Shoota_77

@MBS206 thats pretty neat and tidy to me! I'll get a photo of mine when I'm out there next. It might require multiple photos to understand the scale of the atrocities though... In total I have 4 sheds of varying sizes and layouts. Main shed is 14x8, second shed is 3x8, third shed is 11x2.5, fourth shed is around 6x4. All are pretty much full. The main goal of my cleaning tsunami is to make the main shed predominantly car and motorbikes only. Second shed is my metal fab room (2 x bench grinders, drill press, bench belt sander, metal band saw, scrap metal storage and some of my garden tools. 3rd shed is more bigger garden stuff, storage for engine crane, jack stands, concrete grinder, concrete mixer, air compressor lives there, and it now has two 2mx2m pallet racking shelves with itemised boxes holding building stuff, electrical stuff, plumbing stuff, etc, etc. The 4th shed is Ryobi electric ride on mower, mini boom sprayer, ancient Kubota tractor, more garden stuff! I have got a lot of shit.... Then there's the pool house (8mx4m) and the pool pump shed (4mx4m). I built all of the sheds over the 11 years we've been here. The main shed was a Ranbuild kit, the rest are all custom made to fit the areas available. Building the main shed taught me a LOT as I had no idea about building anything prior to that! I've still got one more in me. It will be my man cave which I poured the extra concrete for way back when I poured the concrete for the main shed. The idea is the Skyline will be a centre piece of the main cave once (if...) it's finished. I told my now 14 year old son yesterday that I will 100% drive him to his year 10 formal in 2 years. Still a long way off but at least I now have a date to work towards! 🤣

I hear the old "I'd never use a pressure washer on my motorbike" BS in the dirtbike community too. The only people that have had a problem from using a pressure washer on anything are the people that aren't using them properly. If you hold the wand any more than 45 cms away from pretty much anything (radiators, wiring connectors, paint, etc) you aren't going to cause any damage. We've had detailers wreck moulds and seals on cars at work before and the only reason why is they held the pressure washer too close and on the one spot for too long. If you have 5% more brain power than a detailer then you know not to not do that and you'll never have a problem.

I'm pretty much healed up post surgery so I spent another almost full day out in the shed re-arranging everything to make room for all of the shit that I've taken off the car. I need to get everything off the floor and away from the car for when I start making a massive mess stripping off the remaining body deadener and then for the the painting process. Almost got the shed to a point now where I feel I can actually start working on the car again (clean shed clean mind or something!). Almost 11 years of accumulated car parts, building supplies, tools, junk, etc have taken a long time to get in some sort of order again! Most stuff is now boxed up and in the back shed if it's not car related. Most people would still be horrified walking into my shed but it's significantly better than it was before! For those that saw my separate post the other day, yeah I ordered one.... This version- I convinced myself to stop being a clown, wake up to yourself and realise it will take you 5 weeks to make one by which stage you're over working on the car again... Maybe I am getting on top of my "mental ailments" and making smarter choices.... $1450 delivered which will take my miserable half-dutch arse a few days to get over having spent that much! If I don't have a use for it straight away after my car is off it I might even see if there is a "rental market" for them. See if anyone wants to hire it for a period of time. $25 a week or something like that. I'll worry about that when my car is actually ready to come off it though as that might be a while away!! There's now no excuses now for not ending up with an underside you could eat off! Away for kids sport the next few weekends so hopefully can get the rotisserie assembled ready to go for the car to go straight on it the next available weekend.

Ha ha, all good! I've almost caved in and realised I'm buying one. I know myself well enough by now that I will start chasing ADHD butterflies half way through building it and not finish it so I'm better off spending the extra money buying one instead of making one just so I can get into straight away. I would very much enjoy making one as fabrication is probably a strength and definitely a passion but I don't want that to be at the detriment to the car I'm ultimately building it for! There's some pretty good ones around for ~$1100 at the moment so I think I'll just go that way. At the end I sell it or as mentioned, get another project to make further use of it! Thanks gents.

