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217 - Stop Guessing: An Accountant Explains Your Shop's Finances - With Jerry Cecco

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216 - Performance Shop Owners: You're Working Harder for Less Money. Here's Why.

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215 - Mastering Manufacturing in Performance Automotive: Lean, Kanban, and Error-Proofing Explained!

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214 - Rebuilding shocks with Chris Hagen of Inertia Laboratory

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213 - Manufacturing Systems for Small Shops with Richard Fielder

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212 - Pablo and Alejandro Moreno Update us about Tandem Offroad

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211 - Zach Denney of ECU Master USA returns

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210 - Emily and Zach from the 2025/26 UNT Formula SAE Team

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209 - Peter Agapoglou of Autosport Fabrication

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208 - Joseph Potak with HP Cult

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207 - Adam Hammer of Hammer and Dolly Restorations

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206 - Brandon Piper of BSP Motorsports

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205 - Sasha Anis of Mountain Pass Performance

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204 - Richard Fielder with Evolution Dynamics and Scaling your Business Discussion

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203 - Adam McCreery with AFR Autoworks

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202 - Kevin Emr of E-Muscle Cars

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201 - Season 2 Intro and Matt Beenen of Builtright + Mountech Followup

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163: Stewart Waliser of Stews Self Service Garage

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162: Nathan Cicio of Cicio Performance

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161: Chris Riggs from Speed by Design

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160: Ben Silcock and Andre Simon return to discuss HP Academy

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159: Bryan Thompson of Powerhouse Racing

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158: AJ Hartman returns for an update on AJ Hartman Aero

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157: Matt Beenen returns with BuiltRight Industries

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156: Alejandro and Pablo Moreno of Tandem Automotive

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155: Theresa Contreras and Sara Morosan of LGE-CTS Motorsports

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154: Vadim Belogorodsky from CANtrolls

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153: Reid Lunde returns to discuss his interconnectable relay entered in the SEMA Launch Pad Competition

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152: Johnny Cichowski of Nine Lives Racing

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151: Jonny Mill of WheelWell.com

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150: Charlie Eklund of Hennessey's Tuner School

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149: Richard Tomlin of Apex Auto Works and White Pony Dry

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148: Bob Morreale of The Tuning School

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147: Dave Carapetyan of Rally Ready Driving School wants to teach everybody how to drive a rally car!

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146: Dan Kahn of Kahn Media started by sending articles about his car to magazine editors. Now he runs his own PR firm.

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145: Joe Gambino of Rogue Fabrication couldn't find a tube bender to meet his particular needs so he went out and made one himself!

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144: Colin McLemore of Mac's Custom Tie Downs is working to become the household name for tie downs of all sorts

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143: Chris Walters details how they built up a relationship with Jay Leno over years before releasing Jay Leno's Garage Car Care products

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142: Will Baty of Centerforce clutches shares how they continue to innovate to stay ahead of market demands

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141: Tony Whatley wants you to turn your side hustle into a successful business

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140: Bret Voelkel of RideTech explains how his company emerged from the 2008 recession stronger than ever

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139: Steve Dinan, Founder and former owner of DINAN, made the best products possible and backed them with a warranty and recently started a new service shop called CarBahn

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138: Jason Gauci of Lund International talks product development, marketing, and patents for their products in the off-road truck market

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137: Brent Picasso of Autosport Labs discusses the process of using crowd funding to make RaceCapture and Podium

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136: Dave Rowe of EPS Motorsports travels all over the world tuning various race cars using his MoTeC expertise

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135: Lance Stander, the owner of Superformance, tells how he moved from South Africa to the US to pursue his passion for cars

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134: Jim Ring shares how he and his brother Mike expanded RingBrothers to include manufacturing billet assemblies and specialty body panels

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133: Kris Miller has helped Powerstop Brakes increase their brand's recognition through strategic sponsorships and by creating excellent content

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132: Gary Carbono left his job as a lawyer in Panama to pursue his passion for cars and founded Race Lab Motorsports

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131: John Nguyen quit his day job to pursue Track Spec Motorsports and has parlayed that into the Spec Corvette racing series

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130: Scott Molitor of MoFab takes us through the process of acquiring a performance shop to grow his business

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129: Dennis Overholser, co-founder of Painless Performance Products, takes us through the ups and downs of growing his wiring and accessories company

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128: The Bondurant Racing School just celebrated its 50th year in business! Tune in to hear what Pat and Bob are doing to make it thrive for another 50 years.

