Here is a brief description of who I am, what I do, and how I can help you.
My name is Dan Vance. My wife, Sandy, and I have been in the Harley Davidson motorcycle business since 1975. In 1980 I attended the American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach, FL where I received my HD certification and graduated at the top of my class. We then opened our first official motorcycle business in which we did mostly antique HD restorations. This lasted until 1987 when we opened a full service and parts shop in Willimantic, Ct. In this shop we did general repairs, motor rebuilds and a wide variety of services on all models of Harley Davidson motorcycles.
In 1991 I was reintroduced to drag racing by a mechanic who worked for me. (I had raced a Camaro when I was younger.) Since that time I have been involved in racing an HD dragbike as much as possible. Some of my career highlights include winning the AHDRA National Championship in 2001. In this same year we reset all the records in that class. Multiple Brute Horsepower winner @ Daytona AMI Shootouts, and the list goes on.
With a full service department and a race team, it was necessary to have our own machining facilities to continue to develop our race program and to provide better service to our customers. We started out with a boring bar for cylinder boring and moved on to a valve refacer and carbide cutting tools for the seats. Later, we purchased a lathe, bridgeport, surface grinder and welding equipment.
In 2005 we sold the retail store and service dept.
In 2006 we built a new facility in Hampton Ct. and moved our machine shop and race team there. We now only do machine work on motors or on smaller jobs. Our primary focus is on Twin Cam cylinder head developement for street riders. We also have several projects for racing, and hopefully we will soon be producing custom motor parts. More to come on that as it developes.
