OJKD
Active member
If you at first don't succeed, get mad, take a break and try again. I literally wrote a wall of text and pictures, and clicked post, and had a log-in error, and it all went **** up.
OK. Fking Gregor. I could write more, but you know what I mean. Scope creep, Festool and expensive pencils. I can barely draw a smiley face. Why do I feel like I need a $150 pencil?
I am going to make ANOTHER long introduction. Hi, my name is Ole, I live in Norway, and this is a shorter version of my story.
In 2011, Methinks (love that word, even when used wrong, like this). I was 19 going on 20, and all my friends had old Volvos, it was an eternal summer and things were pretty good. But I wanted an old car too. So I did what any sensible young would do, and searched. Older than 1980, rear wheel drive, manual transmission, local. 1 hit. A yellow BMW 1602.
Called the owner, who just bought it from the original owner for a song. He then decided that he wanted to make a few bucks and not take on a small(HAH!) project. My best friend had a old, green 242, and we went to look at this BMW. It ran, my parents were on vacation, and that was it.
Drove it home, and my uncle was coming over the next day to look at what needed to be done. We started disassebly and some quick sandblasting to see if I had to weld anything.
That was the first 6 months. New nose, fenders, floors, rear arches and then some.
Although, come summer of 2012
Being a complete idiot, I started this in the fall 2013
And with all my knowledge and experience, why not build a complete distributorless ignition system based off some open source code and 90s Ford parts. Great idea. I was in business school after all. And I welded that floor. And replaced several bushings.
And when you are doing your first ever turbo-build, stick with something easy. Like twin Dellortos off a Lotus, and make a blow through set-up. Easy.
It ran, it was FAST. Fort a short while.
Then this.
No more turbos, and mom could not use the kitchen for a while. Where else would you rebuild a head?
Then boy-met-girl. The trusty BMW drove us from the church to the venue.
It only caught fire once during that trip. Not bad at all. It was my fault, 4 adults in a tiny, slammed BMW. I knew it was going to rub. Did not see that fire coming. Unlike Ed Sheeran.
Onwards with life!
I bought a -91 Honda Nighthawk as a wedding present to myself, being a great husband and all. It was my second bike. I am not allowed to talk about the first one at home. It was a few years before I met the girl/dragon/wife(hope they never meet). I a GSXF600, not the cool one. Not the real Katana. The mid 90s, they should have called in the Spoon. I blew the engine the second week. Luckily a colleague had a gen 1 Hayabusa engine. Those fit. Mostly. It was scary. I almost killed myself for a year, then sold it.
Anyway. Nighthawks ****, this is no exception. Sold it after two months.
Got this. A YZF600R Thundercat. Cool bike, worked well after I fixed some things. Do not recommend adjusting valves or rebuilding carbs in a 50sqft shed. My friends, and especially my enabler-friend with the Volvo(he sold it when I finished the BMW the first time...), had naked bikes and riding together was great fun. But I wanted a naked bike too.
So I did.
Up until this point, all my work had been done in my parents garage, or in my shed in our apartment. Since I aspire to Gregor, here is a nugget of information. Norway is cold in the winter. My dad did not spring for insulation in his garage. It was not great. Also, he has a unique was to sort things. Hammers and nails go together, as do wreches and bolts. I cried many frozen tears in that garage trying to find anything really. I dreamed about owning my own garage, with insulation, heat and my own system.
Then "we" decided it was time to move closer to her parents. The pull? I got to build a garage, as big as I wanted. So I sold the BMW and we started building.
This is where we built our house, finished Jan 2020
This is where dreams will live
This is the plan for the garage, but the room named "Bod" was moved to the right, it's only in the large room now.
With help from my father-in-law, we started building June 2020.
As of Nov 1
The left part is my shop.
And this was taken yesterday. The Aprilia was sold because the roads here are bumpy as Boston.
I fixed that with KTM. Great fix to most problems. Not moneyproblems though. KTMs are terrible at those.
This is where my shop-journey begin. I hope that the garage door will be installed next week. There will be mistakes, because I **** at woodwork. But, Fking Gregor. Also, we have two kids, 5 month old boy, and a 2,5 year old girl. Free-time is limited.
