Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT My Mini Garagemahal

[fouckhest]

Not much for great progress on my projects, did get over to my buddies to machine some parts to make a steering wheel/shaft adapter....its great having a good friend with a lathe a mile down the road
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Wife and I went to USC (SC) football game Saturday afternoon, her daughter is a senior this year, so figured we needed to do that sooner than later lol. Had a good time and had really good seats
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Found a little garage time yesterday, worked on the steering system for the project car....its amazing how fast time goes and how long it takes to make something relatively simple looking in the end
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Dash back in the car for some perspective, now i need to start cutting down the DD shaft and getting the joints fitted
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In paundry room progress, ceiling is up/in, lights in....four lights will be on one switch, then the center will be on its own switch....
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Siding started going up Friday, they are back on it today....got the external spigot installed (thanks @jbrentd for the link)
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Builder is back working today, supposed to have inside/insulation inspection tomorrow, then I'll get the drywall guy lined up and we should be getting close to calling this a close

 

[zanyad]

got the external spigot installed (thanks @jbrentd for the link)

Went back a few pages, wasn't able to find a link. Do you still have the info? TIA!

 

[fouckhest]

Went back a few pages, wasn't able to find a link. Do you still have the info? TIA!

It wasn't posted, he sent in message, but here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008N3LBOU/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[fouckhest]

I feel like at this point, after this many projects that I should know that it seems thinks "come together" quickly, but this weeks really seemed like that week, I guess the surprise feeling is a good thing!

Builder has been knocking it out on trim, soffit and all the facia metal, this was essentially where they left off yesterday...there is a weird spot on the back of the house, but unfortunately that is due to 1957 construction vs modern day...but I'll leave that "surprise" for the end to see if it really sticks out....

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In parallel yesterday, the drywall guy I hired had his guys show up yesterday, I think this is the turning point in my life where I realize that there is no reason to try and take on drywall, other than a patch....

The guy that hung drywall showed up at 9am, one guy, was done before noon
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Then my guy that does finishing showed up, maybe 3pm ish, first coat, second coat and was out by 530pm, coming back Monday to finish up....

Super excited how well this came out
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Should be able to get final inspection next week and it will be on us to put the flooring down, paint walls and start on all the finish work

 

[fouckhest]

In other news, been chipping away when time permits on my project car....steering is proving to be a "challenging" learning experience, but after last night I am starting to feel like i can see a light at the end of the tunnel....two very expensive u-joints just might make it happen

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[fouckhest]

Had a fun weekend, not much for house or car projects, but sometimes a break is nice. We had a "friendsgiving" up at a buddies place that has a bunch of land, so it ends up being a big day of riding dirt bikes, shooting guns, general hanging out and catching up with friends...then a nice pre-thanksgiving

A buddy that lives down the road picked me up, we loaded up my mini-bike that used to be my dads from the 60's (has a newer engine)...wives were coming up together later....
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All unloaded and in good company with another buddies old dirt bikes (sorry I dont know the specifics) but these are his "take out and get dirty" units, he has I think around 20 bikes in general and rides all of them
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Took a break from mini-moto madness to spread some freedom!
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Proud to say I my wife fired a weapon for the first time this weekend, she shot my old youth model 20ga 870, my springfield xd 0.40cal, and a buddies new sub-compact glock 9mm

Was a big day filled with fun, friends and good food, cant go wrong!

 

[fouckhest]

Sunday was a relaxing day getting some errands run in the morning and then wife watch foot ball while I played in the garage....happy to report, I very much simplified my steering linkage....I had ordered this straight adapter which I thought would allow me to achieve an angle that a single u-joint would tolerate, then allowing a double u-joint to take up the more extreme angle at the top....my theory worked!

3/4"-48 spline to 3/4" round adapter with a couple inches of 3/4" DD stock to move the u-joint out past the engine
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Hard to see, but the routing is much simpler now...
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Backed up a little further
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The interesting thing is the steering shaft doesn't penetrate the "firewall" much further back from the OEM location, this provides me some hope that if i can get the exhaust to drop down fast enough, I may be able to avoid moving the pedal box back too far....lots of TBD in that statement, but, if I can avoid moving the pedals back I can potentially avoid having to move my main hoop for the cage back due to the seat needing to move back...

