**Drift HQ's Exciting Acquisitions and Plans**

Dorte has kept stock of a lot of it we have there's got to be at least a 100 of these seats here in stock on the shelves ready to ship where a lot of the guys that are listening them they ain't got it they try to get it from Turn 14, but Turn 14 ain't got it. Drift HQ has got it, what's also cool too is like I can bring now some of my relationships to the table that I formed with these companies through sponsorships and through cars that I've built and we now have the infrastructure the support to be able to take these companies on stock their stuff on the shelves help people that want to purchase this stuff with information.

I don't want to say all these Brands because there's a lot that I've been working on behind the scenes actually before we even uh were dead set on this whole business acquisition thing um that now we going to be on Drift HQ instead of me selling an Lzmgf but like there's some really exciting stuff, some deals that we're really hard to work through that are going to be huge and it's going to be awesome for you guys and awesome for us. Um I know you talked brief about I know what this is but I was going to make a a felic joke about it because it kind of looks like a um don't put that in the video Mike, yeah this is um a LS water pump delete if you're running an electric water pump and this is something that Chris came up with. Chris is very knowledgeable he actually went to school to learn how to design parts and stuff and when we come up in a situation that nobody has made anything up and we need something that's going to actually make the car run cooler better or more efficiently we come up with a solution and this was his like he came up with an idea we ran it through our CNC guy, he came up with the plan how it was going to work 100%.

And then it becomes a product so we have many other products here on the table like the N54 engine mounts, fully made out of Billet. We have um the Corvette dual calipers which is our probably the most sold product that we have on the shelves right now. I took my car to a shop in that area nobody knew what they were doing with the drift cars and that is the reason why I actually Open Drift HQ in the first place. And if you guys have any requests as well, is something that we can think of that's not going to be Way Out Of Reach we can put it in our notes and say when we have the time we can possibly develop it.

There is many parts that we were thinking of developing another company comes out with it so instead of just becoming copycats we just stop development completely on that part and then just keep moving like it. This sport is evolving I think it's just the beginning of it, and I think there's so much more that's going to come out of this. So many new cars that we're going to figure out.

I think in a bigger picture it would be a really cool goal to have our own CNC here at some point and to be able to like actually develop stuff on site uh for now pretty much all of our capital is going to go into stocking shelves even more than you already see. There's a lot of brands that you already stock there's a lot of brands that I want to stock from other countries Australia the UK Europe it's going to take a lot to get there um so there are a lot of goals that we kind of have together that will potentially I don't want to say be tabled until the next year but um to be competitive in this game you really have to spend quite a bit of money in inventory and that's going to be a pretty big thing for us right off the rip.

Like we got an order bro, I think we're going to close out the video here. There's obviously like a a pretty complex acquisition transaction Mega move whatever you want to call it uh and there's so much that we probably haven't even touched base on. I wanted to do the best job we could of possibly trying to touch all our bases and talk about as much as we can well there's there's going to be stuff.

And I know you guys are going to have questions, so we'll definitely have a follow-up. Whether that will live on my Channel or the Drift HQ Channel, we'll see but do the best you can make sure to follow Drift HQ on Instagram, follow them on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, TikTok. Do you have a TikTok? Yes damn these mother have Tik Tok I don't even know that thank you guys.

This is pretty freaking awesome, I'm beyond stoked and hope you guys are too one when you said when you said when you say that you love me that you love you when you when you say\\n

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys and welcome to today's video uh I got to say this s13 in the new shop just makes me feel some type of way look how nice it looks in here uh we're doing a little bit of TLC to old girl got a big shoot coming up later in the day and this car is slowly becoming the I have a big reveal or exciting news drift car quick bolt check and fluid change and she's good to go so one of the things I want to get done today is a little bit of work on the 350Z my friend dorte from drift HQ is in town uh so he's actually meeting me up here dropping off some arms cuz I got to do a little service to the rear end of that thing sh a a oh yeah good got him I know his car has been in videos before and we've driven together on track but I still need to formally introduce you guys to dorte the founder of drift HQ hey guys what's up excited to be here so you guys know how much this cream car means to me it's kind of the car that started it all with drifting and everything Automotive in my life that is a lot like this E46 is D DTE so I wanted you take a second and kind of tell the backstory of this car this pretty much is my baby my Mona Lisa which a lot of people call it because we took our time with it although it's not my first drift car but it's the first inhouse built with every possible best part that we could have ever put because people kind of didn't take us serious until I built this car it created the foundation for what drift HQ is today with the color that we use for this car is the color for all our cars in the team only thing that we didn't do in this car was the paint itself everything else was done in house and it pretty much like was a eye opening for getting out there for the first time and just like you loved it the first time that you saw it this is kind of like one of those piece things that people are like wow it's just a conversation opener this car was the car where I you should have to the track and I was like who the is this guy cuz I thought he was just one of those hard Parkers like Mike with his LS400 in the pits cuz this thing you look at it it is a masterpiece the attention to detail and everything on it it's definitely one of those things where you see it and you're like there's no way this car gets driven hard but it does and dor is an excellent driver and you guys might have noticed uh there's been quite a bit of drift HQ stuff here at the compound in this video so without further Ado I'd like to give a warm official welcome to drift HQ officially moving into the compound than you guys haven't seen this building in a long time for a specific reason secretly behind the scenes doran's crew have been moving into this place so we have for the past 3 weeks we actually moved in and we've been fully shipping from here so we strive ourselves to stay fully stocked on what's going to get you immediately to the track so we focus on S chassis BMW's chassis and a lot of swap stuff on the left here we have PMC we are the only um North American distributor for it Jay-Z swaps Sr swaps LS swaps and everything else like that but our main focus is to be able to have every component started from suspension to Arms to shifters to brake lines to everything that you possibly could like put together in a car and get to the weekend and start shredding immediately so I'd like to interrupt this broadcast for