Decades of combined motorsport, fabrication, and calibration experience under one roof. The crew that plans, builds, and tunes your car is the same crew you shake hands with, and they build their own.
Specialists, not generalists. Here's exactly who does what, and what they drive when they're off the clock.
Built APA into a shop enthusiasts trust, one dialed-in build at a time. No hype, just work that holds up.
Corvette ZR1X and the CTS-V/CT5-V own his domestic short list, but Ford's Coyote, Voodoo, and Predator powertrains have won him over too.
Dream car is the Kimera EVO37, a nod to his taste for rare engineering and design done right.
The BMW E92 M3 GTS and the Mustang Terminator are his benchmarks. The long game: building engines, where precision is everything.
Her holy trinity plus one: an S13 with an SR20, an '04 STi, and an E39 M5, with an LS3-swapped C10 in her dad's honor.
Talent is table stakes. These are the operating standards every build runs through, no exceptions.
Every number is earned on the Dynojet under load. We log air/fuel, timing, and knock and calibrate to real data, never a canned file, never a dyno-queen pull that lets go on the street.
Wiring you'd be proud to show off and fabrication that looks factory-plus. Straight TIG beads, supported harnesses, everything torqued to spec, even the parts buried under the intake.
Straight answers, honest timelines, and a full walkthrough of your dyno sheet at pickup. No surprises on the invoice, and no telephone game through a service writer.
We're always hunting for elite techs, fabricators, and tuners who treat a customer's build like their own daily. If you live standalone ECUs, clean TIG welds, and dialed valvetrain geometry. Let's talk.
Book a build consultation and get a straight plan from the people who'll actually turn the wrenches: APA Custom Shop, Queen Creek, AZ.
A five-person crew, and every one of them is on this page. Sean owns the shop and sets the build standard, Blake manages the shop and handles performance tuning, Jared is our lead technician, Avery is a performance technician, and Tiffany runs operations as your service advisor. Which of them touches your car depends on what your build actually needs.
Blake, our shop manager and performance tuner, handles the calibration work. He's been building engines for over 20 years, 13 of them as a professional technician, and he calibrates with HP Tuners on our in-house Dynojet chassis dyno. We unlock Mopar ECUs in house as well, and we offer remote tuning for cars that can't make it to Queen Creek.
Tiffany is your main point of contact, and she's one phone call away at (602) 762-4916. She runs scheduling, parts, and build updates from your first call through the day you pick the car up. When the question is technical, we put you on with the tech or tuner doing the work instead of relaying it through a service writer.
Decades of it, spread across different specialties rather than stacked in one person. Blake has over 20 years of engine building, 13 as a professional tech. Jared has been a pro technician since 2017 and leads our big builds. Avery is coming up on five years of heavy line and performance work, and Tiffany brings nine years in automotive, from dealerships to performance.
Ask us and you'll get a straight answer. We assign work by specialty instead of by rotation, so forced-induction and wiring jobs tend to land with Jared, cam and header installs with Avery, and calibration with Blake. If you want a specific person on your car, call (602) 762-4916 and we'll tell you what's workable.