 

[fouckhest]

Monday update....drywall guy came to finish...amazing what they can do in such a short amount of time....I should be able to get inspection lined up and be ready to call this project, if nothing else, turned over to me to finsih

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[Trapps]

Had a fun weekend, not much for house or car projects, but sometimes a break is nice. We had a "friendsgiving" up at a buddies place that has a bunch of land, so it ends up being a big day of riding dirt bikes, shooting guys, general hanging out and catching up with friends...then a nice pre-thanksgiving

A buddy that lives down the road picked me up, we loaded up my mini-bike that used to be my dads from the 60's (has a newer engine)...wives were coming up together later....
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All unloaded and in good company with another buddies old dirt bikes (sorry I dont know the specifics) but these are his "take out and get dirty" units, he has I think around 20 bikes in general and rides all of them
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Took a break from mini-moto madness to spread some freedom!
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Proud to say I my wife fired a weapon for the first time this weekend, she shot my old youth model 20ga 870, my springfield xd 0.40cal, and a buddies new sub-compact glock 9mm

Was a big day filled with fun, friends and good food, cant go wrong!

Tell us more about "shooting guys"

 

[jbrentd]

Tell us more about "shooting guys"

Was wondering the same...lol.

 

[fouckhest]

Was wondering the same...lol.

Tell us more about "shooting guys"

DOH!

Guess that's what I get for not proof reading and no red squiggly line telling me something isn't right

 

[Metallitubby]

Mike,

Are you leaving the FWD driveshaft flanges in the transmission? Do they/will they still spin?

 

[fouckhest]

Mike,

Are you leaving the FWD driveshaft flanges in the transmission? Do they/will they still spin?

Leaving them, TBD, my plan is to either mill them down to little "nubs" so they still seal, or make a block off plate. But yes, they will still spin

 

[Metallitubby]

Leaving them, TBD, my plan is to either mill them down to little "nubs" so they still seal, or make a block off plate. But yes, they will still spin

I assume the front differential must be left in as an input shaft for the rest of the trans guts?

 

[fouckhest]

I assume the front differential must be left in as an input shaft for the rest of the trans guts?

Correct - I dont think went as far back when I started the thread on GRM, but the center diff is "welded-up" with 1/4" steel plate, just like an el cheapo locker, but doing that for the center diff simply stops any shifting from front axles to rear and fully engages the rear all the time; my expectation would be if you did this on an AWD car, it would be true full time AWD.

My hope is to be able to pull those stubs out, chuck them in a lathe or mill with rotary table and cut them down to eliminate that rotating mass in the tunnel.

As always, if you are still up this way occasionally, look me up and you can come check out my little bit of ridiculousness!

 

[Metallitubby]

As always, if you are still up this way occasionally, look me up and you can come check out my little bit of ridiculousness!

I'll be up that way immediately after Thanksgiving. I'll text you when I'm in the area.

 

[fouckhest]

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, my social coordinator kept the schedule rather full, so not a lot in the ways of house/addition/garage projects...but did manage to find a little time here/there....

Started out "black friday" with my annual tradition of getting up/out early to head to the mountains for a drive while my driving buddy is in town seeing his family....always fun to go burn some fuel/rubber on an early morning....was chilly but hard to beat cold air and clear skys

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The wife likes to get her (now our) x-mas tree the day after thanksgiving, so after returning from the mountains, we loaded up in the truck and set out to get a tree and brave lowes for some supplies....my old house did not have any electrical outlets on the exterior, she has been asking for one on the front porch for a while, I promised her one for her b-day, so figured now was a good time to follow through on that deal since we are upon decorating season....pulled power from an outlet that was on the interior wall....couple crude measurements, masonry cutoff wheel and a couple chisels...unfortunately didnt take very many photos

Interior outlet

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Fishing the wire through
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All buttoned up, put the true outdoor cover on for added safety even though it is a covered porch
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Oh and in fun tool news....capitalized on black Friday sales, Eastwood was running a promo on the motor attachment for their bead roller kits (~$175 off)....so bit the bullet and ordered that tool to add to the arsenal....

