Hey all,
My roommate and I have been big fans of this site for a while and we finally have a garage we're both proud to show off a little.
It's definitely a work in progress but it's extremely functional.
We both have 1 car garages at home that housed our stuff while we were in high school, and we both enrolled at Cal Poly last year and spent a year wrenching out of the trunks of the cars in parking lots. This year, though, we've moved into a house off-campus together along with another enthusiast and we're doing the garage the way we both wish ours at home were.
It's a 20x30 attached with a few setbacks. There's a 9x10 room at the back corner that houses a landscaping closet, a large tool corral/closet, and a bathroom (best idea ever, thank you to whoever put that in
). There's a fireplace on the left that sticks out 2ft, and a water heater and a refrigerator next to that, so we added a workbench on that side to take advantage of the small alcove of useless space over there. We're leaving the opposite wall devoid of shelves or benches to allow the most room possible to work on the cars.
We are both big track junkies; the Vette is my roommate's track toy and the Miata is my track toy and daily driver. The third car is my roommates' project car, a Factory Five GTM owned by his stepdad. He's doing all the wrenching, his stepdad is funding it, and when it's finished my roommate will get the keys every so often.
Anyway, enough babbling. On with the photos.
The garage has a high-lift door installed, designed to clear a 4-post lift (look for that in an update soon) and it's wired for single phase 220v. The area above the bathroom is a storage loft, filled mostly with excess turbo parts and a few sets of race slicks.
Anyway, that's about it. We have a few plans for the garage, maybe a couple more pictures on the walls and a lift, but most of the funds go into the cars so nothing crazy, just a very usable workspace.
My roommate and I have been big fans of this site for a while and we finally have a garage we're both proud to show off a little.
It's definitely a work in progress but it's extremely functional. We both have 1 car garages at home that housed our stuff while we were in high school, and we both enrolled at Cal Poly last year and spent a year wrenching out of the trunks of the cars in parking lots. This year, though, we've moved into a house off-campus together along with another enthusiast and we're doing the garage the way we both wish ours at home were.
It's a 20x30 attached with a few setbacks. There's a 9x10 room at the back corner that houses a landscaping closet, a large tool corral/closet, and a bathroom (best idea ever, thank you to whoever put that in
). There's a fireplace on the left that sticks out 2ft, and a water heater and a refrigerator next to that, so we added a workbench on that side to take advantage of the small alcove of useless space over there. We're leaving the opposite wall devoid of shelves or benches to allow the most room possible to work on the cars. We are both big track junkies; the Vette is my roommate's track toy and the Miata is my track toy and daily driver. The third car is my roommates' project car, a Factory Five GTM owned by his stepdad. He's doing all the wrenching, his stepdad is funding it, and when it's finished my roommate will get the keys every so often.
Anyway, enough babbling. On with the photos.
The garage has a high-lift door installed, designed to clear a 4-post lift (look for that in an update soon) and it's wired for single phase 220v. The area above the bathroom is a storage loft, filled mostly with excess turbo parts and a few sets of race slicks.
Anyway, that's about it. We have a few plans for the garage, maybe a couple more pictures on the walls and a lift, but most of the funds go into the cars so nothing crazy, just a very usable workspace.
