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Garage!

Reply #15 –
Garage? I wish! Nothin but driveway for me. (But it's a nice flat, smooth concrete one so that helps.) Thank goodness Texas weather is normally pretty good. Although in the summer time you cannot work outside unless the sun has gone down.

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86 5.0 Turbocoupe (Katrina), 87 5.0 Sport (Rita)

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Reply #16 –
Blown306Cougar, you’re exactly right, nothing but old school for big blocks. I’ll use the lift plate for small blocks, but I’ve had big blocks (with a C6 attached) pull carb studs right out of aluminum intakes before and it ain’t pretty. So, on big blocks, the lift plate is just used to plug the carb holes, it’s not used for lifting. Plus, with a leveler, it’s easier to adjust the motor to get the mounts right.

Dogcharmer, we’re even, you can’t work in the driveway in the summer and up north, we can’t work in the driveway in winter. If you’re wondering, this is an 88 Turbo Coupe….
1987 Turbo Coupe - Son's car
1987 Super Coupe - Son's project car
1934 Ford - My project car

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Reply #17 –
FLSTCI71,  How big is the place that only you rule,
I've run out of space at 37' and need to put on another bay I think
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***** Project "EVOLUTION" 1987 Cougar LS  & 1985 Cougar Convertible *****
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5.0 HO 306 roller block, machined GT-40P heads, Wiseco dished forged pistons, Eagle forged floating I-beam connecting rods, Lunati pushrods, ARP bolts, Scorpion aluminum 1.6 rockers, Comp Cams Magnum 266HR, Explorer intake, 65mm TB, MAF Conversion, 19# injectors, Ford Racing stainless P-headers, 2-1/2" cat-less exhaust w/ Flowtech Afterburner lers , SC AOD with 2800 BDR torque converter, 3.73 T-Lok rear, CHE rear control arms, full 2-1/2" frame w/1" jacking rails & seat supports, Rear disk brakes, Turbine wheels, All original interior w/ floor shift upgrade .......
Pretty much every panel on my 87 is new, rebuilt, or re constructed. :D
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Reply #18 –
daminc, that's exactly what happened to me. I started with 36'x28' and had to add another 17', so it's about 53'x28' now. I can get two cars side by side and one car crossways in the back in each storage section. Gotta love car dollies. lol.
1987 Turbo Coupe - Son's car
1987 Super Coupe - Son's project car
1934 Ford - My project car

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Reply #19 –
You guys are cruel, posting pictures of your mansions like that.. lol
If I had a garage/shop like that, I'd have a big screen, a bed, a microwave, and a fridge...and rent the house out to someone else ;)


Nice places y'all have :D

My garages consist of a 2 car shed, with hard dirt floor, a 30'x60' shed that has an 8N Ford, my '92 F-150, the '88 Chev 1500, and old-ass baler, and some other odds and ends.
Then, at my dad's farm, I've got a barn that has a ragtop Lebaron, and my Escort GT. I'm runnin' out of room...and his '89 F-150 is STILL outside...with a rusted cab top. While a  blown up convertible sits IN the barn. :mad:

I need ....more buildings ;)
'98 Explorer 5.0
'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

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Reply #20 –
Quote from: FLSTCI71;196045

Dogcharmer, we’re even, you can’t work in the driveway in the summer and up north, we can’t work in the driveway in winter. If you’re wondering, this is an 88 Turbo Coupe….


Holy ! I think I'll take my hot summers.

BTW, it's 78 degrees right now in TX:D
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86 5.0 Turbocoupe (Katrina), 87 5.0 Sport (Rita)
 

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Reply #21 –
its 43 here in RI, warmest its been in like 5 days.
Hate you guys that live down south, you get warm winters, and rust free cars.
RIP 1988 and 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC
I welcomed the dark side and currently am driving a 2000 Dodge Durango SLT plus, with a 5.9, Code named project "Night Runner"
Shes black on black, fully loaded, with headers, 180 tstat, e fan, straight exhaust into a cherry bomb vortex ler, full tune up, ported intake and T/B, MSD coil, and round aircleaner.
Mods to come: Fully rebuilt and heavily modded 46RE, and a richmond rachet locker.
my $300 beater ;)
R.I.P Kayleigh Raposa 12/18/90 - 2/24/07

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Reply #22 –
the only problem with the south is---- BUGS!!!!!!!!