27" throat unit, picked up the stand, couple extra rounded dies and a flange die set, all in all it saved my over $200, so more or less a 20%+ discount and I know I'll be needing that tool sooner than later with the car project to make firewall and tunnel

 

[fouckhest]

In garage news, I did plan some time yesterday to help a buddy of mine install a trailer hitch on his jetta tdi wagon. He is going to be hauling a dirt bike up to NH at x-mas for his nephews, planning to use one of those platform things, but wanted to have a 2" receiver to be able to tow his utility trailer in the future...he had found someone on FB that had done this, show me the photos, last weekend we pulled the bumper for a closer look and some measuring, he found a free old hitch we cleaned up and to repurpose, I picked up some 2", 1/4" wall angle and we were off to the races

little mock up to measure for width
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Angle brackets drilled for rivnuts, one hole had to be offset on the exhaust side due to the hanger, not that they needed to be mirrors, but I always try to do things to look pretty lol
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rivnuts installed, unfortunately due to the 1/4" wall, I had to counter sink the back of the angle to get them to flare properly, still didnt love that so put a couple tack welds on them to ensure no future headaches during removal
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Angle installed and fine tuning the width of the bar
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Tacked it, then burned it in...my poor floor doesnt like weld splatter from the MIG, I need a welding blanket
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Then we trimmed the bumper for the receiver....next we need to figure out safety chains so the bumper doesn't get completely butchered....worst case it would just need the lower valance to be removed to get the bumper off...but for his hitch mounted motorcycle platform it will work till he needs to tow a trailer....also TBD on leaving it that length or shortening it..

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[jbrentd]

Nice work. Making it shorter would be better for his shins, lol. Can you weld tabs to receiver? Or should they be welded to the cross beam?

With regards to the floors, we sometimes spend way too much time/money/effort in the build phase making them to look nice...but then we actually use our shops and it's hard to keep them in that state.

 

[fouckhest]

Nice work. Making it shorter would be better for his shins, lol. Can you weld tabs to receiver? Or should they be welded to the cross beam?

Right now he said he is going to just leave it that way....his call, happy to help revise if needed. I think they can be welded directly to the receiver, a lot have the little "loop" welded right below.....I've been doing to "googling" and I think something like these, welded on either side, would be a good solution

With regards to the floors, we sometimes spend way too much time/money/effort in the build phase making them to look nice...but then we actually use our shops and it's hard to keep them in that state.

That is what I keep telling myself, I have to find a compromise

 

[fouckhest]

Very anti-climatic day in the garagemahal....my new toy/tool showed up today, well the second set of boxes. Bead Roller and Dies showed up Tuesday, then the stand and drive motor showed up yesterday, like any adult child, I promptly started putting the stand together, only to hit the womp womp point when finding out the mount for the stand is not the same as how the bead roller is drilled.

all that being said, everything looks like really nice quality, so now I am testing Eastwoods customer service, lol

Roller & Stand
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Drive motor (one of the reasons I went this route not DYI is the ability to easily adjust speed)
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(Mismatch in mounting provisions.....guessing either I have a new stand/old roller or vice versa....I know I can fix this, but I dont need it and I paid for things that should work together...)
**EDIT** - Was just going back to check to see if I missed something, and I did, this was clearly in the Description for the stand:

• "Drilling of the stand and bead roller is required to attach the Eastwood Elite 27" bead roller"

That is on me, but, not a big deal, I'll be cleaning up the back of said roller with a flap wheel and welding that bracket on there!

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[jbrentd]

That should be a fun new toyl.

 

[fouckhest]

That should be a fun new toyl.

