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His love for automotive started at a young age after learning about his father’s past motorcycle racing experience growing up in South Florida. After moving to Climax, NC in 2004, Jason’s parents bought him a Yamaha TTR-90 that they rode around trails in the area with until it became developed. Once the area became congested with homes they sourced local tracks to ride and eventually race. Jason successfully won many local events on the Yamaha, they decided it was time to move up to the next class and broaden their participation at other events.
His next bike was a Suzuki RM-85cc that was obtained through a professional super-mini rider. After many successful event series, he then advanced into racing multiple classes in the 85cc small wheel and super-mini groups consisting of riders twice his age. Unfortunately, after a successful season, Jason had a crash while practicing which resulted in a torn ACL that resulted in an 8 month recovery time. Once he recovered from his injury, his main goal was to progress and make up for the lost time. As his motocross career accelerated, he moved into the 125cc classes after they acquired a 2003 Honda CR-125 from a family friend. During this time he was performing his own bike maintenance consisting of oil changes, filter cleanings, and many other routine maintenances.
As he aged out of the 85cc classes, his main focus was to progress in the 125cc classes and up. When the four-stroke engines became popular, he then moved up to the 250 4-stroke class on a Suzuki RMZ-250. Before being able to compete in the 250 classes, Jason sustained another injury in practice. This crash resulted in a cracked ball/socket on his left pelvis which required yet another surgery and significant downtime. The last injury resulted at the end of his racing career due to the severity and risk becoming too great at such a young age.
As Jason became of driving age, his interests starting growing towards automobiles and customization. The Hyundai Genesis was a car he has always dreamed of having after seeing one for the first time that was owned by a friend. Jason was fortunate enough to obtain a 2011 Hyundai Genesis 2.0T from a dealership in Raleigh, NC. After purchasing the car of his dreams, his vision would eventually be a reality.
It all started by joining Facebook groups that revolved around the KDM platform and it was compiled of enthusiasts around the world. Once he obtained an abundance of knowledge about his platform, Jason began to build a parts list of his own. After sharing his vision and goals with various vendors in the community, Jason teamed up with several top companies in the West Coast willing to work together and grow the platforms aftermarket industry on the East Coast. Throughout all of the build phases, the most important aspect to him was keeping every modification clean and precise.
The most common saying in the aftermarket industry is that fitment is not always guaranteed. This played a huge factor in how he approached each modification to ensure it was durable, functional and most importantly clean. Jason main goal is to attend and be able to spread his visions and build designs on a larger event scale such a SEMA.