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Posted by: cooltimes Dec 15 2004, 11:33 AM

Question is:
Where do you work on ANY of your cars?
Heated and air conditioned garage?
Heated garage?
Unheated garage?
Driveway?
Backyard?
Side of the road?
Other? please state where.

MikeCool

Posted by: SteveSr Dec 15 2004, 11:36 AM

I work on mine in a heated garage...................

SteveSr

Posted by: Aaron Cox Dec 15 2004, 11:39 AM

unheated so cal carage

Posted by: kafermeister Dec 15 2004, 11:45 AM

I store/work/break my cars in an unheated 24x30 pole barn with concrete floor. It's currently filled completely with junk, er uhm 914s.

Rick

Posted by: Carlitos Way Dec 15 2004, 11:48 AM

Don't we, as 914 owners, have to work on them EVERYWHERE we park?



Carlos

(but I work on mine on the driveway... much to my neighbors griping)

Posted by: iiibdsiil Dec 15 2004, 11:48 AM

Unheated S. FL garage, and if it is going to be getting colder than 60 when I am there, you better believe I will be buying a heater.

Posted by: synthesisdv Dec 15 2004, 11:49 AM

2 car garage attached to my house, and 10' away from my office. Problem is you might find me under the car instead of in front of the computer.

Oh yeah, and it has central AC with heat.

Posted by: Headrage Dec 15 2004, 11:58 AM

Luckily I have access to our fleet maintenance yard and can do the big stuff there. It's unheated except for a kerosene space heater. The small stuff I can do in the garage at the house. That is if I ever get the big stuff done and actually get it back to the house.

Posted by: URY914 Dec 15 2004, 12:03 PM

Big 2 car garage.
No heat.
No A/C.
Big fan.
Fridge with cold beer.

Posted by: type11969 Dec 15 2004, 12:07 PM

unheated garage

long underwear, flannel pants, jeans, undersirt, thermal shirt, sweatshirt, and fleece jacket all at once make heating unecessary . . . at least so far. Dealt with 35 degrees so far.

Posted by: Rhodes71/914 Dec 15 2004, 12:13 PM

Unheated 3 car garage attachted to the house. Coldest temp so far while working on engine rebuild 15 deg F. I have a space heater that I put right next to where I am working so I don't totaly freeze, but the polypro long underwear helps a bunch.

Posted by: lapuwali Dec 15 2004, 12:34 PM

Unheated 2 car attached garage, or the driveway. I have too many projects to do everything in the garage. And if it's less than 50dF out, I sit in the nice, warm house and leave the projects alone. I'm a wuss...

Posted by: scooter311 Dec 15 2004, 12:39 PM

I have a small house with a detached single car garage, just keep the car in there during the summer, and can do small stuff there or in my driveway, but the major stuff I do at the house I grew up in - 2.5 car, lotsa room, big compressor, and a 150,000btu kerosene salamander that blows a big stinky, smokey jet engine mess when you start it up. I store the car there during the winter and get to work on it during the winter downtime. It's really a nice setup. Plus, I get mom's cookin' as the bonus - "Oh dear you have to come over, I made too much lasagna".....
I'm Italian, I can't pass up food.
EVER....

Keep all my tools (2 rollarounds and lotta small stuff), dirtbike and all the riding gear on my porch (good sized and heated too). Was never an issue until I got my 914, but because I don't have a real garage yet, now I have car stuff inter-mingling with my offroad stuff - OH the humanity!

I want a 4 car attached garage - one bay for the Jeep, one bay for the wife's car (need a woman to marry first I suppose ) one for the 914, and one for the offroad stuff.
Then, I will be complete........

Posted by: jr91472 Dec 15 2004, 12:41 PM

on the side of the road.....

otherwise in my unheated garage.

Posted by: sanman Dec 15 2004, 12:47 PM

heated 2.5 attached garage

Posted by: nebreitling Dec 15 2004, 01:04 PM

i hate you guys.


i work on my 914 in a parking lot in front of my apartment. neighbors love when it's on jackstands.

Posted by: ruddyboys Dec 15 2004, 01:07 PM

One of those unheated leaky mobile garage in my yard.

