Custom Import Arts was founded approx 20 years ago by passionated JDM car performance enthusiasts who fell in love with the Nissan 300zx. Passion and dedication were the basis for a company that grew into a specialized bespoke performance workshop that aims at quality and reliability while raising the performance bar in Belgium for close to 2 decades!
Tom Van Dyck studied Electro mechanics and dedicated his passion to the art of engine building, transmission rebuilding and engine management calibration. On every endeavor, there was a new learning curve as he had to overcome the lack of local know-how. Starting from an old back office, growing in a shed next to his house. Ultimately expanding the company to an industrial area in Grobbendonk.
 

We where never into online sale or box moving bussines, sadly a new type of crisis ( Covid-19 ) has driven us into a new direction, online performance parts sale through a dedicated webshop platform. This new venture ( Custom Import Parts ) is still a work in progress, but soon will be in full force.

Our platform offers a high speed search engine and well over 100.000 parts soon to be available.  As always we select our brands and products carefully.

As we all experienced, deliveries have become a lot slower due to various reasons. The economy, the health crisis and none of the less the massive amount of brands and parts on the market have made it almost impossible to keep stock.

For this reason and our own but also the customers protection, we work as most online shops on an order basis, a customer pays, we pay the manufacturar or distributor, after that the parts get shipped to our workshop and from here on we send them out to the customer after a quality check.

In Grobbendonk, Custom Import Arts is now equipped with 5 Car hoists inside a 500m² dual leveled workshop. This contains an electronics preparation area, welding/machining area, and a preparation zone.
Our climate-controlled workshop main room houses a variety of car hoists, toolboxes, and even a special 3000kg remote controlled roof/ceiling transport hoist to lift engines, gearboxes or even complete cars to any location through the workshop. This is a massive upgrade as no traditional engine hoists are required, this makes things not only safer but much more efficient as well.

For engine management calibration and software development, we invested in a Superflow SF880e AWD chassis dyno, and a Superflow SF9200 engine dyno for purpose build performance engines. As an official calibrator and installer for Ecutek, Cobbtuning, Sct Performance, HPTuners, LinkEcu, Syvecs, and many other high-end brands, a massive budget is spent over the years in these official software licenses to be able to deliver the best solutions for each handled project.
Our dyno installation equipped with a separated underground exhaust extraction system and a high flow 170KM/h simulated air blower installation for optimal cooling.

Our engine room divided into two sections. The separated engine cleaning area and a designated engine clean room of 30m² designed for building high-quality engines and gearboxes in a clean environment. The first section is a part dismantling and cleaning area, which houses a Torrent 500 Steam cleaner and 15m2 tool benches for multiple jobs. The second section is a climate-controlled engine clean room where we assemble and blueprint all gearbox and engine parts prior to installation.

A few years ago, another significant investment was made towards the design and development of custom in house created performance parts. A full-fledged Solidworks Pro Design hub and 3D printing room are built to commit to the custom needs of newer customer cars. For a few years, we learned more about 3D design and integrated a Solidworks triple screen design studio with the possibility of the 3D rendering of animations of developed products. Combined with the 3D printing equipment, we can create custom parts for most applications.

Our in house 3D printer studio allows us to create every part before final construction. From gears to piston designs, from car badges up to interior parts development. We at Custom Import Arts are your one-stop parts design studio for any race project.