HEKTIK'S garage, SLIDEWORX south carson :) moved to MNM long ago :)

my eyes opened n things were still a as i lay in bed n hear a banging at the door and all i could think was come back when i have had more sleep, but all of a sudden i realised it was my overnight parts order i rushed up out of bed and ran to the door half dressed swung it open and there she was the damn finest delivery girl i had ever seen before and the uniform only made it better, nice tight black pants with a button up shirt which was half unbuttoned, my jaw dropped and i had just realised i was barely dressed so i told her to wait a minute while i put my trackies n that on so i could come check the parts she had for me, we had a little chat about the s-15 while we looked over my order and checked it all was ok, she had also mentioned she had a 240sx which was in pretty poor condition so i gave her my number and told her to bring it by sometime and i would have a look at it for her see what we can do with it she turns to me and says i will call either way so what a great start to my day that was, so after a hard day teatime had rolled around after what felt like forever fixing the front of the s15 and adding a few nice bits to it getting it ready for paint n what not, so with the day done it was time to order a pizza and relax i was that tired i just fell asleep on the couch watching tv,

waking from my slumber i hear the phone ringing its my volkswagen go to guy he informs me that he has the perfect powerplant for my beetle a 2.0l TSI scirocco R engine and even a set of wheels to suit if i needed them, we talked price for a while then i told him that i would be busy painting the s-15 until late hours of the night so if he could drop it all off in my garage and id leave him the cash so with that organised and the s15 ready for paint i rolled it over to phattys joint as its well equipped to paint the cars rolled it in and got straight into it with the beautiful standard gunmetal colour it was coming up perfectly i even decided to sit it on stands while i wrapped the cRkai's in a sexy matte black and threw in a set of tein fully adjustable coilovers to make it sit with some stance, so now the finished product reveal i added custom front vents, a full kit, the coilovers and a few stickers, came up exacly the way i wanted it to, so with that done i just went inside had leftover pizza and went to bed

awoke nice n fresh before my alarm or phone even had a chance to go off today and straight away it was into the overalls as i had a nice beetle sitting there with a engine ready to go in and a nice set of 17inch weld aluma-star drag race 2.0 rims with ok tread to bolt on. so after changing all the oils filters etc and giving the engine good check over it was time to see how it would go fitting into the beetle and with the kit i was supplied it was a perfect fit so after relocating a few mounting places and welding a few bits together for extra strength i bolted the engine up with not much room to spare and spent an ungodly few hours running wires and hooking everything up right it was a pain but then with the one turn of that key it kicked over first shot n was all suddenly worth it now so after putting the wheels on and finishing up it wasnt to late to take it out so i went for a quick spin to see how it went n boy was it an improvement over any stock beetle i had driven previously the suspension in it was perfectly balanced, and it would pull up on a dime if i really wanted it to all i could think was im going to have so much fun hardparking this beast, so with it getting pretty dark i decided to head back home n relax maybe order some chinese n see what i can do about organising new tyres for the beetle maybe a visit to lsh in carson is in order i remember thinking before i fell asleep watching tv, heres a quick pic i snapped while i was out giving the beetle a test

 on a not so early morning i decided with a bit of the mechanical work picking up i thought it would be time to start looking around for an actual shopfront since i had no more room out the front for cars to park safely overnight and it was getting a bit cluttered with parts n stuff. While out looking around i thought to myself geez i need new tyres asap as the ones on the beetle were rubbish it was sliding everywhere and the rim itself had a fairly nasty dint in it from hitting a gutter earlier on, it wasnt to bad so i limped the bug into carson and rolled on into lsh wheels on arrival i loved the layout of the shop and saw a sexy boss 302 sitting in the car park, so i walked in and straight away was greeted with a smile and a handshake "coty" introduced himself and we spoke about the cars for a bit and then after talking tyres and prices rolled the beetle in for some new sport tyres and a rim repair so while they worked there magic on the beetle i had a browse over the shop looking at there previous work and gotta say i was mighty impressed with there finishing abilities, i may just have to become a regular customer here i think, so after the beetle was done i rolled it out front for a few pics and i could not even tell which wheel had been re-rolled and repaired so after that being done i shook coty's hand thanked the guys at lsh and told them i would definantly be back there in the future so after giving the clutch a nice pop on the way out it was now time to go get some dinner and head home to relax, while i was cruising out of carson i spotted a nice shopfront with a big for sale sign out front and it was in a perfect location so i got home made a call that night and spoke to the owner about coming down to the buisness tomorrow to talk price's with me even though the shop was closed, he agreed so with all that done it was time to relax with a beer or two and some dinner  and get an early night's sleep.
heres a few pics that were snapped at lsh 

heres one a random took so i got him to send it over to me

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here's one i got after the new tyres were fitted,the front rim used to have a dint but lsh fixed that

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and i received this on my mobile from a random number shortly after leaving lsh i didnt realise anyone was looking