Posted by: Gustl Dec 15 2004, 01:11 PM

unheated underfloor parking lot
it's for about 20 cars and belongs to the house where my appartement is in
I've got a 2-car-area for my daily driver and my 914
"easy work" I can do there, if there's more to do I get help from a friend who has access to a big truck storage with fully suplied garage


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Posted by: mattillac Dec 15 2004, 01:17 PM

drive way.

Posted by: balljoint Dec 15 2004, 01:21 PM

Small corner of 5000 sqft heated warehouse at work.

Posted by: mattillac Dec 15 2004, 01:28 PM

once i get it running i'll be able to take it to work and wrench on it. i work at a toyota dealer. i love working on a car with a lift. it's the best. beats crawling around on the damn floor.

Posted by: lapuwali Dec 15 2004, 01:29 PM

Nathan, if you saw what I pay for the house that's attached to that 2 car garage, you'd not be complaining. I'll bet you could rent 10 apartments for the total outlay (mortgage, taxes, insurance), and I can't call a super to fix my plumbing problems (for free). There has to be SOME compensation for all that dosh...

Posted by: Dr Evil Dec 15 2004, 01:30 PM

Ghetto jungle back yard littered with cat shit and mud I guess my "car lot" is depressing the hookers and drug dealers

Posted by: itsa914 Dec 15 2004, 01:55 PM

In the 3 car attached heated garage Life is good. Oh, and my office is above the garage. Got to love that 14 stair step commute

Posted by: joea9146 Dec 15 2004, 02:06 PM

Detached Heated 3 Car Garage

Posted by: SteveSr Dec 15 2004, 02:39 PM

Oh yea,almost forgot.........fridge/

SteveSr

Posted by: richardL Dec 15 2004, 03:08 PM

20 X 50 heated shop under the house

R

Posted by: 7391420 Dec 15 2004, 03:25 PM

un-heated 3 car garage, behind the house..P.O put it in about 10 years ago, and put in 240 electric, sep breakers, and lots of head room...eventually I may get a lift..

Posted by: tat2dphreak Dec 15 2004, 03:25 PM

unheated/cooled garage, when it's nice out

Posted by: ClayPerrine Dec 15 2004, 03:34 PM

900 sq ft Heated 3 car garage with a lift. It will have central heat and AC next summer.

Yep..love standing up to do a valve adjustment. Plus the lift makes dropping a motor a breeze.....

Posted by: skline Dec 15 2004, 03:35 PM

I have a 2 car garage that with all my junk in it, holds one car. The only time it is heated is when I turn on my little space heater. Lately, that has been daily. The heater barely keeps it warm on some days and cooks you out others. Soon I will pull my car out and clean everything out and then put the car back in. Where it belongs.

Posted by: i love porsche Dec 15 2004, 03:41 PM

heated and cooled driveway, all done by mother nature inc.

the garage is too small to actually work inside, so i have to push the car in the drive way to work on it

Posted by: nebreitling Dec 15 2004, 04:02 PM

lmao.... point taken.

i think i'll go write my rent check right now. or should i just pay cash?

Posted by: Spoke Dec 15 2004, 04:05 PM

Attached 2 car garage. Use a 50K BTU kerosene heater w/thermostat in the winter. No AC. The heater allows me to wash my cars in the garage during the winter. My wife hates the ice slicks on the driveway in the winter when washing cars, but then again I'm the only one on the block with clean cars in the winter. My black Audi A6 looks like crap after a snow storm so washing it is a must.

Spoke

Posted by: TC/914 Dec 15 2004, 04:10 PM

Out in the driveway . . .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/Panel%20Truck/new_fender_and_radiator.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/Panel%20Truck/new_left_front_fender.jpg

TC

Posted by: Jeroen Dec 15 2004, 05:01 PM

If I work on the car (which I haven't for months), it's in the garage
I have a small gasoline heater...

Posted by: rick 918-S Dec 15 2004, 06:21 PM

28' X 34' X 10' heated slab, 2" X 6" walls, 1/2 story for storage. I built it. I cut every one of the cedar shakes on the gable. Ya, I know.. I can't leave anything alone! BTW:






The MGA is for sale.... shameless plug...


