Since then, Pedro and I stayed friends, and fast-forward to 2023, we were talking about cars as usual, and he mentioned that Jordan was working on a K-Swap FR-S, and that peaked my interest and really motivated me to get back to taking photos. I reached out to Jordan and told him what I wanted to do and he agreed to let me document the build, as well as the evolution of Garage Therapy. I thought it would be cool to have a story to tell through my photos, which is something different that I hadn't done before.
So, I learned that Jordan started working on cars with his older brother when he was only an early teen. His love and passion for building cars only grew over the years, teaching himself to build engines, install mods, and even fabricate parts that he couldn't buy. He and a friend eventually coined the term Garage Therapy, putting a name to what they loved, and they decided to open an actual shop. After a few years, Jordan decided to move the shop to his home garage, which he had designed back in 2018 specifically to be outfitted for a shop with a couple of lifts and plenty of space for working on cars.
He continues to take on different fabrication projects that interest him, but his own personal project at the moment is the aforementioned FR-S with plans of a boosted K24A engine swap, adding a reliable power plant to his favorite chassis to race. Jordan loves going to the track and has been racing since around 2007, and has also been instructing on track since 2017, with his home track being VIR. He's been to several tracks across the US, but plans to go to even more once the K-Swap FR-S is ready for racing.
This is just the beginning of the journey. I will continue to photograph and write about the build and the shop as Jordan makes progress. I think this will motivate me as a photographer to get out there and reach out to more people and start my own journey as a storyteller of the car culture in the Triangle, and maybe NC as a whole. If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading, and stay tuned for the future of Garage Therapy, Jordan's K-Swap FR-S, and Mau Tsukuda Photography.