The Evolution of Stealth Turbos | Dylan Stewart

so dylan off of what you said like you had that drive you had that want like you had the truck and where i'd say we're all kind of in that same group when we first started like we all were gear heads we all had the driving and someone who's in a position like yours like you had a skill set and if you were to bring somebody in who had your skill set but didn't have a drive they're just pushing buttons and going home like you took it home with you you were excited you enjoyed what you did Back in the day, we'll talk a little bit more about your first year here and how everything functioned, but I remember turbos were built at night.

We didn't have a full-time crew building during the day.

When I was here, Palacios was taking out cores at night.

You had Storlie running the machines, and then that was really it.

I think Vineyard was going to school at the time.

I think they had one QC person who was checking stuff out at the end of the day.

I don't even know if it was the fully built stuff.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Cause we'd build at night and then we'd set them on a shelf and check them out the next day.

I mean, there's a, I think we were happy if like we each built three or four charges.

I

remember coming, if I'd come to work on a Tuesday or Wednesday morning after a night of building and we had, you know, five to seven chargers ready to sell, like that was, that was a big deal.

And I mean, back then, I mean, when you look back, back at 2015, 2016, you know, to today's standards, there's a lot of turbo builders or manufacturers back then there really wasn't.

And it was either, You were a turbo manufacturer building and selling pre-built turbochargers or you were kind of, you know, grassroots like what we started as where, you know, we're not learning as we go, but we had some guidelines and, you know, we had tuned trucks and, you know, we kind of knew like what we wanted.

But you only bought a turbocharger in a backorder fashion, right? Yeah.

Like, you bought it today, it would ship next week.

And, like, that was that era.

That's what it was.

And, like, our first ones that we had, or at least from when I was around, like, the LB764, not even the G2, like, what, there was a compressor wheel and machining the cover? Yeah.

And, like, it was a stock turbine.

Like, I remember building those and balancing those.

That's what it was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

so dylan off of what you said like you had that drive you had that want like you had the truck and where i'd say we're all kind of in that same group when we first started like we all were gear heads we all had the driving and someone who's in a position like yours like you had a skill set and if you were to bring somebody in who had your skill set but didn't have a drive they're just pushing buttons and going home like you took it home with you you were excited you enjoyed what you did Back in the day, we'll talk a little bit more about your first year here and how everything functioned, but I remember turbos were built at night.

We didn't have a full-time crew building during the day.

When I was here, Palacios was taking out cores at night.

You had Storlie running the machines, and then that was really it.

I think Vineyard was going to school at the time.

I think they had one QC person who was checking stuff out at the end of the day.

I don't even know if it was the fully built stuff.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Cause we'd build at night and then we'd set them on a shelf and check them out the next day.

I mean, there's a, I think we were happy if like we each built three or four charges.

I

remember coming, if I'd come to work on a Tuesday or Wednesday morning after a night of building and we had, you know, five to seven chargers ready to sell, like that was, that was a big deal.

And I mean, back then, I mean, when you look back, back at 2015, 2016, you know, to today's standards, there's a lot of turbo builders or manufacturers back then there really wasn't.

And it was either, You were a turbo manufacturer building and selling pre-built turbochargers or you were kind of, you know, grassroots like what we started as where, you know, we're not learning as we go, but we had some guidelines and, you know, we had tuned trucks and, you know, we kind of knew like what we wanted.

But you only bought a turbocharger in a backorder fashion, right? Yeah.

Like, you bought it today, it would ship next week.

And, like, that was that era.

That's what it was.

And, like, our first ones that we had, or at least from when I was around, like, the LB764, not even the G2, like, what, there was a compressor wheel and machining the cover? Yeah.

And, like, it was a stock turbine.

Like, I remember building those and balancing those.

That's what it was.

Yeah.

Yeah.