Turn One Studio · 2026-03-23 · 23 min
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FZC Consultants has spent four decades serving Long Island businesses ranging from People's United Bank to car dealerships and schools. The conversation covers their approach to infrastructure decisions, including when to maintain private clouds with physical servers versus cloud services, and how they help businesses make cost-effective technology choices. Pete and Little Pete explain their fractional CTO and fractional systems engineer services - ideal for growing companies that need strategic IT guidance without full-time C-suite hires. They discuss practical missteps like underinvesting in equipment quality, the importance of proper server configuration through vendors like Dell, and alternatives like Synology NAS systems that have matured significantly in cost-effectiveness compared to older solutions like Equal Logic. On cybersecurity, they emphasize human vulnerability as the primary risk, with email-based phishing attacks as the number-one threat. Their defensive stack includes Ubiquiti for network intrusion protection, Proofpoint for email security, geofencing to restrict access by location, and VAST for endpoint protection. The conversation also touches on their team structure - including Casey who "goes down the rabbit hole" solving complex problems - and their philosophy of advising clients on purchases rather than marking up hardware significantly.
It depends on your size and growth stage. Calculate the total cost: public cloud at $32,000/month can exceed the cost of buying and maintaining physical servers ($40,000 one-time purchase lasting 4-5 years). Schools with multiple locations benefit from private clouds using VMware on NAS, while startups may begin with public cloud.
The human being - specifically, employees clicking on phishing emails. Attackers use email to deliver malware, and even well-intentioned staff fall for convincing fake sender addresses. Training staff to verify domains and never click on unrecognized senders is critical.
A fractional CTO ($200,000/year) is needed when implementing major systems (like QuickBooks) and designing infrastructure; a fractional systems engineer works on-site 3 days/week for daily IT operations. Smaller growing companies often only need a CTO visiting a few times per month.
Yes. A $300 laptop lacks the processor, memory, and build quality to last 4-5 years, forcing premature replacement and data migration costs. Investing in a $1,500 workstation with 32GB RAM and quality components pays for itself through reduced downtime and replacement cycles.
Synology NAS offers the same robustness as older Equal Logic systems (which cost $30,000) at roughly one-tenth the price, with mature VMware support and real enterprise processes built in.
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A handful of concrete operational nuggets are scattered through the episode - cloud cost thresholds, NAS pricing, geofencing, hardware lifecycle - but they are buried under extended nostalgia tangents, off-topic personal anecdotes, and thin generalities. The ratio of actionable insight to filler is poor for a 23-minute runtime.
when you start getting it to $32,000 a month, where you could buy the service for 40, you might as well buy the servers and, you know, and just keep them for five years
five years ago, if you would have put 32 gig of memory in it in a PC, would have been a lot of money. But it's still working today
Almost every claim is standard IT consulting boilerplate - don't click phishing emails, spend more on quality hardware, humans are the biggest vulnerability. There is no contrarian framing, no first-principles reasoning, and no fresh perspective on any of the topics raised.
bad actors have same technology we have
They got it on emails. Yeah. They just have to read.
Pete Sr. is a genuine 40-year practitioner with real enterprise and SMB clients, and Little Pete is a credible second-generation operator - both are authentic doers, not thought-leaders. However, their scale is local Long Island SMB consulting, limiting the breadth of lessons for operators at larger or more complex businesses.
we've taken care of everything from, you know, People's United Bank. We were the boots on the ground for them. We've done car dealers, insurance companies, dentists
we've been in business for 40 years
There are genuine specific data points - $32K/month cloud comparison, $30K EqualLogic vs ~$3K Synology, 32GB RAM lifecycle example, named tools (Ubiquiti, VAST, Proofpoint, VMware, Synology) - but they are anecdotal and unverified, with no outcome data, client metrics, or structured case studies to substantiate them.
Equal logic. NAS's were $30,000. Where the synology, you know, an equivalent size and something as robust as the ecologic, it probably costs you three
when you start getting it to $32,000 a month, where you could buy the service for 40, you might as well buy the servers
The host occasionally asks a purposeful question (fractional CTO fit criteria, cloud comprehension levels) but consistently allows - and actively participates in - long off-topic detours on Linux nostalgia, Borders bookstore memories, hunting, and a truck restoration story. There is no meaningful challenge or follow-up pressure on any substantive claim.
