Not a real update just keeping everyone in the loop, I picked up the engine last weekend so I could bring it home and get the last few things done to put it on the dyno. However as I said my wife recently got pregnant with our first baby and we've been shopping for baby stuff and all that so not much time for anything. In getting the babies room ready I realized I would soon have my other baby coming(the 240) and that it was only fitting that I get its room ready too. So this past 8 days I jumped on fixing up my garage and make it fit for the car. I'm only about 70% done with the garage at this point but I had to fly out to LA unexpectedly. First the 240, Neil from 2 keys customs who is doing the body work and paint had an interesting proposition:
I've got some with the body work in progress but theyre on my laptop back home as I had to fly to LA ASAP and left it behind, hopefully I'll get my wife to upload them so I can post up progress in a few days. Now the garage, First here is what it looked like before I got started:
So first thing I wanted to do was make sure that when the 240 is here I can still fit all 3 cars in our 2 car garage and also that I can work on the 240 easily if need be. I bought a 4 post lift and installed it with the help of my brother in law:
Then it was time to paint, I wanted the whole scheme to match what the 240 will look like plus its my favorite color scheme so I went with red and black(believe it or not the 3rd room in my house I use red paint on!):
I used my brother in law's 350z to mock up if the 240 on top and my bmw on the bottom would work but it didn't clear the standard garage door so I had to have a high lift conversion done to raise the door and motor 20":
With that high lift in place I can now fit all three cars in the garage at the same time and can work on the 240 with the lift all the way up so I can stand up straight. Next was the flooring, I picked Racedeck's Diamond flooring in a red and black checkered pattern with a graphite border(to match the walls). Install was easy except for the cutting around the lift posts and although I still gotta clean it I'm happy how it came out.
That was as far as I got and I literally finished that last night at 4am with just time to get ready and catch my 10am flight. So its almost ready for the car, now I've ordered cabinets for the back wall where all the mess is now and I'm going to put a few things on the walls so it doesn't look so plain. This trip is a killer for me though cause I'm gonna be here til the 27th then I'm back in ATL for only 1 day before I go to Costa Rica for my dads 50th birthday and wont be back again until november 9th(and even then I'm only back for 5 days) so finding time to finish this up is gonna be hard. My wife isn't traveling for work anymore so I'm traveling twice as much as normal. But we'll see how it goes, hopefully also the next time I have a substantial update I'll also have a new travel rig and trailer to post up as I've been shopping.