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Old Dec 21, 2022 | 03:14 PM
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I keep going to the SSB site and adding the whole CT9a setup to my cart. Then contemplating life.
Lol. So fun fact, Someone buying out my stash of Rear and most Front uprights. And I just stocked up!
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Old Dec 21, 2022 | 04:14 PM
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Fun fact: There's an FP Evo (SCCA, not Forced Performance) for sale locally but I couldn't do anything without space. I really want to buy that and throw my plethora of SSB parts on it and see what happens. It's already gutted so no worries about ruining a pristine example. That or get a Supra. Giggity.
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Old Dec 22, 2022 | 11:19 AM
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Got bored of renting a crappy rent house and bought a house with a 3-car garage. I cannot wait to have space and a lift.
le sigh. I miss my 3 car so much, soo much room for activities. 2 car is just not the same.
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Old Dec 22, 2022 | 11:27 AM
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le sigh. I miss my 3 car so much, soo much room for activities. 2 car is just not the same.
I sold my house with 3 car garage + 10,000 lbs Atlas lift this summer. I have to say it was nice but for me it meant I had a 3/4 car garage (just enough to park my Tesla to charge) and an Evo shell + parts sprawled throughout for the better part of 4 years. Lack of space has been a good motivational factor to actually get the car together. If I got that expansive a setup again I'm sure my car will be blown apart into a million pieces again.
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Old Dec 22, 2022 | 12:32 PM
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le sigh. I miss my 3 car so much, soo much room for activities. 2 car is just not the same.
I'm with you. I have two cars in the garage, one in the driveway, one under my patio cover, and one straight up parked in my backyard white trash style.
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Old Dec 22, 2022 | 12:56 PM
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I 3D printed some brake caliper templates for fitment testing.

RPF-1 has terrible brake clearance. Doesn't help that the Evo brake rotors have such a low offset. Would be much easier to fit bigger brakes if the rotor could be moved inboard a tiny bit like other vehicles.
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Old Dec 22, 2022 | 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Dallas J
Lol. So fun fact, Someone buying out my stash of Rear and most Front uprights. And I just stocked up!
I'll prob be doing it mid next year some time.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by V.8MR
le sigh. I miss my 3 car so much, soo much room for activities. 2 car is just not the same.
2 car
3 car
4 car … or more …. it’ll never be enough
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 08:50 AM
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Even 2 car garages are a luxury in my area. Houses here are 100 years old and nobody was leaving room for 2 car garages back then.

I lucked into a house with a weirdly shaped lot that allowed me to build a 2-gar garage. Luxury around these parts.

I've been searching for a new house in this area with a bigger garage for literally years. Earlier this year I got a severe case of COVID and did basically nothing for 7-10 days. As soon as I start catching up on e-mail, I see alerts for one house with a 4-car garage and another with a perfect space for a big 3-car buildout.

Both were well under contract by the time I saw the listings, naturally.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 02:14 PM
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2 car
3 car
4 car … or more …. it’ll never be enough
There's a neighborhood in my town where a couple of homes have two, two car garages and an RV garage. All connected. Basically a five-car garage/shop. I want one so bad. Stick a lift in the RV parking spot and done.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 02:18 PM
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There's a neighborhood in my town where a couple of homes have two, two car garages and an RV garage. All connected. Basically a five-car garage/shop. I want one so bad. Stick a lift in the RV parking spot and done.
Let's be honest. If you bought this house you'd end up with 13 cars somehow.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 02:41 PM
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We have a 3 car garage but I'm only allowed to part 1 functional car in. My shop is technically 2 car with just 2 doors. Half of it is machine shop and right now about 1/4 is being taken up by pallets of raw material, riding mower, and compact tractor.

So even with about 2600sqft of total floor space, I have 2 spots for a car right now. Was going to buy an NC miata to play with but dumped all that money into a new CNC.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Construct
Let's be honest. If you bought this house you'd end up with 13 cars somehow.
Well.....I have five or six so far.... I'm half way there.
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Dallas J
We have a 3 car garage but I'm only allowed to part 1 functional car in. My shop is technically 2 car with just 2 doors. Half of it is machine shop and right now about 1/4 is being taken up by pallets of raw material, riding mower, and compact tractor.

So even with about 2600sqft of total floor space, I have 2 spots for a car right now. Was going to buy an NC miata to play with but dumped all that money into a new CNC.
What new CNC did you get?

And how thick do you have to pour the concrete when doing a buildout to support big CNC machines? Anything thicker than normal at this scale?
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Old Dec 23, 2022 | 09:06 PM
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What new CNC did you get?

And how thick do you have to pour the concrete when doing a buildout to support big CNC machines? Anything thicker than normal at this scale?
Basically the entry level 5 axis. UMC500ss. I couldnt make a 5axis trunnion work for the size of uprights so this was sorta the only real direction I could go.

Concrete for my shop is 6" fiber reinforced. But 4" concrete is plenty for the UMC500 and VF2 I have. If I went with like a UMC750 or other larger framed machined I may have to cut out a chunk and do 8".
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