StatGSR's Garage - 36x28x12.5

Just found this forum and saw lots of good info so I figured I would start a thread for my garage as I fix it up to what i want it to be. Bought the house last summer and have been planning what to do with the garage ever since, the garage is basically how it is when I bought it except with less nails on the wall and more of my junk in the way.


Update 4/10/11 - A little bit of demolition

Update 4/23/11 - Reworking the garage door track

Update 4/24/11 - Installing a new garage door header

So here it is!








and of course the lovely slab cracks....


My Plans for the garage include:
Adding a couple high mount windows to the south side
Clear the walls of all the nails and other junk
Insulate
OSB and paint the Walls and Ceiling (any recommendations on OSB thickness?)
Replace a large portion of the 4ft shelf running around the garage (its great having a high ceiling!)
New lighting (thinking 6 8ft florescents or something along those lines)
Re install the wall lighting (its amazing how much that helps when working on cars)
Seal the gaps around the garage doors
Replace and install a functional garage door opener
Remove the old monster fuel oil furnace and replace it with 80% propane furnace (already have, my dad does HVAC repair/install for a living)
try and do some repair to the huge cracks in the slab so that i can actually roll a creeper across them
Maybe resurface and coat the slab (i know it will never be "like new" but maybe a little nicer than it is)
Fresh coat of paint for the outside


I think that about covers it, I'm really excited about getting started on it and looking forward to some good information from the forum. Thanks for looking!

Needs some work But its nice for alot of things because of its size. You could put up alot of vintage signs and alot of big ones that you can hang/suspend. Take some pictures of that old green cabinet, very neat.

Great open space; you can do a lot with that!

brando090 said:

Take some pictures of that old green cabinet, very neat.

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you mean the monster furnace poorly located in the middle of my garage??? I have give it some credit though, it does a pretty great job of warming up an uninsulated garage when its zero or less out.

IMHO - Forget about coating the slab. I don't think you can do anything to save a slab that has failed that badly. You'll be wasting money. I had a 24x26 garage with a floor that was similar...actually it was worse... and I jacked up the building and replaced it (about 15 years ago). It was worth it. I'd be glad to share any tips I learned if you're interested. I might even have some old pics that I'd have to scan.

A variation on an old saying comes to mind. Buy a good tool and you'll curse once. Buy a cheap tool and you'll curse every time you use it. ... the variation ... pay to fix it right and you'll curse once, don't fix it and you'll curse every time you try to roll your jack, your tool box, or whatever over those cracks.

The building looks like its in great shape and you'll have a nice shop when you're done.

^ yeah the slab resurfacing/coating idea is pretty much at the very bottom of the list. not a priority, just a thought, thanks for your opinion.

Is that a legacy wagon with an EG33 in it or do my eyes deceive??

You have a lot of options.. Keep the progress photos coming !

bradweingartner said:

Is that a legacy wagon with an EG33 in it or do my eyes deceive??

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it is! have had the motor in it for the past year, just haven't had the chance to play around with it and get it running right (i think there is a ground or something missing in the wiring) it runs, but sounds like its missing and as soon as the engine gets warm it wont idle just sputters and dies. Hoping to get it sorted out this summer.

It's funny you mention that though, i was just wondering yesterday if there were any subaru guys on here that might actually notice that!

How bout some under hood shots of the gsr I think this is the first honda iv seen on here

dvracer4life said:

How bout some under hood shots of the gsr I think this is the first honda iv seen on here

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will do, don't have any in my photobucket right now so i will put some up after i can find some pics on my other computer. Nothing much of note to look under the hood though, here is all it has done.

Mods:
Del Sol seats
ITR shift boot
ITR front lip
Bronze Rota Grids 15x6.5
Comptech Icebox
GReddy 4-2-1 Header
High Flow Cat
APEXi WS II Cat-back
Omnipower Street Coilovers and LCAs
DIY Trunk Brace
Type R ****** (LSD + shorter gearing)
ACT Prolite Flywheel (10lb)
Action 1KS Clutch
Technafit SS brake lines

its in some extreme need of some rust repair and fresh paint. which is one of the main reasons why i want to get my garage sorted out.

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Update 4/10/11

got some work done yesterday and today, started ripping down the foam from the ceiling and removed the rack from the north wall as well as the broken garage door opener and all the supports for it.

What it looked like starting out.


Getting started, half of the rack already ripped down.


what was left of the rack


How i left it today



All the wood that has come down so far


I wish i would have been keeping track of how many nails i have removed from everything so far. clearly the previous owner was a believer that the more nails that are in it, the better....

my plan going forward is to insulate and sheet the wall above the garage door so that i can add a new over sized shelf above the door. This will help me since it will give me a place to get stuff out of the way while i continue working the rest of the way around the garage.

Hope you're gonna recycle that lumber. You can save yerself some money there.

^ i was planning on using some of it, its kind of annoying as its all real 2x4s so they wont work nicely with new wood, not to mention all the longer ones are horribly warped. In any case, I'm sure i can get some use out of it.

Got to spend a little more time today and decided to redesign how the garage door track was mounted. Also decided to cut out the board that ran from the wall to the middle of the garage (for the other track and the furnace electrical) as it was a pain to navigate the ladder around. So used some of the spare wood I had ripped off the walls and rigged up a temporary mount so that the track on the other side of the garage would stay stable for the time being.

Started with this....



Ended up with this...





I know its not horribly exciting, but its progress.

More changes today, after looking at the header for my small garage door i realized that it looked like **** and since it would remain visible after I OSB the walls, i wanted it to look a little nicer. Now since the torsion springs for the garage door were attached to it, it was obviously a little more work than just ripping it off and throwing up a new board but i feel it was worth it. So i went to menards, got the new board and the 1/2" bars for the garage door springs and went to town.

Here is what it looked like originally, you should be able to see why i wanted it gone...



How it looks with the old heard removed


yea it sags like crazy, the garage door design was really poor, basically it leaves everything only supported from the ceiling, which is probably why all the all the 2x4s studs have separated from the ceiling. I even tried to rig up a jack to reattach the studs where the belong. I managed to get them a little better, but far from how they should be.

My rigged up jack using the old garage header board


Insulation in


New header board in place!


I'm just happy i got it all finished today and that the door is working how it should. I was a little worried i would either kill myself or break something messing with the garage door springs, but everything worked out pretty much perfect in the end.