a special message from drift HQ for limited time only we are going to be providing you with a limited edition drift HQ shirt like this with the fade as seen right here with all orders over $150 this special is only valid through August so don't sleep and visit drift HQ Down Below in the description things might start to kind of come together and make a little bit more sense there's quite a bit of stuff here between these shelves these shelves these shelves over there and you guys have constantly heard me talking about why I wanted to make the move from the other shop to the new shop uh the plan is for drift HQ to live in what was our old or our first shop at the main building so this is kind of like a temporary situation um I guess I left out an important detail too that's pretty damn exciting I now own the vast majority of drift HQ uh I don't even remember dorte like did you just like did you message me on Facebook one time just be like yo do you want to buy drift HQ no it a little bit more intense than that how we could work together was how it actually started I came to Orlando a couple times and we really couldn't figure out what we could possibly do together obviously your other shop was Tiny so we couldn't move into that shop and we just came in we talked we hung out we went out to eat and we didn't do much of anything it wasn't really until the compound became a reality that kind of both things came to life we went to drift week 2 and you were just so happy about that you had found the the compound that you came with me and you're like this could possibly fit all of us inside there but it wasn't until a late night that we were talking about sponsorships on the S5 that the conversation came to light and you're like I'm actually not running in Juku anymore because I want to get into parts and that's where the where we land today this was a while back that makes I remember we got burgers in my mind I didn't I didn't remember the burger day and I was like did DTE just like slide in my DMs and be like yo you want to buy drift HQ L I wish but no that's not that's not how it happened I had reached out to DTE because I had seen what he had been doing for the community both with throwing free events putting so much time and energy into the parts fan that had saved my ass and many of my friends when we break parts at the track and it it's just really cool you kind of took like a new approach to Drifting and to selling Parts in a a service way that like solved a lot of problems that people have and I wanted to know a way that I could get involved um obviously I had my relationship with enjuku and I had been wanting to start my own kind of like Parts distribution so that was kind of like a conflict in a way um and we just kept the conversation going and we kind of had mutual respect for what each other was doing um and like you said like the stars just kind of I guess aligned once the compound came about yeah it was more of a situation where we like instead of us competing we could do much better for the community we could do much better for drivers better in Parts if we actually work together and the only way to work together is to create some kind of partnership that we can both give back in a sense and I feel like for the past seven years that's pretty much what we have been doing I started the company by myself but later on on down the line I brought in Savio and Joel to kind of help me take it to another level this was like 3 years ago I think and they've done great they're still here they're not going anywhere so for the people think they're like or they're gone or whatever Joel is actually here along with two other ones that moved in with me speaking about the guys moving up here a it's pretty freaking cool but we decided we would give them their warm official welcome to the LZ compound in this video right here we reached a threshold in Fort Mars that we could no longer do what we wanted to do we are really big on giving back to the community by having events and doing things that we can actually give back on site and by every single track closing within 3 hours it limited us to having to drive to Orlando all the time so all that traveling that we're doing essentially is just a waste of time giving back to the community is always going to be our main focus and doing everything that we can to grow the the sport do you like cars like this cars like this are cool if you want to see more cool cars like this make sure you follow drift HQ on Instagram right now if I'm going to do something I like to be the best that I can possibly be I like to devote 100% energy to it everyone knows this I'm stretched Way Too Thin right now between the compound between FD between trying to be a YouTuber all the all the things that go on in my head and that I want to do I can't devote the time and energy to growing a a parts Fulfillment company whatever you want to call it to the scale that I want it to be so once we kind of started talking it made a lot more sense for for me to be able to take both your infrastructure that you've created between the site your crew and yourself to run this company and to be able to uh try to create the ideas and wild fantasies that I have and manifest them and bring them to life um because there's just so much stuff that I want to do and I have so many cool ideas but I feel like I'm held back from a time management perspective so I'm super excited man me too on your end that if you tried to actually run this business on this side you just wouldn't have enough time to do everything and we were running a situation that we didn't have enough time to keep editing and keep building while still attending events while still taking care of the customer so we we decided like 6 months to a year or so ago let's take a step back and actually focus on customer service over making videos and and you can see that we've dropped a lot from growing on at least on the media platforms but we grew on on another side creating products we design different CNC shops some in the country some all over the world to make us parts that we feel like necessary like we were one of the first ones to do a n54 swap and a E46 the first one right now that has a e92 um swap for a 2J dual caliper for Corvettes we were the first ones to have that out in the market so being a first in a lot of things that we do is key to us first one to have the van that you guys saw in the video so that van kind of connects us even more to the community because we just keep helping drivers the more the more events that we can attend with that van the more drivers is helped wholly grazed over the fact that the owner of a company like this drifts like I I I didn't really think about it until today how cool that was cuz the fact that you're out here shredding with everybody the fact that pretty much all your guys shred that's true it it like everyone in a company drifts so in this official purchase of drift HQ uh a few things came with it right so I got dorte and his crew probably the biggest value all of this inventory there's a couple cars that we'll go over with you guys but I think one of the really cool things that I would love to kind of expand upon is exclusivity so there are a few brands that drift HQ is the exclusive distributor of uh one of which you already mentioned is PMC that makes all the rad adapters uh that's the same kit I have on my E36 by the way kind of cool guess what I got it from St Q absolutely um we helped you build that whole car actually no you did everything introduce me I I feel like that was also a pretty big selling point the customer service was on point that's true I don't know how DTE has a life giving the service that he is to all these people so hopefully we will expand sales team so dorte can have more life yes more life uh but anyway another huge one is FDF um I personally don't run FDF on any of my cars but I know we helped Colette