RS Performance Shop Tour
 

We have had quite a few people asking to see pictures of our shop and I've been slacking on getting anything up on our site, or on Lateral-G. So, here it is:

RS Performance/Roadster Shop is located in Mundelein, IL...a northern suburb of Chicago.

The shop is just under 30,000 sq ft.

Specialize in Production Chassis Manufacturing and Turn Key Builds. Projects range from Early 30's hot rods to Tri-5 Chevy's to 60's and 70's Pro-Touring cars.

Chassis Fabrication
Turn Key Builds
Parts Installs
Service Work
Body and Paint
1-Off Parts Fabrication
Sheet Metal Fabrication
CNC Plasma cutting
Some Parts Sales
ANd just about anything else related to building a car.

Show Room:
The show room is used to display production chassis, recently completed customer cars, and cars for sale. We also have crate engines, antique gas pumps, pedal cars, Cushman scooters and a few other things for sale. It changes pretty much daily, so there are a lot of different pictures below depending on which cars are in the shop.

We found a guy on eBay selling NOS bilboards from the 50's through late 60's. There is a shot of an original 57 Chevy billboard in the showroom and a killer '67 Camaro later in the shop.

Fabrication/car build

Here are a few pics of the side of the shop where all of the fab work takes place.

Nice :thumbsup: Looks like business is good too.

didn't connect RS-Perf with Roadster Shop. You guys have killer stuff. :thumbsup:

Jody

I just pick my jaw up off the floor!!!

Yeah Your shop showroom is outstanding.
Can we get more info on the Charger and Challenger in the shop?

That is awesome and super clean to boot!

About that Charger.... That car isn't really supposed to be seen until it debutes. The owner does not want it getting out. I didn't realize it was in the picture before I uploaded it

The challenger is in paint now. it has a 528 Aluminum Hemi by Indy backed by a TKO 600. Tubular K member with IRS. The bumpers have been sectioned, narrowed, and mounted flush with the body. we removed the headlight doors at the edges of the fenders and made that part of the fender. Same with the front edge molding on the hood. fabbed a lower valance and spoiler. The body is shaved and smoothed. fabbed a sheet metal spoiler for the deckild and tops of 1/4 panels. a lot of other areas worked as well. I have to get around to starting a thread for that car. there are a few pics on our web site.

http://www.rsperformanceconcepts.com

here are a few more pics of the body and paint shop.

Chassis Fab side of the shop.

Our open house in April of last year. We are going to try to have another open house some time in the spring this year. It would be great to see some members show up with their cars.

Forgot to add the pictures

WOW! Nice shop... Very clean. Can we get some pics of the black camaro(Post #2, 4th picture in)?

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Looks clean, and like a well organized operation. Nice shop, and excellent cars! :thumbsup: If you guys ever need Rushforth's or Schott's let us know.

WOW! Is that a shop or a hospital!:hail: :thumbsup: :cheers: :woot: :bow:

So that is how the other half lives huh! Freakin impressive.

Thanks for the positive responses. We have only been in this shop for a year so it is still pretty clean and new. We were in the last shop for 20 + years. It got to be a pretty big mess that we couldn't stand any more. When we set up the new shop, we wanted to take all of the negatives of the old shop into account to improve the new location. Easy access between departments and aisles, parts storage, seperated areas for each portion of the build, and many other things were taken into account. Laying out the shop floor was a several week ordeal, trying to figure out the best flow and what would work out best. I defintitely do not want to go through moving and laying out the new shop ever again!

Is that Heaven??:D

Here are a few more pictures of the final assembly room. We decided that we needed a "clean room" to assemble cars in after paint. This also has worked out well for service work so we can keep cars away from the dust and debris of the rest of the shop.

Frame rail area where we build all of the rails and crossmembers.

HD CNC Plasma Table can cut material 4' x 20' and thicknesses from sheet metal to 1.5" plate steel. It can cut steel, stainless, and aluminum. Cuts are exact and flawless through out any material or thickness.

We are looking to get more use out of this machine. We will be listing a few new products on our web site and Lateral-G shortly. If anyone has anything they would like CNC cut, I would be happy to quote it for you. There is an optical scanner built into the machine, so we can scan patterns and create exact duplicates if you need parts cut.

There are a few examples of different brackets and gussets that were just cut as examples.

WOW!!!
Very, very cool. Shop looks awesome.
The projects look awesome as well. Shop is nice and clean for a busy shop.
Is the red convertible Chevelle the one posted in the forum here? Looks AWESOME!!!:hail:
Thanks for posting!:thumbsup: :cheers:

Wow very impressive. Thanks for posting

Have any place for a mechanical engineer that will graduate in spring 2010? I have plenty of hands on experience running a performance shop/business and working on cars. Don't have any real welding or metal fabricating skills beyond my machining degree from the local tech school. I want to learn every thing I can though. I think I could also learn to deal with the cold. Your place and DSE look like heaven to me.

Very slick setup. When the next open house is set I'll be there.
W

Sensory overload :hail: :thumbsup: :cheers:

WOW, RS, you have come a long way from the old shop in elgin, I spent a lot of time in the old shop picking up parts for my '31 hot rod.

VERY impressive! :hail:
I got to see the green car run at the Optima deal...cool car!!

Super friggin nice dude. Congratulations on your new shop.

wow, now thats my dream shop awsome place!!!!

For a moment i thought we have seen all the big shops allready...

But is totally in its own league:bow: What a shop... No, what an factory you guys
have :cheers: :woot:


Ps could you please tell me little of the corvette on backround ?

https://lateral-g.net/forums/atta...2&d=1231520686

The old shop was definitely a big motivation on keeping the new place so cleen.

Thanks for all the positive response on the shop and our cars. We have several more projects that will be posted here in the upcoming months. We have a couple A Bodies, Tri-5's, and Mopars coming out this summer.

Really nice shop. And your cars look sic would love to have that quality in my car. And I would say that the economy is not bad in your neck of the woods. :cheers:

I accidentally drove by there one day. I need to get back down to check it out.