24x30 Anai Rally Shop

[mr_aj_johnson]

Time for my own thread here, wife and I relocated to this last July and are closing tomorrow on our new house. Has a nice little 24x30 detached garage with 10' ceilings and 100 amp service.

Nice sized driveway for the day I get a tow rig....

And I will be moving the rally car and all my tools from the rented shop its in now over the next month. Trying to use the space in the best way possible.

The soon to be old shop

A couple shots of the car just for fun....

A little beating on it the day before I tore it apart

Cage
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and of course the pics of paint from up above. Car should start for the first time this weekend and I'm hoping to drive it to its new home.

Hoping to use every ounce of available space in the garage by shamelessly stealing many of the ideas I've seen on here.

I will be staining some of the cement in the basement of the house... has anyone stained their garage floor rather than paining it with one of the available paints? Bad idea?

Thanks for reading
AJ

 

[ripper70]

Nice Project. ALWAYS nice to have a garage/shop you can just walk out the front door to get to. Welcome to GJ!!! Post some pics of you jumping that bad boy!

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Nice Project. ALWAYS nice to have a garage/shop you can just walk out the front door to get to. Welcome to GJ!!! Post some pics of you jumping that bad boy!

Will do... These bad boys should help

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50mm bilsteins in the updside down variety... 8.25" of strut travel at each corner

 

[Super Sport]

Congrats! Looks like a nice house with some character, and a lot of driveway space! Looks like you might be able to expand the garage in the future as well, depending on zoning/permits.

 

[nsogiba]

love that body style Audi. Good luck with the new place.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Thanks again everyone... ran into a small issue in the daily driver dept. I spent a few months this summer tracking down an e30 bmw. I found the perfect one, and it was flawless; not a ding or a scratch on the original paint and the interior was immaculate other than a crack in the dashboard.

It was all taken away on Wednesday by a young driver not paying attention

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What she used to look like

Bummed out to say the least.

Work starts on the new house in the AM. Also moving first tools to the shop! I'm really trying to focus on organization and not painting myself into a corner by trying to setup the shop as I bring things in.

 

[luke7734]

looks good! make sure you definitely get your floor done before you get everything into place.. plenty of people will vouch for that on here.. can't wait to see the old quad circle finished.

 

[Alex in Canada]

Nice Rally Car! What model is the Audi? 100, 200? We used to have a 1985 Audi 5000, except it was quattro, and turbo diesel!

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

its a 1988 audi 80 quattro. Transmission is an 016 from an early 4000 with shorter ratios and locking diffs, motor is a 10vt out of a 200 turbo quattro. Brakes are from a 5000.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Halfway through the new house celebratory bottle of rum.... So sorry for any mistakes here.

Doors are open. Modified costco utility trailer in the garage. Trailer is setup to haul 6 bikes (bicycles) however its been about 6 years since I've ridden with any seriousness and am currently down to one bike... maybe now that the down payment is taken car of and the rally car shouldn't require too much more I can get back into it.
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Needs insulation
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outlets are frequent but lights leave something to be desired.
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The lonely window
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Blank canvas... thinking canned lighting using sheet metal for ceiling.
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I may need to build a separate outbuilding for the wife... She is starting to encroach on my territory already. Wants a small area for wood projects.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Before I start on the shop though the house needs to be done

Hauled two loads of carpet and linoleum to the dump.

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Wood underneath
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Might actually look good once it's refinished...
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[mr_aj_johnson]

And yes there something bothering me too about what was written on the house advert and what I'm visually seeing for the 30' dimension...

 

[luke7734]

Omg. Doppelganger room! I still have the archway however that your missing.. same lead glass cabinets and all. I have a fake fireplace set up for ng ventless insert. Insane.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Omg. Doppelganger room! I still have the archway however that your missing.. same lead glass cabinets and all. I have a fake fireplace set up for ng ventless insert. Insane.

Ha ha my wife will freak when she sees that.

 

[luke7734]

Ha ha my wife will freak when she sees that.

I just freaked when I saw my reflection in the glass door behind the archway.. whooo.. thats "the grudge" $h!t right there..

 

[nickleone]

Will do... These bad boys should help

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50mm bilsteins in the updside down variety... 8.25" of strut travel at each corner

Are those JVL supper bitchen shocks?

Nick

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Nick, Yes they are. Not that JVL is the source for everyone's parts, but working with him has worked out for me timewise. I requested the suspension the minute the cage was done, and he got it to me litterally the day I cranked over the motor the first time.... I took my time with the project.

Back to the house, sanded the flooors this week (lots of late nights to 2-3am) stained them the night before last, all the while moving our stuff across town into the garage and basement.

Sanding through the old linoleum glue was.... fun
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Living room sanded
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Stained
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There is a second color of stain going on to get the look the wife wants then finish later this week. I forgot to snag pics of the hallway and rooms but I'll make sure to next time. After the floors are done it's on to wallpaper removal

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Omg. Doppelganger room! I still have the archway however that your missing.. same lead glass cabinets and all. I have a fake fireplace set up for ng ventless insert. Insane.

