Mikelly Posted May 17, 2002 Share Posted May 17, 2002 Man I've got WAY to many irons in the fire... as Ussual! Anyway, I've offered the White Z up to Les Heath in trade for concrete/ construction work on my three car garage project that I'm going to Kick off shortly. In that transaction, I will free up the space to work on the car I got from Chris, as well as focus on my next move for the ZF Racing venture. I have four sets of control arms to finish up for customers, and then I'll be focusing on the newest generation 300ZX model product developement. After that, Donna and I are gonna pull together the business plan for "Kelly Racing & Performance", a true "TUNER" shop, complete with some bolt ons in the front counter area, as well as a DYNO, three lifts, a fabrication area, and a hunter alignment/ corner weght area. Crazy I know, but if it takes off, it would beat working for somebody else. Hopefully all of this will come together like clock work. I'd love to have the garage DONE by the end of August so I can then focus on the business plan. Our timeline is to pitch the business proposal in January timeframe! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zpeed Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 if its what u want then go for it, but make sure you do a proper business plan, I've seen plenty of people just start a business with a rough business plan and loosing all there hard earned capital within 1 year or 2.. and go down, and go down hard.. its easier to do everything right the first time, than to learn from mistakes... but mistakes happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikelly Posted May 18, 2002 Author Share Posted May 18, 2002 For the amount of money I'm gonna need, I'll need a very well developed and very accurate plan... I've already been told that this will be one of the harder things I will have to do in life... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kc6wfs Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 Congrats Mike, Sounds like your deam is comming around. Keep it up! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 I feel sorry for people who actually own REAL integra type-r's.. how much ridicule they must get. Yesterday I was jumping onto I-5 NB and it was a two-lane merging onramp. Anyway, this yellow integra (TYPE R! U guezzed it yo!) comes farting past everybody to get a good spot on the onramp, then immediately proceeds to the haul-balls lane. Instinctively, I followed him, downshifting into 3rd and caught up reeeeal quick Well, I tell my friend (passanger), "You know, its not a REAL type-r." "how do you know?" "Look at the sticker on the side, a flaming type-r with a small japanese writing".. and I guess if you didn't know the signs of a rice type-r, you'd be fooled.. and this was really the only thing that gave it away. To add the story.. curiously, I noticed an a-piller set of pod gauges. Turbo? Nah, I hear him rev up, no wastegate, bov, or spooling sound. But, he was in gangsta-sit mode, so I took him up to about 115 (I stop looking down after 100mph, this is according to my friend).. then he backed off. I know there are legitimate type-r's out there, and I'm sure they get a lot of trash by people who don't know the "outward signs." Poor sincere type-r's. oh well. -980mak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pparaska Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 (980mak - ???) Mike, I wish you good luck and I know you'll have all the i's dotted and t's crossed on the business plan. As someone mentioned in another thread, watch the cashflow. With a Dyno (chassis dyno?) you should have business, especially if you can get some expertise to do dyno tuning! If things get busy and you want some feeble help, I might move down to your area and be an employee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike C Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 Sounds great Mike! I built my own shop starting in '97 and it's the greatest thing I've ever had! If you want any input on features or design let me know. I've had a couple of compliments from people and would be happy to offer assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy 77zt Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 i wish you luck .i have worked on cars as a profession for 20 years and am looking for a way to quit.when you do it for a living after awhile it kills working on cars for a hobby.i use a hunter 4 wheel alighnment machine at work and it would work good for race car use if it had some wheel scale pads on it.you might try doing a corner weight/set up service for local racers that are busy.most alignment shops dont like working on lowered/modified cars so if you can carve a niche for your business you will be busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-Dreamer Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 Hey Mike, have you considered relocating to the West coast? The weather out here is much nicer year-round as compared to where you currently live. That means more nice days for racing, both legally or the other and cruzin in general. I'm in Sacramento which is centrally located in the state. The coast or the mountains are one and half hours either way! We also have 1200 hundred miles of navigateable delta! Sacramento Raceway is but minutes away, Sears Point is a little more than a hour and Thunder Hill is about 2 hours North. A new road course is scheduled to be built one hour North in Marysville. There are also several ovals where Sprintcars and the rest of the circle track crowd race. What I'm trying to suggest is that there's an abundance of business here in the central valley with all the racers and street crowd. Me and my wife would love to give both you and Donna the Grand Tour of the surrounding area. Think about! E-mail me if you have any questions. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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