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I really like this board because you can always speak up your feelings and you actually get listen to 
Right now I'm kinda down. Here's a quick story of the latest happenings in my life :
I opened my Dyno shop last March, renting some space in a shop a guy I know owned. He was building motors, while I was dyno tuning. I had a quarter of the 1800sqft available which was enough. We had hella fun all through summer. He started July he decid his own race team using two EK's, one with a stock TypeR Spec-R engine and the other with a B20 block using ITR internals and some weirdo very very high compression pistons whihc was putting the compression ratio closer to 13:1 than 12.5:1. We Dynoed the car, it made 180WHP on THREE cylinders... anyway, kinda cool car.
But.. He began to run out of cash because of the race thing, and he got fed up of dealing with the Civic Kids that always want everything for free, etc, etc. Last July, he decided to close his shop and proposed me to transfer the rent of the actual shop he had to me, and pay me a rent for the space he was taking. Basically we spitted the shop 50% and the rent too.
By the meantime, he got himself a good job doing gas boiler/heater install and repair for a good company. On my end, I rented some space in the shop to a guy I met that does Nissan tuning. That way he could dyno profitable when i'm not using it for my customers. Basically, my friend was in the shop on saturdays and sometimes on Sundays for a couple of hours so he could fix his race car and do some maintenance on his daily drive.
My shop was open on Saturdays and I think this caused the problem. Since i'm open on Saturdays, my friend can't really count on be able to take his cars in and out of the shop without having to coordinate with me. He also got irritated by the fact hat my Nissan guy used his stand grinder a couple of time and his chop-saw once in a while. Down the line, I think he simply realized that he was not in HIS shop anymore. Instead of letting me knowing his concern / feelings, he accumulated all the little things that irritated him to the point where he decided to move out of the shop.
I want to make a point here. I really don't mind him moving out of the shop, in fact, I'm pretty happy because I'll have more space to use and a lot less junk laying around everywhere. The problem is that he decided ti move out to "make me angry". I felt this while I was there when he took all his belongings out. I asked him if he was pissed at me, and if so, for what reasons. He told me he wasn't pissed at me, but he didn't carry respect to me anymore because of all the little things that irritated him saying I did not respected him either even though he admitted I didn't do it on purpose.
So now I'm here, and I lost some kind of friendship I liked because of something I didn't know was happening. On top of that, this guy is very well known in my area and he can easily, if he wants, tell people that I screwed him up and make his point of view the right one to these people.
I'm kinda afraid that he would make prejudice to my business. I may be paranoid though.
Right now I'm kinda down. Here's a quick story of the latest happenings in my life :
I opened my Dyno shop last March, renting some space in a shop a guy I know owned. He was building motors, while I was dyno tuning. I had a quarter of the 1800sqft available which was enough. We had hella fun all through summer. He started July he decid his own race team using two EK's, one with a stock TypeR Spec-R engine and the other with a B20 block using ITR internals and some weirdo very very high compression pistons whihc was putting the compression ratio closer to 13:1 than 12.5:1. We Dynoed the car, it made 180WHP on THREE cylinders... anyway, kinda cool car.
But.. He began to run out of cash because of the race thing, and he got fed up of dealing with the Civic Kids that always want everything for free, etc, etc. Last July, he decided to close his shop and proposed me to transfer the rent of the actual shop he had to me, and pay me a rent for the space he was taking. Basically we spitted the shop 50% and the rent too.
By the meantime, he got himself a good job doing gas boiler/heater install and repair for a good company. On my end, I rented some space in the shop to a guy I met that does Nissan tuning. That way he could dyno profitable when i'm not using it for my customers. Basically, my friend was in the shop on saturdays and sometimes on Sundays for a couple of hours so he could fix his race car and do some maintenance on his daily drive.
My shop was open on Saturdays and I think this caused the problem. Since i'm open on Saturdays, my friend can't really count on be able to take his cars in and out of the shop without having to coordinate with me. He also got irritated by the fact hat my Nissan guy used his stand grinder a couple of time and his chop-saw once in a while. Down the line, I think he simply realized that he was not in HIS shop anymore. Instead of letting me knowing his concern / feelings, he accumulated all the little things that irritated him to the point where he decided to move out of the shop.
I want to make a point here. I really don't mind him moving out of the shop, in fact, I'm pretty happy because I'll have more space to use and a lot less junk laying around everywhere. The problem is that he decided ti move out to "make me angry". I felt this while I was there when he took all his belongings out. I asked him if he was pissed at me, and if so, for what reasons. He told me he wasn't pissed at me, but he didn't carry respect to me anymore because of all the little things that irritated him saying I did not respected him either even though he admitted I didn't do it on purpose.
So now I'm here, and I lost some kind of friendship I liked because of something I didn't know was happening. On top of that, this guy is very well known in my area and he can easily, if he wants, tell people that I screwed him up and make his point of view the right one to these people.
I'm kinda afraid that he would make prejudice to my business. I may be paranoid though.
