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02-18-2008, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Enthusiasts without Garages, sign in
All those of you out there that live to work on cars, especially your own, but can't, do to, lack of garage, driveway, tools, or what ever, vent your anger here. We don't want mechanics who don't care about our cars. I just can't take it anymore. My VE is just standing there for months while Im driving another car and I can't even do anything to it because of freezing temps and lack of work space. 
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02-18-2008, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: in the middle of Modville
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Originally Posted by VEvolution
All those of you out there that live to work on cars, especially your own, but can't, do to, lack of garage, driveway, tools, or what ever, vent your anger here. We don't want mechanics who don't care about our cars. I just can't take it anymore. My VE is just standing there for months while Im driving another car and I can't even do anything to it because of freezing temps and lack of work space. |
I feel your pain, but I did a VG to VE swap in subfreezing temps. Oh, and I do not have a garage either. 
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02-18-2008, 01:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Originally Posted by Mike90SE
I feel your pain, but I did a VG to VE swap in subfreezing temps. Oh, and I do not have a garage either. |
my hat goes down to you.. but im guessing you don't live in a metropolitan city
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02-18-2008, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Delray Beach, FL
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i got tools and 300 days of sunshine, but no garage.
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02-18-2008, 02:41 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Oakwood, Ga
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I had this problem where I couldn't work out in the snow.... I don't know but I'm a pussy when it come to that white crap.
Moved to GA, problem solved. Though... some times it's too hot
Renting a house made life easier, BUT I PARTED OUT A CAR WHILE LIVING IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX WOO!
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02-18-2008, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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its very possible to rent a garage around here but its either too expensive or too many questions
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02-18-2008, 04:08 PM
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Location: Compton, CA
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I feel you bro, from the opposite corner of the USA
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Doom for those OSes that have Blue Screens of Death or an processor consuming desktop that make quad cores run like Pentium II. Close some ports because Windows will leave them open for hackers and viruses to  your Windows. 
Since when Ghetto is associated with non-Ghetto things? 
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02-18-2008, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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you know whats funny, i have a garage, but i hate working in it cuz my dad has boats in it...they always getting in the way.......but tools...there is my downfall...i always have to find someone who has the tool and then coerce them into letting me borrow it  |
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02-18-2008, 05:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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I feel you bro, from the opposite corner of the USA
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compton, ouch.. move to 90210 lol
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Originally Posted by starzandskullz
you know whats funny, i have a garage, but i hate working in it cuz my dad has boats in it...they always getting in the way.......but tools...there is my downfall...i always have to find someone who has the tool and then coerce them into letting me borrow it |
just get your average ratchet set, flat head, philips, breaker bar, hammer, nd pliers nd you should be set for takin advantage of your garage. i would so force my dad to make room for me in there
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02-19-2008, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Miami, FL. / Indianapolis, IN.
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at least you a couple of you guys have garages, i on the other hand had to do all my engine swaps under a hot sun with some trees in the way to give me shade and sometimes when its even about to rain. i have all the tools i need plus 2 air compressors for the air tools for the job. but working under a hot sun is killing me.
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02-19-2008, 03:05 PM
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This is Sharks Territory
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Redwood City (SF Bay Area), Cali
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I havedont have a garage to work in .. But my mom has a huge drive way that my "step dad" takes up all the room with all his trucks.. And I have to make sure i dont do it on Thursdays cause that the day they all hang out and get wasted ...
I want my garage/drive way so bad..
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02-19-2008, 06:44 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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my thing is having to work in the cold!! i can't take that crap man.. and you always gotta be careful of rain, and cars passing by that just might side swipe your @$$ on a city street.. that's always fun.. weather elements have made me kind of lazy in working on my car recently
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02-19-2008, 08:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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lets all make a group deal and open a chain of 'entusiasts without garages' places to work on our cars world wide lol
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02-19-2008, 08:32 PM
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mad tyte JDM drift king
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Burke, VA
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been there, done that. My workspace at the old townhouse...parallel parked out front.
