11/26/12 Thanksgiving Week Progress

It was nice to finally have a long weekend so I could get some work done at the shop.

On the Friday after Thanksgiving I brought my triple Weber carb setup to the shop so I could do some wok on them. On the way there I spotted a future ideal home: a Manhattan brownstone with a private garage. Swap out the Porsche with a Datsun and you've got a pretty great setup for me.

Anyway, once I got to the shop, I set to cleaning up the last carb of the set. Webers are shockingly simple, but when you have them apart it looks pretty impressive with all of the components laid out for cleaning.

Once finished with that, I also replaced the curiously missing throttle return springs in the two I had built already for a full set of (hopefully) operational webers. I could only get the trumpets cleaned up but so much because they were rusty, so I'll probably have to order new ones eventually.

Afterwards I cleaned up the intake manifold. Starting to come together! Just for comparison, this is how they started out.

On my way home I spotted this 'Mercedes'

Saturday I brought the E31 head and most of my tools to the shop. It will be great to have a place to work again.

I also have some work to do on the G35 in the near future. The driver's side window has been acting up, so the motor either needs replacing or cleaning. I also need to replace a muffler gasket and throw on new rear tires for a possible sale...

Stay tuned.

-W.W.
SBSS/BNYSS

11/15/12 Painted and Flooded

I haven't been particularly good at updating this, but we have been doing work at the new shop.

As I said last time, the containers turned out to be alot uglier than we had expected. So a few weeks back we spent some time painting them to make them a little more presentable for our neighbor who has a beautiful new building.

Before we painted, however, we needed to get all the dirt, grime and loose paint and rust off of the containers. To do this we rented a gas powered pressure washer. The washer proved to be powerful enough to remove the decals on the container as well, so we spent the better part of a cold October Saturday getting cold and wet cleaning off the containers.

We returned Sunday to spray the now squeaky clean containers with an airless paint sprayer full of flat black Rustoleum. This took way less time and paint than we were expecting, so we were out of there by mid afternoon.

Unfortunately two days later the biggest hurricane in recorded history hit the East coast. Luckly I spent the week high and dry, but our containers were not only flooded with 2 feet of seawater, but were moved but the water surge. This is what BNY looked like early on Monday. The real surge didn't happen until around 7-8pm...

Last weekend Jordan and I went out to the shop, borrowed a forklift and put the containers back in their place and strung up some lights. We also tested all of our damp power tools and liberally applied WD-40 to our now rusty tools...

This weekend I hope to bring my car back to the city and get my tools and some parts out to the shop.

-W.W. SBSS/BNYSS