install it on her Corvette uh it drives really great FDF essentially makes a ton of angle kits for all all sorts of cars and a lot of the newer cars as well as well as Corvettes like you said Mustangs and parts for cars that nobody else would touch and he's also one of our drivers in FD proos spec destroy or die which we have exclusivity as well on that which they make so many MX5 parts that's the only things that we stock for them Taylor Ray runs these he loved it and they pretty much turned us into them like we saw that they make a great um great product Dan is really good really good customer customer service and we also have CNC 71 which is a friendly budget kind of angle kit anybody that's trying to get in the E36 E46 game this is their number one choice they have mini kits for the IS300 for the E36 E46 as well small little guys that make cool parts and we find them all over the world and if you're one of them out there message me DM me on Instagram and tell me what you make and it's possible that we put on the website I can't even stress enough how many little companies started out of a garage and then they became a legitimate company that they have their own website we sell spr we sell Drift Tech these are all small guys that just started making one single part and then all of a sudden they're like hey maybe I can make two parts or three parts if you're out there come find me and we're going to get your parts on the Shelf these drop ship sites are kind of like a diamond dozen that is not what I want right like you can tell by this Warehouse there's a there's quite a bit of inventory in here um once we're moved into other shop we'll be would expand more but like yo in the the old shop right now we have I don't I don't want to know how many there are but there's so many Prisma seats that I can't even walk in there my goal my vision with this is to be able to walk from our shop two B over and have this beautiful Warehouse stocked full of all the stuff that we use all the time it's so annoying when you go to order something from a site and then they you get a message like 3 days later and like hey yeah like we just contacted you know the supplier and they're actually out of it like that we want to have stuff on the Shelf so when you order it gets shipped from here we make sure the product's good we make sure it gets to you as fast as it possibly can we need stuff overnighted like a day could make a break you making it to event right and I know dwarte has personally for me gone out of his way to make sure stuff gets shipped on weekends answered phones late at night and that is something that we've talked about potentially adding on into the future like how cool would it be if there was a phone line that people could call for support on the weekends late at night if we had a parts cier service that could deliver stuff locally there's just so many ways that we can improve service right right like it is the it would be amazing if we could develop something consistent so we could guarantee people that their parts would ship on the weekend if they paid a little bit more have sales staff stay later maybe in the weekends who knows I know that I'm constantly building my stuff after hours most people are building their after work mhm and it's inconvenient when all the places you call that you need advice from aren't there so it's on a weekend that you're going to fall in a situation that you're right about to go to an event your car just got put on the lift you go look at something then you're missing this part your lollipop is falling out and you don't have something and that's where we come in we are consistently on Instagram Messenger on the website we try to answer people late I'm not promising you guys that we're going to answer you every single time that you call after hours or message or do whatever email but we know the importance of having something shipped delivered maybe somebody just went and bought a car recently and they want to finish the car for that event and then Parts didn't come from other places so they're just trying to get a part people have finished cars on the track and like went now drifting with all the parts that we have in a van in general there's many companies competing against us but if you go on Facebook and you're basing off customer service and customer service we're always going to win because we are drivers at the end of the day again and we understand that DTE does and we're going to continue to pride ourselves on customer service I just want to throw this out there though don't be head I hate when people call a company ask for advice or like like what parts to use in their build and then go and buy it from somewhere else have some respect whether it's with drift HQ or with another company don't waste someone's time and then go buy the part somewhere else if you're going to call and you're going to seek input on the builds try to reward the people that give you that insight and share with you the knowledge they've developed over time like I said whether it's drift HQ or another place order your parts from that person and if their price is slightly higher and you can save a few bucks somewhere else let them know cuz a lot of these parts and a lot of the things that are stocked are actually regulated by the manufacturer and are supposed to be at a certain price so there's a chance that either there was a price change across the board that maybe one company isn't aware of or that the other company is not obeying the rules and they could actually lose their rights as a distributor for selling under what they have to I've expressed to them before as well as you guys about the whole situation of me kind of feeling trapped and wanting to do my own parts company and that's essentially what we're doing um I just kind of took the foundation that you laid out with drift HQ and it's going to make it a lot easier to get where I wanted to be in a year than me trying to do it and get there in 3 years exactly drift HQ did accommodate the public before in their old location that is not something that is going to happen here for obvious reasons for privacy for security but we are going to work on developing some sort of Courier Service whether it's meeting people at a certain location delivering parts locally we want to have the best presence that we could possibly have for Orlando and the best support for the people that we know are already in this community but unfortunately I just want to make it very clear in this video that it's not going to be a place that you guys can just rock up to we've been talking a lot about Parts but uh that is just kind of the beginning one of the other things we want to focus on and kind of dive into is actually drift rentals so you guys know uh I've quite often drift driven other people's cars whether it's a rental a friend whatever uh a kind of cool business model that we wanted to do something with being so close to osw is offer a service of renting people cars so whether it's a SE time car or something crazy uh drift HQ did come with two cars of which I'm not going to say much about it but probably the most stoked about this thing I kind of just want to slam it on these wheels and daily it yeah but look if you got to rent a fully caged car for a comp or something this thing would slay it's a stock V six but these things rip some pretty famous drivers have driven this car in the past actually one of them now is like a multi another one too if you're more familiar with like a z chassis or a g chassis I should say we got this beautiful unit right here seat time stallion uh but it doesn't stop there uh we've got a lot of builds planned I kind of want to build cars that will probably eventually become rental cars and other purposes on the drift HQ Channel which by the way go subscribe to the drift HQ Channel please and will give us a purpose to build these cars and document so we