Staten Island Custom Performance (SIC Performance is engaged in designing & building of Show cars, race cars. etc… The installation of performance parts is where we excel through our unique personnel We provide the means to determine horsepower through our Dyna-meter services that we recommend areas that should be enhanced through replacement of parts. This service accurately diagnose performance problems or enhancements.. Staten Island Custom Performance (SIC Performance) is an outgrowth of Ace Auto styling which has been building Custom performance and restoring cars for forty years. Staten Island Custom Performance (SIC Performance will be developing a new state-of-the-art performance testing shop and retail store.
Staten Island Custom Performance (SIC Performance) is located in Staten Island, NY. Our company and employees are dedicated to doing
each job right the first time, and retaining each car owner as a lifetime customer of our shop.
Danny McNeil – Chief Engineer
Danny is an industry recognized veteran with over 40 years of experience. Over the past 40 years Danny is award winner for his design and high performance builds. Danny has built many race cars in class spanning many different types of racing. He has also won many accolades for his custom fabrication car builds as well as restorations on national. He is world renowned and has many international clients that he has built/restored custom High performance cars, motorcycles, limousines, etc… He has been featured in many TV shows demonstrating his unique skills and knowledge. Danny has manufacture his own brand of cars Phantom and sold over 100 around the world. Danny is managing the day-to-day technical engineering & fabrication solutions of the business. He collaborates with all employees to ensure that engineering, parts, tuning and most importantly quality standards are met. Danny’s clients at ACE Autostyling are the average car enthuses, hard core racer to entertainers and sports stars.
Mike Love – Technical Engineer
Mike for the past 10 years Mike has work under the tool-age of Danny McNeilat ACE Autostyle perfecting his skills in Custom Performance
work. At ACE mike was started as an apprentice in basic auto body work and auto mechanic skills. Over the past 10 years Danny has been schooling Mike and developing his high performance skills and knowledge as well as custom fabrication. Mike has been certified by DYNOJET and EFI University in DYNO tuning. Mike continues his education under Danny and is in constant learning mode. Mike attended
Brookdale community college for automotive engineering 2 year program.
Kevin Bastawrose – Parts Engineer/Retail shop Manager
As parts Engineer Kevin researches the industry and develops relationships with the best of the best in the industry. His goal is to find the top quality and performance parts to meet the specification requirements for the Chief and Technical engineers. Kevin is certified EFI niversity in DYNO tuning. Kevin attended Hunter and City university of NY where he majored in psychology.
Bill Love – Business Manager
As the Business Manager Bill manages the day-to-day business operations (finance, marketing, contracts, vendor management, HR, etc…). He collaborates with Chief Engineer to ensure that all operation aspects of the venture are met in a timely manner. Bill is very experience
entrepreneur who has worked and managed many startups. He was one of the founders of SEER Technology a company that he and other grew the company to a 200 Million dollar company. He has work in many start-ups as the head of Consulting and channel sales. He is currently a Senior Vice President at a fortune 100 financial institution. Bill attended City University of NY where he majored in Math and Computer Science
Mike Barile
Story by JRock & Lee Sheridan
Every Now and then we all see a new talent that will rise within the riding community. Some will flourish and others will fall within the mainstream. Then there are some that stay under the radar and let their work speak for itself, and in this case speak volumes. About a year ago, while I was at the Suffolk County Car and Bike Show, I met Mike Barile, a new local painter who wanted to run an ad in Full Throttle Magazine. It was at this show that Mike’s work took first place in the Custom Paint competition. I spoke to Mike at length and got a feel for his work and his unique and extreme style. I saw a lot of passion, and many of his childhood heroes put to canvas on some of his sample work.
Mike’s artistic talent was evident and nurtured from the time he was a tiny toddler. As a young boy growing up, he was fond of the graffiti style technique and pretty much mastered it. Mike studied paint and airbrush techniques at SUNY in Farmingdale, where he earned a degree in Graphic Design. His niche products are fantasy based artistry in the likes of Luis Royo and Michael Whelan.
In 2002, Mike started working out of his garage painting t-shirts for Sweet 16’s and other party events, while working as a full time graphic design artist. The hours were long and demanding. Nonetheless, Mike knew that this was the road he needed to travel in order to become and independent artist, and to one day open his own shop. Eventually, the time came for his dream to come true and his newest creation “Painted Armor” opened its doors.
In August 2007, Mike went full time at Painted Armor in order to pursue his work, and to attend to his growing list of anxious customers.
His customers have included names such as Jeff Mose of the UFC. Mike was the key ingredient to the paint scheme for Joe Piroso’s 9/11 Tribute Bike, featured in the September 2007 issue of FTM. This past November the Nassau County Car and Bike Show, his work won first place for best paint on a Pick-Up.
Now at 29 years old, Mike is comfortable in the shoes he’s in and is a successful business owner, who is fulfilling his life’s passion and living the American dream. You can catch Mike and his art at many of the local motorcycle shows throught the year.
This talented artist has firmly paved the way for himself towards a future of success and I am glad we have been there to watch him grow. If you need to have your bike, car or truck struck with the brush and evoke a design that lends itself to the rider, Mike can deliver it with pure perfection. Some of us are not always sure of precisely what we want and might have several different ideas about the design. In this case, Mike is exceedingly skilled in capturing exactly what the customer desires with true excellence. Of course, one can always choose from the scores of custom designs that fill Mike’s portfolio of art and adorn the walls of his studio. You owe it to your ride to let Painted Armor do the skin on what4ever you run in the wind with.
