I'm probably not much help, but I just wanted to chime in and say how surprised I was at the number of race teams in and around Brownsburg. One of my buddies has a small race shop that builds Mini-Sprints and John Godfrey builds their frames in Brownsburg along with Spike Midget and Sprint frames.
Just some perspective mainly from my friend with the race shop. He has focused on coming up with products for their race cars etc. that he can pay someone else to machine, making smaller margins up front, but proving the viability of the product. He's getting to the point where the volumes of his parts may warrant the purchase of a machine. Even the small machines are a pretty decent investment depending on the amount of business you can fill it with immediately.
Any - so much for my Mr. Obvious impression. I'm sure someone that has more valuable info to add will chime in.
Good luck - I've always wanted to have some machines to crank out custom parts!
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