how to start a shop

i was just wondering if anyone in this cool little world we live in had any knowledge on how to start your on perfomance shop....if you could lead me in the right direction that would be strizy....or straight how ever you prefer your ebonics........well that would be all from this new hip cat on the street

:confused: where do i start?

:sly: Umm Mr. Ebonically-Hip-Cat-From-The-Street leave the "Ebonics" at home and if you went to start a garage you might want to start with changing the pic of you flipping people off to one of maybee your car or something.... no offense but you sound pretty ignorant! And I would know because I wont claim to know everything about cars either but use your head and you'll know what you need... Sorry I'm in a pissy mood... you need a garage and tools and have to know a thing or two about the cars you wanna work with... Really, its not that hard. We have kids here who start garages (most of them dont last) but The good one we have here has been around for a few years and has spit out some nice 11sec hatchbacks... anyways... just .... yeah:shakehead

Originally posted by newswap
i was just wondering if anyone in this cool little world we live in had any knowledge on how to start your on perfomance shop....if you could lead me in the right direction that would be strizy....or straight how ever you prefer your ebonics........well that would be all from this new hip cat on the street

Have you ever done performance work besides bolt-on's? You have to locate a shop or build one, equipment, tools, utilities, advertising, tax, etc. Take care of all the legal stuff. Employees, vendors, supppliers, etc. I suggest working in the field for a while before you go on your own. Dont forget about a nice big LOAN. My buddy & I started a repair/detail shop - anyways we must make $15,000 a month before any profit is made. There is a lot more to owning/running your own shop then you think.

hey that's cool that you guys started a shop and all and i hope the best for you guys....but i garantee you that you'll see me and my buds our there with our name...trick out the best of the best....and getting all the street credit...this i promise you my friend

hey jackasssi...where in the chicagoland area?

We are currently working with the Honda dealer we worked for & also Honda. We're trying to get a few Civic Si's & S2000's to upgrade/customize slightly & re-sell.

that sounds cool.so do you do the detailing for the dealerships also? you live in the hanover park area? or am i wrong? anyways i need to get another job now that i have to afford school again so i was gonna say....chicago area....detail...if ya needed another hard worker, i was gonna offer myself. :smile:

i worked at a turtle wax in high school! :biggrin:

I live in Hoffman Estates but the shop is 35 miles away in Woodstock. Car dealers are always wanting us to detail cars for them, you know what I say? FUCK THEM! We did 5 cars for the FORD dealership 1 day, 3 months later still haven't gotten paid. They want a perfect job & only pay a small amount. The whole reason we started our own shop was because we both dislike dealers. Dealing with our ex-honda dealer is a different story - between us there is 20yrs @ the same dealer. Right now we have a few HS kids working for FREE:iceslolan wanting to learn detailing and/or working on cars in general. What we really need is a phone girl, damnit.

that's what i need, and want. A weekend job where i could volunteer my time at anything car related. Like the local Circuit City car audio, or a local tuning shop that would just let me get familiar with self installation. Like a body shop or audio shop. yeah, that'd be cool.

I volunteer some time @ the shop next to us. They build and maintain formula style race cars. Trying to get me a free ride:bigthumb:
http://www.eliteautosport.com/default.htm

formula style race cars....now that ain't bad to be around. i'd be a phone girl. that's mostly what i do at the hospital i work at.
pretty cool you've got some kids working for free. can't beat free labor!!

We started our own online business. My bf does that full time. You have to start off really slow and just earn respect from different manuf.

www.importpoweronline.com.

formula style race cars....now that ain't bad to be around. i'd be a phone girl. that's mostly what i do at the hospital i work at.
pretty cool you've got some kids working for free. can't beat free labor!!

I'd rather see you tearing engines down & rebuilding :worshippy

i do all that stuff at home. :)

working in an office at a hospital SUCKS!

SolChick

Thanks for the link. Just ordered a fuel pump for my civic. Hopefully it'll help me to not blow this motor.