Build Gallery

From Street Cars to Track Weapons

The cars that come through here run the whole range, and I build them all the same honest way. A clean Stage 1 daily gets the same attention to fitment and calibration as a caged track car — the goal just changes what "done right" means. Some owners want a canyon car that's still comfortable in Monday traffic; others are chasing a lap time and don't care about the stereo. The through-line is a build spec'd to the real goal, not a template pulled off a shelf.

You'll notice both sides of the import world in that grid. The JDM side runs deep — Subarus, K-series Hondas, the 2JZ Supra, the GT-R, the rotary RX-7 that's close to my own heart. The European side is here too, from N54 BMWs on E85 to the AMG and VW-Audi work that asks completely different questions. Building both is the whole point of the shop; a car doesn't get shoehorned into whatever platform I happen to be most comfortable with that week.

You'll see a lot of the platforms I know deepest here — the Subaru WRX and STI, the 2JZ Supra, the R35 GT-R and the rotary RX-7. If you want to talk about where your car fits in that lineup, reach out and tell me what you're after.

The Standard Behind Every Photo

A gallery is easy to fake. Anyone can post a clean photo of a car that never ran right, or borrow someone else's build and call it their work. So here's the standard behind these: every car was planned, built and verified through the same build process, tuned on the loaded dyno, and sent home making honest power that holds up in LA heat and traffic — not just for one pull on a cool morning in the dyno cell.

None of these are trailer queens that photograph well and don't move. They get driven — on the street, up the canyons, and at the track — which is the only real test of whether a build was done right. That's the bar your car gets held to if you build it here, whether it's a subtle daily or a full-send track car. The photos are just the proof.