I thought I'd catch up on the stuff Super In Law has created in the last month.

1. Rack for bagged blasting media. Old compressor location.
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2. Overhead shelf for all the specialty tools I (we) forget we have. Having them behind a cabinet door didn't help too much.
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3. Wall unit behind the press to store all the pressing and pulling gadgets that I just bought. Won't be long and the 12 ton press will be replaced with a 20.
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4. Then this week he built me some brakes for the rotisserie. After we changed to 360 steel wheels I can move it without much effort. Out of the scrap pile and simple. They work like a champ.
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This week Porsche Parade and Emory Campout.

Catch up things at MiddleMotors.

The parts washer is down again at MiddleMotors. Lost the main component. The combined motor/pump. First one they built and sent was the wrong one. $1000:( . I need to now have them build the right one. $1500. Well, the thing will be almost new now.

Better raise your rates Dude. . Not

That is one handy Super-In-Law!!!!

I'll stay where I'm at for a while. But everyone is telling me to raise my rate.
With the 1/2 time gig with Rothsport I'm definitely not getting rich, but life is good.
I'm kind of in a weird spot. Not really a body shop. I don't plan on spreading mud on any clients cars, just mine. I'm more of a welder and mechanical chassis guy. Body shops charge about H, welders charge about N, mechanics charge about T and blasters charge about X.

I'll figure it out. I know about where I need to be. Plus I feel I should pass my low rent on to the clients ...............

Heading off to San Francisco for another vacation ..................
Julie and I have been married 35 years today ...............

No plan, staying at sister in law house in South SF.

Happy anniversary, and congratulations.

Couldn't help myself. I was making good time in the Jetta so we stopped to see Freddie at Vintage Sportscar Restorations.
https://www.facebook.com/VintageSportscarRestorations/
https://www.vsrestorations.com/

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74 IROC backdate getting a Rothsport 3.8. The paint is stunning ..............
Rektor project on the second lift.

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While I was picking Freddie's brain on the less than finer points on the fender cowl area on the 914. Julie had a good conversation with Jeremy.
All she could talk about the next 1/2 hour was how nice and family oriented they were.

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Under the cover white 67s.
Topless in the right corner, Freddie's own 59/60 cab project.
Upfront 356. Ricardo was long boarding the nose when we drove up.

I have a sickness.....
Going High Performance House and a look at Rich's 914 sheet metal inventory. Maybe I'll find a beautiful cowl for Doug's car.
The girls will be going to one of the sister in laws volunteer deals functions.

Looks like I'll sneak a trip the Chris's (tygaboy) on Thursday or Friday.

Trip to High Performance House was an eye opening experience. I had no idea that anyone had amassed that much 914 inventory. The yard out front is full of covered cars and inventory. The building has 3 layers and every layer is full and organized.

Rich started the tour with a walk thru the 914 racing trophy cases.
Then it was aisle by aisle. Frank and Mike from American Pickers would call this a honey hole.

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Rich has a presence on eBay for a lot of his sales, but not on 914 World.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/hphporschesales/m....=p2047675.l2562

I think an email containing a photo and a Porsche part number would get you just about anything you need. Maybe NOS, maybe used.

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FIY. He has a rebuilder for both the 3 port fuel pump and the AAR.
I saw NOS front turn signal buckets too. The list goes on and on.

Like a kid in the Candy Shop, huh?

That's the only stuff our metal guy will use if he uses weld through.

Last day of vacation before driving home. Julie and I drove up to Petaluma to see tygaboy and his project/shop. My wife Julie and his wife Lori (sp ?) hit it off and disappeared into the house.
I'm not an LS guy, but the conversion is stunning. Workman/craftsmanship is at the next level. If you've followed his thread, it's a creative work in progress. Heavy on the creative .............
Was only going to stop for a few minutes, ended up being around 3 hours.
From the Tool Whore himself, does he have some tools ............ Lots of them on my wish list. But too many cars in the shop to actually set them up and use.

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Chris is a really good guy.. I would love to visit him some day.

Doing a little work on Matt's melted harness. I harvested the wires out of my spare harness bits. Extracted some complete units, column switches, ignition, etc.
We'll have them extracted color by color for future repairs.