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127: Tim Palazzolo of GAP Racing earned his reputation as a world-class builder by paying attention to the little details

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126: Trevor and Travis Hill of TWOth Autosport want to take novices and turn them into professional racing drivers

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125: Dirk Starksen from Advanced Clutch Technology (ACT) tells how he got started and how he continues to innovate

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124: Doug and Brad DeBerti build crazy vehicles, race trucks, and have a new show on Discovery called Twin Turbos

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123: Glen Reid of Futura Trailers brought his innovative idea of a lowering trailer to reality

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122: David Schardt of Forgeline Motorsports continues to push the envelope with their carbon+forged wheels

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121: Bob Boileau discusses how he became President of Pikes Peak International Raceway and how they have outlasted the previous owners

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120: Paul "Scooter" Brothers shares his experience at Comp Performance Group, the SEMA board, and how they look for companies to acquire

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119: Larry Chen works every single day to capture stunning automotive pictures from all over the globe

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118: Chris Stewart took his knowledge of marketing & design and combined it with his love of music & racing to create the GridLife festivals

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117: John Whalen of Whalen Speed R&D details how he has built up his business over the years

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116: Trevor Doelling of Texas Speed quit installing parts to focus on online sales. Now, they are machining and manufacturing their own parts.

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115: Howard Anderson of AR Fabrication and Darton East believes that slow and steady growth is the best way to ensure success

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114: Three friends - Jeremy, Ben, and John - teamed up with different skill sets to start Fathouse Fabrications

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113: Jason Whitfield of Whitfield Fab has built his business by doing everything he can in house, including manufacturing weld-ready cages for drag racing

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112: Chris Stephens, the co-host of Discovery Channel's Garage Rehab, helps shops improve operations and turn a profit

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111: Tim Suddard of Grassroots Motorsports explains how the magazine got started and how it has changed over the years

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110: Ian Baker of World Time Attack set out to create the ultimate time attack racing spectacle and continues to improve his event

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109: Eric Hazen explains how he and Paul Lucas use their engineering knowledge to design products at Verus Engineering

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108: Mike Lewin of Professional Awesome shares how they are transforming their racing hobby into a real business

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107: Victor Alvarez took his love for Supras and turned it into a business with Induction Performance

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106: Rory Connell has leveraged his network to become more successful and recently became Chairman of the SEMA YEN Select Committee

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105: Dom Tucci is expanding the family business of building hot rods with his design firm Dom Tucci Designs

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104: Ben Horst of Eddy Motorworks epitomizes the term "hot rod" with his Tesla-powered Exocet

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103: Sasha Anis of OnPoint Dyno is positioning himself as a leader in electric car performance

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102: Susan Johnson of Moore Automotive takes a deep dive into proper accounting practices

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100: Reid Lunde returns as a guest for Episode 100 and tells us about Kaizenspeed and KS Tuned

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099: Ron Sledge gives some insight on how King Engine Bearings operates in the US.

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098: Kenny Tran of Jotech Motorsports says passion and focus are the keys to success

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097: Sam Barros of Nostrum Energy saw a need for aftermarket direct injection injectors and is meeting the demand.

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096: Thad Norman of Hypercar Development has lofty goals for their McLaren and wants to break a whole bunch of records

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095: Hear how Chris Rhoad started StudioRhoad.com to build beautiful websites and create engaging content for businesses

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094: Jim Liaw tells us how he helped bring drifting to the US with Formula Drift

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093: Dave Vasser used hard work and determination to build Nitrous Outlet into a powerhouse in the nitrous market

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092: Ken Anderson has helped many companies grown their US presence. Hear about his latest venture with Mountune USA

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091: Mike and Rossy Welch tell us how they met and built Road Race Engineering

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090: Hear what it takes to start a performance shop with James Siebert of F&S Motorsports

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089: Marty Staggs of Turbosmart USA explains how he helped bridge the gap between Australia and the US

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088: Frank Rehak tells how he transformed his family auto shop to Driveshaft Shop over several decades.

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087: Cody Loveland of LoveFab and Affinity Aero shares how he went from Honda's to NSX's to tube-frame carbon-bodied race cars.

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086: Franco Ganino of Alliant Insurance talks about their Garage Keepers insurance plan called Installers Edge

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085: Gidi Chamdi exposes the real truth about what it takes to chase the 6 second quarter mile with his GTR.

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084: JP from Radium Engineering tells how he concentrates on design and outsources the manufacturing.

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083: Zach Denney explains how he brought ECUMaster to the United States

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082: Matt Beenen tells us how he climbed the ranks to become President of GrimmSpeed

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081: Jud Massingill, founder of School of Automotive Machinists, tells us how he built the coolest vocational school around!

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080: Jason Dienhart details how he created Global Time Attack