The "Perfect" Garage

[Con Torrisi]

Not a bad list to start with Bruce, but if its a wish then I'd add some toys
like:
Ferarri F50
Lamborgini Diablo
Assorted Corvettes small and big block.
Nissan R34 GTR
Toyota Supra TT
A few Minis
A good selection of American V8 engines and Jap 4 6 and 8 efi turbo engines
Mechanics probably from the Ferarri F1 team and few others hand picked
Selected machinists, engineers, tuners
(the above people would be there primarily to transfer knowledge)

Then the biggest wish would be enough time to play with it all!!!

Oh yes, and a wet skid pan, a drag strip, and 3 mile complex circuit...
Hmmm, may have just blown the 60X40 restriction

Its nice to dream.

Cheers

Con

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce" <nacelp at bright.net>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: The "Perfect" Garage


>
>
> 60x40?
> Well I guess if you limited by lot space...
> You'll first off need several areas.  Work bay with hoist, then several
work
> bays, none hoist, engine assembly area, metal fabrication area, paint
room,
> car wash/prep, dyno room, and an electronics area.
>
> Too often guys scrimp on tools for fabbing, as a min equipment wise you'll
> need:
> 2 drill presses (fine, and heavy duty)
> 3 lathes, precision, one with about a 6" swing, then one with a 14 swing
> Crank grinder
> S-W balancing machine, gram scale, and rod fixtures
> Verical mill (Bridgeport will do <g>)
> valve grinding machine
> Gas, Mig and Tig welders
> Plasma cutter
> Hydralic presses
> Brake lathe
> Styrofoam cutter
> small AL furnace
> Crusible
> Casting sand
> Band saw
> Joe Blocks
> Granite surface table (one for small parts assembly, one for chassis work)
> Material racks (sheet and tubing)
> Lots of metal for fabrication use
> Machinists hand book
> The hand tool list should be self explainatory.
> Flow bench
>
>
> Electronics room.
> Lots of bench space, 4  2x8' table tops, then numerous eye level sleeves
> Scope
> Signal Generators
> Power supplies
> several ecm benches
> numerous ecms/pcms to tinker with
> Complete reference materials for chips
> All the circuits cook books
> Several laptops, good PC  Several tera flops (cray perfered)
> Comfortable chairs perfereable full environment control
> Full selection of chips resistor, caps to work with
> (On call PCB designer)
> UPS for the whole area
>
> Shop area is easy, one of everything Snap-On makes.
> Several floor jacks
> Air compressor oil seperators, and then oilers for the shop area.
> Electrical outlets EVERYWHERE
> Air sources EVERYWHERE
>
> Dyno room,
> chassis and engine
>
> Of course this is just the min.,
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Sherwin
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org ; blown at lists.f-body.org ; diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Cc: Bill Ball
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:09 PM
> Subject: The "Perfect" Garage
>
>
> Slightly off topic, but not terribly far I would suspect, given the list
> charters involved.  Thought you guys might have some creative ideas on
your
> collective wish lists.
>
> Here's the baseline to work from.......Assume that you have a blank sheet
of
> paper, an unlimited budget, and a desire to create the "perfect" garage.
> The garage will be a stand-alone coach house structure, architecturally
> blended to match the main house on the outside.  Size is say 60'x40' ish
in
> terms of ground foot print.  Two story, with guy's loft above, and garage
> below.  The floor between the two levels could also be open in part, to
> couple the two spaces, and to provide either enough headroom for a
hoist(s)
> or general atmosphere when enjoying either level.  Lot's of skylights, and
> natural light.  Beyond the above, you can do anything you want.........
>
> What would you guys do with the space within, and what kinds of things &
> equipment & features & neat stuff would you fill it with?  There must be a
> whole bunch of us that have dreamed of this at some point in time?
Obvious
> things would include heat, A/C, tunes and TV.  A place to either work &
> create by yourself, or hang-out with and work with freinds.
>
> Oh yeah,  forgot to mention that it will eventually be full of Blown & EFI
> toys [errrr....well, maybe the odd carb'd toy too]  :).
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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