Started my own business... Doing automotive wiring - Lateral-g Forums

dnchevyman · #1 10-05-2006, 03:45 PM

Im tired of working my butt off for 15/hr while the shop im working at is making 90/hr, so ive started my own gig. I have a talent and a skill that is valuable to a lot of people. So i went and got my tax and business license this week. Many of you know i worked for a NASCAR Craftsman Truck team making the wire harnesses and installing everything electrical. Im good at what i do and i enjoy doing it. named my business "Copperhead Wiring". copperhead was a nickname given to me by the shop foreman at the truck team, so i decided to use it.

I do everything from hooking up gauges and ignition systems, hid light systems for off road vehicles, engine harnesses, all the way up to complete wire harnesses made from scratch, custom fuse panels. anything that can be wired to a car, truck, racecar, i do. I also do all the work at the customers location, weather it be across town; or cross country, they pay for the plane ticket and arrange room and board. That way they dont have to haul the vehicle to a shop. Im depending on word of mouth to get my name spread around, and currently i'm talking to a few NHRA teams about wiring thier cars for free and in turn they put a small decal on thier car and trailor. Ive already done several offroad buggies and trucks and local circle track guys cars for basically free. so im trying hard to get a name for myself.

At first i never thought there was a market for someone to just wire up cars, but lately ive realized i was wrong, one of the offroad guys just paid a guy 12,000 to wire up his offroad truck, and the guy flaked out on him, and now he's waiting for the guy to come back and finish up. becuase he already paid the guy in full. derrr!!!

A majority of people out there can hook stuff up, but they use cheapo parts and hack stuff together, then are plagued with electrical gremlins for eternity. and my stuff speaks for itself, its clean, top quality parts, very reliable, tech inspectors are impressed, and other people are jealous that thier cars look like crap.

After seeing a lot of guys drop out of competition due to electrical problems, these are the guys that usually say they cant afford to pay someone to wire thier stuff correctly, my comeback is, if youre going for a championship, and trying to win a cash prize at every race, how can they not afford to have a good wire job on thier car??

So everyone wish me luck, and tell your freinds.

Beegs · #2 10-05-2006, 03:57 PM

Good luck with your new endeavor! Hope it all works out for you.

**camcojb** · #3 10-05-2006, 04:14 PM

It's great to make your living doing something you love. Good luck.

Jody

**Steve1968LS2** · #4 10-05-2006, 04:54 PM

I suck at wiring.. you coming out to SoCal anytime soon?? lol

My wiring works but looks like spaghetti..

rockdogz · #5 10-05-2006, 04:56 PM

Sounds great, good luck!
Do you have any pics of your installs to show off your work?

dnchevyman · #6 10-05-2006, 05:00 PM

you pay for gas and ill be in socal in about 3 hours. no problems there! I am in the proccess of setting up a website with a photo gallery to show off my work. itll take a little bit, so bear with me.

zbugger · #7 10-05-2006, 05:29 PM

Good luck with the business. That's the same specialty that I've been doing lately. One thing I can't stand is bad wiring. I hope all goes well for you.

RaceMan · #8 10-05-2006, 06:02 PM

I've done abit of wiring myself , mostly racecars too. I'm ok at it but not great you can tell when someone is really good things just look right!!.
Any way just the other day my father had problems with his 55 chevy ,he could't get it going,I looked under the dash and could't believe the mess BAD!!
I could do it but dont really have the time or desire , so if you book some jobs out in the east let me know how much it might cost.
good luck

**Steve1968LS2** · #9 10-05-2006, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by zbugger

Good luck with the business. That's the same specialty that I've been doing lately. One thing I can't stand is bad wiring. I hope all goes well for you.

Hmm.. wanna come down and work on Penny? I can offer beer and track time

fletcherscustoms · #10 10-05-2006, 07:20 PM

Wanna come GA? Gonna need a 69 Camaro completly wired. Speartech harness, AAW harness, LS2 engine, and lots of other odds and ends.