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Posted by: Joseph Mills Dec 15 2004, 06:56 PM

Two-car carport for me. Sometimes I think of closing it in, but can't bring myself to do it. The house is a "mid-century classic" built in '55 and is something of a time-capsul. Here it is clean.


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Posted by: Joseph Mills Dec 15 2004, 06:58 PM

Here it is dirty.


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Posted by: cooltimes Dec 15 2004, 08:21 PM

My working place is a 2 car garage in Bartlett, TN where it 's always too hot in the Summer even with a ceiling fan and too cold in the Winter even when I can borrow my wife's ear muffs. Thanks for sharing your work place info.
1975 1.8 FI and a very cold concrete floor today.

MikeCool
Memphis TN (suburb city of Bartlett)
http://members.rennlist.com/mikecool/

Posted by: lapuwali Dec 15 2004, 08:26 PM

Carpet scraps on the concrete floor will make things a lot more tolerable.

Posted by: watsonrx13 Dec 15 2004, 08:27 PM

I work on mine at the in-laws where they allowed me to put up a 30'x20' 2-car carport with lockable storage. Also built a 20'x20' 2-car carport next to it for the other car. I currently own 3 teeners. These are open-sided garages with concrete floors, no A/C or heat, but then this if FL and if you can't take the heat, move north. It never gets cold here (BTW, this morning was 28 deg).

Here's the 30'x'20' garage.....


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Posted by: BMartin914 Dec 15 2004, 08:30 PM

Under house single car garage - 30 feet deep. Heated with my dryer vent, nice and toasty, but have throw that puppy out the door when drying clothes to keep the lint off the teener.

And one of those blue elementary school gym mats. works great!

Posted by: trojanhorsepower Dec 15 2004, 09:12 PM

Big stuff I do in the big enclosed concreted building (work) across the street. Little stuff (or no stuff) I do in the car hole I built for it.

-Pete


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Posted by: jwalters Dec 15 2004, 09:23 PM

Front lawn....it sucks............

Posted by: scott thacher Dec 15 2004, 10:04 PM

before


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Posted by: scott thacher Dec 15 2004, 10:06 PM

now a 10 x 20 rental storage


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Posted by: Series9 Dec 15 2004, 10:14 PM

2-car. 914RS is the only resident. Propane heater if necessary (I'm definitely not in Orlando anymore):

Posted by: Series9 Dec 15 2004, 10:14 PM

I hate doing that. Here's the pic:


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Posted by: JOHNMAN Dec 15 2004, 10:26 PM

First off, I'm spoiled as hell.....

My home shop is a 36'x60'X12' heated stick-built building with heat, hot & cold running water, a bathroom, a 25" color TV, Lift, Alignment Machine, 914 Roticorie, Sand Blast Cabinet, Tire Changer, Tire Balancer, bla, bla, bla........

You want air conditioning? Not yet, but will be!

Look back at the "pictures of workbench thread"

Posted by: Brett W Dec 15 2004, 10:36 PM

I got a free single car garage. I can do just about everything there. I also have full access to a complete tool room machine shop. Synchrowave 250, three vertical mills, three lathes, Kearney Trekker, Haas Vertical CNC mill and Haas Lathe.

When I lose the free shop I will rent a much bigger space until I can buy the whole thing.

Posted by: boxstr Dec 15 2004, 10:42 PM

I work on my truck where ever it needs to be worked on...
CCLINJACKSTANDS????


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Posted by: JOHNMAN Dec 15 2004, 10:47 PM

ROTF LMAO

Posted by: mharrison Dec 16 2004, 07:48 AM

Currently COLD 2 car carport with front and rear open. In the summer it is a HOT 2 car carport with front and rear open. It does however contain "the beer fridge".

At any given point my teener will be in here in various states of disassembly/disrepair/broken-ness.

-Matt

Posted by: RON S. Dec 16 2004, 08:03 AM

Outside,in the weather,rain or shine.
Me bee's to po to hab a gayraj.

R