Finally Took The Plunge 1400SqFt of Space!

[rosie]

Maybe we should just have meetings at Alan's new spot, although it would be a lot further drive for some of us.....

And for "some of us" it'd be a shorter drive!

I second Tommy's motion to have the meetings at Alan's club house! All in favor?

[tommyturbo]

never mind, I recall my nomination of new meeting place....I vote for John L instead.

[2.216VTurbo]

We've already done the JohnL annual car show, wait, doesn't that mean there is another one coming this summer? John??

Meetings at the shop for sure, first thing I though of actually. Need to get a BBQ and a few other things here first. BTW, I discovered you can see the ocean from the end of the block. I bet from the roof it's visble too. Ah, cool ocean breezez while wrenching

[j4278h]

when are the pics of the newest tc going to arrive? I'm patiently waiting.

[2.216VTurbo]

I ordered a new tow dolly from North Carolina to go with the new shop, I spent a couple hours of Inet research on them and these guys had the best story. When the dolly gets here by truck next week, I can go get the non-runner cars.

http://www.towbartowdolly.com/

[GLHNSLHT2]

you couldn't find a dolly on CL somewhere?

[2.216VTurbo]

you couldn't find a dolly on CL somewhere?

Yep, lots and lots of them

[GLHNSLHT2]

although that is a pretty neat dolly

[ShelGame]

Looking at racks/shelving, man the stuff is expensive new Gonna have to wait for a Craigslist deal on some restraunt going out of business or the like. Moved a couple more cars in.

Nice Cobra. Yours? I designed several of the parts under the hood...

[Shadow]

Too many projects around the house and more importantly too many good cars slipping away because i have no more space. The deal with the wifey is, nothing new comes home unless something leaves I am pretty well attached to the projects I have (anyone want a busted rampage cheap?) slo that really meant nothing else comes home. I have cars stashed at elderly neighbors houses (one is 93 and her husband used to store his boat where a couple TC Masi's now reside) and I tried to convince a local CaSDAC club member to convert his side yard into parking for 8-10 cars (and $$$ rental fees) but his stuupid arse wife shot the deal down (don't worry, he is too busy on laser/candlepower forums to read here). So I started searching for industrail space to keep some projects, some new projects, and maybe some stuff. I found a 20'X70' space with 2 10X10 offices, and hot/cold water bathroom (portable shower idea in the works, who wouldn't want to step up into a luxurious shower that drains into the crapper?)in Costa Mesa 2 miles from the water in Newport Beach. 20' wide means 3 L bodies will go side by side by side if we need to It's about 16 miles from my house but there is really nothing affordable like it nearer to me. I'm splitting it with my brother (the LeRampage builder) who can fab just about anything so shelving and racks etc are his domain. We signed papers and are moving in starting today. Now, where are all those cheap orphan TM's that need rescuing now that I have room


EDIT: GRR! I'll upload pics tomorrow when the site is not crawling

Well I'm glad to see your getting things sorted out, cause I was looking at that third pic and thinking "Damn, three nice L-bodies stacked on top of one another side by each is going to make one hell of a mess!"

[bakes]

Need to find a small electric folk lift and then you can start storing motors and trans on the upper level,

[slasky]

Nice place. A little smaller than the WNY SDAC world headquarters but I am sure it will work nicely.

[Mario]

I like my "gorilla" racks from Costco. Very strong and nice looking. $65 or so a piece but are modular. They're not called that anymore but they're the same racks and are all wrinkle black now.

+1. but I remember them being about $50. They hold like 2000lbs static on each shelf. I have a bunch of these. Great price. Great looks. and sturdy.

Nice place alan.

[GLHNSLHT2]

yeah since they changed names/companies they went down in price which is nice. A buddy bought the extra heavy duty "gorilla rack" from costco and it's actually bowing in the middle where the regular rack isn't with the same amount of weight on them. So get the cheap one, they hold more weight in the real world.

[2.216VTurbo]

Nice Cobra. Yours? I designed several of the parts under the hood...

That's my Bro 562WHP '04 that he has been tinkering with for 5 or so years. What kind of work did you do for SVT on them? I tell him about your involvement

May have a hook up on some pallet racks, seems a place nearby is going out of business Timing is everything

[ShelGame]

That's my Bro 562WHP '04 that he has been tinkering with for 5 or so years. What kind of work did you do for SVT on them? I tell him about your involvement

May have a hook up on some pallet racks, seems a place nearby is going out of business Timing is everything

Actually, Roush designed the entire powertrain for that car and we did it in 18 months. SVT actually leased space from Roush for thier offices. Their suite was right next door to our suite.

Anyway, I designed the entire belt drive, front cover, and cooling systems (oil cooler, radiator, etc.).

I remember after the car started production, we built and experiment to see what kind of power it could make. I think we got just over 500whp out of with only an intake tube/airfilter, exhaust, lightning pulley, and a calibration.

[DOHCRT]

What is that I see in the back of the Rampage? Could it be...a melted piston


Nice place Alan, what are you giving for it a month? I pay $140 for 400 sq ft...

Vic in Phoenix

92 Spirit R/T
89 CSX
88 CSX-TIII
87 CSX
87 Shelby Lancer (Parting Out)
84 Rampage TII
97 Ram Diesel
69 Dart GT 'Vert
73 Dart Sport (For Sale)

[2.216VTurbo]

^ Those are AZ prices Vic. I wish man...

Zin found us a paper printing shop that was going out of business, these pallet racks wer aquired for less than the scrap metal price. Nice sturdy stuff. There are 13 rows of them in this warehouse, we only grabbed 1.5 rows and may go back for a bit more if needed

[black86glhs]

Nice score guys. That was the kind of shelving I was thinking about. Lookin good man.

[Keito]

Shouldn't have been hard to find some place going out of business.