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02-19-2008, 08:35 PM
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mad tyte JDM drift king
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Burke, VA
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Originally Posted by VEvolution
lets all make a group deal and open a chain of 'entusiasts without garages' places to work on our cars world wide lol
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you laugh, but people do it...
several of the classic car guys I know (about 20 of them) rent out a small warehouse and store all their classic cars, toolchests, etc there. They have them all packed in so only 3-4 can be worked on at a time, so they "schedule" when they're going to go there so 10 people aren't trying to put their cars in the work area.
IIRC they pay $100/month each, and they collectively setup the place with power, big air compressor, and waste fluid disposal tanks...
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02-19-2008, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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amazing.. what would be the first step in finding a place like this around here? jump from forum to forum basically for my specific region?
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Originally Posted by irish44j
you laugh, but people do it...
several of the classic car guys I know (about 20 of them) rent out a small warehouse and store all their classic cars, toolchests, etc there. They have them all packed in so only 3-4 can be worked on at a time, so they "schedule" when they're going to go there so 10 people aren't trying to put their cars in the work area.
IIRC they pay $100/month each, and they collectively setup the place with power, big air compressor, and waste fluid disposal tanks...
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02-19-2008, 10:30 PM
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Location: Chicago
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Have a garage, but lack the weather and tools  |
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02-19-2008, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Vancouver
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I have a garage, but alot of the times i end up doing my work outside of the garage in my driveway. I did my rear-sway bar in a shopping mall parking lot haha. That was probably the worst for my car, my freind with his civic did a B16 swap in an underground parking lot at his apartment, im surprised the only things that got stolen were a distributor and a 18mm wrench, which we later found out had smashed a car window lol.
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02-20-2008, 02:37 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Minnesota
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i live 20 mins away from my parents house(heated garage) but i have no garage. lol as we speak its -7 -23 windchill here try doing anything in that crap. man if i had a garage id live in it! oh wait i have
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02-20-2008, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Baltimore, Md
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No garage crew signing in. Most of the time when I do things to my car its either in the winter or fall. Most of the jobs ar esupposed to be quick and easy but seem to always turn out to be a pain in the ass. Then it will start to rain, snow, or the temps will drop to about 20 degrees. It happens everytime. The night I started my 00vi swap it started to rain. The first time I ever changed my rotors it started snowing. I was changing my headlights in my Z it starts raining. Hmm maybe I should start checking the weather before I work on my car or dont work on it until the summer. Oh well heres a few pics.
00VI swap
Changing the Z headlights and it starts to rain.
I just noticed in every pic my bro is doing all the work lol. |
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02-20-2008, 12:22 PM
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2961cc
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Originally Posted by ajcool2
No garage crew signing in. Most of the time when I do things to my car its either in the winter or fall. Most of the jobs ar esupposed to be quick and easy but seem to always turn out to be a pain in the ass. Then it will start to rain, snow, or the temps will drop to about 20 degrees. It happens everytime. The night I started my 00vi swap it started to rain. The first time I ever changed my rotors it started snowing. I was changing my headlights in my Z it starts raining. Hmm maybe I should start checking the weather before I work on my car or dont work on it until the summer. Oh well heres a few pics.
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heh, its always like that. i noticed that the weather goes bad especially when the jobs go sour(which is usually), so i stopped bothering really to work on daily drivers all together, unless its an oil change or something.
nice rides btw
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02-20-2008, 01:14 PM
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mad tyte JDM drift king
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Burke, VA
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amazing.. what would be the first step in finding a place like this around here? jump from forum to forum basically for my specific region?
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call around to empty warehouses, and find a bunch of dudes who want to go in on it, I guess.....I think all of them are on the lease so none can bail out without finding a replacement person.
With the classic car guys though, that's not an issue. The guy who is in charge there says there are about 10 people on the waiting list for a spot in "the garage," plus guys who restore classic cars typically have money and pay the full year in advance from what I hear.
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Wilwood Calipers*BlehmCo 2pc Rotors*Frankencar Catback*ES Bushings*Samco Hoses*Goodridge Lines*Raxles*Everything JDM yo!
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02-20-2008, 01:19 PM
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This is Sharks Territory
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Redwood City (SF Bay Area), Cali
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Man thats so cool that people stay committed like that.. Wish their were enough guys around here to start something like ...
But the wifey and i are working on getting our on place (with a drive way at least) since we have 1 one year old and another coming withing 4 weeks and Maxine (the maxima)
BTW hows father hood going Irish ?
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