gsxitement
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DOBBS FERRY,
New_York
So, I decided to start a thread to document and discuss garage upgrades and improvements. The garage as it sits is a two and a half car. The only things that go in it are my 98 GSX Time Attack car, my trailer and all my tools, work benches and assorted supplies/material and assorted wall accoutrements.
The good: decent space. Should’ve never told my wife the trailer fit in there, but that’s another story. It’s next to the house, still attached, but no way to get in the garage from the house itself. Which I’m fine with.
The Bad: the floor is absolutely trashed. Definitely a void underneath causing the middle of the floor to sag. When we get very heavy rain, the drain in front of the garage can back up, water gets in the garage, makes it’s way through the garage floor and into the basement, which is finished. So….not ideal. The floor is so warped, that we needed an insane amount of shims to get all the scales even. So, as you can guess, a floor that warped is not the best for setting up a track only racecar.
The plan: break up the old floor, install radiant heat (I live in the northeast and I definitely spend more time in there in the cold months than the warm, just because there’s more of them ), pour a super flat and level floor, so some type of floor coating (not sure the route I’m going to go with in that yet. All Suggestions will be considered, add outlets in places and add more lighting. We’re getting ready to do a bunch of remodeling on the house and included the floor as part of the remodel. Work begins August 30th, so step one is getting all my junk out of the garage.
That’s where I’m at at this point. Hopefully it all goes well and I can be back in the garage before it gets really cold out. My last race is at Lime Rock on October 16th, so the car has to be prepped and ready to go before it leaves the garage. If you follow my build thread, you’ll know what that just entailed these last few weeks after our wins at NJMP in July.
I’ll add some pics for context
Just for context, that pic of the scale on all those shims, the right side scale was on the floor. No shimming at all. So that’s the height difference from one side of the car to the other. Kinda crazy.
The good: decent space. Should’ve never told my wife the trailer fit in there, but that’s another story. It’s next to the house, still attached, but no way to get in the garage from the house itself. Which I’m fine with.
The Bad: the floor is absolutely trashed. Definitely a void underneath causing the middle of the floor to sag. When we get very heavy rain, the drain in front of the garage can back up, water gets in the garage, makes it’s way through the garage floor and into the basement, which is finished. So….not ideal. The floor is so warped, that we needed an insane amount of shims to get all the scales even. So, as you can guess, a floor that warped is not the best for setting up a track only racecar.
The plan: break up the old floor, install radiant heat (I live in the northeast and I definitely spend more time in there in the cold months than the warm, just because there’s more of them ), pour a super flat and level floor, so some type of floor coating (not sure the route I’m going to go with in that yet. All Suggestions will be considered, add outlets in places and add more lighting. We’re getting ready to do a bunch of remodeling on the house and included the floor as part of the remodel. Work begins August 30th, so step one is getting all my junk out of the garage.
That’s where I’m at at this point. Hopefully it all goes well and I can be back in the garage before it gets really cold out. My last race is at Lime Rock on October 16th, so the car has to be prepped and ready to go before it leaves the garage. If you follow my build thread, you’ll know what that just entailed these last few weeks after our wins at NJMP in July.
I’ll add some pics for context
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Just for context, that pic of the scale on all those shims, the right side scale was on the floor. No shimming at all. So that’s the height difference from one side of the car to the other. Kinda crazy.