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Cooling system was mint, did two runs a month ago but stopped. Guess when I found that the PPF adapter was loose that if it was tight it would hit the u joint. So gave up on that. Raced the vic in the rain, that was hilarious fun. Garage has heat now.Heres the tank, I need to finish painting it in the spring when its warmer out. I had to add feet.
I then bolted this to wood skids, I had to unbolt it, more on that later. Since its outside with the temperature change I didnt just want to run a normal home heating oil felt filter, I bought a diesel fuel filter base (K-1 is just #1 diesel without dye or extra sulphur), and picked a random NAPA water trapping diesel fuel filter. Plumbed it all up and it ran for 5 minutes before running out of fuel, guess there wasnt much in the tank when I bought it, thought it felt like 25 gallons. So I scheduled a fillup. Kerosene guy wouldnt fill it, has to be on cement blocks. So I filled it with some 5 gallon jerry cans from the gas station near work. Still wouldnt chooch, and on these laser 30 stoves if you fail to get fuel to it for two ignitions within 20 minutes of each other it locks you out until you have it unplugged for half an hour. While I waited for that I put the tank up on random cinder blocks and patio blocks to try and get more head, that worked. I ran it like that until this saturday until I got the correct solid cement blocks for $1.40 each. I ran it 3 days after work this week on just what was in it and the 10 gallons I jerry canned into it while I finished putting insulation on the ceiling. And the Kerosene guy filled it today. $614 dollars, should last like 2-3 years. Way better than the pellet stove which was like $1500 for the same amount of times worth of pellets. Next I need to insulate the walls in the racear stall so I can roll the car back in and not have it be in the way.
I still cant decide what I want to do for wall covering. drywall, blue board, or OSB. blueboard and drywall are both a little cheaper than OSB for materials and will look a lot better but drywall is more labor and blue board is waaaaay more labor. But OSB is going to be waaay easier to hang stuff to.
I dont think any of the T111 thats under my vinyl is good at the bottom on a whole side (oposite side as this) Because the previous owner actually increased the grade on that side for their walk way and made grade above the siding. I think that rotted out because it isnt PT. Also you'll notice that my ledger board is a 2x6 but my walls are 2x4 and what you cant see is that even with a 2x6 the anchors that were set into the slab were still too far from the edge and are barely even on the 2x6s. I've been blowing those tapcons in everywhere where the ledger board is iffily connected to the slab. I also decided to just **** it for the water issue causing the rod and caulked the vinyl to the concrete on the outside of the garage in the front.
Not many updates. Been busy with work, garage build thread updates arent exciting, and I had to replace my home heating oil tank (started having a pin hole right after they filled it) which involved buying a cheap pump from HF and a bunch of barrels. So anyways, I added a trailer hitch to the vic and towed the car trailer to home depot to get the drywall and plywood (I later discovered HD would have delivered all of this to me for $35 fark) and I put the **** up. Wow I'm bad at cutting drywall.
Now I'm actually decent at mudding. It seems experience really just increases speed here, and the amount of **** you give actually control how good it looks.
Then it was time to make the first shelf.
Now why did I make the near corner floating?
So Its quite sturdy even before the wood glue dried, cause you know, wood screws are only temporary, wood glue's forever. the back of the shelves in the middle are a little floppy so I'm not storing engines or trannys on here. The rest of the shelves I'm going to make as units and have a bar across the back. I ought to be able to do a 8ft span that way for lighter duty shelves. I also want to at least get rid of the window on the workshop side of the garage so I'm just going to build shelves over it and take it out in the spring. Also heater update. It was cold as ***** yesterday and today and the heater was able to keep it 64F and 66F once I was in there and moving around. It'll get better once I've got the rest of the drywall up, make the doors (including the man door) seal better, put more insulation on the doors, remove/replace the single pane uninsulated windows, and put the silver panels on the ceiling.
I need to buy a shitload more of these before they go off sale on home depot, They're like $4 off amazon/walmart.
And its in.
I actually got it to start too. I had to add a ton to all the cold start **** and the battery was low so some crown vic jumping got it to catch. It was the only 1 of the 3 miatas in the great winter miata shuffle of 2018 that had enough battery juice to crank at all though, which was nice.
I put a 52lb Optima battery in my car a year or so ago. It's stupid heavy, but I have not had to jump my car for any reason ever since. I can play the stereo for days and it still cranks up. One thing I don't regret for street use is having too much battery.
This car has the same size battery as that but a Bosch. It just hadn't been run since September and it was like 15 degrees out. Without the jump it was still cracking at 170rpm which is enough for a lot of motors to light off. But this motor has anyways needed a lot of juice to cold start. When I remove the ppf im going to run a 2ga wire from the starter ground lug to the battery and a dedicated MS ground.
More progress, I have over $100 worth of these bins now. I hope I dont need more because today was the last day they were on sale for $6 regular price is $10. The beautiful handwriting is my amazing fiance's, my handwriting looks like I would have been a doctor.
The rest of you have 2 of these bins worth of random rubber hoses right?
At this point I only post garage updates to make ryan jealous of my 68F garage.
I got these bins from another racer that works at a tire shop, they were just throwing these out cant believe it.
If I bought that much bin hanger even from china it would have been like $100 bucks, **** that. Instead I used 2 pieces of strapping and a piece of steel J channel (found with the drywall). You need the rear strapping to screw the j channel like very 6-8 inches, and you need the bottom one because the j channel isnt quite strong enough. So thats like $16 vs $100 for hanging the bins.
And uhh I needed to use my random bins too, I need some more too. I have a shitload of hardware. I found even more hardware today after taking this picture.
And finally sound. These are the dayton air speakers, like $65 crazy nice for how cheap they are. They are weak on the base but the tweeter is astounding like holy ****. Hand me down akai reciever from my mom, very nice vintage 70s receiver. Left channel wasnt working, fixed it by spraying contact cleaner in the volume and balance pots. It can be uncomfortably loud.
Almost done organizing the garage. Just need to clean up under the heavy duty bench and put a top on that bend and I should be organized enough to start actually working on the car again.
More progress, I have over $100 worth of these bins now. I hope I dont need more because today was the last day they were on sale for $6 regular price is $10. The beautiful handwriting is my amazing fiance's, my handwriting looks like I would have been a doctor.
Basically done with the garage for now besides paint.
Still need to work on the arrangement and what to do with wrenches. I either want to get the $250 HF wood topped tool cart to move my sockets and wrenches and stuff there or get the 72" cabinet and just put everything in it. I'm vertically challenged so the top of my current tool box is a pita to use.
But now I can work on the car i between remodeling the kitchen. Transmission mount time. I used a foxbody mustang poly mount. I need to adjust the exhaust, I can move it up not that it doesnt have to pass under the PPF and then I can make the cross member more substantial.
I also found out why my tach doesnt work. This screw doesnt just hold the gauge in, it also transmits the tach signal. So dont leave it out in the name of weight reduction.
I had to take the dash out to get the carpet out so I found all the wires I tangled in the dash from my swap that I had to fix and had to add the connector for the gauge wires I added. I probably could have been not lazy and added them into the harness properly but thats for suckers. I took the carpet out to weld in reinforcement plates for where the tranny mount will bolt on, and I welded nuts to those plates. I was going to put plates on that are thick enough to tap but I didnt feel like trying to tig something so thick to the body sheet metal.
I adjusted the exhaust to be higher, forgot to take pictures for vlad to make fun of my cheater bend in my 3.5" exhaust. And then I also did this. Dont totally have like 2 weeks till racing starts or anything.
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