Sales, tech support, and packaging are all centrally located in the front portion of the big building. One station handles all of the cutting of raw materials – from the main tube of the K-members to the correct lengths for control arms of all varieties, to the tubing for the upper shock mount that comes as part of the Mustang mini-tub kit. There’s a shelving system for all of the parts so that we can inventory what we have and stay on top of it,” says Zimmerman.Īs with many production facilities, there are a number of stations that have been organized within the Team Z shop. We also started building mail-order roll cage kits the grinding booth and cage kit area takes up one whole corner of the shop. I noticed when the guys were grinding on parts, that metal dust was covering the whole shop, so we got a five horsepower dust collector and built this table so that the parts can be built there. “When we moved the race car fabrication out of the main shop, we installed a great big downdraft booth for our grinding area. They do subcontract a select few products, like their coil springs, that are built with the help of industry partners to their specifications. Today, it’s nearly 10,000 square feet of pure manufacturing space, along with a shipping area that sees dozens of packages going out the door every day, from K-members to control arms to mini-tub kits and more.įrom start to finish, all construction of the vast majority of Team Z's product line is completed in the Team Z facility. A total of 14 employees are on staff, with the majority in the main building and two fabricators down the road in the chassis construction building.Įxiting that office space area - which doesn’t take up much room at all at the front of the facility - the building opens up into the large manufacturing area, which up until recently held both race car construction and manufacturing. Zimmerman is the brains behind the finances – a true family business.
is the company’s production manager, handling scheduling of what parts will be built by each employee on each day, what the water jet will be cutting out on each day, and a host of other responsibilities, while Mrs. Once you enter the main building, the office space is in the front, where Zimmerman and the sales team make sure the parts their customers need get processed efficiently and quickly. Nearly every employee races some sort of vehicle on their own time – they aren’t just fabricators welding together pretty pieces of steel, but people that are trained to think outside the box when it comes to building products that the rest of us use to succeed at the racetrack week in and week out.Īs the Team Z manufacturing space takes up the larger of the two buildings, we decided to start there on our tour.
Milan Dragway is only a hop, skip, and jump away from the Team Z facility and the team spends a lot of time there in addition Zimmerman travels the country many weekends a year to do development work with his customers. “It took us thirteen years to build our name in the Ford industry now we’re expanding into the Camaro and G-body markets.”- Dave Zimmerman, Team Z Motorsports The company’s service is one of the cornerstones of what’s made them so successful – the team quite possibly spends just as much time at the track as they do at work.
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