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Like Matt's harness, the solid gray wire had a melt down. Best I can tell it's the luggage lamp feed that ties to the license plate bulbs. It's fused to #7. Hmm.

Stopped at the plumbing supply store and picked up the hole cutting saw for the floor plugs.

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I just noticed the cardboard box - for a case of 12 Dungeness Crabs. Oh, for a fresh northwest crab! Here we get "snow crab". Frozen and stringy. Years ago we returned to the PNW, chartered a sailboat and caught all of the crab we could eat. Lucky devils!

With the population increase from when I was a kid. Its get pretty tough getting too and from the coast on the weekend.

Another episode of Tool Whore. Added a HF headlamp to my face shield. Works pretty good.
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Saturday at MiddleMotors.
BIG DAY ON TAYLOR'S PROJECT
He finished the harvesting of the front fire wall. With the amount of welding that will need to be done I'll probably refurbish quite a bit of the flange. That will keep the edge from blowing out.
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Taylor and his trophy.

Matt continues with his harness rebuilding/repairing.
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Tuesday 8/8/17.
Spent half the day welding on Doug's car. Then started to assemble (dis-assemble) the suspension and brakes on Matt's car.
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New 914 Rubber sway bar bushings

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Dis-assemble : we removed the URO front control arm bushing from the refurbished control arms. No torch. Shop press and bearing separators. And some McGyvering on/in the press to make space for parts travel. Press will need to be upgraded to a 20 ton to make the project faster.
Trailing arms will get the new 914 Rubber control arm bushings.

Since harvesting Chris's firewall patch Super In Law has continued to saw up the yellow parts car. Because it was a V8 attempt car not a lot of parts. saving odd things.

center section of rear taillight panel
remainder of firewall for 6 cylinder cover
front portion of engine tray
cable/tube section of rear lower firewall
entire right long, stem to stern
mount section of upper right long
late engine fan mount
both hinge posts, including long portion

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Patrick Motorsports, Flatbrick Bloatershorts!

Super In-Law helped with my build!

(and I still say we need t-shirts with his pic on them...)

Super-in-law has been busy.

Did another visual on Taylor's project before heading to the Eagle Cap Wilderness for a 6 day backpacking trip.

Matt and I discovered that Taylor's clutch tube is totally disconnected in all three locations. That's first. Nice that's it's on a rotisserie for the floor pan entry.

Plus one of the right seat hinges needs to be relocated. Seat frame wouldn't go into place. If would waller out the holes it would be crooked.

If we have to pre-order I am signing up now.

You lucky devil. I also have a super-in-law, my mother in law. They oughta meet cause she pulled 2x10 stock out from the planer for Weyerhaeuser until the mill closed when she was 65.

You shame me! My car has kept me from sleeping in a tent since April, and I haven't gotten my canoe wet once this summer. May have to take some time off from the car before the summer is gone.

I'm back ................
Man I forget how much I love being above the timberline. First day was pretty tough. 3500 ft of vertical in 4 miles at 61 years old.

My RV. Gregory Palisades.
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Above the timberline I carry 2 sleeping pads. Egg crate and foam.

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Today is shop clean up day. The 2 parts cars going to the squisher. Used oil being given to independent shop that has an oil burning shop heater.

With coming back a day early I spent yesterday taking the remains of two of the parts cars to their final resting place. Far West Metal Recycling.
I was surprised that I was paid $95 per ton. I thought it was down to $30 per ton.

After harvesting all the hardware off the parts cars I figured it was time for a plating run.
Working with Matt and Doug has spoiled me.

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Super In Law is wearing out the nozzles on the bead blaster. LOL.
We'll remove all the spring we can get at off the latches.
Next issue is where will I put all the shiny stuff when it gets back.

While I'm welding on Doug's car Super In Law is also breaking all the harvested parts and getting them ready to be put up into storage.

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Kind of odd. Most of these parts cars have new disks on them. So they get put into storage to be blasted and turned down in the future.

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As we were leaving last night I found 4 more totes of parts off the POS parts car that will need to sorted and prepared for storage, or tossed out. He'll be busy today. LOL.
Plus we'll be cutting down some pallets to 3 ft deep to put the totes on. Too big of a PIA up on the rolling stairs.

