New member from Connecticut

[TylerSteez]

hey guys, Ive lurked on this thread for a couple years now but finally decided to make an account. I'm probably breaking the main rule of this site by not having a garage at the moment due to having to move from my old house with a wonderful fully pact garage of tools. Now all of my tools are sitting in the shed or basement which makes working on cars a huge pain.

I'm 19 years old but have been in the garage my whole life learning and working alongside my dad, got an 86 Trans Am as my first car when I was 16 and have brought her back to life.

I work at a machine shop repairing machines, making stuff out of metal, and MIG welding. haven't had the opportunity to learn TIG welding just yet but am planning on buying a TIG soon. Look forward to being apart of this forum

 

[Strouty]

Welcome to the forum, no garage required!

 

[razrbak94]

Welcome from a former Connecticut-ian. Must see pics of TA.

 

[DonPowers]

Welcome to GJ, you'll find all kinds of ideas here for when you build your own garage.

 

[TylerSteez]

Welcome from a former Connecticut-ian. Must see pics of TA.

Trying to upload pics but the mobile upload way is taking forever, I'll get on the computer later and get them on here. I got the car with a bunch of rot under the trim and lower ground effects, I cut it all out and welded in new patch panels, sanded and long boarded the whole car and filled in any little dents, the car was then primed with epoxy primer in my garage by my dad but I daily drove it for a two years afterwords so it needs to be re primed. Never had the time to paint it since I lost my garage.

The car has the stock 305 tpi motor, the trans went so I bought a rebuilt performance trans and put that in along with a B&M ratchet shifter. I did a bunch of work to the motor just to get it running strong again. I was surprised to see for a 155,000 mile car that was abused, the valve train is very clean, no gunk, and the compressions great in all cylinders. I have plans to do a 350 Vortec build and switch over to a carb but of course, having no garage is ruining that for me.

Working in my driveway is horrible as well. It's not an asphalt driveway, I believe my dad told me it was crushed up tire (I could be wrong). it feels like you're laying on needles when you lay on it and I believe the metal fragments from the tire belts are the cause for it since they still stick in you for a day afterwards. Sorry for my rant, just wanted to give you guys an idea of my situation

 

[George58]

Welcome Tyler nice car what color are you going to paint it.

 

[zeeke]

Welcome to GJ.

 

[KRB52]

Welcome from someone else in the People's Democrat State of Connecticut. If the driveway is really shredded tires, the steel belt material will eventually rust off. In the mean time, look around for some large sheets of cardboard that you can lay down to lay on. As of this writing, we've got a couple of inches of snow on top of whatever was left from the last storm, so the TA may have to wait a little while.

 

[vicegripbloodblister]

Welcome...good people here..enjoy