The Ghetto Garage

[tulowd]

Greetings All:

Live in the city, single car driveway, 1.5 car detached garage. My hobbies include restoring/modding and tracking my Foxbody Mustang; do some specialty car audio installations (select projects), have started woodworking again, some machinery servicing etc etc.

Garage is 13 x 20 ft with a 7 ft ceiling and small loft, the car shelter is 10x20 ft located in front of the garage, with a 10 ft space for working outdoors in between the two "structures". Have 240V, a large iron pipe plumbed compressor system and a remote dust collector located in one of the three small steel sheds located beside and behind the garage.

It's small, but have managed to stuff in a lot of tools, benches and machinery incl a sandblasting cabinet, the aforementioned 60 gall compressor ( I built the head on top of an old tank), a router table, a welding table, a car stereo test bench and a welder and plasma cutter, along with two drill presses and lots of tool boxes. Lots of high density material and parts storage incorporated as well.

 

[tulowd]

oh, and there are two bandsaws, a portable table saw and bench sander and grinder as well; did I mention the car shelter has a 7ft 7000# Nussbaum scissor lift?

 

[tulowd]

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[NUTTSGT]

Dude, you seriously need a bigger garage.

 

[theundermount]

I love it! packed to the nines and making it work

 

[MacTexas]

It doesn't look like a ghetto to me. All your neighbors lawns are nice and neat and I don't see any cars on cement blocks.

 

[Odd-job]

Wish I was organized as you. My bigger garage looks more ghetto because I am not as organized.

 

[tulowd]

Thank You Gents. My neighbors are used to my various insanities and barely batted an eyelash about the "outdoor" hoist. Some guys in the car clubs I belong too lol'd heartily.

The Ghetto moniker is for the garage and shelter, both on top of a 25 year old crumbling asphalt driveway. Neighborhood is very nice and quiet; the main streets on 3 sides of us are all not very nice tho.

 

[tulowd]

Dude, you seriously need a bigger garage.

Truer words have not been spoken. You should see the basement work shop and storage. My kid's room was filled with Mustang fenders, trim and other parts (all freshly painted), including my newly upholstered leather Recaros. It's almost empty now, lol.
I'm likely going to tear down the 10x10x5 ft steel shed at the back of the garage, fill in and maybe pour a 15x20 concrete foundation and then put up a real shed. Gotta wait for the car to be finished first, may do something with the side shed first as a construction practice project.

 

[quadrcr87]

Looks like you are getting a ton done with a small footprint. I bet the winters kill you though.

 

[tulowd]

Looks like you are getting a ton done with a small footprint. I better the winters kill you though.

It is amazing what can be done outside with tools and equipment on wheels. Did a big *** 71 Caddy Coupe de Ville sound system at the end of summer - car was here for over a month. Vintage Alpine stuff, rebuilt the inner door panels and made it all sound pretty nice. Lots of walking back and forth, but gotta make due.

Winter is now here, the garage is heated and pretty comfy for small projects (space restricted). Working in the car shelter has occurred at lower temps, but there are only certain things that can be done properly when it's cold, like grinding and some welding. Thankfully that is all over for now; even with a propane heater in there, it's nerve racking - that shelter would go : Poooooooffff in a hearbeat, so.......

 

[tulowd]

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[65ranchero]

Glad you have good neighbors!
Nice job!

 

[EuroAddiction]

I think you need more tool boxes haha

 

[AJHD]

I like it. It's realistic, nothing ghetto about it. Love the tool boxes too.

I'm seriously jealous of anyone with a lift, even if it's outside. Even if my drive way was not at a stupid angle and large enough, the zoning laws and HOA would take it down or never let me put it up in the first place.

 

[mkef]

Haha, the name. About 16-17 years ago I bought a carport and longer tubes to make a spot to work on an old k5 blazer. It was dubbed "the ghetto garage" haha. I only had lights, torpedo heater and an air compressor though. Made it to fit between the side of my parents house and their retaining wall, about 15'. Used a big *** tarp for the top and sides since the factory bits were to small.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like 4.5kg (10lbs) in in a 2.2kg bag, and a very nice 4.5kgs at that.

 

[TurboMustang370]

Awesome! I'm a fox body guy myself. By the looks of the rear suspension, I'm guessing you drive the twists? I'm a 1/4 mile guy, just straight for me, no turning.

 

[tulowd]

Awesome! I'm a fox body guy myself. By the looks of the rear suspension, I'm guessing you drive the twists? I'm a 1/4 mile guy, just straight for me, no turning.

Guilty as charged on all counts your honor! Bought my first Fox in 87, this vert in 2010. Only been on the road 3 yrs out of 10 for the mega fail. Just started driving it in Oct after a 5 yr restoration.

It's a street/road race build, but it can do lots of things. Did 100 laps at the local roadcourse, interspersed with 14 passes in the quarter mile, all on the same day.
All with the same setup/tires etc as on the street, except for the brake pads and rotors.

2.2 sec 60 ft (couldn't launch worth a ****) with consistent 12.7-12.9 at 114 mph; no burnout and short shifting, has a 3.73 gear, so only pulling 5500 rpm thru the traps, when the motor makes max power about 7000. Carbed pump gas 333 stock block with ported Victor Jrs. a Pro Systems road race carb, internally balanced 4340 rotating assembly, girdled and studded top to bottom, etc. Makes 444/380 at the tires on Shell 91 on a Dynojet.

This was all before the latest mods - wide body, carbon hood, wing and splitter, lighter wheels, 315/35/17s all around on Koni D/A coilovers, full MM catalog under the car, tubular everything, torque arm, engine set back, wheelbase extendion, track widened 4"; app 400 lbs lighter than stock now.
Trutrac diff wit 31 spline Moser axles, girdled, tubes tig'd and ARP'd.

Target is 11.99 @ 118 and a 1:19 or better at the road course, all exactly the way it's driven on the street. Hoping it will weigh around 3250 with me and some fuel.

 

[tulowd]

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[P0sTaL]

I will say the layout is well organized. The placement of tools and making your small area function for what you need is crazy. I have seen that Stang before at the track and gotta say if thats the space you are working with to put the wrench time into the car, 2 thumbs up.

 

[tulowd]

I will say the layout is well organized. The placement of tools and making your small area function for what you need is crazy. I have seen that Stang before at the track and gotta say if thats the space you are working with to put the wrench time into the car, 2 thumbs up.

Thank You for the kind words. I have owned the car for 10 yrs and built most of it in my driveway/car shelter other than the original drivetrain swap which I did in a 2 car garage.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Car should be 95% done by mid summer; hoping for 11s in the quarter and sub 1:20's at Cayuga...all exactly the way it's driven on the street incl tire pressure.

 

[Kevkx125]

Tulowd I like your mustang build, looks like you are building just what I want to build with my GT, its a street car it gets driven in more than just a straight line, Plus its just fun to go around corners as fast as you can lol.

 

[Garett]

RPF1, that spoiler, flares, you have an import twist on your mods.

by the way, did you know there's another similarly titled club out here in the Vancouver BC area... Ghetto Garage Racing aka GGR

 

[xtremek]

Pretty nice job on the wiring