There will always be competition on the island in the import industry, we realize that and are doing are best to try to find a place that we can fit in. Truth is, alot of the shops in the local industry cooperate with one another.

Munky Wurks Garage is a professional operation. We have a large export COMPANY in Japan that moves much of our product for us, as well as our associate (and close friend) in Japan who has passed his distribution operation of RS Watanabe in North America over to us. Along with Cannonball in Canada, we are THE only authorized importers for J-Blood products, which unfortunately for the crowd here is geared to the drift crowd. We are also the ONLY authorized distributor for Defi products here on the island - with warranty coverage in the USA. Our pricing can't be beat on this stuff locally, and we're very sure of that (aside from direct importing from Japan, which we can do also if necessary). This is information that can be confirmed by contacting these companies in Japan or USA. We also have alot of things in the works with JDM-only companies that as yet have not ever imported to the USA... and soon will be marketing used parts here as well. One thing we have up on many shops in the island (including Speedgear) is the ability to get large aftermarket body parts direct from Japan from basically any manufacturer with quick turnaround times. This includes performance parts direct from Japan as well.

Our pricing on the parts we advertise is very competetive, just come in to see us and we'll work from there (this includes BRIDE seats - even tho Speedgear stocks a lot of them). We're working on more product lines as we grow, and are already looking into some of the lines that owners here have helped mention. Thank you guys!

Billy is a friend but not business partner. The business is not affiliated with him, but we do look forward to doing business with him in the future as he gets his venture going. We met him through Monk, who is a close personal friend. We do happen to have a lot of friends in the industry (many of them who run dominating shops in the island industry) so we're not total newbs who came out of nowhere.

Our goal here is to find out as much as we can about you guys and what you'd like to see from someone you'll do business with, be it parts or service. So much of the shops out there can bring in the common stuff, so we're keeping an eye out for something unique that is normally hard to get ahold of, but that we can bring in because of our strong ties in Japan.

STi City, thank you VERY MUCH for your tips and info (very helpful! We know that the guys at Hypersports have just adopted an inventory system like you've mentioned)! You've all been very helpful and we couldn't have asked for more from you guys. As far as the AWD dyno, I really wish it was something that is within our grasp to do, but we're starting out here on our own without a HUGE amount of financial backing. Lord knows I'd like to spend more time on the dyno, especially since Stephen left everyone high and dry and closed up DynoJet Hawaii in Kailua. We don't have outside investors at this time and we're running our own show (sorry guys, for those that have PM'd about job opportunities). We even went as far as to build our showroom from the ground up with OUR OWN HANDS (gotta save money!)... so believe me we take a lot of pride in our little business, and are out to do our best!

We really appreciate the understanding you've shown us as we try to break into the scene from a small start. It really isn't easy, and we know we've got some really hard work ahead of us for the next few years, but we're ready to take on the challenge!

 

The reason that Walmart got so big was because they lowered costs so dramatically with information systems. All they did was automized inventory as much as possible with barcoded scanning. Thus, whenever something was purchased, it was already logged into an inventory sale. That sale info went via satelite to distribution and the products sold was all ready to be shipped out. Talk about 'just in time shipping / inventory'. Thus it minimized inventory space and maximazed retail space for their stores. Furthermore, they got so big that they could leverage their buying power for lower pricing from manufacturers. Barcode also helped them manage incoming shipments, they just scaned the crate and they new everything that was inside of it.

Anyways, for the dino, I would heavily look into financing one from the bank. it will give you a huge niche market that no other company will have. It will drive sales, reputation, & customers, advertising, period! Can't you look into a loan, where they use the dino itself as collateral, such as a car loan or a house loan? Thus, a small downpayment will only be necessary

 

We took a casual look at it, and it's just really not a venture we can afford to go into this early to put an AWD dyno in our shop that will put us over $100k in debt, and hope that it will pay itself off. A 2WD dyno would be half that, and at $80-100 a session it would still take awhile to make a return on it - not to mention having to find someone qualified enough to run it and tune for us, and pay his wages. I'm not sure if a bank would want to risk a loan that large on a piece of equipment that they may repo and still not be able to get rid of. Plus there's the cost of shipping something like that in, and then there's the issue of insurance, yadda yadda yadda.

Not to mention the issue of space, because we have enough garage space to install a lift a little later down the line, but if we had to accomodate a dyno as well it would severely limit both storage space and work space.

Lord knows I bet other shops on the island would love to have an AWD dyno on location to attract customers, but there really is a reason why noone has one. It's not because local shops have ignored the need for one.

Sorry, we wanted to try be careful not to break any advertising rules on your forum so we left a link (which has our contact info).

...but we're located at:

500 Alakawa Street
Honolulu, HI 96817
#(808)848-8794

Check out our site at http://www.munkywurks.com for more info.

We've already made efforts to contact perrinperformance.com and kartboy. We also like the aero parts from Chargespeed. We do try to give good deals on Volk wheels, but we're trying to get better pricing on the stuff. We also retail Falken tires. We're actually doing a lot of work based on what you guys have posted here, so believe me, you all have really helped.