Most excellent! Congrats!

Congrats, looks great. I guess if I was younger and was doing a restro on my place, I would do the same.

I've been slowly using the garage as an actual garage to get things done, and continue to organize the garage and set things up.

Somehow I had several leftover 4' lights from our old house, so I decided to hang them as well. I guess you can't have too much light.

I ended up with 58 4' bulbs.

-Steve

914

Here is the planned layout.

Next up is the build the benches/extend the tool chest "island".

-Steve

Now you need to convert to the new LED lamps. With 58 40w fluorescent lamps, you're drawing 2320 watts (almost 20 amps)

Love your garage though

holy crap that was awesome...

i copied this "sucken scissor lift" design and i can report it works very well.

here isthe 3/4" panel i made a couple weeks ago for when not in use.

Looks like your garage floor is on life support.



Seriously, you've done a great job of tailoring the space for a 914 collection.

You have to drive over the hydraulic hose to get a car on the lift though. If/when I decide where my mid-rise will reside, I think I'll bury an ABS conduit from the pit to where the pump will be located.

Envious - well done. I sent you an email...take a look please. All the best!

Tony

Man, that looks awesome. I love the layout and the room (as it is measured by 914's). I miss San Diego. Are you out in east county? My parents still live in SD right above Charger Stadium. Gotta come visit.

> Now you need to convert to the new LED lamps. With 58 40w fluorescent lamps, you're drawing 2320 watts (almost 20 amps) yikes.gif

Yeah, it ends up being 16 amps with all on (32w bulbs) but I've found I'm just turning on the lights in the applicable bay/work area.


> You have to drive over the hydraulic hose to get a car on the lift though. If/when I decide where my mid-rise will reside, I think I'll bury an ABS conduit from the pit to where the pump will be located.

Yes, I started to do this but I would have had to tear up a lot of good concrete to get the pump where I wanted it. My plan is to build some hard lines with 90 degree turns so I can mount it on a post in the middle of the garage and then I won't have to run over it anywhere. But it really hasn't been a big deal as-is.


> I sent you an email...take a look please.

Got and will do!

> Are you out in east county?

I'm in Encinitas. Just got lucky with a big yard and garage(s).

-Steve

From this weekend (and on my other thread). It's so nice to have room to work in.

-Steve

Here is the garage attached to my apartment from 1999-2005 or so that I did the conversion of my orange car. Couldn't fully open either door and that single light builb was the entire lighting in the garage.

Funny [to me] story: This was at a super run down apartment in Pacific Beach (like most in PB). I didn't realize it at the time, but the drywall on the right side of that photo there was literally the interior wall of another apartment unit. I had no idea. There was no insulation or anything. I did a ton of welding and even more grinding in that garage over the course of many months. When I would grind in there, it was just as loud in the apartment as in my garage.

After many months of this, I ended up meeting the girl in that apartment and we dated for about year. But she turned out to be crazy (like most in PB).

-Steve

Used to be that garages were required to have a minimum 1-hour fire rating if attached to a residential unit - typically gyp board on both sides of all adjoining walls and ceiling.




Not exactly sure WHEN it became code, but my garage/rear house (built in 1949) only had a coating of plaster on the garage ceiling (house is on 2nd story). I installed gyp board under the exterior stairs (when we turned it into an enclosed storage area) and also in the water heater closet in the corner of the garage. IF I ever have enough 'spare' time, I'll insulate and install gyp board on the garage walls too.

I remember two garages in my past, (originally built for model 'T's), that didn't even have concrete floors ... just dirt!

Looks like it was just easier to leave the doors off during the build. You new place turned out swell. I love that green car. How do you like the lift master? Quiet and the no motor track makes for lots of headroom.

The yard is still a mess, and I got tired of climbing up and down this dirt slope to get to the 914 garage from the backyard. So I saw stairs like on Youtube and thought that looked easy. Technically easy, but way more manual labor than I was expecting.

Anyways, I finished now and added some 914 parts to finish it off (from my conversion).

-Steve

in progress

All done!

914 parts!

Looks like a good way to sneak in a workout for people that don't like working out...but like not paying someone for yard work (I'm pointing at myself right now).

Very cool space, and VERY cool property!

Wow! Nice job.

Nice

Looks very nice indeed.

And we got some plants around the stairs [down to the 914 garage] now.

But first, what we started with...

And moved some dirt...

And built some stairs and added some plants! (and a pool)

-Steve

That looks very nice and relaxing.

Really awesome job, Steve


When can we come down and hang out?

Very nice garage and Lift Steve. Best, Mark

Steve, on my lift I cut a 1 inch wide by 1 1/2 deep notch in the cement with just a skill saw and cement blade. Where the hydraulic line goes down to the lift, that needs to be at an angle deeper to give the line room for movement. Best, MarkClick to view attachment Click to view attachment

I made this wall set up from some old scrap metal I had laying around. Roughly 27 ft long X 12 ft tall X 26" deep. All cabinets were just inserted into their openings from the front. Added my wood countertop, pegboard & LED light..ready to work. Huge spacesaver

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It's glorious!

Wow that's awesome.

-Steve

The whole setup looks amazing! Hopefully now you can enjoy all your hard work.

Jeff B

and the side view from the pool into the 914 garage (where the glass door is).

did you consider a MaxJax?

Looking great! Tons of work in these hot days but things progressing nicely there. I do not know if people mentioned it since there are a thousand suggestions and comments before me, but a nice concrete sealer would help a ton if you are working on cars. Good to seal the floor while empty.

Also, LED is awesome for lighting. Here check out my little 2 door garage area. Installed (4) 4' foot fixtures (2 lights each fixture which brings it a total of 8) and the output is great at half the power output and longer lasting than flourescent.

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What kind of compression system you running?

I'm green with envy, Steve ... (or was it indica)

Garage sunset.

Well I've lived here for a little more than 5 years now and thought I'd provide an outside the garage update... The driveway was bad when I moved here and now it's horrible. So I'm finally tackling it (and some front yard landscaping) before I have to move to rally-only 914s.

The top part and circle will be concrete, but the rest of the driveway up will be new asphalt (in January-ish). The driveway demo has begun...

-Steve

The plan...

Demo (and more playing with the drone)...

Looking the other way...

The circular portion will make for a most excellent go-kart track, Steve





I'm going to have to pave from the side roadway in to the detached 4-car garage that's situated on the 'upper 40' at my new place in AZ. Thinking $$$ for asphalt instead of $,$$$ for concrete ... I'll only be around for another 20 years if I'm lucky ... asphalt will work just fine

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Fuch I just thru out 4 930 rotors...cool idea.

WOW! Cool spread. It's nice to have room. I could never go back to suburban living.

Driveway update...