so i thought we'd do a um end of year
review video i guess um we've been doing youtube videos for well over a year now which
is pretty crazy we've put out a lot of videos um started out i guess uh just as a way to put out
more content um we really wanted to do like lots of product videos that was really key because
with with us with those products we make we're so keen on them being super aesthetic
and super nice to look at that although you can get that across in a picture you can't
get it across anywhere near as well as if you actually like pick the thing up move it around
talk about it so that was like one of the main reasons we was interested in doing
youtube videos really and then of course like it's inevitable that projects come out of it
um and then of course you know talking about turbos and cool stuff like that you know
there's a lot of people that do it but maybe not specific to you know the products we use or
the cars that we work on or deal with so that's kind of why we started doing it and
um yeah i've actually really enjoyed doing it i really enjoy filming the videos um
i'm not sure i i guess it's just that i like documenting it all and it becomes um like
facebook's a bit ruined for that now well i guess it always has been instagram doesn't really work
for like documenting things you know 24 hours later it's gone into the abyss and you never see
it again um forums were great for that in that you could kind of have like a build series or
you know like a build thread which everybody loves build threads
uh you know you you you i remember like coming across uh i mean it was specifically a thing i
used on the mini forum quite a lot um you would come across a build thread from like
you know 10 years ago start looking through all the pictures like photo bucket uploads and
yeah you can't really do that nowadays so youtube is the way you do it so you know um lots of
project tap stuff obviously warren's car has been a big um big one for us and then sam's skyline
um we've hopefully got some cool stuff to do next year as well really some of the stuff you already
know about like the r53 cooper s which i bought as kind of a track car sat fiona's daily at the
minute but it'll eventually become uh a track car i guess and then there's my classic mini which i'm
i'm pretty certain i'm gonna do some kind of engine swap on i've got some cool ideas
um but i'm not sure exactly what yet um i guess i'm not nailed down until i've bought an engine
and it's kind of floor pans chopped out i guess then i'll be fixed on what i'm doing
but yeah i mean the big thing really this year was moving um getting this move done it was a
massive effort from everyone um but we we really wouldn't be here um if it weren't for you know
customer orders and people buying our products yeah there's a lot of work that goes into them
a lot of uh pride and that's the thing when you make really aesthetic things as well not just
making something that's purely functional like we really want them to look beautiful there's a lot
of specifically exhaust related products there's a lot of exhaust related products you can buy on the
market from big brands that you know have been kind of making crappy looking products forever
you know they might fit well and work well but if you get out the box and it looks you know
like they often do you know it's just a turn off for me and uh you know i'm really into
things that that strike me visually like that so another thing we started doing this year
or towards the end of this year i guess is like trying to redevelop some products so
the fiesta st-1a is a prime example when we first did that um you know it was the
i guess there were a couple of issues with it because of the car we used but
um aside from that it was a a thing we did like three years ago now maybe more um and we can
do a better job now we've got bet we've got more skills in-house we've got more equipment in-house
and what we want to continually do is not just churn out the same product we always have done
i think it's really important that we go back and redevelop some stuff if we feel like we need to
yeah we so we did that with the st-180 we're going to do it with astro hvxr exhaust um
probably of course evxr as well so that's something we really want to do if we can i think
mainly because like the market changes as well what people actually want is different so when
we first did the course ebxr um you know we tried to be a bit ahead of the time really um with the
options we offered with the exhaust system and we would probably do things a bit differently now um
and i think it's too easy to just sit back and go you know what we're just going to sell the same
product because people still buy it uh people still happy with it but if we think we can do a
better job of it we should definitely do that so we're going to do quite a lot of that next year
alongside trying to develop some new more exciting products as well for different cars um
a big thing for us is that vauxhall aren't making any vxrs anymore and it doesn't look like they're
gonna for a long time um and we have predominantly been manufacturing vauxhall parts since
you know the birth of enhance really so that's something we need to do um
it's not that we're leaving box or stuff behind it's just that we realize it ha that market has
its limitations you've seen other people do it you know we want to continually push the skills
we've got in-house we want to continually grow and if we stick to a market that's
you know aging i guess because the cars are getting older and there are no kind of um
i guess like you always used to think with the with the course of the xr stuff it brought a
kind of younger generation through um yearly because you know the cars were new and people were
buying them new and people that bought courses were usually younger and those would you know
people would get older and then they would kind of advance into um it can kind of advance up the
range and that that's not really happening anymore because vauxhall don't make any performance cars
so um yeah we're just trying to be quite conscious of uh not staying still um one thing we really
want to do because it's exciting for us and it's more it's it's fun for us is like titanium stuff
you know we have loads of fun with that um anodizing it like you know burning it up and
you know it's really good fun but those kind of expensive products because it is an expensive
material to work with are much harder to sell into the vauxhall market than they are to i don't know
supercar owners um we're not going to go down that supercar route it's you know it's super easy to go
down that route we're not going to do that we're going to try and focus a lot more on track cars
building products that we know um are track car specific track friendly
exhaust systems those kinds of things for cars that are really popular track cars
that doesn't mean we won't make products for road cars or designed for road cars but it's just
something else that we feel we can do in order to uh you know keep ourselves progressing and keep
challenging ourselves you know again we don't just want to make keep making the same product
you know um you know the skills we have in house now are exceptional really i would say
um you know at times very hard to beat but we want to keep beating ourselves as well
really um and yeah we're constantly trying to push in that in that environment you know
making cool stuff definitely looking forward to starting my mini because uh yeah i had that
like a long time um and i've uh since the first couple of years of owning it i've not really done
much driving in it and uh that makes me sad so i need to do that then we're looking forward
to getting sam skyline done and seeing and hearing that on the road as well because that's
a really exciting project you know for modified car people uh skyline gtrs are you know
they're up there but yeah moving here was definitely like a massive challenge just it
sounds great it's like moving house but worse like you've got to pick up everything and move it um
like we have loads of small things and also loads of really big heavy things um and we basically
carried everything up the stairs as well like with a lot of well we didn't we didn't forklift
anything to start with did we i can't remember uh i don't think forklift did anything because the
floor was still wet because we were so like pushed for time because we were so busy like fabco was so
busy and enhanced was so busy we didn't really have any time to spare like the floor was being
cleaned and painted at like nine o'clock at night like the week before we were going to be moving in
um you know some of the mezzanine still isn't bolted together properly yet
that is how you know um it's propped up it's a bit of a movie set at the minute um and yeah that's uh
that's pretty much the big thing for enhance this year youtube projects and moving here
so i'm definitely excited for a lot of things we've got coming we're hopefully going to be
doing loads of more outside videos next year obviously this year's been a real challenge with
doing kind of track side content which is what we really wanted to do that was what we started
out like january february that was what we were planning to do follow time attack um
follow justin doing javelin sprint series which never ended up coming off
loads of things like that and we just couldn't do any of it because you couldn't go anywhere if you
could go you weren't allowed in as a spectator um so hopefully we'll be able to do a lot more
of that next year if not we've got loads of other ideas but yeah this is basically just a kind of
thank you video i guess and thanks for sticking with us thanks for watching all of our videos
we've got loads more to come