You guys are focussing on the wrong part of this post and have headed off on an irrelevant tangent! Clearly I'm not going to put my most prized physical possession (well it will be once I'm finished it...) on a piece of shit contraption that might fail and crush me or my car! At no point was that even implied I was trying to buy a butchered P.O.S that some shonky clown had thrown together with a gasless MIG.... Either way I would love to see the build quality of a rotisserie that has failed. Actually I'd love to see a photo of one that has failed full stop. Google fails to deliver. Never happened?? I'll either make one that won't fail or will buy one that wouldn't fail! End Post.....

You guys need to live a little! Nothing keeps the blood flowing like lying under something that could collapse on you at any time! The vast majority of the weight of my car is out of it. There's zero attached outside of the interior of the car. It's pretty much full interior but once I take the front seats out it's just the dash and some of the boot contents remaining. I would guess that as it sits it would be already well under a tonne, even less without the seats.

Hi guys, has anyone either purchased or built themselves a rotisserie for their car before? I can only just justify the need for one hence why I should just make one but at the same time, if I make one I can kiss another 4 weeks of potentially productive car working time goodbye because I'm building a bloody rotisserie.... I mainly want it for the application of the body deadener. Cleaning the old stuff off, priming and then colour over the deadener doesn't worry me, it's just the application using the Schutz Gun that I feel would achieve a significantly better finish painting it side on and keeping the Schutz Gun upright. I don't think they would work well on the side let alone almost upside down for some areas. If the product I use (Terosun, etc) could work through a HVLP ok then it might be ok to apply without the rotisserie. I can get one of these style ones for about $1200 which is pretty good value- I reckon if I made one it would cost around $500 but it's more the time that it would take is more of a killer than the cost. They look to hold their value pretty well second hand so I could always sell it after using it and realistically only lose $200-$300 at worst. Or keep it and buy another project when this one finally sees the light of day... Anyone selling one...? Cheers!

My purchase experience was no where near as glorious as yours but still a significant moment in my life! Yeah that's a bit of a dilemma as to whether you bring it back or not! Obviously a massive waste of time and effort to bring it back if you're only going to move there anyway!

You have (externally anyway) a lot of patience! At the very least your patience has rewarded you financially even if you decided you were over it!! I only just read your first experience of seeing the car, that would have been amazing! Well documented too! It must be exciting knowing there's only 10 months left until you can get it on a boat and on it's way!!!???

It's a stunning location! I've been to NZ twice but haven't made it to the North Island yet. Definitely on the cards but the South Island is hard to tear yourself away from too... Looking forward to see what you can wring out of it once you can get it to hold together! Be awesome to get a low 11 or even sneaking into the high 10's pass out of it. That's a bloody quick car that most people will never experience in their life. Enjoy!

Bloody Skylines, they put you through the bloody wringer! Stick at it! Stunning drag strip BTW! Where is it? Can see part of the name on the slip and probably should just Google it!

Generally yes but for some reason I've been ruthless this time around! I might even need to do another tip run after the way I've finally been able to hit the delete button on shit I've stepped over, stepped around and tripped over for the past 10 years!

Ended up spending a WHOLE day yesterday cleaning and rearranging my shed. Due to the aforementioned disorder, my shed is as cluttered and confused as my brain. Again, because of said disorder, at any one time there are 5 projects on the go at once and because they're still on the go I don't put everything away so I can "get straight back to it" which rarely happens.. So anyway, I bought a couple of cheap 2mx2m all steel "pallet racks" to put in my back shed. The idea is to then take pretty much everything out of the main shed that isn't car related. Most of the garden and building stuff is now booted out to the back shed and onto to the shelves where they belong! There's still more rearranging and reallocating to do and it's still a bit busy in there but it's a massive improvement on how it was previously. I've discovered floor space I forgot I had... For those that have fully dismantled a car before will understand just how much space it takes up! Particularly panels, bumpers, engine/trans, etc. I've got stuff hanging on every available wall to get it up off the floor! This is not exciting content for a blog but has certainly made the shed feel like a more work ready space now!

Sounds like a great plan!

@soviet_merlin Thanks mate! Nothing too major but will hold me up for a while. I've got lipomas to get taken off the back of my neck and the middle of my spine which always conjures scary thoughts! It sounds worse than it is. Yeah great, more time to contemplate rabbit hole deepening , just what I need! 🤣