can have really good DIYs and tutorials for you guys of installing the parts that we sell gain more knowledge from them and then also end up with a car that we can rent to the track so one of them is going to be a Corvette this is not a uh drift HQ car although it is a drift HQ driver this is Savio The Man Behind all my beautiful granite and the pretty much would you call him the event coordinator of event coordinator and just the best cook ever right you could say that I feel so bad that I didn't talk about that what is what is the meat called that he makes p God so good savu is just a big bear takes care of everybody he's like we call him United Nations cuz he is he has no enemies he is everybody's friend he makes everybody feel loved so shout out to him for bring that's his car the other one is also his car his cop car and he's also going to work with Adam in your event right coming in December yeah the the date is not what I originally posted it's December 18th that may might have been what posted we'll fill you in more details in there there's a lot of exciting stuff in drifty is going to be a huge part of that um this is dte's personal car Blue Thunder beautiful E36 s54 powered we machine another one of D dor is basically like the BMW version of myself a lot of these cars that you see here are actually his personal cars um and then his kids cars are over there the are the Z4 Z3 Z3 so this car here for us to be able to attend car shows and stance what look at this Mikey even you could have proov this thing it is so low but yet it's drift ready pretty much it has seats inside uh tucked in hydro which a lot of people this is our um drift HQ Hydro here I switched the windows to the right side and pretty much like you could drift it has a full SLR kit and this car it's just because we want to be able to have parts that are not specifically only for drift cars that you could apply for street cars for them to drive better look better and all kinds right I changed the whole vision for drift HQ because of this car as well drift HQ TNA personas right now it's mainly Spanish is the second Lang right mainly yeah then Portuguese is the third so this is savio's car as you can see here we built him a whole fresh new car this year because he toted his car in um The Gambler so this car the motor is actually pulled out of it as we are uh rebuilding it right now we're going to put it in and in a couple weeks or so he'll back be back in ripping this car here we did not build Greg Jones I'm sorry look at the color now he hasn't even seen the the new color he keeps asking me for pictures and no I'm not selling it back to you it's a it has a LS6 in it so it's a pretty pretty neat car look at it it's Marco's Nemesis right there pretty much JayZ LS it's a sick build and this is Andrew Ma's car this is one of our drivers been a longtime friend of ours has been with us since the beginning pretty much goes to every single event that we do helps us with the events like just is a is an awesome person nothing was spared on this car and it's it's a beast 6 700 horsepower car is doing really well it's like 3 months old it was Freddy's car this was Freddy's oh my god I didn't even realize that that's funny came out so clean MH so I think we kind of downplayed Chris and Cricket as well cuz those two are just like a little Mastermind mad team together between the fabrication and mechanical stuff um and I'm like super stoked them as an asset here both for maintaining these cars for the rental cars and for development right so we've mentioned before that drift HQ Mak some of their own parts and we'll show you guys a couple more of those things inside but having those guys kind of working on these little side projects in things will let me break free from all of the half workking broken cars that we're going to be working on over in that shop and they can go to town and we can develop things on these chassis build new cars test products and just show how well this stuff works so this beauty here is Cricket's car he is just all wheeel Drive soon to be LS swap but not yet these three here this one is my um personal drift car that I built because I buil my kids two z3s I loved it so much that I wanted to get a a third one so that I can actually drift with them which I'm going this weekend you you were there actually the first time they ever drifted are 15 and 13 years old and they shred absolutely shred first time on the track everyone Marco was like I'm quitting I'm not dri drifting anymore this is it they really like they got in the cars and it just muscle memory from a lot of sim practicing and it's cool to see you these are kind of like the Miatas you know like they're just they're easy to work on they look cool outy mom with a low budget I would say like a c like 2 3,000 bucks you can get yourself on track and you can have a fun little car that's not going to blow the bank pretty much one of these cars I think I paid 800 or 1,000 bucks for so you can still drift relatively cheap and still have fun at the same time my brain has literally just been vomiting with ideas I've had so much cool stuff that I've wanted to implement based on my own experiences so like I want to kind of reconfigure an entire influencer program uh based on a lot of people and friends that I've met there's a lot that we can do as a company to make those people's lives easier and help grow drifting as a sport and I'm super excited about that in addition to having a great relationship with customers uh has also fabricated a lot of really good relationships with companies so he gets first dibs on things like the first ever FIA Prisma seats in the country this is huge a lot of people have been asking for these uh they make a lot of really cool seats like these dorte has kept stock of a lot of it we have there's got to be at least a 100 of these seats here in stock on the shelves ready to ship where a lot of the guys that are listenting them they ain't got it they try to get it from turn 14 turn 14 ain't got it drift HQ got it what's also cool too is like I can bring now some of my relationships to the table that I formed with these companies through sponsorships and through cars that I've built and we now have the infrastructure the support to be able to take these companies on stock their stuff on the Shelf help people that want to purchase this stuff with information like I don't want to say all these Brands because there's a lot that I've been working on behind the scenes actually before we even uh were dead set on this whole business acquisition thing um that now we going to be on drift HQ instead of me selling an lzmfg but like there's some really exciting stuff some deals that we're really hard to work through that are going to be huge and it's going to be awesome for you guys and awesome for us um I know you talked brief about I know what this is but I was going to make a a felic joke about it because it kind of looks like a um don't put that in the video Mike yeah this is um a LS water pump delete if you're running a electric water pump and this is something that Chris came up with Chris is very knowledgeable he actually went to school to learn how to design parts and stuff and when we come up in a situation that nobody has made anything up and we need something that's going to actually make the car run cooler better or more efficiently we come up with a solution and this was his like he came up with an idea we ran in through our CNC guy he came up with the plan how it was going to work 100% And then it becomes a product so we have many other products here on the table like the n54 engine mounts fully full made out of Billet we have um the Corvette dual calipers which is our probably the most sold product that we have on the shelves right now I took my car car to a shop in that area nobody knew what they were doing with the drift cars and that is the reason why I actually Open