What do you guys like to do for fun?
for a client to be a good fit for either of those services, what should a viewer watching this be asking themselves when it comes to do I need fractional cto
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Business owners shouldn’t have to be IT experts to run a smooth operation. In this episode of The Turn One Studio Podcast , Eliud Custodio talks with Pete Flyntz and “Little” Pete Flyntz of FZC Consultants , a family-run computer consulting company serving Long Island businesses for 40 years. They break down what they’re seeing in 2026, from cloud confusion and hardware mistakes to the cybersecurity risks that still catch teams off guard. You’ll hear: Cloud vs on-prem and how to think about cost over 3 to 5 years Fractional CTO vs fractional systems engineer and when each makes sense Common “oh boy” IT moments and what they usually trace back to Why hardware planning matters more than most people think Cybersecurity basics and why phishing emails are still the biggest threat Listen now and ask yourself: Are you building your tech stack with intention, or reacting to problems as they pop up?
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Speaker A: Foreign.
Speaker B: Welcome to the Turn One Studio podcast. I'm, um, Elite Custodio with Turn One Studio. And here we sit with local business professionals. Today's guests, Pete and Little Pete. I still can't call you Little Pete from, um, FZC Consultants. Guys, welcome.
Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you for having us.
Speaker B: Fzc. What do you guys do?
Speaker A: Well, we're a family owned and run grocery, uh, store. No, we're a family owned and run computer consulting company. Uh, we've been in business for 40 years. Um, my father started the company with me and my brother. Uh, my greatest pleasure in my life is to have him work with me. So I get to retire and, uh, you know, I'll sit on the porch and he'll keep going to work. But we've taken care of everything from, you know, People's United Bank. We were the boots on the ground for them. We've done car dealers, insurance companies, dentists, you name it. If they have a computer, we can fix it, whether it's on, you know, in your office or if it's on the moon. Computers. A computer.
Speaker B: When was the last time you guys saw a mainframe?
Speaker C: I've never seen one.
Speaker A: Okay. When we first started 40 years ago, we were working on, um, Honeywell mainframes.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Hooking terminals up to a mainframe, you know, with the green screen.
Speaker B: Uh-huh.
Speaker A: You know, M. How would you like to start this game? You know, I don't remember the movie, but. Yeah.
Speaker B: Were those known as dummy terminals? Yes, in that context of the mainframe.
Speaker A: They were actually made by a company out here called Adz Adds, which was on Long island in Hapag, actually.
Speaker B: You remember Silicon Graphics?
Speaker A: You don't look that old.
Speaker B: I'll take that. I remember back in the day, those were, to me, something to aspire for and aspire to have one day as well as, um, Sun Microsystem machines.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, and the price of those.
Speaker B: I mean, right?
Speaker A: Those are insanely expensive. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B: All right, we're going off on a tangent.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: What is your favorite thing to do with the company?
Speaker C: It's not one thing in particular.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: It's really that every day is different. It's not the. There's no monotony. Right. Some days it'll be we're at a school where we're fixing outlook issues. Smart boards. Other, um, days it'll be sitting behind the help desk and just giving people calls as ticket rolls in. Um, but it's not the same thing every day, which is what I enjoy the most.
Speaker B: Okay. That makes a lot of sense. When did you start helping your dad out?
Speaker C: I would say when I was about 12, 13, um, he had me rebuilding computers in the office. It was uh, you know, take this apart, do this. And then from there, once I got my driver's uh, license, it turned into hey, you know, I need you to go to you know, one of the car dealerships or I need you to drive a wire out to one of the other guys. And uh, from there I just kind of fell into it. But ever since I was young I always wanted to be a computer fixer as, as I called it.
Speaker A: That's cool. It was a pewter fixer.
Speaker B: A pewter fixer. You ah, know I think I was around the same age when I first got introduced to the computers and shortly after used um, to go to the computer shows to buy parts and build computers and all that fun stuff. That's a good time.
Speaker C: Oh yeah, no, I built my fair share, um, built one for my brother, for me, a couple friends. I mean that always kind of was secondary to work though that was fun. Where uh, work was more the, if you want to call it the lower end stuff. The business models where we were always building gaming computers.
Speaker B: Oh, of course. You ever get into Linux?