Finally got around to getting the new toy assembled, now I need too make a run to the metal store and get some sheet to play with!
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In very annoying and ironic house news, just about the time we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the new laundry room, the existing washing machine drain (which is a gray water drain into the side yard, thank you 1957 construction) had been backing up....tried snaking, buddy I a plumber and had this attachment for garden house that shoots pressure down the tube, tried some industrial strength draino stuff, that actually made things close to good, but the pipe would still back up.....SO, in my infinite wisdom, I used one of my back purge plugs as a pressure cap, filled the pipe with water, stuck the plug in and the pipe with some compressed air hoping to force the clog out....well, I found the weak link in the system....under the stoop on outside the basement door, someone coupled two sections of PVC pipe with a rubber coupler....air pressure must have really found the clog and the pressure gave way under that slab, walked out to find splatter in between the crack...started digging and this is todays project....womp womp

diagonal line is the washing machine drain line, coupler is up under there....didnt get a photo the other night was too annoyed...
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In some fun news, got over to my buddies last night and got one side of my rear axles machined!

Solid bar turned down, hollow bar, cut to length and faced
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Isnt quite the interference/press fit I wanted, but once I get holes for the rosette welds drilled I'll decide if I want to take it back over and tack it on the late with one end in a live center (probably will, depending on lathe owners permission)
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Mocked up, measured and we are close enough to 22" target that the slop in the inner CV will more than work, fingers crossed
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[fouckhest]

Small update on my washing machine drain saga....good news, found a substantial amount of blockage....bad news, not sure how I will stop this from ever coming back.

Here is the coupler that let go on the underside of the door landing
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he was in rough shape, and pretty short IMO
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Ended up cutting the pipe so that i could snake it, forgot to get a photo of the pipe cut, but nothing crazy, what was crazy is how much I pulled out of the pipe!

Enter exibit A
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Went back to buy another longer snake just to be sure, this one was ~40ft vs the other was 25ft, caught nothing with the 40ft'er so called it a day, patched things up and started running the washing machine....we are now 3 days in, ~10 loads of laundry and no issues...going to monitor for a few more days then fill the hole back in....right or wrong, going to leave the couplers on here in case I ever need to access/snake it again, at leads I'll know there is an approximate half way point between the drain and the washing machine

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[fouckhest]

After a strugglefest of maintenance on the wives car I managed to knock out a short little side project on my 337 car, been wanting to do a nice quick access port for a trickle charger...had picked up this port a while back, shortened it up, found a spot in the core support and wired it up....I think it makes for a nice OEM+ look

Port
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mocked up
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Project complete...as much as I hate to admit it, in my old age I've come to like the look of the OEM battery cover on these cars, but it makes it a PITA to get the trickle charger on the car, that was the basis for this whole project, all in all, I think it came out pretty okay

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[Xti04]

After a strugglefest of maintenance on the wives car I managed to knock out a short little side project on my 337 car, been wanting to do a nice quick access port for a trickle charger...had picked up this port a while back, shortened it up, found a spot in the core support and wired it up....I think it makes for a nice OEM+ look

Port
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mocked up
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Project complete...as much as I hate to admit it, in my old age I've come to like the look of the OEM battery cover on these cars, but it makes it a PITA to get the trickle charger on the car, that was the basis for this whole project, all in all, I think it came out pretty okay

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Those battery covers were a ***** back in my dealer days. People would come in and bring some janky battery that the cover didnt fit smoothly over and it always looked like **** if it wasnt right. Most of those covers seemed to get tossed along with the small fuse panel cover on top of the battery. Seen a few guys lay a wrench or ratchet across one of those open fuses and make a spark show.

 

[fouckhest]

Those battery covers were a ***** back in my dealer days. People would come in and bring some janky battery that the cover didnt fit smoothly over and it always looked like **** if it wasnt right. Most of those covers seemed to get tossed along with the small fuse panel cover on top of the battery. Seen a few guys lay a wrench or ratchet across one of those open fuses and make a spark show.