Drift HQ in the first place and if you guys have any requests as well is something that we can think of that's not going to be Way Out Of Reach we can put it in our notes and say when we have the time we can possibly develop it there is many parts that we were thinking of developing another company comes out with it so instead of just becoming copycats we just stop development completely on that part and then just keep moving like it this sport is evolving I think it's just the beginning of it and I think there's so much more that's going to come out of this so many new cars that we're going to figure out I think in a bigger picture it would be a really cool goal to have our own CNC here at some point and to be able to like actually develop stuff on site uh for now pretty much all of our capital is going to go into stocking shelves even more than you already see it uh there's a lot of brands that you already stock there's a lot of brands that I want to stock from other countries Australia the UK Europe it's going to take a lot to get there um so there are a lot of goals that we kind of have together that will potentially I don't want to say be tabled until the next year but um to be competitive in this game you really have to spend quite a bit of money in inventory and that's going to be a pretty big thing for us right off the rip like we got an order bro I think we're going to close out the video here there there's obviously like a a pretty complex acquisition transaction Mega move whatever you want to call it uh and there's so much that we probably haven't even touched base on I wanted to do the best job we could of possibly trying to touch all our bases and talk about as much as we can well there's there's going to be stuff and I know you guys are going to have questions so we'll definitely have a followup whether that will live on my Channel or the drift HQ Channel we'll see but do the best you can make sure to follow drift HQ on Instagram follow them on YouTube Facebook Twitter Myspace Tik Tok do you have a Tik Tok yes damn these mother have Tik Tok I don't even know that thank you guys this is pretty freaking awesome I'm beyond stoked and hope you guys are too one when you said when you said when you say that you love me that you love you when you when you saywhat's up guys and welcome to today's video uh I got to say this s13 in the new shop just makes me feel some type of way look how nice it looks in here uh we're doing a little bit of TLC to old girl got a big shoot coming up later in the day and this car is slowly becoming the I have a big reveal or exciting news drift car quick bolt check and fluid change and she's good to go so one of the things I want to get done today is a little bit of work on the 350Z my friend dorte from drift HQ is in town uh so he's actually meeting me up here dropping off some arms cuz I got to do a little service to the rear end of that thing sh a a oh yeah good got him I know his car has been in videos before and we've driven together on track but I still need to formally introduce you guys to dorte the founder of drift HQ hey guys what's up excited to be here so you guys know how much this cream car means to me it's kind of the car that started it all with drifting and everything Automotive in my life that is a lot like this E46 is D DTE so I wanted you take a second and kind of tell the backstory of this car this pretty much is my baby my Mona Lisa which a lot of people call it because we took our time with it although it's not my first drift car but it's the first inhouse built with every possible best part that we could have ever put because people kind of didn't take us serious until I built this car it created the foundation for what drift HQ is today with the color that we use for this car is the color for all our cars in the team only thing that we didn't do in this car was the paint itself everything else was done in house and it pretty much like was a eye opening for getting out there for the first time and just like you loved it the first time that you saw it this is kind of like one of those piece things that people are like wow it's just a conversation opener this car was the car where I you should have to the track and I was like who the is this guy cuz I thought he was just one of those hard Parkers like Mike with his LS400 in the pits cuz this thing you look at it it is a masterpiece the attention to detail and everything on it it's definitely one of those things where you see it and you're like there's no way this car gets driven hard but it does and dor is an excellent driver and you guys might have noticed uh there's been quite a bit of drift HQ stuff here at the compound in this video so without further Ado I'd like to give a warm official welcome to drift HQ officially moving into the compound than you guys haven't seen this building in a long time for a specific reason secretly behind the scenes doran's crew have been moving into this place so we have for the past 3 weeks we actually moved in and we've been fully shipping from here so we strive ourselves to stay fully stocked on what's going to get you immediately to the track so we focus on S chassis BMW's chassis and a lot of swap stuff on the left here we have PMC we are the only um North American distributor for it Jay-Z swaps Sr swaps LS swaps and everything else like that but our main focus is to be able to have every component started from suspension to Arms to shifters to brake lines to everything that you possibly could like put together in a car and get to the weekend and start shredding immediately so I'd like to interrupt this broadcast for a special message from drift HQ for limited time only we are going to be providing you with a limited edition drift HQ shirt like this with the fade as seen right here with all orders over $150 this special is only valid through August so don't sleep and visit drift HQ Down Below in the description things might start to kind of come together and make a little bit more sense there's quite a bit of stuff here between these shelves these shelves these shelves over there and you guys have constantly heard me talking about why I wanted to make the move from the other shop to the new shop uh the plan is for drift HQ to live in what was our old or our first shop at the main building so this is kind of like a temporary situation um I guess I left out an important detail too that's pretty damn exciting I now own the vast majority of drift HQ uh I don't even remember dorte like did you just like did you message me on Facebook one time just be like yo do you want to buy drift HQ no it a little bit more intense than that how we could work together was how it actually started I came to Orlando a couple times and we really couldn't figure out what we could possibly do together obviously your other shop was Tiny so we couldn't move into that shop and we just came in we talked we hung out we went out to eat and we didn't do much of anything it wasn't really until the compound became a reality that kind of both things came to life we went to drift week 2 and you were just so happy about that you had found the the compound that you came with me and you're like this could possibly fit all of us inside there but it wasn't until a late night that we were talking about sponsorships on the S5 that the conversation came to light and you're like I'm actually not running in Juku anymore because I want to get into parts and that's where the where we land today this was a while back that makes I remember we got burgers in my mind I didn't I didn't remember the burger day and I was like did DTE just like slide in my DMs and be like yo you want to buy drift HQ L I wish but no that's not that's not how it happened I had reached out to DTE because I had seen what he had been doing for the community both with throwing free events putting so much time and energy into the parts fan that had saved my