Speaker C: Uh, not really. Uh, there was a little bit of programming there and I just didn't find that fun.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I always had a curiosity about Linux. I remember when um, I guess it was uh, Borders, not Barnes and Nobles, but Borders. Remember that bookstore? There was one by the Smith Haven Mall. Um, I remember going in there in the 90s, getting this big fat book on Linux and then the back of the book was the CD ROM to actually install it. I don't know, on paper it sounded like it would be a lot of fun, but reading the book was way too overwhelming. I really had no use for it other than it seemed like something cool to try.
Speaker C: Yeah, no, we've played with a lot of operating systems over the time so.
Speaker B: Speaking of operating systems, do you see a lot of that, a lot of non Windows stuff when you're dealing with clients? I know for a while Red Hat was really hot as far as a commercially viable distribution. Is that really a thing on Long island? Local businesses?
Speaker C: Very rarely. I mean every so often if somebody has to remote in they'll be using an Apple.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: Other than Windows and Apple, there's really not much in the business space.
Speaker B: Okay, are you finding a lot of clients are still um, physically. What's the word I'm looking for? Server? Physical? Physically Located in their location versus the cloud.
Speaker A: Depends on the size. Some of our clients have private clouds. Like we have the school. The school. We have a. In their Plainview location, we have their servers in a computer room. And then we built a Dr. Site in their plane in their, um, Pelham location. So they still have their own, um, physical servers, but it's a cloud. So now we have 13 homes that connect to these, to these servers through all sorts of tunnels, FiOS, uh, Cablevision tunnels. And with that, we found that by keeping it there, it's cheaper once you buy the equipment. I mean, when you start getting it to $32,000 a month, where you could buy the service for 40, you might as well buy the servers and, you know, and just keep them for five years, four years, and, you know, we're. All of Those servers are VMware and, you know, when they're running, uh, Windows servers and, you know, SQL servers, stuff like that.
Speaker B: Very cool. Are you finding it that, um, in 2026, clients generally understand the concept of the cloud, or are you still explaining that? I remember a couple years ago that was still a mystery to many.
Speaker A: Um, it's still a mystery to a lot of them. I mean, the school. We had a woman today that called up with a ticket who had a, um. She's been using a legacy version of a connection for how long? I mean, that's gotta be two years.
Speaker C: Two years.
Speaker A: Uh, and she's like, this isn't working. And, you know, Pete picked up the ticket and he's like, this shouldn't have worked, like six months ago. But, yeah, no, we, um, we find a lot of. A lot of people just want to do what they do for a living. Perfect example is the car dealers. They just want to sell cars. They want to sell cars, they want to do their thing. They, they don't want to dive into this. They don't want to deal with the printer problems. They don't want to deal with, you know, the everyday stuff that we do. We actually, we actually have fractional systems engineers. Like, you spend three days a week at a client's office just being their IT guy. And, uh, we also do fractional, uh, ctos where we go in and we engineer everything and we'll walk in and, you know, we'll take a look at what they have and we'll give them ideas of how to fix it.
Speaker B: So for a client to be a good fit for either of those services, what should a viewer watching this be asking themselves when it comes to do I need fractional cto, Do I need a fractional systems engineer?
Speaker A: Do you want to spend the $200,000 a year for the fractional CTO?
Speaker B: Well, cost aside from a task perspective, and I guess from, um, a bandwidth or workload perspective, what's going on in my business that I need someone with such a fancy title?
Speaker A: The. When you're going into a new application, let's say, like, let's say you're bringing in a, um. I'm just gonna pick QuickBooks for the reason it's in my head. If you're going to QuickBooks for the first time, nobody knows how to use it, nobody knows how to implement it, nobody knows how to build the SQL databases for it. You know, that's where we come in. We'll come in, we'll design everything for you, we'll get everything set up. And we, over the 40 years, we've decided that it's better for us to do everything because I'm not waiting for somebody to pull a wire. I'm not waiting for somebody to build a wireless, uh, network for me. We'll just come in, we'll do the whole thing. Uh, I'll send. We have guys that do wiring. We have guys that do, um, the, um, loading of all the software. We have. We have a guy named Casey who we tie a rope around his feet because he'll go down the rabbit hole. So far, we got to be able to pull him back. But he's never. He's never come up and said, I can't fix it. He'll always find something. He'll always make something work. It's great. Our organization has. We have a phenomenal team right now. I mean, with him taking over and me relaxing a little bit and, you know, Matt running all the, uh, back end stuff and Casey going down the rabbit hole and Brian pulling wires, I mean, we got it all covered. Anything that you need, we can take care of.
