Steve Schmidt Competition Engines

UPDATE 3-22-2024

The machine shop will be back open hopefully on Monday, we have all but 10 engines that we still cant get to and may not be able to get to until the demo date for the building. (The Build room where Dave & Berto were and the back engine room that Junior was in arent accessible yet.) 90% of builds and parts have been retrieved from the building and in storage waiting to be moved into the new shop afew blocks away from our old-burnt down location. We will start accessing engines 10-12 at a time, on what damages they have and whats not damaged at all. Most engines so far from a visual inspection seems to be okay 👍 this is great news for the majority of our customers. The new shop should be open Tentatively a week from next Monday.

Please continue to be nice to us while we get everything setup at the new shop and job tickets matched to engine builds and parts.

Please have all payment info and build info ready to provide to Dana & Steve. Please try to work with us to ensure everyone is individually address, we know alot of you arent happy with this unfortunate situation.

317.898.1831 will be back hooked up in the new shop within the week coming.

Update 3-11-2024: We are waiting on the City of Indianapolis to grant demo permit for the building. (Please keep in mind SSRE was a tenant of the building owner, Steve sold the building afew years ago) Once we have that we can enter the race shop side of the building. Some parts and builds in the machine shop and other parts of the building have been deemed undamaged.
We dont have any other information at this on as far as the status of the builds affected by the fire, damage from roof caving in, or builds that have other damage to being open to the elements (water from fire hoses, rain or snow from no roof.) We will continue to speak with everyone as we know more, the shop line and email are both forwarded to Dana & Steve.

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Update to all Steve Schmidt Competition Engine Customers - We still are not allowed in the building, cops are still onsite securing the building. The roof collapsed due to the fire causing the fork truck to exposed. This may be weeks before structural engineers allow us back in the building if at all, the building may have to be partially demo'd or reinforced for us to re-enter to make any kind of assessments. I know that many of you have spoke w/ Steve or Dana already. We are looking for a temporary location to lease in the next coming weeks so we can get re-open, this is out of our hands. We have had the shop phone line transferred to Dana directly so we can keep everyone updated. This is an unfortunate situation we are doing our best to work to answer everyone's questions and provide you everything we know as we know it. We understand that everyone wants to know if their builds are okay and at this time we don't have any updates. Please be kind to our employees as they are working to collect your information so we can address you on an individual basis when the time comes. We are currently without a shop and our employees are without work, we understand your frustration and are doing our best to keep you informed.

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