Ha ha see that now. I've got NG central, wife would like me to keep some sort of wood fireplace... I'll have to come up with something.

 

[meathooker]

That rally car looks slow

Congrats on the home purchase

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

That rally car looks slow

Congrats on the home purchase

ha ha ha the people you meet on the interweb. Thanks! Bringing the car to freezout to see how bad it gets beaten by an evo

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Living room, Dining room and hallway done. Now for the bedrooms. I've lost all the real estate in the garage during this renovation... So that is on hold till the upstairs is done.

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And since the E30 got squished I've picked up a new deathtrap... er daily driver. 2.0 16v 4 wheel discs, and a fairly nice suspension setup. Gotta do something about the wheels and will be repainting it this summer (white again). Looking forward to bringing it back to snuff.

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Next to dads GTI, amazing how small the thing is
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[sjkonk]

Nice rabbit! I wish I had space for a mk1 right now, but I have my hands full with my mk2 Jetta.

 

[luke7734]

floors are looking awesome! i redid my floors too when i moved into my place 7 years ago.. it's amazing how kids and dogs can tear stuff up.. now that we've moved out i'll most likely be renting it anyways.. so.. guess it doens't matter much now.. like the vw. you couldn't find a tdi??? c'mon

 

[runt262]

That Rabbit looks wicked! Great little daily driver. The house looks great too. What are the next steps with the rally car?

 

[Xander]

Too bad about the E30, but I am a VW fan, so the replacement is approved!!!

X...

 

[kyle@hcb]

The floors looks great!

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Sorry for the delayed response guys... work, holidays, house etc.

Rabbit plans are a re-spray of paint in april-may and minor interior fixes between now and then.

Rally car... where to start. Trying to make first rally of the season in may, ECU is currently back with marc swanson for some help. Suspension is sitting next to the car waiting for me to get back into a strut tower vs die grinder war. Really just want to take it out for a pleasure drive to get some motivation back in me.

House-Finally moving some things out of the garage into the house, painted most of the upstairs, started building a bed frame for the wife (right because I have that kind of free time sweetie, but it's what she wants) Here is a mock up picture of the bed, it should have been done by now but I got called away for work. Hoping to get home this evening and finish it up. Decided not to sand the door all the way down (too time consuming) so we came up with a simpler update for the doors.

Anyway pics

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

Lots of projects in the house done. Bathroom, bedrooms living room spare bedroom then kitchen next.

In better news, I finally pulled the rally car home! felt so good to turn a wrench in my own shop! Coolest part of owning a house by far.

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Not much other progress pictures but
Fuel lines are done, finalizing the chassis wiring everything is finished but the blinker and hazard switches.

Next is finishing up the motor wiring now that the ecu is back, then suspension install, rear firewall, glass.... it goes on and on.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

and yes the wife still has claim to 40% of the floor space, but I'm whittling that down as I finish rooms in the house.

 

[meathooker]

Sweet looking cage

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

What the workspace has turned into... Still waiting for a screaming deal on some used kitchen cabinets, but until then this is she.

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Also whipped up a bed for the wife to kick me out of
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and started some finishing touches on the race car. I'll be sure to share the finished ordeal
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[mr_aj_johnson]

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[mr_aj_johnson]

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[mr_aj_johnson]

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

For Rent. Drywall labor. Low experience but very enthusiastic. Can ship fits in a 36" box, weighs 30 lbs

 

[WarrenJ]

Many projects, but looks like you have it under control.

 

[mr_aj_johnson]

I dunno about under control.....

Been a while- Got distracted with keeping a roof over my families head. One tip to any future homeowners, shell out for a mold inspection prior to purchasing. Had to move the wife and kids out of state to be with family because it causes some nasty health issues. On the plus side they will be moving back in on Thursday!

To catch up, I cooked the motor at the last rally, I bought and then re sold the spare motor as I figured I wouldn't be getting around to the car anytime soon, but couldn't stay away from it anyway. I did remove the head and inspect the internals. The bottom end looked great, but the head was warped a bit. I had a local shop machine it who buggered it up and took .024 out of it. Then had another shop fix the buggered up job and they took another .010 out of it... Motor will be going e85 as soon as I get around to buying injectors

As shown above I built a fresh wire harness, am going to rebuild the dash out of Aluminum this time and put in a bunch of idiot lights for coolant, oil etc. Cant see the gauges when I'm racing and I'm having too much fun to be bothered to look at them anyway. A set of big red lights should do the trick. Had a buddy come over tonight and persuade me to take a break from the house to slap the motor back together. Need to install the harness, add fluids and put the front end back on, so he's threatening to bring beer over another night this week to finish it up. Might be driving again next weekend.

Terrible pics, just so its not entirely boring.
wiring

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motor in

Manifolds, and fuel rail on- can see a test fit of part of the new harness on the coils in the back.
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Anai Rally, Home Renovation, and Speed shop- Buddies Boxter came over to do motor mounts, brakes and wheel bearings on all 4 corners. I need a bigger shop- cant fit half my house, a race car and a friends toy into it so clearly it needs to be bigger!