Oh yeah, its crazy how much of those parts get tossed and then become impossible to find, I actually have a brand new one sitting in my storage room. Now the fuse panels, those area a disaster, but for right now, it has to stay, but I keep an eye on it regularly, those things have destroyed many an mk4!

This was my solution in my R32 to get rid of that fuse panel
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[Jagmandave]

It's amazing what a good mud and tape guy can do in just a few hours work - so much so that I will never hang or mud and tape drywall again in my lifetime if I can possible help it!

 

[fouckhest]

Snuck out to the shop last night to make some progress on my v8 swap project....started getting the rear subframe mount tubes welded up so I can get the engine back out and start on the portion of the project

parts cleaned up
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tacked up
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welded out...might sneak out today during work and fully weld out the tubes...kinda slow, so might as well capitalize on the WFH thing
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[fouckhest]

Got some shop time in yesterday on my day off, super excited about that....pulled the engine back out, then finish welded my rear subframe tubes/captive nuts and got started on building the permanent mounts and reinforcing the frame rails

tubes welded out
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rail trimmed and test fit
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CAD for the reinforcing plate
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I was quite happy with the fitment
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tacked it up
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Drivers side was rinse and repeat....also took the opportunity to trim the firewall more

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fit
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plated and tacked up
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[fouckhest]

I spent a little time Sunday afternoon planning a layout to test my new bead roller.....ended up on this for a design

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Found some time last night after work/before dinner to sneak out to the garage to test out the new tool....here are the results....definitely a learning curve on consistent corners and meeting back to your start/stop point
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you can see where I missed in a couple spots here
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Then Then, my buddy with the lathe hit me up at dinner time to say he was going to head to the garage to work after the kid went to bed, so headed over there for a couple hours and got the other axle machined....rant out of time to plunge the holes for the rosette welds, but those should be easy next time I get the bat call
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Both lined up, very happy to see how close they are in length, call it good enough for gov't work!
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....going to try and spend some time over the next few days finishing up little projects like the oil pan and steering shaft, that will make me feel better about starting on the headers when parts arrive. Found out today that the wifey is traveling for work the week of Jan 8th, so that should allow me a fair amount of garage time!

 

[jbrentd]

Keep up the good work! It all looks great to me.

 

[fouckhest]

Happy New Year all!

Shop time was scarce and honestly, a little slow and frustrating at times...but did make a little forward progress.


I'll start with some positive progress, I've been chipping away at my oil pan, made the little "pocket" that was needed for steering rack clearance, have it all burned in, used the MIG in most spots to try and keep head down by moving around a bunch, but that has led to a lot of chasing out small pin holes and such, but now that it is fully welded the TIG is nice for smoothing out little spots and not adding a ton of material

here is the pan welded up
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decided i might as well go ahead and add the drain while I've got the pan off, still needs a couple spots finished up, probably try and do that tonight
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More fun/good things, my exhaust header flanges showed up, quality looks great, and they fit as expected...
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A few days later, what I will expect to be the first shipment of tubing for headers showed up....quality is really nice (JMD Tubes), really excited for this project to kick off

• 6x 1.75" OD / 2" CLR
• 2x 1.75" OD / 3" CLR
• 2x 1.75" to 2.5" Slip-fit Merge
• 2.5" x 4ft straight
• 2.5" Merge/X-pipe (pained me to not make one, but I can make one as nice for the $$$
• 2x 2.5" v-band

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Now to the frustrating part....long/short, when I was measuring for my steering rack spacers I wrote down one dimension wrong, luckily it was favoring being too long, but nonetheless frustrating to receive some custom machined parts from a good friend, only to realize they are ~1/2 too long per side

Always fun when a fellow VW enthusiast makes parts for you!
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That brings me up to date with car things.....In house things, I finally bit the bullet over the holiday to knock out some work on the laundry room addition....measured and put down another 1/2" of subfloor to bring the laundry level with the house, then bit the bullet and went to get flooring, which shockingly went down much easier than I expected (flooring cutter my builder let me borrow was a life saver).