Speaker B: It's good to have the essentials under one roof.
Speaker C: I would also add the fractional CTO for a growing business. Right. Anybody who is starting to step into those C suite, um, positions but doesn't necessarily need to fill all of them immediately. You have your CEO, your cfo, your CIO isn't exactly your third option. You're gonna want to fill those positions slowly, especially a smaller company. So bring somebody in. We'll come in a couple times a month, check everything out.
Speaker B: Yeah. And that's usually sufficient. They only need it a few times a month.
Speaker C: Exactly. Especially five days a week. Somebody who's smaller who's growing.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's interesting. Um, you know, one of the things that I've always appreciated about you guys is that you have a very calm and a very calm demeanor, but you have a very practical way, for lack of a better word, of explaining the things that you do. And I say that because if you're not comfortable with technology, this world can be very intimidating.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: So as a result, I've seen a lot of folks, um, through the lens of not knowing what they don't know, do wrong, bad, silly things when it comes to it. Uh, what do you guys see as common missteps for business owners? So we know what to look out for.
Speaker A: We have oh boy moments.
Speaker B: You know what, that's a better way to phrase it. What oh boy moments?
Speaker A: We'll walk into somebody's network and we'll just look at something and go, oh boy. And you know, and I'll call him in and the two of us will be discussing it. And it's like, well, let's get Matt on the phone too. And like we're all discussing it and somebody will come up with, why don't we just tear the whole thing down and start over again? And it's like, well, because it's not, you know, cost effective. Right. But uh, yeah, we call them old boy moments there. Um, but what people do wrong is people think that the a $300 laptop is the same as a fifteen hundred dollar laptop. Um, and it's not. I mean the $300 laptop is going to have a lower end processor in it, it's not going to have the memory in it. It's not going to last. I mean, if you want something that's going to last, you know, four or five years, hopefully four or five years, you got to spend money.
Speaker B: Is that the typical expected lifecycle if I'm buying machines for my staff is four to five years what I should expect to get out of it?
Speaker A: Not out of a laptop, but workstation. Yeah, yeah. As long as you build it right in the beginning. I mean, as long as you say, I want this to last four or five years. Uh, like five years ago, if you would have put 32 gig of memory in it in a PC, would have been a lot of money. But it's still working today.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker A: If you put four in it, it's not, you know, it's not four or eight gig, it's not working anymore.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: So yeah, well, I think if you look at it over the term of say five years being able to amortize that's $300 a year. And I don't have to. Aside from it not aging out prematurely, I don't have to worry about dealing with swapping it out prematurely.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker C: Because that's a whole nother step.
Speaker B: All the data, what we're doing today, we're not doing two years from now, we're doing it five years from now.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: That's wise.
Speaker A: That's where the CTO comes in. Um, you know, that's where you come in and you say, let me roll out a plan for you. Let me tell you how to do this. We even have, uh, we even have guys that'll do the financing for you. And we've been in business for so long.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: We found people that we like and we just stick with them. Like, we have a, we have a phone guy who's phenomenal. I mean, you know, when I brought him into 20 of my clients and he's brought me into his clients when he can't get something to work. Nice.
Speaker B: Uh, going back to the CTO role, I guess in a scenario, uh, like we're talking about, you're helping them to triage what they need to do now versus what they don't need to do now and prioritize the buy.
Speaker C: Exactly. And in the most cost effective way. You don't want to start with a server if you can get away with three PCs to start.
Speaker B: Right. And I guess you also have software, uh, licensing on top of just the purchase of the hardware to factor in.
Speaker A: We. A lot of times what I like to do is I like people to buy their own equipment. Welcome in. We'll install it, we'll do everything we have to do. Because for me to make the, whatever, 15% on a hard on a piece of equipment, I just rather you do it.
Speaker B: Right. But you'll advise them on what to.
Speaker A: Oh, exactly. We'll get, I'll go on the website, I'll get exactly what they need. When you put your network in here, I was like, buy this. Buy this.
Speaker B: That's true. We did exactly that.
Speaker A: Yeah. You know, buy this. And m, we'll, we'll put it in, we'll install it and you know, we'll get it programmed. And that's, you know, that, that way, to me, I don't feel like somebody thinks I'm ripping them off because they can go to Dell and say, oh, he's making $100 on me.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker B: Uh, it doesn't seem like computer hardware, electronics in general is a high margin product.
