I was packing up all my go faster goodies ready to move house(with a garage woop), and thought it would be a good time to start a build thread.

I bought a fellow ca.dsm memeber/good friend's awd off him with a blown up engine with the intention of swapping my dd fwd motor in, then I found a motor for cheap and bought that he thought it was a 94 turns out its a 92 6 bolt whoop. So simple engine swap time right hmmmmm no, the car is a good half hour away and having a 1 year old I never got time to spend on it.

soooo I bought a part here and a part there next thing I know I have all the parts minus a chip for my ecu and a data logger. Whoops how did that happen.

The house we live in sucks big time so new house on the horizon with a garage.

heres some pics of the parts and hopefully my motivation to stop drinking beer and playing fifa on my downtime and drink beer and play with my dsm.

Moved in to the new house and moved all my car stuff in, including the car I havent seen in months.
also got a nice new tool box.








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I know this isn't the most exciting build but I only get about a hour a day to myself due to the ball and chain and my awesome daughter, who would be extra awesome if she went bed earlier.
anyways I need to build a work space before I can build the beast.

The secert it is to get up long before them and have your time then. My daughtets still fight to go to sleep everynight.

Hmmm, serious problem..... beer fridge isnt big enough...

Missed that... thought it was just a shelf he had stuff on. Good call kyle.

Kirk take a look at the shelves I built in my build thread.
I used to have the plastic shelves like that and couldn't be happier that they are gone.

I get up for work at 4:30 as it is lol (damn you toronto traffic making me start at 6).

I agree the fridge needs work but it was free and its cold lol.

as for the shelves they will do this house is a part of a 2 year plan, as in we should be buying our own place then.

Hopefully the tear down can begin at the weekend.

Got you, good stuff! Good you have a plan, I always say "Fail to plan and you can plan to fail!"

The shelving/bench Bryan is talking about will take you a Saturday to build (maybe not even but depends on wood working skills), Bryans garage is small but he has a bunch of work space and storage thanks to careful planning, your garage will be ready for any project...PLUS the material isn't expensive, in fact the most expensive part will be the wood you 'top' your work bench with. If you need assistance I can guide you through it.

Lets see more!!

I have the old kitchen cabinates to use for a work bench, I mainly need storage, my build pretty much consists of a motor swap and bolting on the goodies. Body will be done elsewhere.
I am on the look out for a cheap engine hoist if anybody spies one let me know.

Fixed that for you

I get home an hour before anyone else does.. so i get some time then.. and friday nights are reserved for ME TIME. nothing but me , my garage, a case-o-beer, and some Dee Snyders Hoise of Hair on the radio.

I gave up on the beer fridge in the garage. I dont drink enough to be worh running a fridge juat for beer. So I have parts in my fridge now. Its storage.. and its air tight to no moister gets in. I even have a poster of a girl on my fridge.. She signed it at last years import fest.. Told her it was going on my fridge. She wrote.. " hope I look ood on your fridge".

Pics of said poster?

Well my wife is stay at home for now lol the kid is only 21 months, but we are going to give each other a designated day each which will help for the downtime and may even ease the urge to kill each other.

That's a good idea Kirk, I will keep that in mind for when kid time comes for me

you need ME TIME ... its very important... but mor important... is HER TIME.

her as in wife or child? The wife get any time she chooses not that she takes advantage of it nearly enough.

anyway I cut some wood for a work surface on the cuboards, I post pics later its only 3/4 inch but again this is all free materials and will work for what I need.

Happy wife... Happy life...
Those who biuld the shower together..... shower together!

Pretty catchy

Enough wife talk we all know how bitches be *checks to see if wife saw me typing*

Just more pics of man cave nothing exciting happening yet.

Maybe it's just me, but I get a little bit excited when I see a man cave being brought to life

Its in our dna lol.
any ideas on what I can use to protect the floor from oil spills etc, I was thinking of a tarp and maybe some kijiji carpet. I dont want to alter anything so floor sealant is out of the question.

I normally just throw cardboard down, it does a pretty good job at acting as a filter. The oils themselves can be cleaned off with strong cleaners once you're done with your build; if you manage to stop all the dirt and old carbon that's in the oil from soaking into the floor you should be good.

Absolute best protection: Paint the floor.

Today was engine stand, move the couch, beer fridge and start the engine clean up day.

I live in a man cave. Snappy fish tank, beer fridge in the living room, massive tv and computer side by side, car parts all over the place, video game systems lined up, oh, then I work on my car at the airport. Lol

My moms b/f has a man cave that would rival most garages.... Triple bay garage, 3 cars deep, no supports. Soon to house a lift and already has a 10ton hoist on the ceiling. Heated, cooled, stereo and big screen. All the tools you could ever need (grinder/wire wheel, drill press, sander, table top saw, bike lift, engine hoist, etc. the garage is bigger then his house. oh, and there's a beer fridge.
Currently housing a boat, 2.5 Harley's, and a big ass lazy boy recliner.

Can I move in there?

Ill have to snap my buddies garage its huge you could probably fit 6-7 cars easy, he did have a entertainment room with bathroom upstairs but her now rents that out lol. He and his dad have a nice collection of old cars, inc a ford 30 w8th a chevy motor, 57 merc, charger of some year and a z28. Thats only half of it, we also have a slow project going on, a ford woody with a thunderbird turbo motor.

Where is this house located?
It sounds like one of the houses that were on sale not to long ago and I went to check it out.

East end it wont be this house he will never sell it lol

Made room today because hopefully the can will be in it by Saturday, as I was moving my ride on mower I thought hmmmm I have a spare bucket seat and steering wheel.


why because race mower!!!!

No progress today just filled it with more junk from the old house, scary how cluttered its getting already.
now for beers and dan browns new book.

Need to put a snail on the lawn mower! Work space is looking great

I have some cans of plastidip laying around might paint the mower hood matt black or satin green for shitz and gigglez

Got a few things done today, the landlord moved his trailer from tge front of the garage door so the car can be moved in tomorrow, before that I layed some tarp down for spills etc,thought I had more but it will do for now.
got a palm pilot for logging too.
also found out the local cash converters is closing and have everything on sale then a further 30% off so I went and grabbed a shop vac, pressure washer, jack stands, a mitre saw, circular sa and a 120v snap on impact gun for 160 bucks cant go wrong with that!!!!

Just played with plastidip last night for the first time

I messed up my beater using it how did it go for you?

Well the car is in the garage and I mocked up the splitter since the bumper was off already?
what do you think.

The fogs are going