When you start on the wheel arches, please bearing mind that you will see an increase in Brake temperature because you will now be carrying less air in the arch, so you might want to incorporate brake ducting into your design. Also you might like to experiment with outer wheel covers that are also impellers, to help draw the air out.
If you are going to use the foam inside the arches then I guess that filling the arches on your car is going to be fun, When we did this we had to ability to turn the car upside down, something I’m sure you don’t want to do! We did try using thin cardboard sheets to act as forming tools, but as the foam expands it did try to push them about. Oh just so you know aerosol Brake cleaner will stop the foam expanding. So if you get an area that’s bursting through, 1 quick squirt will stop it dead. Good luck and I’m sure along with everybody else we look forward to seeing some pics soon…………… So no pressure then!
Thanks for the tips! Brake cooling has never been an issue for me, since my car is light (early 911) and I've got brakes from a much heavier model (86 Turbo) and ducting scoops already in place (down on the front A-arms). But you never know. Make a modification in one place, and you often find an unexpected consequence somewhere else.
Jack, That is one great looking garage!
I built a 2nd garage for our Corvettes a little over 10 yrs ago! I originally did it with some metal St Charles Citchen Cabinets. The garage looked great, but just wasn't functional. Now that I'm retired I'm redoing it! I located someone who had removed an entire St Charles kitchen, and purchased them! What a deal!!! Now I'm working on coming up with a configuration that will work for me!
When I built the garage I didn't pay to much attention to where I put the power pannel, gas wall heater and stairwell! Now I'm stuck with working with those dimensions! Being retired I've been looking for good deals! I was able to locate some like new desk drawer cubes. They are 90 lbs apice and originally cost $750 when new. So securing the cabinets together, and stacking them. Which results with a cabinet 45"W x 54" H and looks like a great tool cabinet.
Well, it's time for coffee........... - AL
Sounds great! I'm looking forward to retirement -- although I'm told there are not enough hours in the day even then.
I can’t believe I went through all 135 pages. I’ll admit that I didn’t read every word, but I would look at photos and read the applicable text and things that caught my eye. I feel like I watched your garage grow and mature into the excellent example of how a garage should be. I can’t believe you did all that for the price you said. It takes a lot of dedicated searching to find such bargains and a creative eye to see how it could be used. It’s inspirational to us!
Your son is probably old enough to join cub scouts, which I highly recommend. I say that because I can’t begin to imagine what you would do building a Pinewood Derby Car!!!
Congrats on winning the award and all the recognition in magazines. I know that isn’t why you did it, but it always feels nice to be noticed for your hard work. As I start building my workshop, I will think…what would Jack do?
Oh, what is that little screen located on the wall by your tool boxes?
Thanks for making it all the way through. When this thread passed 100 pages, I decided there needed to be a more concise way to get through the place. That's when I did the web site. But the web site doesn't really show how the place has evolved over time. It actually started out with another thread, the "
Poor Man's Retro Retreat -- in 440 square feet" -- which stopped at 12 pages, right when I made the decision to really change the look of the place.
My son is 4, which I think is still too young for scouts. But I hope to get him involved in it when he's old enough. My father was a scout leader when I was a kid. I'm hoping I can maybe do the same.
The little screen is a replacement for an earlier idea I had. The garage has been featured in some magazines and web sites, and I always thought I'd make some plaques with the articles on them and maybe put them on the inside of the garage door. But then this digital frame showed up, and I decided it would be easier to just scan in the articles about the garage and the car and have them run as a slide show on the screen. Why? Well, that's a good question. It normally sits, turned off. But if I want to crank up the 'wall of fame' for the garage, it's a simple switch away.
Here's the slideshow, for anyone who's interested.
JO,
Does the rest of your house look as beautiful as your garage?
Jack has a house?!?!?!?!?
The house is fine, but it's as ordinary as can be. I didn't have any hand in it, outside of making a few pieces of furniture. That's my wife's show, pretty much. I took on the garage. Next up is a little deck and pergola in the back yard. I'll document it on this thread, because I think it will turn out pretty cool. But it's a slow, long-term project.
I just visited the web site, what an inspiration.
Congatulations on a job well done!
Thank you!
Jack, it's almost becoming cliche but great job on the garage, write-up, and website. I don't think we've seen inside your soffit storage. Any pictures of what you're hiding up there?
Thanks. I don't have pictures of what's in there. It's not any kind of model of how to organize anything, though. I keep car stuff behind the far left doors, then there are a few suitcases stored (blasphemy, I know), then some rarely-used-tool storage, then the right two doors on the far wall have Porsche stuff that I intend to sell on ebay one day, but will probably never get around to. On the right wall, it's even less well organized. Spares, stuff I never used, and metal bending stuff (a Hossfeld bender setup I'm slowly accumulating parts for) on the right. The nice thing about covered storage is that no one sees how much random clutter lurks behind it.
