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[softg]

hilarious garages are crucial

[scweet14]

dude, your car, garage, wheel collection, photography, and wheel rebuilding is so amazing that i feel like shit because i need to step my game up! ha very clean everything!

any more pics of the wheel collection itself? also, im gonna guess that the Z isnt your daily, so what is?

just curious

[andybob]

nah, I rolled the dollies and locked them so there is about 2" of space between the bumper and door. cant harm the paint, but gives me more then enough room in front of the car where im currently working.
Its a 2.5 car garage, but I wish I made the garage wider and 2 cars deep. But at 26' deep its good enough to get the work done.

If all goes well, and I do decide to build myself the house I have currently been designing for this coming year, the new garage should be hilarious to say the least.

I had a dream last night a bunch of money fell into my lap, I bought an average house and built a garage bigger than the house. Seems reasonable. lol

[1badg35]

it is. Once the drawings and renderings are complete (i have no free time) i will post some up. Working on the corning museum of glass, a restaurant, two apartments, and a villa on a small island in the carribean, in addition to a long list of products that I am trying to complete for ICFF this year, so lots of work at the office. And then spinFAB in the off hours, and I officially work far too much..

[244Brick]

nah, I rolled the dollies and locked them so there is about 2" of space between the bumper and door. cant harm the paint, but gives me more then enough room in front of the car where im currently working.
Its a 2.5 car garage, but I wish I made the garage wider and 2 cars deep. But at 26' deep its good enough to get the work done.

If all goes well, and I do decide to build myself the house I have currently been designing for this coming year, the new garage should be hilarious to say the least.

hilarious garages are crucial

I had a dream last night a bunch of money fell into my lap, I bought an average house and built a garage bigger than the house. Seems reasonable. lol

Sounds all quite legit... I can't wait to finish my Engineering degree so I can part take in the happiness

it is. Once the drawings and renderings are complete (i have no free time) i will post some up. Working on the corning museum of glass, a restaurant, two apartments, and a villa on a small island in the carribean, in addition to a long list of products that I am trying to complete for ICFF this year, so lots of work at the office. And then spinFAB in the off hours, and I officially work far too much..

Wow, man you are extremely busy. I know that has to be kinda a strain on your social life? lol

[Capt. Obvious]

Wow, man you are extremely busy. I know that has to be kinda a strain on your social life? lol

I'm pretty sure updating this thread IS his social life.

[1badg35]

haha, luckily my close friends and I are all building insane cars of this caliber, so we hang a lot around the cars. Sometimes happy hour takes place in the garage, sometimes at the bars, when its winter (much more at the bars). There is always time for going out though, usually after we get tired of the car work for the night.
Ive had girls break up with me because of this lifestyle and too much time spent on work, no matter though... there are more where that came from. ha Currently trying to find a new situation after a horrible past relationship that messed with my head.. haha

[Verdigrie]

As a fellow industrial designer I have to say that your work, your attention to detail and your vision for this car is extremely impressive. I love the idea of making a car into the epitome of itself and becoming timeless.

Anyway, I won't ramble on, I really enjoy your updates. Subbed

[rsingh3g]

nah, I rolled the dollies and locked them so there is about 2" of space between the bumper and door. cant harm the paint, but gives me more then enough room in front of the car where im currently working.
Its a 2.5 car garage, but I wish I made the garage wider and 2 cars deep. But at 26' deep its good enough to get the work done.

If all goes well, and I do decide to build myself the house I have currently been designing for this coming year, the new garage should be hilarious to say the least.

Good, I was about to cry lol. I wish you good luck on everything with the new house man

[1badg35]

Thank you. Much appreciated. Hoping in the next few months things solidify a bit more. Only plans and started renders at the moment. On the hunt for a unique piece of property and then the fun begins. If i can afford it.. which means car builds have to slow down for the time being. really that just means more fabrication, less part purchases which is fine in my book

[rsingh3g]

Either way its a win-win your book and in mine lol

[1badg35]

that is true. 2013 should be a big year

Did most of the wiring work today to the harness. Luckily I planned it all out over the past few weeks, so the work went really well. Just a few more wires to extend and i can get the entire thing inside that frame rail. I wrapped and shrink wrapped most of the lines after the soldering and adjusting, so its almost there. I do think I have to pull off my upper intake manifold though, as i plan on redoing the wiring for all of the coil packs while i am at it.. Just have to find those new coil pack connectors i bought last year that have been sitting in the tool box, and i will do that too while im in there

the hardpipes still have not arrived, but when they do, they will instantly be chopped up. Ive been scheming and i think it should be insane when done.

[rsingh3g]

Man I should bring my car to you and have you tuck it lol. I can't wait to see updates

[1badg35]

so, final weekend of wiring work! Got the harness redone, back in the car, removed all of the now useless wiring (second time) and extended what felt like a billion wires to my specific locations to suit where things like my fusebox have been relocated. The wires that will now run to the radiator now do so, etc etc..

decided that i wanted to remove as many of the surrounding parts off the motor to make my life easier to do some of this routing. so thats why all came apart.. and i decided while doing this that i am going to be converting all of the power steering hardlines to braided AN lines as well. Since Im doing the coolant lines, might as well eliminate the only other rubber hoses in the bay. haha



since i separated the ends of the main harness to go their planned route, i did the work, wrapped it in the new braided covering, shrink wrapped the ends (and didnt like it) so then a little electrical tape, etc. heres an example







now for the disappearing act






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[kbuss]

This thread is a love/**** thing for me.

I love coming in here and seeing all the amazing work that takes place.
I **** the fact that I lack the skills to do any of this to my car.

Jealous.