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

Most shop owners glance at their P&L once a year at tax time and have no idea what it's actually telling them. In this episode, accountant Jerry Cecco breaks down exactly how a profit and loss statement should be structured for a performance shop – and how to generate accurate nu ...  Show more

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

You're doing highly skilled work, working harder than the general repair shop down the street — and making less money per hour. In this episode, Richard interviews Kevin to break down exactly why performance, restoration, and custom fabrication shops struggle financially compared ...  Show more

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

Unlock the hidden secrets that are transforming manufacturing efficiency worldwide. In this deep dive, Richard and Kevin explore the powerful concepts that can revolutionize your production line—from error-proofing and Pokeyoke techniques that prevent costly mistakes, to lean man ...  Show more

214 - Rebuilding shocks with Chris Hagen of Inertia Laboratory

In this episode, Kevin and Richard sits down with Chris Hagen, owner of Inertia Laboratory. Chris specializes in high-performance damper rebuilds, revalving, dyno testing, and sells high end coilover systems. Before starting Inertia Lab, Chris worked as an engineer for a major ve ...  Show more

213 - Manufacturing Systems for Small Shops with Richard Fielder

In this episode, Kevin and co-host Richard Fielder break down the manufacturing systems used by large-scale factories and show you how to implement them in your small shop. Richard is a controls engineer at Peterbilt where he works with the systems that manufacture semi trucks at ...  Show more