My Cave

[Brian41]

New to the site.. here is my man cave

 

[OccupantRJ]

You keep a Segway in that SOB?

 

[Vernmotor]

Dam big cave !! More pics Now !!

 

[Hardware]

I dont see a cave... Just a Large church or something in the background..??? LOL

 

[Kevin54]

1 post and 1 pic. No way that is going to go on here. We need MORE PICS!!!!!!!

 

[STORMEASTON]

Like my old lady use to say............."cripes"..... "thats huge"!!!!

 

[Brian41]

Bought it 5 years ago and its still a work in progress. Here are some before pics just after purchase.

 

[Brian41]

These were about 9 months later.

 

[mcmaster68]

Cool, it's better then the hampton inn!

 

[Brian41]

Some inside building after clean up but there have been a lot of changes since these were taken.

 

[Grizz1963]

Holy Cow Batman !!!

Thats some serious space.

How does one end up with so much space, and the house looks massive too.

 

[Wardrum]

Just your average neighborhood garage.....with an in-door pool. What's the big deal?

Seriously though, that place rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[stok2]

WOW.......Holy ****, I need to store a couple of things, you got any room......

Very nice............

 

[autoist]

How deep is that thing? Is the pool in the brick addition to the house?

Was it an old school or church?

 

[z28snksknr]

That's gonna be one HUGE parts cleaner!! You can just drive the car right in!!

 

[Brian41]

Pool is in the rear of the house. The building is 204 X 36 with 14 foot ceilings and an upstairs on the front part of building the other 2 sections have 10 foot ceilings. The second section is all open floor space.The third part of the building was 6 offices, kitchenette with lunch room, conference room, waiting room and bathroom. last year we gutted it and only kept 1 office and the bathroom.
I do hot rod restoration and Offshore boat custom rigging. I also build custom engines this is the latest addition to the shop about 6 months ago.

 

[john37]

What.... no one else has a dedicated MAP room in their garage?

I will forever dream of a space like that! Very nice....

 

[FryZ]

Jeebus that's huge! I can't even imagine having that kind of space....very nice.

Looking at the pics from when you bought it 5 years ago, it looks like a foreclosure judging by the yard/pool condition. Or were the POs just that bad?

 

[Brian41]

It was a foreclosure property that had been vacant for about 3 years.

 

[sasquach]

What kind of business was run out of there in the past . That is some awsome space . Hell with that pool I would never see my kids again . LOL

 

[Vernmotor]

OK you win we loose ! man you got way to much stuff to have fun with !!

 

[bluesman2a]

Lifts we got plenty of, but all the SERIOUSLY cool kids... have their own DYNO!!!

Great place, looks like you've done a lot of great work to get it back into shape.

What part of the country are you in?

 

[marty_p]

RE:

"Horsepower TV" has nothing on you, Brian!

A dyno room, a map room, a kitchen, an indoor pool, a..., a..., a..., a...

GREAT score, buddy!

 

[dankeenan]

Brian - Nice DTS dyno. How long have you had it?

 

[Brian41]

My daughters are 8 and 9 and in the 5 years that we have been here they have learned to out swim fish. The former owner did electrical design for the big three on prototype and concept vehicles, he was a young man that in short order became an international ******* and lost everything. I am located in SE Michigan in Monroe county about 2 miles from lake Erie. Here are some more current pics.

 

[Brian41]

Brian - Nice DTS dyno. How long have you had it?

I bought the DTS dyno 8 years ago but my last place would not accommodate it so that was the main reason for this move. With all the work the property needed it took 4 1/2 more years to get it operational... of coarse after 8 years all the computer and electronics were obsolete and had to be replaced and upgraded. I have been using now for about 6 months.

 

[GSMetal]

Hahahahahaha.....I can't stop laughing.

That place is HUuuuuuuge.

The responses to your photos are just as funny.

Drive in parts washer...

 

[bazzateer]

Jeez! What do you park over that pit? Combine Harvester? Looks like it's leeting in water too.

 

[Brian41]

a project I am working on coming together

 

[69lm69gp]

Man Cave? No Man Cavern!!

 

[houstonhusker]

Very nice! Do you do your own fiberglass work too?

 

[61scout80]

wow, I can't even come up with something exaggerated enough to explain what i would do for a setup like that. I would even consider Michigan for that setup!

 

[SamR]

a project I am working on coming together

Now that is cool

 

[Brian41]

Its not just cool its "TOO COOL" here is a before pic. It came in for engine rebuilds and snowballed from there.... we are at $100k+ on refurbish project.

 

[Jpfreak33]

That's the BEFORE?? What exactly needs refurbish? For 100k less I would take it as is LOL Great shop, I could love to do that kind of work

 

[Brian41]

Very nice! Do you do your own fiberglass work too?

Yes I do glass, gel and paint work, I had to replace the transom and the stringers because of water damage. We decided to with a 5 stringer system rather than the 4 that was used originally so we could use motor plates instead of the standard Mercury mounts. We also moved the engines in 1 inch and up 1 3/4 inches for more speed. I rebuilt his 516 CU engines and they made 620 HP with 600 TQ and that was not enough so he had me build custom 572's that are making 750 HP and 720 TQ. From there we had to do drives that would handle the added HP and that again snowballed into complete IMCO transom assemblies with 4 ram steering, extension boxes, SCX uppers with 2 inch shorty lowers. Now the installing, rewiring, relocating and total re-rigging is underway. I sent the tabs out to have them powder coated to match the drives (silver/gray) and I am redesigning the swim platform and having it powder coated the same silver/gray.

 

[houstonhusker]

Sounds like a ton of work going into that boat...post some pics once you have it all reassembled..

 

[SamR]

Its not just cool its "TOO COOL" here is a before pic. It came in for engine rebuilds and snowballed from there.... we are at $100k+ on refurbish project.

LMAO, I had expanded the pics, but was so busy drooling over the boat, I didn't look at the name

 

[Brian41]

boat is almost done and ran 89.8mph first time out but needs a gear change with 700 rpms to go.

 

[cranehand]

gonna have any of your builds at the Greenfield Village car show next weekend?