Eight counties, four gears: The eight counties making up North Carolina’s western central region include the race shops of many National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) teams. NASCAR today is big money, has a huge fan base, and needs well-educated, qualified, high performance automotive technicians and mechanics. These are not self-taught, grease-covered wannabes. With solid educations in high performance automotive work, they enjoy good salaries, excellent benefits, and the prestige of being part of some winning teams:
High performance means more training . . . in return for attending around 75 weeks of school, the high performance mechanic could earn a diploma in Automotive Technology with High Performance Engineering and could be ready to work in shops and specialties:
Thinking further afield, the high performance automotive technician often has portable skills. Jobs in Formula 1 racing can take a mechanic to Europe, Great Britain, and beyond. Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault engines have powered hundreds of winning race cars under many constructors, and every engine had deep benches of high performance mechanics perfecting its racing characteristics.
We have conducted video research suggesting that a certain Dr. Emmett L. Brown, apparently out of Flux Capacitor Motors, has looked—and apparently will look again in the future—for qualified mechanics to work on his custom-modified 1981 DeLorean DMC-12. He needs/will need a high performance mechanic to diagnose why the car tops out at 88 miles per hour.
Okay, okay . . . so the video research we conducted was, in fact, us just watching a DVD of Back to the Future. We regret the error. It makes us also question the need to actually interview those famed North Carolina auto mechanics, Gomer and Goober Pyle, of Mayberry, N.C., for this piece.
The green light to advancing your career as a high performance mechanic could begin with a strong education, but your individual skills could really take you the distance. A diploma and later ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) certifications cannot replace a natural aptitude for working on engines, building wiring harnesses, assembling drivelines and diagnosing performance problems.
The undergraduate classwork for a high performance mechanic should include these areas:
After graduation, the high performance mechanic can take specific :
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