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Well hey everybody! Friendly neighbor Adiabatic here. You may remember me from this:   Well, life's been busy since then. I recently bought a small place of my own to call home back in June. Plenty of stuff needs to be done, and like any sane person all the house money has been put into the garage. This thread is planned as a collection of pictures and stories stemming from garage upgrades and visits from friends. They pay in beer. I'm never going to need to buy beer ever again. Anyways, here's the garage:   It's a 25'x40' Quonset Hut installed by the previous owner. There's some really nice features (4" reinforced concrete, nice lighting, conduit, plenty of 220V service) and some not so nice features (the back wall looks like rear end, the garage door is heavy and one step up from garbage, random cabinets everywhere, that weird room in the back). And the inside:  The PO was kind enough to leave an out of place granite-top cabinet, some shelves, a fridge, a parts washer, a wood stove, a shitload of 'Murican muscle stickers, and a morally questionable BASIL grow room. Progress has been made since buying it in June, but I'll try to stagger the content.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:07
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First things first, that room needs to go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDIQ0gvnhYE
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Oct 14, 2014 14:09
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That video would've been an all time classic if he had yelled OH YEAH as he burst through the wall. Rebuild the room and do it again.  You have a gorgeous property, holy poo poo.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:12
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Thanks! That view is from the back of the house. It's got a tiny little front yard and then the gate opens up to all that. Blew my mind when I first saw it. Hey at least he made an Ahnold yell.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:14
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Needs more content, but subbed based on thread title alone.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:38
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e: oops im dumb
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Oct 14, 2014 15:28
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Subbed, this should be a good replacement for the void in my heart left by DrPain's shop thread.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:11
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Basil my rear end. Can I get a abridged version of the S2000's backstory?
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Oct 14, 2014 17:30
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Gorson posted:Basil my rear end. Can I get a abridged version of the S2000's backstory? Sketchy man fails to yield right of way, smash smash, profit.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:42
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Or: How I Learned to Stop Fixing poo poo and Love USAA
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Oct 14, 2014 17:51
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skylineboy08 posted:e: oops im dumb  Since cats are slipping out of bags already, might as well get on with it... There was no housewarming party, as things got weird inside:     However, I did buy myself a beer pong table as a housewarming gift:  Had a guy off craigslist do the whole deal for a great price. Dude just travels around installing lifts throughout Central Virginia. I had a garage party afterwards and he slept in his 40' flatbed in the backyard after out-drinking everyone. Cool guy.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:53
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Another view of the beer pong table: Note the project car. It's a convertible automatic E30. A buddy and I rebuilt the head, but unfortunately the interior went to poo poo, so we've left it there and are hoping it will somehow disappear. I put Mister 2-Slow up on the lift and did the oil pan gasket:  That thing really likes to leak. If you look closely over the course of the pictures, you'll notice a spot on the cement slowly growing. Somehow the RVA Subies facebook group got wind of what I was doing despite never having owned a Subaru. No matter, they're welcome as long as they bring beer! First customer was a WRX. We did a compression test and replaced his exhaust with a 3" from the turbo back:  His tab came up to an 18-pack of Yuengling, and he was nice enough to tip another 18-pack of Yuengling Black & Tan. Delicious! A Legacy GT wagon did the exhaust from the turbo back, but kept his mufflers:  Another 18-pack of Yuengling worth of service. A WRX came in for 4 struts:  This guy actually paid me in cash ($150), but it was 1/4 of what some "friend" of his was going to charge ($600  ). I also threw in a sway bar replacement for free. That was a mistake.I also inherited a riding lawnmower that hadn't been started in a few years: 
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Oct 14, 2014 21:37
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This should make it way easier to check the rod bearings on your vehicles. Subscribed.
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Oct 14, 2014 21:59
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He was just stress testing his motor man. It was spec'd for 9500rpm.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:07
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Maybe before my rebuild 
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Oct 14, 2014 22:08
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I'm a cope 
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Oct 14, 2014 22:12
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Gonna follow this thread, love all the garage-talk in AI lately even if it does make me jealous as all gently caress. Where in central VA are you located? I'm up in Charlottesville but would definitely bring all the beer if it meant access to a lift and goon-times.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:23
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Adiabatic posted:This guy actually paid me in cash ($150), but it was 1/4 of what some "friend" of his was going to charge ($600
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Oct 14, 2014 22:28
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InitialDave posted:and taking your time because you keep going back in the house for another beer. WTF if you don't have a beer fridge in the garage.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:33
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Terrible Robot posted:Gonna follow this thread, love all the garage-talk in AI lately even if it does make me jealous as all gently caress. I'm in Richmond. Come on out! In fact, if any AI goons are in the area you and your beer are welcome. InitialDave posted:What? $600 labour? It's like an afternoon's job, even without a lift, and taking your time because you keep going back in the house for another beer. Yeah no joke. Poor guy was all excited about it until I told him I'd hook him up. I honestly still feel like $150 was too much, but I made that back up with that damned front sway bar.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:36
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Astonishing Wang posted:WTF if you don't have a beer fridge in the garage. Beer and liquor in the garage fridge or get out.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:55
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Adiabatic posted:Yeah no joke. Poor guy was all excited about it until I told him I'd hook him up. I honestly still feel like $150 was too much, but I made that back up with that damned front sway bar. Front swaybars on a turbo Subaru are so much fun.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:59
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Awesome garageAdiabatic posted:I'm in Richmond. Come on out! Maybe I will 
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Oct 15, 2014 00:25
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Central VA goon meet? I need to gather some more parts, but I've got so much suspension poo poo to install on the Forester (you can never escape the Subarus). A lift would turn a week-long hell march into a semi-pleasant day of wrenching.