ass and many of my friends when we break parts at the track and it it's just really cool you kind of took like a new approach to Drifting and to selling Parts in a a service way that like solved a lot of problems that people have and I wanted to know a way that I could get involved um obviously I had my relationship with enjuku and I had been wanting to start my own kind of like Parts distribution so that was kind of like a conflict in a way um and we just kept the conversation going and we kind of had mutual respect for what each other was doing um and like you said like the stars just kind of I guess aligned once the compound came about yeah it was more of a situation where we like instead of us competing we could do much better for the community we could do much better for drivers better in Parts if we actually work together and the only way to work together is to create some kind of partnership that we can both give back in a sense and I feel like for the past seven years that's pretty much what we have been doing I started the company by myself but later on on down the line I brought in Savio and Joel to kind of help me take it to another level this was like 3 years ago I think and they've done great they're still here they're not going anywhere so for the people think they're like or they're gone or whatever Joel is actually here along with two other ones that moved in with me speaking about the guys moving up here a it's pretty freaking cool but we decided we would give them their warm official welcome to the LZ compound in this video right here we reached a threshold in Fort Mars that we could no longer do what we wanted to do we are really big on giving back to the community by having events and doing things that we can actually give back on site and by every single track closing within 3 hours it limited us to having to drive to Orlando all the time so all that traveling that we're doing essentially is just a waste of time giving back to the community is always going to be our main focus and doing everything that we can to grow the the sport do you like cars like this cars like this are cool if you want to see more cool cars like this make sure you follow drift HQ on Instagram right now if I'm going to do something I like to be the best that I can possibly be I like to devote 100% energy to it everyone knows this I'm stretched Way Too Thin right now between the compound between FD between trying to be a YouTuber all the all the things that go on in my head and that I want to do I can't devote the time and energy to growing a a parts Fulfillment company whatever you want to call it to the scale that I want it to be so once we kind of started talking it made a lot more sense for for me to be able to take both your infrastructure that you've created between the site your crew and yourself to run this company and to be able to uh try to create the ideas and wild fantasies that I have and manifest them and bring them to life um because there's just so much stuff that I want to do and I have so many cool ideas but I feel like I'm held back from a time management perspective so I'm super excited man me too on your end that if you tried to actually run this business on this side you just wouldn't have enough time to do everything and we were running a situation that we didn't have enough time to keep editing and keep building while still attending events while still taking care of the customer so we we decided like 6 months to a year or so ago let's take a step back and actually focus on customer service over making videos and and you can see that we've dropped a lot from growing on at least on the media platforms but we grew on on another side creating products we design different CNC shops some in the country some all over the world to make us parts that we feel like necessary like we were one of the first ones to do a n54 swap and a E46 the first one right now that has a e92 um swap for a 2J dual caliper for Corvettes we were the first ones to have that out in the market so being a first in a lot of things that we do is key to us first one to have the van that you guys saw in the video so that van kind of connects us even more to the community because we just keep helping drivers the more the more events that we can attend with that van the more drivers is helped wholly grazed over the fact that the owner of a company like this drifts like I I I didn't really think about it until today how cool that was cuz the fact that you're out here shredding with everybody the fact that pretty much all your guys shred that's true it it like everyone in a company drifts so in this official purchase of drift HQ uh a few things came with it right so I got dorte and his crew probably the biggest value all of this inventory there's a couple cars that we'll go over with you guys but I think one of the really cool things that I would love to kind of expand upon is exclusivity so there are a few brands that drift HQ is the exclusive distributor of uh one of which you already mentioned is PMC that makes all the rad adapters uh that's the same kit I have on my E36 by the way kind of cool guess what I got it from St Q absolutely um we helped you build that whole car actually no you did everything introduce me I I feel like that was also a pretty big selling point the customer service was on point that's true I don't know how DTE has a life giving the service that he is to all these people so hopefully we will expand sales team so dorte can have more life yes more life uh but anyway another huge one is FDF um I personally don't run FDF on any of my cars but I know we helped Colette install it on her Corvette uh it drives really great FDF essentially makes a ton of angle kits for all all sorts of cars and a lot of the newer cars as well as well as Corvettes like you said Mustangs and parts for cars that nobody else would touch and he's also one of our drivers in FD proos spec destroy or die which we have exclusivity as well on that which they make so many MX5 parts that's the only things that we stock for them Taylor Ray runs these he loved it and they pretty much turned us into them like we saw that they make a great um great product Dan is really good really good customer customer service and we also have CNC 71 which is a friendly budget kind of angle kit anybody that's trying to get in the E36 E46 game this is their number one choice they have mini kits for the IS300 for the E36 E46 as well small little guys that make cool parts and we find them all over the world and if you're one of them out there message me DM me on Instagram and tell me what you make and it's possible that we put on the website I can't even stress enough how many little companies started out of a garage and then they became a legitimate company that they have their own website we sell spr we sell Drift Tech these are all small guys that just started making one single part and then all of a sudden they're like hey maybe I can make two parts or three parts if you're out there come find me and we're going to get your parts on the Shelf these drop ship sites are kind of like a diamond dozen that is not what I want right like you can tell by this Warehouse there's a there's quite a bit of inventory in here um once we're moved into other shop we'll be would expand more but like yo in the the old shop right now we have I don't I don't want to know how many there are but there's so many Prisma seats that I can't even walk in there my goal my vision with this is to be able to walk from our shop two B over and have this beautiful Warehouse stocked full of all the stuff that we use all the time it's so annoying when you go to order something from a site and then they you get a message like 3 days later and like hey yeah like we just contacted you know the supplier and they're actually out of it like that we want to have stuff on the Shelf so when you order it gets shipped from here