Speaker A: It depends. We get more, we get paid more on our installation because that's the part that, you know, we're giving you our heart and soul on. Right. You know, we're not, we're not making it on the money, on the, on the equipment.
Speaker C: Also depends on the product. I mean, you know, servers are one thing, but, uh, like you were saying, a laptop, a, uh, PC here and there.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: I would imagine a server is a more bespoke configuration.
Speaker A: We have to build it with a server. I'm, um, I'm talking to a Dell engineer and we're telling them exactly what we want. You can't go to Best Buy and buy a server, Right? Yeah, but you can. You know, and matter of fact, I don't think Dell will sell you a server, a custom server. They'll sell you some, something out of the box which is never what you want. Um, so, you know, we'll, we'll put something together. We'll pick the hard drives, the memory, the process. We'll pick everything, and they'll build it for us. But that's also two weeks, three weeks away, where if somebody's like, on fire. Yeah. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do.
Speaker B: How do you guys feel about, uh, all the NAS options that are out there these days? It seems like it's matured quite a bit from where it was 10, 15 years ago.
Speaker A: Absolutely.
Speaker B: Is that a viable solution for certain businesses?
Speaker A: Sure. I mean, we, we run all of our VMware stuff on synology. Synology, uh, NAS is now used to be Equal Logics.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Equal logic. NAS's were $30,000. Where the synology, you know, an equivalent size and something as robust as the ecologic, it probably costs you three. So, I mean, the, the amount of money you would save on.
Speaker B: And that's a very mature ecosystem too.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's been around for 40 years.
Speaker B: Yeah. Has it been a synology?
Speaker A: Yeah, they've been around forever.
Speaker B: Yeah. Was it just not here in the States? Um, is there a Taiwanese.
Speaker A: I think they were here. I remember working at Trebo, which was 35 years ago, and them having. I mean, they were gray, they were small, and they used them as backup discs.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, they weren't like, you know, as robust as they are now. They have real processes in them now and everything else, so, I mean, they're. Yeah, they're good.
Speaker B: Uh, talk to us about cybersecurity. I know that's a hot button these days.
Speaker C: What aspect? I mean, we have the.
Speaker B: Well, I guess that's a fair retort because there's so much to that. Right. Um, I guess. Is there anything new and alarming that business owners should know about now?
Speaker C: I mean with AI being able to write its own code. Okay, everything's alarming. You know, there's always a, a new script getting written by that and you know, bad actors have same technology we have. But um, you also have the good side of it where for every one of those you have somebody else who's selling a service, a software that fights,
Speaker B: that AI could do bad, but AI could do good.
Speaker C: Exactly. You know, double edged sword. Um, but I mean from more of a workstation network perspective, I mean we've had great experience with the Ubiquiti stuff. Um, their, their intrusion protection is top notch. Um, and then virus scan desktop stuff, we use Vast, which is again awesome for what it is and super cost effective as well.
Speaker B: Very cool. So as far as the um, on the network end, on the ubiquity side, is it looking for activity that's just out of the normal from what it normally sees on your local network?
Speaker A: Well, proofpoint, they, they partner with proofpoint. Proof point is, you know, state of the art stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: But we've also, we use the geofencing. So I mean if you're, if you're here and you're working, you know, on Long island, uh, I don't need to open up everything to Somalia.
Speaker B: Right. If you're not doing business over there, there's no sense.
Speaker A: And, and what we do is we try to lock everything down and, and then we'll. We had a perfect example. We had a customer that we had locked down for like five years. And then all of a sudden they started, um, working out of India. They were letting them do some of their um, data processing and like, you know, all of a sudden we had to, you know, we had to kind of like breach the wall to let India in and out. And then even when we did that, it was a tunnel, we built a tunnel to the guys in India and every time their IP address changes, you know, we, we have to get involved again. It's all locked down. We lock everything down to the point. As soon as we can't get in. Well, like, all right, we got to back it off a little bit.
Speaker B: Okay, that makes sense. You know, from some other IT folks I've talked about, uh, the consensus seems to be the biggest vulnerability in it is the human being.
Speaker A: Oh, absolutely, 100%.
Speaker B: Right. So you guys agree, uh, what is the number one thing that people are doing wrong?
Speaker A: They got it on emails. Yeah. They just have to read.
