I work at Pro Motor Engines in Mooresville, NC. We had a very good season logging 13 wins in two different series'. The #33 truck owned by Kevin Harvick and driven by Ron Hornaday was our big winners this year. The 33 team won 6 times in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series and their sister team won twice with the #2 truck. Pro Motor also had engines in two other winning trucks this year and in three winning ARCA series cars. The championship came down to the last race and even the last laps, with a late race pit stop making the difference. So heartbreaking, but I think I'm starting to get over it. Many people ask me what we do in the off season since we're not building engines and nobody is going to the track to race. To tell the truth we are actually more busy during the winter months especially after Christmas than we are the rest of the year.
At my shop every year for a few weeks we make changes to the shop and renovations where needed. This year was no exception and we changed a lot of stuff around! The picture above is our new cylinder head area (Mike pictured) which I'm really happy with. We also re-waxed all the floors in the shop, repainted all the offices and all the walls in the machine shop. Still some work to be done but I'm not sure if we will get to the rest of it due to the start of the season fast approaching.
We are an independent engine builder, meaning that we don't have a team that operates out of our shop, instead we supply several different teams with engines. Since we own our engines and lease them out we always have scores of them sitting on the floor waiting to be torn down, cleaned , machined, assembled and dynoed during the off season. We currently have over 100 engines in the shop right now, the large majority still have to have a complete rebuild. We also use the off season as a time to spend a little more time and money toward research and development. I am so thankful that I have a job where I love what I do.
Notice how clean the shop is? Most professional shops at this level are like walking into a hospital they are so clean. It puts a little different perspective on the grease monkeys huh?
3 comments:
Yeah...all I could think of is how insanely clean everything is!! Sounds like my kind of place.
Looks just like Mcpherson?
it definitely put mom's mind at ease the first time she stepped into the ___(whatever the place is where the cars were) at McPherson - she was happy it was clean and not greasy and dirty!
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