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Looking good Rod, you have to get a bench/vice and a huuuuge standing toolbox
Building a double garage by ourselves (loadsa pics)
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Why not?
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Thats going to be one big garage, nice work. How much has all this cost so far?, I'm thinking of doing something similar but more like a single garage.
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i remember when i helped my uncle build his garage kinda thing, it was 9*6 meters and knee high. The concrete just kept coming lol. Took 5 hours to shift the concrete from the middle and flatten it!
Better than a Pinto/Cologne boat anchor though
Yeah...But crabs are better than the clap.
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Soldato
Did you have to get planning permission for this? I would have thought so...
Yea, don't put a Rover in it, unless it's something really nice. A guy on the V8 forums has a 3.9 which is well set up and makes 276BHP and lives at 7000RPM all day long. Really nice bit of kit.....So it can be done.
But avoid a plain or boggo 3.9/4.0/4.2.
Put a Northstar in it instead
Yea, don't put a Rover in it, unless it's something really nice. A guy on the V8 forums has a 3.9 which is well set up and makes 276BHP and lives at 7000RPM all day long. Really nice bit of kit.....So it can be done.
But avoid a plain or boggo 3.9/4.0/4.2.
Put a Northstar in it instead
Fair few posts there, guess i'll answer a few of the questions 
The internal dimensions are 7.2m wide by 6.4m long, and we didnt need planning permission, however we have been in touch with the council about it & paid them to send an engineer out at varying stages & make sure everything is ok with regards to building regulations etc.
Theres gonna be an 80 feet or so long driveway running down the side of the house right through where the old asbestos garage is currently sat.
We worked this out last night, in total including all materials, paying the builders to put the whole wall up & coucil guy to come check everything, having all the soil removed & renting or buying all the equipment & tools, basically everything right down to the pack of screws holding the bits of copper pipe to the shuttering.
It currently comes to £3120.
Just popped out whilst swimming in the pool, didn't help that i was in the 3m deep end at the time so had to try & swim out to the edge with my arm out of the socket, that kinda hurt, as did putting it back in myself beside the pool.
I'm a bit accident prone to be honest, managed to slip in the shower after getting back one morning at about 5am after the 4th night there & caught my elbow on one of the taps on the way down, split my elbow open down to what looked like the bone so ended up having stitches, never seen so much blood in my life!
My plan was originally to put a Rover V8 in there that had been stroked and maybe bored out to a 4.2 - 4.8, with a weber 4 barrel carb, modified heads, cam, rhoads lifters, etc.
Was doing this as it was going to be an easy option as i know its a relatively easy swap as i can get my hands on a modified sump, engine mounts manifolds & all the other stuff to get it in there along with a 5 Speed LT77 SD1 gearbox.
I'm not too sure now though, i've been looking at Ford 302's a bit over the last couple of months & it's even crossed my mind to put something bigger in there, but i dont really want it to be any more nose heavy than it already is as a 2.8i.
Not planning on making a start till the back end of next year though so theres plenty of tme for me to look into it & decide what to do.
IAmATeaF said:
The internal dimensions are 7.2m wide by 6.4m long, and we didnt need planning permission, however we have been in touch with the council about it & paid them to send an engineer out at varying stages & make sure everything is ok with regards to building regulations etc.
cheets64 said:
Theres gonna be an 80 feet or so long driveway running down the side of the house right through where the old asbestos garage is currently sat.
Mark A said:
We worked this out last night, in total including all materials, paying the builders to put the whole wall up & coucil guy to come check everything, having all the soil removed & renting or buying all the equipment & tools, basically everything right down to the pack of screws holding the bits of copper pipe to the shuttering.
It currently comes to £3120.
bobbuboy uk said:nice thread
Just popped out whilst swimming in the pool, didn't help that i was in the 3m deep end at the time so had to try & swim out to the edge with my arm out of the socket, that kinda hurt, as did putting it back in myself beside the pool.
I'm a bit accident prone to be honest, managed to slip in the shower after getting back one morning at about 5am after the 4th night there & caught my elbow on one of the taps on the way down, split my elbow open down to what looked like the bone so ended up having stitches, never seen so much blood in my life!
penski said:
My plan was originally to put a Rover V8 in there that had been stroked and maybe bored out to a 4.2 - 4.8, with a weber 4 barrel carb, modified heads, cam, rhoads lifters, etc.
Was doing this as it was going to be an easy option as i know its a relatively easy swap as i can get my hands on a modified sump, engine mounts manifolds & all the other stuff to get it in there along with a 5 Speed LT77 SD1 gearbox.
I'm not too sure now though, i've been looking at Ford 302's a bit over the last couple of months & it's even crossed my mind to put something bigger in there, but i dont really want it to be any more nose heavy than it already is as a 2.8i.
Not planning on making a start till the back end of next year though so theres plenty of tme for me to look into it & decide what to do.
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Standard red mk3 IIRC.
Bit of an update, got 3 more courses on the walls, getting the last of the brickwork done tuesday afternoon and then we can start building the roof trusses during the week & hopefully start putting them in place next weekend.
Following this we are going to fit the main door and then sort the rest of the roof afterwards.
These walls now seem a lot higher than i'd imagined.
Yep, more or less standard MK3 at the moment, the head has to come off this winter though once it's back home & in the garage, having a metal head gasket fitted & i think i've talked him into getting a bit more power out of it whilst it's in bits.
Following this we are going to fit the main door and then sort the rest of the roof afterwards.
These walls now seem a lot higher than i'd imagined.
Yep, more or less standard MK3 at the moment, the head has to come off this winter though once it's back home & in the garage, having a metal head gasket fitted & i think i've talked him into getting a bit more power out of it whilst it's in bits.