we make sure the product's good we make sure it gets to you as fast as it possibly can we need stuff overnighted like a day could make a break you making it to event right and I know dwarte has personally for me gone out of his way to make sure stuff gets shipped on weekends answered phones late at night and that is something that we've talked about potentially adding on into the future like how cool would it be if there was a phone line that people could call for support on the weekends late at night if we had a parts cier service that could deliver stuff locally there's just so many ways that we can improve service right right like it is the it would be amazing if we could develop something consistent so we could guarantee people that their parts would ship on the weekend if they paid a little bit more have sales staff stay later maybe in the weekends who knows I know that I'm constantly building my stuff after hours most people are building their after work mhm and it's inconvenient when all the places you call that you need advice from aren't there so it's on a weekend that you're going to fall in a situation that you're right about to go to an event your car just got put on the lift you go look at something then you're missing this part your lollipop is falling out and you don't have something and that's where we come in we are consistently on Instagram Messenger on the website we try to answer people late I'm not promising you guys that we're going to answer you every single time that you call after hours or message or do whatever email but we know the importance of having something shipped delivered maybe somebody just went and bought a car recently and they want to finish the car for that event and then Parts didn't come from other places so they're just trying to get a part people have finished cars on the track and like went now drifting with all the parts that we have in a van in general there's many companies competing against us but if you go on Facebook and you're basing off customer service and customer service we're always going to win because we are drivers at the end of the day again and we understand that DTE does and we're going to continue to pride ourselves on customer service I just want to throw this out there though don't be head I hate when people call a company ask for advice or like like what parts to use in their build and then go and buy it from somewhere else have some respect whether it's with drift HQ or with another company don't waste someone's time and then go buy the part somewhere else if you're going to call and you're going to seek input on the builds try to reward the people that give you that insight and share with you the knowledge they've developed over time like I said whether it's drift HQ or another place order your parts from that person and if their price is slightly higher and you can save a few bucks somewhere else let them know cuz a lot of these parts and a lot of the things that are stocked are actually regulated by the manufacturer and are supposed to be at a certain price so there's a chance that either there was a price change across the board that maybe one company isn't aware of or that the other company is not obeying the rules and they could actually lose their rights as a distributor for selling under what they have to I've expressed to them before as well as you guys about the whole situation of me kind of feeling trapped and wanting to do my own parts company and that's essentially what we're doing um I just kind of took the foundation that you laid out with drift HQ and it's going to make it a lot easier to get where I wanted to be in a year than me trying to do it and get there in 3 years exactly drift HQ did accommodate the public before in their old location that is not something that is going to happen here for obvious reasons for privacy for security but we are going to work on developing some sort of Courier Service whether it's meeting people at a certain location delivering parts locally we want to have the best presence that we could possibly have for Orlando and the best support for the people that we know are already in this community but unfortunately I just want to make it very clear in this video that it's not going to be a place that you guys can just rock up to we've been talking a lot about Parts but uh that is just kind of the beginning one of the other things we want to focus on and kind of dive into is actually drift rentals so you guys know uh I've quite often drift driven other people's cars whether it's a rental a friend whatever uh a kind of cool business model that we wanted to do something with being so close to osw is offer a service of renting people cars so whether it's a SE time car or something crazy uh drift HQ did come with two cars of which I'm not going to say much about it but probably the most stoked about this thing I kind of just want to slam it on these wheels and daily it yeah but look if you got to rent a fully caged car for a comp or something this thing would slay it's a stock V six but these things rip some pretty famous drivers have driven this car in the past actually one of them now is like a multi another one too if you're more familiar with like a z chassis or a g chassis I should say we got this beautiful unit right here seat time stallion uh but it doesn't stop there uh we've got a lot of builds planned I kind of want to build cars that will probably eventually become rental cars and other purposes on the drift HQ Channel which by the way go subscribe to the drift HQ Channel please and will give us a purpose to build these cars and document so we can have really good DIYs and tutorials for you guys of installing the parts that we sell gain more knowledge from them and then also end up with a car that we can rent to the track so one of them is going to be a Corvette this is not a uh drift HQ car although it is a drift HQ driver this is Savio The Man Behind all my beautiful granite and the pretty much would you call him the event coordinator of event coordinator and just the best cook ever right you could say that I feel so bad that I didn't talk about that what is what is the meat called that he makes p God so good savu is just a big bear takes care of everybody he's like we call him United Nations cuz he is he has no enemies he is everybody's friend he makes everybody feel loved so shout out to him for bring that's his car the other one is also his car his cop car and he's also going to work with Adam in your event right coming in December yeah the the date is not what I originally posted it's December 18th that may might have been what posted we'll fill you in more details in there there's a lot of exciting stuff in drifty is going to be a huge part of that um this is dte's personal car Blue Thunder beautiful E36 s54 powered we machine another one of D dor is basically like the BMW version of myself a lot of these cars that you see here are actually his personal cars um and then his kids cars are over there the are the Z4 Z3 Z3 so this car here for us to be able to attend car shows and stance what look at this Mikey even you could have proov this thing it is so low but yet it's drift ready pretty much it has seats inside uh tucked in hydro which a lot of people this is our um drift HQ Hydro here I switched the windows to the right side and pretty much like you could drift it has a full SLR kit and this car it's just because we want to be able to have parts that are not specifically only for drift cars that you could apply for street cars for them to drive better look better and all kinds right I changed the whole vision for drift HQ because of this car as well drift HQ TNA personas right now it's mainly Spanish is the second Lang right mainly yeah then Portuguese is the third so this is savio's car as you can see here we built him a whole fresh new car this year because he toted his car in um The Gambler so