OK. Fking Gregor. I could write more, but you know what I mean. Scope creep, Festool and expensive pencils. I can barely draw a smiley face. Why do I feel like I need a $150 pencil?
I am going to make ANOTHER long introduction. Hi, my name is Ole, I live in Norway, and this is a shorter version of my story.
In 2011, Methinks (love that word, even when used wrong, like this). I was 19 going on 20, and all my friends had old Volvos, it was an eternal summer and things were pretty good. But I wanted an old car too. So I did what any sensible young would do, and searched. Older than 1980, rear wheel drive, manual transmission, local. 1 hit. A yellow BMW 1602.
Called the owner, who just bought it from the original owner for a song. He then decided that he wanted to make a few bucks and not take on a small(HAH!) project. My best friend had a old, green 242, and we went to look at this BMW. It ran, my parents were on vacation, and that was it.
Drove it home, and my uncle was coming over the next day to look at what needed to be done. We started disassebly and some quick sandblasting to see if I had to weld anything.
That was the first 6 months. New nose, fenders, floors, rear arches and then some.
Although, come summer of 2012
Being a complete idiot, I started this in the fall 2013
And with all my knowledge and experience, why not build a complete distributorless ignition system based off some open source code and 90s Ford parts. Great idea. I was in business school after all. And I welded that floor. And replaced several bushings.
And when you are doing your first ever turbo-build, stick with something easy. Like twin Dellortos off a Lotus, and make a blow through set-up. Easy.
It ran, it was FAST. Fort a short while.
Then this.
No more turbos, and mom could not use the kitchen for a while. Where else would you rebuild a head?
Then boy-met-girl. The trusty BMW drove us from the church to the venue.
It only caught fire once during that trip. Not bad at all. It was my fault, 4 adults in a tiny, slammed BMW. I knew it was going to rub. Did not see that fire coming. Unlike Ed Sheeran.
Onwards with life!
I bought a -91 Honda Nighthawk as a wedding present to myself, being a great husband and all. It was my second bike. I am not allowed to talk about the first one at home. It was a few years before I met the girl/dragon/wife(hope they never meet). I a GSXF600, not the cool one. Not the real Katana. The mid 90s, they should have called in the Spoon. I blew the engine the second week. Luckily a colleague had a gen 1 Hayabusa engine. Those fit. Mostly. It was scary. I almost killed myself for a year, then sold it.
Anyway. Nighthawks ****, this is no exception. Sold it after two months.
Got this. A YZF600R Thundercat. Cool bike, worked well after I fixed some things. Do not recommend adjusting valves or rebuilding carbs in a 50sqft shed. My friends, and especially my enabler-friend with the Volvo(he sold it when I finished the BMW the first time...), had naked bikes and riding together was great fun. But I wanted a naked bike too.
So I did.
Up until this point, all my work had been done in my parents garage, or in my shed in our apartment. Since I aspire to Gregor, here is a nugget of information. Norway is cold in the winter. My dad did not spring for insulation in his garage. It was not great. Also, he has a unique was to sort things. Hammers and nails go together, as do wreches and bolts. I cried many frozen tears in that garage trying to find anything really. I dreamed about owning my own garage, with insulation, heat and my own system.
Then "we" decided it was time to move closer to her parents. The pull? I got to build a garage, as big as I wanted. So I sold the BMW and we started building.
This is where we built our house, finished Jan 2020
This is where dreams will live
This is the plan for the garage, but the room named "Bod" was moved to the right, it's only in the large room now.
With help from my father-in-law, we started building June 2020.
As of Nov 1
The left part is my shop.
And this was taken yesterday. The Aprilia was sold because the roads here are bumpy as Boston.
I fixed that with KTM. Great fix to most problems. Not moneyproblems though. KTMs are terrible at those.
This is where my shop-journey begin. I hope that the garage door will be installed next week. There will be mistakes, because I **** at woodwork. But, Fking Gregor. Also, we have two kids, 5 month old boy, and a 2,5 year old girl. Free-time is limited.
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