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Show us your shops!

slow-poke said:
Nice to see the real deal. A while back I was at a car show and parked besides what I assumed was a clone AC Cobra, it was not a clone, guy pulled it from a wrecking yard, it was sitting on top of a three car stack. Those days are long long gone.

I hand ported 69W heads for a 289 back in the day, best time was 12.7s. To get decent compression with those heads I had to use a 12:1 piston to get close to 10:1 and that shrouds the already too small valves. I had much better luck with Iron WindsorSr heads, paint them blue and difficult to tell they aren't stock. Ran low 11's with those heads unported. IMO the factory S2MS intake and tri-Y headers that everyone raves about are over-rated, they are just way too small to make even decent power.

In 1988 I was having a Mustang painted a couple units down from "The Shelby Shop", now Legendary. Beautiful restored 68 GT-350 with factory Paxton, day before customer pickup they decide to have a test drive, throttle got stuck on that Cobra carb hat, and they crashed it (not badly). They were in full panic mode. They do really good work but unaffordable unless you have something really rare.
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I agree with all you've said. If it was a different car, I'd run a different engine. The heads have been planed to get the compression back up and are ported and flowbenched. It's just going to be a cruiser to local cruise nights and shows. I do have a 351 CJ but it doesn't suit the car. Way bigger valves and ports, not to mention the four bolt mains. I remember the Shelby Shop and visited Legendary years ago. They were pricey back then! Here's a pic of a 428CJ hoard I know of as well as some Boss Nine service blocks. Only a small piece of his Ford stuff.
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Chip Maker said:
I agree with all you've said. If it was a different car, I'd run a different engine. The heads have been planed to get the compression back up and are ported and flowbenched. It's just going to be a cruiser to local cruise nights and shows. I do have a 351 CJ but it doesn't suit the car. Way bigger valves and ports, not to mention the four bolt mains. I remember the Shelby Shop and visited Legendary years ago. They were pricey back then! Here's a pic of a 428CJ hoard I know of as well as some Boss Nine service blocks. Only a small piece of his Ford stuff.
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That's some serious Iron!

Obviously a hardcore Ford guy. There seems to be a few of these stashes here and there. There was a guy in Winnipeg area that had some sort of factory connection and had a barn full of crazy rare stuff, almost priceless.

I sold a K-Code fan for $US1200, paid $20

Very cool.
 
@DavidR8 - I stopped F’n around with cabinet backs for the shop a while back. Mostly because I lined the shop with plywood or OSB so.. who cares? Not a kitchen- LOL. I typically make a brace piece for the top shelf and then screw an 1-1/2” strip below the cabinet to support it. Add some screws to hold the cabinet down to the bottom strip before levelling and securing the top.

Also, in future posts you can then add backers that have dowel rods for grinding wheels, supporting tooling etc.

Doors to come soon but will be just 3/4 ply.
 
Anyone have some great ideas about small stock storage? Like cut off from longer rods, blocks etc. also gotta set up some threaded rod storage. Maybe some ABS tubes ….
 
@Elektrishun : only a house either side quite a distance through the trees and behind us is 1000 acres of ponds and trees and side by side trails!!

@SomeGuy : yep, trying to somewhat empty the crates for access. I don’t have a lot of stuff by any stretch but I have a lot of- LOL
 
Getting all the drawers built! Just have the welding base cabinet to drawer up!

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Behind this base cabinet will be a 4x4 peg board and a charging station for the portable things. I will take the small bins off the wall and find a spot for them somewhere else. There will be a sink going in as well. Just a drain outside
 
This happened Monday , a driver in a big hurry going waaayyy too fast down the back lane , there's a 90 degree turn , my property is at the end of a long straightaway , which happens to be a sheet of ice presently . I've often joked about the way these idiots around here drive like the dukes of hazard cep't they don't have names like Bo or Luke . The turn behind my garage is a popular drift turn for new drivers to test their skill , or lack of skills in this case . I think most of you will understand , in my neighborhood there are plenty of new Canadian drivers , to call my hood little Beirut would be an appropriate description.

He took out a heavy duty gate & fence with 6x6 's , laid waste to my recently built shed and caved in the corner of my garage , I was inside the garage at the time .
Heavy structural damage !!!!!! I'm pissed :mad::mad::mad: , it's a huge mess and things will not be repaired or back to normal anytime soon.
The fire dept showed up and several police vehicles .
The creep behind the wheel ( and I'm being nice ) was driving a Rental truck with a contract in some one else's name , this goof is a greaseball that is well known to the police , of course , they are protecting him by refusing to reveal his identity to me , " he has a right to his privacy " is what I was told.
A couple of tickets and he was free to go , I'm not sure but I think the fire crew pried the fenders up off the tires so he could drive , there is still chunks of plastic , glass debris and smashed shit all over the ground . I've tried to preserve the scene until the insurance company sends an adjuster over ............ edit / update ....... I just got off the phone with the adjuster ...... I feel much better but still pissed :mad::mad::mad::mad: , no one needs to go through this .



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If the shed wasn't there , the truck would have for sure went right through the garage diagonally and the result would have been far worse . The guy was booking it , The shed is beat up and not sitting where it was anymore but it absorbed a bit of the energy that a 5000lb fullsize pickup carries when in motion ( full boogie ) .
 
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Brent H said:
Getting all the drawers built! Just have the welding base cabinet to drawer up!

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Behind this base cabinet will be a 4x4 peg board and a charging station for the portable things. I will take the small bins off the wall and find a spot for them somewhere else. There will be a sink going in as well. Just a drain outside
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A place for everything, and everything in its place........



....yer a sick puppy my friend, yes sir-eee.... Hopefully @Susquatch can get you straightened out before it gets too far out of hand. You're retired now, it's okay to leave the odd tool out here and there. :p
Looking great by the way, if you get bored and you happen to be out west......:rolleyes::cool:
 
Gearhead88 said:
This happened Monday , a driver in a big hurry going waaayyy too fast down the back lane , there's a 90 degree turn .

He took out a heavy duty gate & fence with 6x6 's , laid waste to my recently built shed and caved in the corner of my garage , I was inside the garage at the time .
Heavy structural damage !!!!!! I'm pissed :mad::mad::mad: , it's a huge mess and things will not be repaired or back to normal anytime soon.
The fire dept showed up and several police vehicles .
The creep behind the wheel ( and I'm being nice ) was driving a Rental truck with a contract in some one else's name , this goof is a greaseball that is well known to the police , of course , they are protecting him by refusing to reveal his identity to me , " he has a right to his privacy " is what I was told.
A couple of tickets and he was free to go , I'm not sure but I think the fire crew pried the fenders up off the tires so he could drive , there is still chunks of plastic , glass debris and smashed shit all over the ground . I've tried to preserve the scene until the insurance company sends an adjuster over ............ edit / update ....... I just got off the phone with the adjuster ...... I feel much better but still pissed :mad::mad::mad::mad: , no one needs to go through this .



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If the shed wasn't there , the truck would have for sure went right through the garage diagonally and the result would have been far worse . The guy was booking it , The shed is beat up and not sitting where it was anymore but it absorbed a bit of the energy that a 5000lb fullsize pickup carries when in motion ( full boogie ) .
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Glad you are OK, all the material stuff can easily be replaced, your skills and ability not so much.
Hopefully the repairs won't take too long, I recently had a repair done through insurance and it was very smooth they even came and finished it on Xmas eve.
 
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