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so after getting barely 2 hours sleep the night before i awoke to a buzzing alarm sound and immediately jumped to my feet i was to excited and had a great feeling about today's venture, so after having a shower and suiting up it was time to roll the bug out so i could go to my buisness meeting i had rolled up about 15 minutes early to make sure i was on time and the guy was already there he had just started opening up to show me the place, so as we were walking and talking bout why he was selling up he simply turned and said its time to retire for me im to old for this S$#T, lol my old man was the same when he had retired from the trade, he stated to me that he didnt want to much for the buisness as it had died off a bit lately and was in need of a revamp which i told him i would most likely change everything and making it into a performance shop/service centre,he was thrilled at the idea and told me if he were younger he would be  doing the same thing, i told him i would happily take it for his asking price as i had a lil left in the bank from a previous venture, so after having an accountant come down n draw up the paperwork it was done deal i was now owner of slideworx performance part's and service centre in south carson all i had to do was register my buisness name and it was official, now the place is huge two shopfronts one on the left  is currently going to be used as a customer car park and parts store temporarily, the one on the right as you will see is where all the dirty work gets done service parts installation etc
and here it is slideworx performance parts and service centre south carson REVEALED

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the performance/service side of things

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so with all that done all that was left to do was move the tools dyno and everything from home to the shop and get settled in, all i needed was a moving van or a truck so with the day pretty much done i headed off home and that night i sat there n thought a bit about who i could get to give me a hand moving some stuff to the new garage hmmm???

so after waking up dazed and confused a bit on the couch after falling asleep the night before just after knocking up a few vinyls for the new buisness i look out at the rx-3 and it was only just sinking in that i actually own a proper buisness now the feeling was surreal. i had to get things organised so i could open tommorow as i wasnt holding off on opening up the shop, so after having a coffee i tried to call illarnek on the mobile as he said he would lend a hand moving all the tool's dyno etc but there was no answer so i just assumed he was busy moving his stuff n couldnt talk so i rang "man with a van moving company" and got a van out asap to start moving all the stuff there so i could set-up and get ready for opening which was the next morning, so the van rocked up at home and we packed it up as quick as possible and made the trip down to south carson to start getting everything set-up i ended up taking out the rx-3 as it had been a while since starting it up plus it was sporting the new buisness vinyl,so i buzzed down there with the van not far behind and after opening all the doors to air the place out, cleaning up a heap and setting up a few things, it was pretty much done minus a few small little things to do I decided i might as well fire up the bbq n cook some lunch. a few of the locals walking past noticed what was going on so they stopped by to look at the shop n how we were setting up n stuff so after being a good sport and cooking some lunch for everyone we all took a walk through to show them. There were a few oohh's and ahh's as they walked around noticing that i had cleaned the place up a fair bit and added some extra tool's and machines to the place, the dyno machine was the main attraction as it was the best addition to the shop i thought and was essential to my performance/tuning side of the buisness, so as a show i reversed the rx-3 up and strapped it on for a quick run it made a comfortable 218kw with 328.5nm of torque at the wheels on only 10psi i couldnt wait to give it some more tlc, so with the day almost done everyone started heading off i decided i would finish setting up parts etc during the week when i had the time but for now it was time to close up n head home to bed as i had a very early start in the morning

pic of the rx3 i took before putting it on the dyno ;P

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and one i snapped as i was leaving at the end of the day

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slideworx has been really busy lately with organising day to day duties and doing customer cars on top of that, i think its time to hire some outside help i may have to place an ad in the  bnb classifieds, but either way i had alot of work to do to keep this place going, i rang up placed an ad, then continued on working on the latest customer car only a dodgy little focus which needed new brakes and a tune up. looking at the s-15 sitting at the front i decided i would head down n grab some lunch so i hopped in n headed down to jimmy's burgers to get me some grub while i was there a friendly bloke walked in to order in front of me i noticed he had a pretty sweet 98 supra sittin out front, i turned to him n said hey nice ride he introduced himself as tiger n said yeah thats a nice 15 as well. i then turned to him and said if your a local we should def have a cruise one day be a good chance to bring the 15 out to play with some other jdm rides. so with all that done it was time to get back to work n see what else there was to do back there, got back n still had no enquiries about my ad in the paper, so i just continued on with my work i currently had a sweet sheriffs ride in for a few lil mods and a dyno tune,also noticed he had been past lsh wheels as it had a great set of wheels n tyres on it which looked fairly new, the sheriff was pretty nice n laid back he just dropped it off n left so i jumped straight on it got the work done it wasnt long before it was sitting there ready for pickup with all the days work done it was time to close up n head home,the sheriff was wrapped with his car when he picked it up  he said he would be bringing it back here for regular servicing and maintenance which i was happy with, so heading home in the 15 i stopped n got some dinner, then got home parked up the S15 and headed inside i was absolutely hammered all this work was finally getting to me i def needed to hire help at slideworx asap. but enough thinking about that time for bed.,