Randy Wells video from last years Mexican 1000.

https://www.pca.org/news/mexican-1000

In Super In Laws full time work at the shop while Matt assembles his car he totally cut up my 3 donor cars. Pallettized all the spare parts totes so they can now be downloaded with Big Joe. Oh yeah, he jacked up Big Joe and rebuilt the casters. Welded up a new caddy for the scrap steel stuff for building jigs. Welded up the 914 Rubber jig for testing brake master cylinders.

Upgrading my 12 ton HF press to a 20 ton unit. Got my 25% off coupon in an email yesterday. The 12 ton unit has served us well. It will be coming home to be installed in the carport after we enclose it and add on a 4th bay home work shop.

Here's his scrap caddy .................
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Yesterday is the first time I've sent him home. We were at Subway for lunch and the gal asked him how he was doing. Answer : a little tired. RED FLAG ............
The girls were out and about so I had them head out to Forest Grove to pick him up. But he couldn't leave till we/he extracted Matt's long block from the back of the truck.

Wasn't this thread about your car?

Hopefully we'll back to it this winter ..............
The plan is to get back to frame bench fixtures after Doug and Taylor's cars are on the way home.

New Episode of Tool Whore.

Upgraded my shop press to a 20 ton unit. Added a bench mounted arbor press for the smaller stuff.
The 12 ton unit served us well. We really stressed it a couple times in Montana working on the farm equipment. Cross bar had a little bow in it.
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Super In Law and Jordan laying in the winter wood supply. While I'm welding rosettes on Doug's car. Matt showed up around 7:30 to tinker for a couple hours.
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Correct new motor/pump combo arrived for jet washer. Big $$$.
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It will get installed on Thursday.

Starting rally car number 3 at Rothsport.
93 964 Carrera 2. BAT that Jeff bought last winter.
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Job #1, removing all the messy liquids. fuel, oil and the worst, power steering fluids. This time I'm cleaning all the parts as I go.

Still pinching myself. Life is good ..................

The boys got the sign hung today. Pretty cool!!

Great to see the sign in action!

looks like another reality show for velocity

The dynamic duo if there ever was one....

Got my first run of hardware back from the plater. I'm rich ..........
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Taking the time the clean really paid dividends. Won't be too many rejects.
It's a little too much for the CW crowd. But I'm all about protecting the metal and the what will the car be like in 40 years when they're freshened up again. How did my work hold up?

Nice....I recognize a lot of those parts.

Very nice. That is definitely the way to do that. I like all nice clean, plated parts where they belong.

Next project will be the design of my Durham cabinets and shelving to store all my excess parts. Having all the inventory is of no value if you can't put your hands on it.

This is a shot of our hardware supplies in the chassis room at Rothsport.
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Zoro price about $170 per box with 4 removal drawers. I imagine I'll have 12-16 boxes when I'm finished. $$$

The bottom rows will be some of these guys for larger parts and supplies.
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How true. Check the "tools for Sale" in Craigslist close you every week or so. Quite ofter I see machinist's that list some really nice "old school" cabinets when they retire.

Short Episode of Tool Whore :

Finally found a Snap On PTS500 on Ebay ............
A little shorter than my PTS1000 Dual Chuck.
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Then I added wheel hanging pins to my tool box. This allows you to hang the wheel on our studless 914's.
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I'd never seen one of these before. At the last autocross I helped a guy with a 996. It's in their tool kit.

Another Super In Law project I thought I'd share.

I was doing some housecleaning yesterday and pulled the old POS pallet jack out to add to the next scrap run. Jack decides we'll cut off the forks to build an extension for the Big Joe pallet stacker. When Mike's parts car arrives I'm going to hang it on the wall, rather than cut it up. 88 years old and his back been bugging him for a while.

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I'm going to have to start paying more attention. And start saying no.

Saturday 10/14/17

Super In Law finished up his re-purposing of the POS pallet jack.
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Why are doing this ? Plan is to build a platfrom type hanger to store the incoming parts car from Mike Godly (Warpig) on the wall. Only after it's totally stripped down to a tub.