Big creepy crawly ------BUGS!!!!
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***** Project "EVOLUTION" 1987 Cougar LS  & 1985 Cougar Convertible *****
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5.0 HO 306 roller block, machined GT-40P heads, Wiseco dished forged pistons, Eagle forged floating I-beam connecting rods, Lunati pushrods, ARP bolts, Scorpion aluminum 1.6 rockers, Comp Cams Magnum 266HR, Explorer intake, 65mm TB, MAF Conversion, 19# injectors, Ford Racing stainless P-headers, 2-1/2" cat-less exhaust w/ Flowtech Afterburner lers , SC AOD with 2800 BDR torque converter, 3.73 T-Lok rear, CHE rear control arms, full 2-1/2" frame w/1" jacking rails & seat supports, Rear disk brakes, Turbine wheels, All original interior w/ floor shift upgrade .......
Pretty much every panel on my 87 is new, rebuilt, or re constructed. :D
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Reply #23 –
i can deal with that
Funniest thing was working on my dads old black turbo coupe in west virgina, Im under it and all of a sudden i feel something warm and fuzzy rubbing on my legs it freaked the HELL out of me. smashed my head on the floor board, turns out it was a freaking kitten. I think a bug would be less of a scare!
RIP 1988 and 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC
I welcomed the dark side and currently am driving a 2000 Dodge Durango SLT plus, with a 5.9, Code named project "Night Runner"
Shes black on black, fully loaded, with headers, 180 tstat, e fan, straight exhaust into a cherry bomb vortex ler, full tune up, ported intake and T/B, MSD coil, and round aircleaner.
Mods to come: Fully rebuilt and heavily modded 46RE, and a richmond rachet locker.
my $300 beater ;)
R.I.P Kayleigh Raposa 12/18/90 - 2/24/07

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Reply #24 –
Quote from: daminc;196159
the only problem with the south is---- BUGS!!!!!!!!

Big creepy crawly ------BUGS!!!!


You got that right! Last year was mosquitos. The year before was junebugs and crickets. Actually, junebugs are bad every year. That's what really sucks about working at night with bright lights in the summer.
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86 5.0 Turbocoupe (Katrina), 87 5.0 Sport (Rita)

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Reply #25 –
but do you have army worms?
1987 TC

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Reply #26 –
Army worms?
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***** Project "EVOLUTION" 1987 Cougar LS  & 1985 Cougar Convertible *****
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5.0 HO 306 roller block, machined GT-40P heads, Wiseco dished forged pistons, Eagle forged floating I-beam connecting rods, Lunati pushrods, ARP bolts, Scorpion aluminum 1.6 rockers, Comp Cams Magnum 266HR, Explorer intake, 65mm TB, MAF Conversion, 19# injectors, Ford Racing stainless P-headers, 2-1/2" cat-less exhaust w/ Flowtech Afterburner lers , SC AOD with 2800 BDR torque converter, 3.73 T-Lok rear, CHE rear control arms, full 2-1/2" frame w/1" jacking rails & seat supports, Rear disk brakes, Turbine wheels, All original interior w/ floor shift upgrade .......
Pretty much every panel on my 87 is new, rebuilt, or re constructed. :D
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Reply #27 –
oops, forgot the reason I came back to this post. stupid bugs got me flustered.
Here's my cluttered mess of a garage.
Things just keep following me home



And the outside

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***** Project "EVOLUTION" 1987 Cougar LS  & 1985 Cougar Convertible *****
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5.0 HO 306 roller block, machined GT-40P heads, Wiseco dished forged pistons, Eagle forged floating I-beam connecting rods, Lunati pushrods, ARP bolts, Scorpion aluminum 1.6 rockers, Comp Cams Magnum 266HR, Explorer intake, 65mm TB, MAF Conversion, 19# injectors, Ford Racing stainless P-headers, 2-1/2" cat-less exhaust w/ Flowtech Afterburner lers , SC AOD with 2800 BDR torque converter, 3.73 T-Lok rear, CHE rear control arms, full 2-1/2" frame w/1" jacking rails & seat supports, Rear disk brakes, Turbine wheels, All original interior w/ floor shift upgrade .......
Pretty much every panel on my 87 is new, rebuilt, or re constructed. :D
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Garage!

Reply #28 –
you guys are lucky, i get to use my dad's "vanity" garage.  i call it that b/c you really don't have room to do !  and my apartment complex has nothing not even those rentable garages some places do.  it's in there now and with the front jacked sky high (to get the aod out and the new one in) the back bumper has been sing the back wall a bit and the door just barely closes with "scooting" room infront of the car.  i guess they built it with econoboxes in mind.  my dad's 06 sonata fits bumper to bumper even.  plus he's got a lot of equipment on the sides that he doesnt need. (lives on a tiny residential lot, mostly on a slope yet he still has his tiller and junk box, i mean tool box and a lot of other useless stuff) he has a company van that has ALL his tools in (prolly 10's of thousands of dollars worth of tools and manuals - works on lift trucks) and a bunch of other junk in there.  i usually do my stuff in a parking lot with drug dealers walking around me (keep a glock g20 just out of sight in case ;) ) and my trunk serves as my tool box... go figure.
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1987 Ford Thunderbird Sport (resting)
1993 Mazda Miata 1.6l (daily driver)