Got some workspace...

[SappySE107]

Wait till we have pics with all my inventory there. muhahahahaha

[Schmieder]

Ain't that the friggin truth!

Sure is. I keep my old parts in the new parts box as insurance. Not so much for the old part but exactly as you said, keeping it prevents a breakdown of the new part.

[ForcedFirebird]

so whats going to be the next big thing to build and fabricate for our family of motors? intakes?

I would like to see turn-key motors this year

Heading to the shop early today, I'll see about taking some more pic...

Have no idea where Ben will be putting the WOT-TECH stuff, mowahahaha :P

[bob442]

in the new bigger shop of course haha. I'd like to see some stand alone OBDII harnesses so we can get the spotted owls away from the carbs haha.

Selling turn key motors pre-run and tuned with a PCM would really be great for alot of people.

[ForcedFirebird]

[bob442]

only thing that sucks is that it wont stay like that for long.
Curious question, how many 180* mandrals do you use on a single set of headers.

[ForcedFirebird]

only thing that sucks is that it wont stay like that for long.
Curious question, how many 180* mandrals do you use on a single set of headers.

A lot lol. About 11 bends of various sizes for the whole header setup.

[SappySE107]

We will need another bay, its inevitable.

[ForcedFirebird]

Let's worry about the one we have first

[bob442]

easy now, we dont need to send you two to marrige counsling
I thought this was a funny thought

[60dgrzbelow0]

http://s557.photobucket.com/albums/ss19/60dgrzbelow0/MECHANICS%20SHELVING/?start=all&mediafilter=image

Okay... It has been a while since I looked at John's incredible shop for motivation... but owing to a recent windfall on getting a pile of lumber for free after doing some favours for a neighbor... I finally decided to start building some decent shelves in my garage so I can at LEAST walk from one end to the other and do more "Mecking" inside the garage than out. My envy of John's Shop has prompted me to create...

Der FrankenShelfer...

All I used to build it was some scrap lumber, a 7" Ryobi Chop saw w/ spread stand, a Screw Gun and a box of 3.5" & 1" deck screws. The materials and dimensions of this modular unit are as follows:

4- 2" X 4" X 7' Vertical Corner End Supports
2- 2" X 4" X 7' Center and Rear Verticals (Shelf Supports)
4- 1" X 6" X 7" Long Horizontals (Top and Bottom Runners)
8- 2" X 4" X 20" Short Bracing Horizontals (Front to Back)
12- 2" X 2" X 20" Under Shelf Supports (Staggered for both Shelf Sections)
18- 1" X 6" X 40" Flat Shelf Segments (Trimmed to Fit) Modular
18- 1" X 6" X 20" Shelf Bottom Braces
Box of 3.5" Deck Screws
Box of 1" Wood Screws

I decided to make the shelving modular so I can stack long tools and tall tool boxes should the need arise. The materials went together nicely and once built, proved very strong indeed. The unit is perfectly symmetrical and stands upright without the need of being bolted to a wall or the floor with anchors and lag bolts that would defeat the purpose of being able to hike the thing around in various places in the garage as needed. When the shelves are removed, it can be manoeuvred around the garage in various places as needed on flat dollies. The one foot space between the top of the shelf unit and the ceiling will be used to store the rest of the lumber I'm tripping over right now...

[SappySE107]

I love my work area. ROFL! That looks like you are having fun with all that lumber I am sure John would have done the same given the time to do it. Organizing FTW

[tkoforpresident]

So am i to understand that you have finally made your way down to the sunshine state?

Btw BOB nice shelves! Where'd u get all the supplies if i may ask?

[SappySE107]

Yup, I am in the land of shorts and t shirts. Getting shit done

[60dgrzbelow0]

Welcome Home Ben! Glad to see "The Fail Boat" tied up at a dock down here ...With a full string of fish and plenty of customers just waiting to knock on the doors at the New Florida WOT-Tech!


Max... You know most of time when I'm helping out one neighbor or another, its when they are either desperate under the circumstances ...or simply don't know what to do with certain problems that need an emergency fix. In this case... one of my son's GFs called him crying hysterically at 3:00 AM complaining of being ankle deep in water in her living room. Long story short... the water pipes broke under the cabinet in her master bathroom and I wound up working all night on tracing it down after turning off the water at the street and fixing things up. The next day I dragged my Hoover Wet Carpet Scrubber down there and used the vacuum to pull about a thousand gallons of brown water out of all the wall-2-wall carpeting in the house. It turns out that her Dad is an itinerant boat (yacht) engineer/draughtsman/builder who went to Connecticut seeking work in the industry and left a stack of wood he got from shipments of super expensive boat parts, engines, propellers, etc. while he lived down here. He told her he was selling the house in a month and to get rid of everything she didn't want. That huge pile of wood was stacked neatly on her back covered porch and so...she just gave it all to me!

I'm really not much of a carpenter... but I DO know that a BOX is the strongest structure going...if all the pieces are perfectly square before being assembled... so I cut all the pieces as close to a DBOM (Dead Balls-On Match) as possible and when I screwed the sections together and raised them up from the deck...they stood there as still as men waiting casually for a city bus!. I was very relieved to see everything fit so neatly together and I just used my engineering gut instincts to dope out which parts needed to be screwed into what places to make something that made sense to me...and its seemed to work great! I sat on all the shelves and since I'm a very solid 230 #s... (I'm down 60#s from last year and no longer Diabetic!!!) and they didn't even so much as make a squeak! Plenty strong enough to hold heavy filled tool boxes and engine parts as well...along with so much crap and stuff that right now is all over my garage floor. I marked all the shelves so that if I have to move the entire cabinet...I can lessen the weight by yanking the shelves and re-install them when the cabinet is in its new place.

BTW... If you can stand all the physical labour of transporting and then tearing them apart to salvage the "Good Wood", check around the shopping centers and Walmart Stores on a regular basis for newly abandoned wood pallets...you can gather a great deal of Ash, Pine and Oak wood sections that do come in handy from time to time. But I'm suggesting that you get them when they are "young and blonde" ...if they're "old and grey" like me...shine them on.