a car, I can do. From designing and then building the frame itself to painting it, fitting the body, wiring, plumbing, building the engine and transmission and even(if I have to) painting it, then take it to the track, dial in the suspension and aero, and with any luck, win with it.
We have the capability to tune ANY Engine management system out there,I am an AEM trained(and I dont mean the software class you pay for- they flew here on thier own dime) tuner. I have also had the MoTeC training, and EFI101 as well. If I have time I will be EFI101 certified soon-I just need to get the logbook and take the final "exam".