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Steve D wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
Unless you put the car on that in-ground lift sideways, I’m not sure how you would have problems dropping a driveshaft or tilting the motor-trans combo.
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I thought that we were looking at a side view. A lift needs more length than width. Are you sure we’re looking at the front?
mahoneyj wrote:
Point taken. Between the 3 car garage, 1 car in the basement garage, and my office parking garage a couple miles away - not to mention the fact the race cars stay at OPM - if I had to resort to stacking cars some might say I had a bit of a problem with my fleet size. :laugh:
Ranger wrote:
[quote]Steve D wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
Unless you put the car on that in-ground lift sideways, I’m not sure how you would have problems dropping a driveshaft or tilting the motor-trans combo.
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I thought that we were looking at a side view. A lift needs more length than width. Are you sure we’re looking at the front?[/quote]Yes. That picture shows the view driving onto the lift. Optical illusion that it appears wide and shallow. Unlike IndyJim, who IS wide and shallow.
I am just now finishing up a new 2 car detached garage with game room upstairs and outdoor kitchen. 12" foor ceilings and the lift is being installed tom.:woohoo: I now call my new driveway that I had to poured for it I-20!
Damion - is there any reason you went with the drive over wires instead of overhead? What happened to the E34?
And for the record, I hate you too.
JP
Dammit!!! my lift sits in a pile under a tarp and I spent an hour yesterday laying in dirt and leaves pulling a driveshaft out. Damion, you have a lift but have had a year off from racing, I guess we are even.
Al
FARTBREF wrote:
[quote]Dammit!!! my lift sits in a pile under a tarp and I spent an hour yesterday laying in dirt and leaves pulling a driveshaft out. Damion, you have a lift but have had a year off from racing, I guess we are even.
Al[/quote]
That lift looks like a mighty convenient and comfortable place to work on a car. You might not be even.
Ranger wrote:
[quote]FARTBREF wrote:
[quote]Dammit!!! my lift sits in a pile under a tarp and I spent an hour yesterday laying in dirt and leaves pulling a driveshaft out. Damion, you have a lift but have had a year off from racing, I guess we are even.
Al[/quote]
That lift looks like a mighty convenient and comfortable place to work on a car. You might not be even.[/quote]
Depends whether you like working on cars more than racing them… 
jtower wrote:
Al i can’t see you working under a lift. That is way too fancy for a guy that once used a motorized toilet as a pit bike.
JP The e34 was replaced by the e60 m5. It is stupid fast fast and sounds like an f1 car with the exhaust that I put on it.
I went with the base plate style beacuse I built the garage with exactly 12ft ceilings and some of the over head models can come in a little over that. It lifts to the same height, its just that all the cables and hose run under instead of above. BTW congrats on the baby!
Yesterday I got the estimate for the work and greenlighted it. Theoretically we’ll pour the pad in 2 weeks. That’s 2 weeks in contractor-time, call it 40-50days.
Me and a contractor framed in the garage expansion today. Having not done this sort of thing, I’m taking a couple days off of work to help and learn. This will give me 9’ more garage depth and a 6’ roll up door to an external patio that I can roll projects out too. I could even roll the car out on to the patio if need be. In the very tight confines of our back garage, this is a huge expansion.
The back garage is pretty damned small. The race car fits in it with very little room to spare.
Al and I linked up for beer and lies tonight. He just bought an '08 M6. Has some kind of huge V10 in it. Is hellacious.
Did Steve have Garage framing on his list of Ranger projects? Never a fan of the looks of the M6. Drove one during my Performance Center Delivery and M School and the V10 is definitely a special engine.
[quote=“King Tut” post=56061]Did Steve have Garage framing on his list of Ranger projects?[/quote]I’m like the poor bastards at TMZ trying to cover Charlie Sheen. I can’t even keep up with Ranger’s insanity, much less understand it. :laugh:
PS - I almost had a stroke until I realized Ranger was talking about Al K, not Al Taylor. Of course, you should question my sanity when my neurons connected “Al Taylor” with a post-Vietnam era car…
Some pics. To put this in perspective, the garage is about 16" X 16". That means that once the car is in the garage, you half to side-step to get past the front or rear of the car, and if the driver’s side has enough room to open a car door, then there’s only 4’ of room on the passenger side before you hit the shelves that line the far wall.
In order to work from the front of the car, I have to push the rear of the car against the garage door. If I put tools on floor on the driver’s side, I have to walk on them. There’s an honest 2’ of floor space on the passenger side, which is heavily packed with the detritus of our trade. It’s tight.
Which is why adding 9’ of space to the front of the garage is just huge. Not to mention the 6’ door which will open up to a patio for even more space. If I was so inclined I could even push the car thru the door on to the patio. Lets say I needed to put the E36 on the lift without putting the race car on the street. Or I had a parts car I wanted to dismantle.
It’s hard to get a good pic of the effort because there’s no good way to back off and get a picture that shows some perspective. The pics here were taken from the open back door of the small front garage. You are looking thru the 6’ door to the old outer wall that will be removed shortly. At the base of the door is the ramp that comes down to the cement patio work area.
Because we are in a hurricane zone the building code requires a nail every 4" in the plywood. For a 4X8’ piece of plywood that works out to 120 big-ass 3" nails per sheet. For every single sheet of plywood. Only a nailgun makes that possible.
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The garage expansion is pretty much done. Next week I’ll put in the electrical and build some overhead storage. It’s also getting painted next week.
Yesterday the wall separating old garage from new expansion came down. Last night I spent some time standing where the wall was and looking about. The expansion is a 50% increase in space. I used to have to squeeze around the car. Now there is room for the car, and storage, and work bench, and welder cart, and engine hoist, and, and, and.
Awesome. Just, so, awesome.
I’ll take some pics when I get the lighting wired in.
Electrical…no such thing as too much light. 6 or more 8’ fluorescent lights is somewhat adequate. Outlets…a 4 gang outlet every 6’ on 20a breakers is adequate…most of the time (and you can still run 14/3). Be sure you have 220v single phase in the addition for a welder. Chuck
Note in the first pic the little furniture mover roller on the cement and the 4 2X4’s that run up the wall behind it. That’s where the old external wall is. Now note the location of the nose of the car. There was only a couple inches between bumper and wall.
The 2nd pic shows the 6’ rollup door and the patio that was poured in order to make it easy to work outside if need be.
Except for some more fluorescent lights, the electrical is in. Am putting in some more overhead storage next week.
