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I work a lot, I drink a lot, I party a lot and I enjoy my work. I guess overall I'm a pretty happy person.
OK, that was like 2 years ago I wrote that (the sentences above). Now I still work alot and I enjoy my work, but I guess the partying has died down. Is it the age? Na, I just want to kick every other tuner's ass so I have to concentrate on my work.
What do I do? I own and run XS Engineering with my partner Troy (www.xs-engineering.com). We also build the most powerful and fastest street cars in southern California. Want proof? Ask anybody in the tuner industry, flip open a page of any tuner magazine, you can see me on various TV programs and DVDs, or read up on tuner industry competitions. Whether it's a Skyline, S2000, EVO, WRX, RX-7, Supra, or whatever, my team at XS and I willl build it faster and better than the next guy.
It all started when I was 14 and I was a slave at my uncle's German car tuning shop. Then I started tinkering with my friend's cars and my own. Those were Mustang 5.0's, RX-7's, Supras, Eclipses, and even Starions. From there I started working in the "shops" of the day and then eventually just started building and servicing cars out of my dad's garage at home. I outgrew that real quick and opened up XS with Troy and haven't looked back a single day since. A couple years after opening XS, I was recruited by my good friend Toshi (www.stage-10.com) and Apex Integration (www.apexi-usa.com) to become their Chief Engineer. I worked at Apex during the day and ran XS at night for nearly 5 years. As much of a bitch as that was, it was a great experience and I learned a lot from that.
Having been building cars for 18 years now, the passion that I have for cars is obvious since cars are now my life. However, running a shop hasn't kept me from being an enthusiast. I own several cars (too many): a 2000 GS300 turbo widebody, a 1993 Skyline GT-R BNR32, 2-1993 RX-7's, a 1990 Supra Turbo, and a 1989 240SX. If you're going to build them, you sure as hell gotta drive them right?