this car the motor is actually pulled out of it as we are uh rebuilding it right now we're going to put it in and in a couple weeks or so he'll back be back in ripping this car here we did not build Greg Jones I'm sorry look at the color now he hasn't even seen the the new color he keeps asking me for pictures and no I'm not selling it back to you it's a it has a LS6 in it so it's a pretty pretty neat car look at it it's Marco's Nemesis right there pretty much JayZ LS it's a sick build and this is Andrew Ma's car this is one of our drivers been a longtime friend of ours has been with us since the beginning pretty much goes to every single event that we do helps us with the events like just is a is an awesome person nothing was spared on this car and it's it's a beast 6 700 horsepower car is doing really well it's like 3 months old it was Freddy's car this was Freddy's oh my god I didn't even realize that that's funny came out so clean MH so I think we kind of downplayed Chris and Cricket as well cuz those two are just like a little Mastermind mad team together between the fabrication and mechanical stuff um and I'm like super stoked them as an asset here both for maintaining these cars for the rental cars and for development right so we've mentioned before that drift HQ Mak some of their own parts and we'll show you guys a couple more of those things inside but having those guys kind of working on these little side projects in things will let me break free from all of the half workking broken cars that we're going to be working on over in that shop and they can go to town and we can develop things on these chassis build new cars test products and just show how well this stuff works so this beauty here is Cricket's car he is just all wheeel Drive soon to be LS swap but not yet these three here this one is my um personal drift car that I built because I buil my kids two z3s I loved it so much that I wanted to get a a third one so that I can actually drift with them which I'm going this weekend you you were there actually the first time they ever drifted are 15 and 13 years old and they shred absolutely shred first time on the track everyone Marco was like I'm quitting I'm not dri drifting anymore this is it they really like they got in the cars and it just muscle memory from a lot of sim practicing and it's cool to see you these are kind of like the Miatas you know like they're just they're easy to work on they look cool outy mom with a low budget I would say like a c like 2 3,000 bucks you can get yourself on track and you can have a fun little car that's not going to blow the bank pretty much one of these cars I think I paid 800 or 1,000 bucks for so you can still drift relatively cheap and still have fun at the same time my brain has literally just been vomiting with ideas I've had so much cool stuff that I've wanted to implement based on my own experiences so like I want to kind of reconfigure an entire influencer program uh based on a lot of people and friends that I've met there's a lot that we can do as a company to make those people's lives easier and help grow drifting as a sport and I'm super excited about that in addition to having a great relationship with customers uh has also fabricated a lot of really good relationships with companies so he gets first dibs on things like the first ever FIA Prisma seats in the country this is huge a lot of people have been asking for these uh they make a lot of really cool seats like these dorte has kept stock of a lot of it we have there's got to be at least a 100 of these seats here in stock on the shelves ready to ship where a lot of the guys that are listenting them they ain't got it they try to get it from turn 14 turn 14 ain't got it drift HQ got it what's also cool too is like I can bring now some of my relationships to the table that I formed with these companies through sponsorships and through cars that I've built and we now have the infrastructure the support to be able to take these companies on stock their stuff on the Shelf help people that want to purchase this stuff with information like I don't want to say all these Brands because there's a lot that I've been working on behind the scenes actually before we even uh were dead set on this whole business acquisition thing um that now we going to be on drift HQ instead of me selling an lzmfg but like there's some really exciting stuff some deals that we're really hard to work through that are going to be huge and it's going to be awesome for you guys and awesome for us um I know you talked brief about I know what this is but I was going to make a a felic joke about it because it kind of looks like a um don't put that in the video Mike yeah this is um a LS water pump delete if you're running a electric water pump and this is something that Chris came up with Chris is very knowledgeable he actually went to school to learn how to design parts and stuff and when we come up in a situation that nobody has made anything up and we need something that's going to actually make the car run cooler better or more efficiently we come up with a solution and this was his like he came up with an idea we ran in through our CNC guy he came up with the plan how it was going to work 100% And then it becomes a product so we have many other products here on the table like the n54 engine mounts fully full made out of Billet we have um the Corvette dual calipers which is our probably the most sold product that we have on the shelves right now I took my car car to a shop in that area nobody knew what they were doing with the drift cars and that is the reason why I actually Open Drift HQ in the first place and if you guys have any requests as well is something that we can think of that's not going to be Way Out Of Reach we can put it in our notes and say when we have the time we can possibly develop it there is many parts that we were thinking of developing another company comes out with it so instead of just becoming copycats we just stop development completely on that part and then just keep moving like it this sport is evolving I think it's just the beginning of it and I think there's so much more that's going to come out of this so many new cars that we're going to figure out I think in a bigger picture it would be a really cool goal to have our own CNC here at some point and to be able to like actually develop stuff on site uh for now pretty much all of our capital is going to go into stocking shelves even more than you already see it uh there's a lot of brands that you already stock there's a lot of brands that I want to stock from other countries Australia the UK Europe it's going to take a lot to get there um so there are a lot of goals that we kind of have together that will potentially I don't want to say be tabled until the next year but um to be competitive in this game you really have to spend quite a bit of money in inventory and that's going to be a pretty big thing for us right off the rip like we got an order bro I think we're going to close out the video here there there's obviously like a a pretty complex acquisition transaction Mega move whatever you want to call it uh and there's so much that we probably haven't even touched base on I wanted to do the best job we could of possibly trying to touch all our bases and talk about as much as we can well there's there's going to be stuff and I know you guys are going to have questions so we'll definitely have a followup whether that will live on my Channel or the drift HQ Channel we'll see but do the best you can make sure to follow drift HQ on Instagram follow them on YouTube Facebook Twitter Myspace Tik Tok do you have a Tik Tok yes damn these mother have Tik Tok I don't even know that thank you guys this is pretty freaking awesome I'm beyond stoked and hope you guys are too one when you said when you said when you say that you love me that you love you when you when you say\n"