Flooring before trim....
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I knocked out the flooring Friday, it was done with enough time to make a run to buy trim, so did that, got it all cut/fit, then setup the garage for some painting Friday night, installed it all Saturday morning and traded a favor with a buddy to move the appliances. Saturday afternoon the misses was doing her first load of laundry.....now to take a breathe and figure out what we are going to do for cabinets and countertops

New washer/dryer
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New deep freeze, time to buy a portion of a cow!
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[MrPink]

After a strugglefest of maintenance on the wives car I managed to knock out a short little side project on my 337 car, been wanting to do a nice quick access port for a trickle charger...had picked up this port a while back, shortened it up, found a spot in the core support and wired it up....I think it makes for a nice OEM+ look

Port
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mocked up
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Project complete...as much as I hate to admit it, in my old age I've come to like the look of the OEM battery cover on these cars, but it makes it a PITA to get the trickle charger on the car, that was the basis for this whole project, all in all, I think it came out pretty okay

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What brand of trickle charger did you go with? I am looking for one for my mk4 Jetta. I currently use my big *** battery charger as my trickle charger. while it works i would rather have the hood closed still.



Pic of my mk4 lol, nowhere near as clean as either of yours.

And i had to catch up since I haven't been on here in a long time, all the projects look awesome, congrats on getting married. And i look forward to seeing what else you do.

 

[fouckhest]

What brand of trickle charger did you go with? I am looking for one for my mk4 Jetta. I currently use my big *** battery charger as my trickle charger. while it works i would rather have the hood closed still.

Pic of my mk4 lol, nowhere near as clean as either of yours.

And i had to catch up since I haven't been on here in a long time, all the projects look awesome, congrats on getting married. And i look forward to seeing what else you do.

Hey, thanks for stopping by, catching up and the kind words! Always good to have another VW person here!

This is the charger I use, it is really optimized for AGM batteries, but will certainly work on regular lead-acids as well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EKY20K/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[MrPink]

Thanks man. yeah I've been a vw guy for well over a decade, owned 14 total VAG cars. we've talked on Vortex also a bit as well lol.

 

[fouckhest]

Thanks man. yeah I've been a vw guy for well over a decade, owned 14 total VAG cars. we've talked on Vortex also a bit as well lol.

I thought your screen name looked familiar, but hard to tell with the Reservoir Dogs reference lol

 

[fouckhest]

Been a busy couple weeks, wife was out of town last week, then we had some ridiculous rain, that ended up consuming 2+ days of dealing with water in my basement and shop....so all the work I had planned to get done while she was away didn't hit priority....BUT...she came home a day early to escape snow in the mid-west, then this weekend I was "given the blessing" to go work in the shop as reward for tending to dogs, cleaning house, etc., while she was gone...

SO, finally got started on my header(s)....

v-bands tacked on to the merges and some 2.5" tube I had laying around to simulate the start of the exhaust...and it gave me a place to mount a tab that would hold the merges in position
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Driver side will be a challenge b/c of the steering shaft....knowing that I started on the passenger side...photo for reference
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This was my first full runner done...
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After working on a couple other runners Sunday, I got to a point yesterday that made me decide to pull the engine and work on it on the cart, I dont have much for space constraints that would make it worth the in car struggle....so did that and landed her by end of the day yesterday, at which point I told my self I needed to walk away and come back with a clear mind

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[jbrentd]

Always a bummer when anticipated shop time takes a back seat to other priorities. Glad to see you got some time in at least. I haven't had any real time out there since just before Christmas. I'm starting to shake, lol.

 

[fouckhest]

Spent a couple evenings this week working on the header, the more it kept taking shape I just really didnt like #4, and it was going to be much longer than #1, combined that with all the bends, that twill one exaggerate the effective lenght/flow....so took advantage of a slow WFH Friday and tore it apart....here is where I landed....#2 will mimic #4...lengths with be close'ish, and "equal length" really isnt that critical for a stock'ish engine, but it will help with sound and aesthetically, it will be much better

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