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Oct 15, 2014 00:48
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Lots of RVA AI goons it seems?
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Oct 15, 2014 03:03
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wtf is going on with that paint inside? Did they paint the house during a monsoon?
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Oct 15, 2014 05:32
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Yay! More Garage chat! Why'd you go with a two post instead of a four? Congrats on the new house!
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Oct 15, 2014 06:36
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8ender posted:wtf is going on with that paint inside? Did they paint the house during a monsoon? No clue. The best explanation I've heard is they didn't wash the walls before they painted. It peeled off like an orange rind, and with a heat gun it was coming off in sheets. Thankfully that mess is done and over with now. Mat_Drinks posted:Yay! More Garage chat! Thanks! The four posts are more expensive, and in my mind they're more tailored for storage. The two-post also takes up less space when there isn't a car on it. More updates soon!
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Oct 15, 2014 13:05
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Adiabatic posted:No clue. The best explanation I've heard is they didn't wash the walls before they painted. It peeled off like an orange rind, and with a heat gun it was coming off in sheets. Do you have a make and model of that lift? The ones I looked into required a 12" Thick concrete pad beneath them to install, which has put me off of them. If 4" reinforced is enough, I may tailor my next home search towards a garage that can fit one.
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Oct 15, 2014 14:59
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It's one of the generic Chinese 9,000 lb lifts that are sold under a billion different names. I bought it here. I'll grab a picture of the Engrish instructions tonight. Everywhere I've read says 4" non-reinforced is fine for anything up to 10,000 lbs, and after that 6" non-reinforced is fine up to 20,000 lbs. Can't be within 18" of a crack more than ~2ft long though.
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Oct 15, 2014 15:06
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You can cut a hole and add thicker concrete, there's no reason you have to find a whole different garage.
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Oct 15, 2014 15:07
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The irony will not be lost on anyone if he has to tear down this lift and redo the pad because it wasn't correctly installed the first time. 
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Oct 15, 2014 15:16
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Fucknag posted:Subbed, this should be a good replacement for the void in my heart left by DrPain's shop thread. Me too.
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Oct 15, 2014 17:26
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I rented one of my rooms out, and the guy is an electrician that dabbles in carpentry. Very cool dude, we get along well. You may have noticed his two bikes in some of the recent photos: His two are on the left. The Yamaha needs a starter and the Honda V4 I don't even know. That red thing is a bike lift he also brought along. Put this guy in a couple of weeks ago:   Installed, though my over-engineered mess of piping hadn't been constructed yet:  Northern Tool & Equipment, despite having some badass compressors, didn't have any vibration pads... I finally found some under the lovely air compressor accessory aisle at Lowes.
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Oct 15, 2014 17:59
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Adiabatic posted:the Honda V4 I don't even know. That's their default condition.
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Oct 15, 2014 18:36
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Front swaybars on a turbo Subaru are so much fun. Huh? All you do is take off that bottom support plate and it drops right out. The n/a subarus are the pain in the rear end because it goes above the header.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:02
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jamal posted:Huh? All you do is take off that bottom support plate and it drops right out. The n/a subarus are the pain in the rear end because it goes above the header. That's what I was thinking too, aren't most of the turbo ones simpler too just being a straight bar essentially while the non-turbo's have a bunch of bends to avoid the exhaust. ie. turbo:  vs non-turbo: 
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Oct 15, 2014 20:11
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revmoo posted:You can cut a hole and add thicker concrete, there's no reason you have to find a whole different garage. Yeah true, but it puts more of a priority on high ceilings than without. I'm also too much of a construction nerd to just put a small pad in, I'd overdo the whole thing, cut an oversized chunk out, pour in two 12x12 grade beams with sloped sides and tie it into the existing slab. StormDrain fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 21:09
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Here's the inside of the front door: PO really liked stickers. The  Introducing the Quadrapuss:  He came with the house. Finally, if anyone's into bow hunting, please come kill these horned rats that show up in my backyard daily: 
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Oct 16, 2014 14:36
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That dude must've bought a lot of Hoosiers! This thread is awesome so far, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the place.
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Oct 16, 2014 16:52
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