Speaker B: It's still that clicking on bogus email.
Speaker C: Absolutely. I mean, we tell all of our clients, you know, look at the sender. You know, you don't recognize at the very least the domain name. Yeah, don't click on it. You know, you're not getting a string of letters and numbers from Microsoft.com with a legitimate email.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: It's going to be somebody you know, or at the very least, a corporation that you've heard of.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Harry, Dave.com is not something you're dealing with.
Speaker B: All right? We talked a lot about tech. What do you guys like to do for fun?
Speaker A: We, we hunt. We go hunting. Uh, we work on cars.
Speaker B: What do you hunt for?
Speaker A: Geese, deer, pigs.
Speaker B: Okay, so you're doing one season after the next, I suppose.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: For the most part. For the most part, that's. That's always fun.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: I mean, we always have our post Christmas trip there. That's every year.
Speaker B: Where's there?
Speaker C: Uh, out east. Out east. The fruit.
Speaker B: Very nice.
Speaker C: That's a constant. Um, belong to a couple of clubs, some on the island, some upstate that are, you know, same thing. Um, fishing.
Speaker B: Yeah, let's go. You mentioned cars.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: What are you guys doing with the cars?
Speaker A: We, when he was in High School, 11th grade. 11th grade, we, we bought a, um. I bought. He found a 84 square body Chevy in Texas, and I had to sell it to my wife to say, hey, you know, I think we should buy this. And she said to me, you're gonna buy a car you've never seen? And I was like, yeah. And she goes, well, if it's a piece of junk, I'm gonna say, I told you so. I said, oh, once or twice. She goes, no, every day. Every day I'm gonna wake up. I said, I told you so. And we spent two years building that truck.
Speaker C: And he didn't even tell me he was buying it. Right. I found it online, I showed it to him and he went, ah, uh, it's old.
Speaker B: I like that.
Speaker C: And, uh, I went to show it to my cousin one day, brought up the website and it said sold. And I was like, oh, wow, uh, that sucks. As I was writing a report for my senior year, he's yelling down to me, he's like, yeah, come outside. I'm in the middle of a report, give me 10 minutes. He's like, no, you should really come out right now. I walk outside and there's that blue truck sitting on a farm that he had shipped up. Yeah, that was very cool.
Speaker B: That's great. And you guys worked from that point on, you worked on it for two years together.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. We put a motor in it. We had the tranny put in it. We put a um, posi. Rear in it.
Speaker C: Fuel injection.
Speaker A: Fuel injection. Air horn.
Speaker B: You have to have the air horn.
Speaker A: It's got a train horn.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: It was very cool.
Speaker B: That's great. That's an important father son project.
Speaker C: Oh yeah.
Speaker B: I got into cars because of my dad.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: We didn't do anything to that extent, but you know, we tinkered and did the normal. The brakes and that kind of stuff. And you learn a lot. It's quality time.
Speaker A: When we were doing the motor, the um, the truck had a lift on it and we hooked the motor up and we were jacking it up. And it's like this doesn't go up high enough. So we had to take the wheels off the car and drop the car down to the ground so we could get the motor out of it.
Speaker B: Oh, that's funny.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was. We're sitting there going, hm, hm. How are we going to do this?
Speaker B: That's something you don't think about when you're in the middle of it.
Speaker A: But being an engineer, you know, we can't make this go up higher. We got to make this go down lower.
Speaker C: Right?
Speaker A: Yeah, but it's um, that's the other thing that makes us different. We're all engineers.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: I'm an electrical engineer. Pizza. Computer engineer. Matt is a computer engineer. Casey's computer science, I believe. And um, Brian went. Brian's something. I don't know what Brian is, but. Yeah, but every one of us is all. Every one of us has an education in engineering.
Speaker B: Shop full of smart guys.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: So I'm sure they're falling in love with you. How do they get ahold of you guys?
Speaker A: Call Elliot. Uh, we're ah, FCC consultants. Our website is fzcc.com um, you go on our website. It was built by a genius website designer.
Speaker B: He's all right.
Speaker A: But um, no, that's how you can get a hold of us. And we're um, we're always available. We're always uh, interested in the new. The next new fix that we have to get to.
Speaker C: Love it. Absolutely.
Speaker B: Thank you guys for stopping by.
Speaker A: Thank you.
Speaker C: Thank you for having us.
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