What Do You Build When...???

[Mario Johnston]

Curious as to what you guys are building when you're not working on boats??
Cars, instruments, furniture, houses??
Let's see what you're making (or have made)

 

[Mario Johnston]

I spent 5 or 6 years building a 1993 Nissan 240SX coupe. Some of my boat club buddies have seen this thing in person.
I wanted a car I could cruise on the streets, take to car shows, as well as the occasional track day with.
Drifting has been a huge part of my life for the last decade so I built the car to be very capable of sliding through corners very sideways.

And yes, that's a TV in the dash!

 

[Chris Dixon]

Curious as to what you guys are building when you're not working on boats??
Cars, instruments, furniture, houses??
Let's see what you're making (or have made)

I am currently building a 1955 chevy and maintaining my wife’s 1957 chevy. I am also building a 2000 s10 street/drag truck. I have other hobbies including building and playing guitars

 

[Anthony Asaro]

My 71 Cuda with a gen 2 hemi and a 74 Duster with a 318, but I have a 360 stroker waiting to get put in. Here in NY on Long Island we need a permit for our pond and Parks Dept. said construction in the area so no permit issued this year.

 

[Grimracer]

I like to build and work on model trains.
I fly RC airplanes as well as RC Helicopters.
I like model rockets too
I have a few cars.. 2002 Z06 and a 1969 Hurst SC/Rambler.. the corvette and the rambler are destine to REMAIN as stock as i can keep them! (which BTY is work too..LOL)

Being a gear head is a life style! Nice work Mario!

Grim

 

[Wasted wages]

Hey Grim,, that Rambler is sweet dude !!
I wouldn't touch anything on it to change it from stock... it is perfect as is !!

 

[Mike Hughes]

Here is what I do to pay the bills. Did this at a high school I did about 7 years ago. I call it "My seven layer bean dip". 7 layers of conduits in there. Coming from the panels and going to a bunch of contactors to shut down power to all of the outlets in the science labs. Circuits were feeding out of the room at three different directions all cris crossing.

 

[Mario Johnston]

I got a buddy who does that for a living as well. I've always found that huge impressive!

 

[Ray Sametz]

Here is what I do to pay the bills. Did this at a high school I did about 7 years ago. I call it "My seven layer bean dip". 7 layers of conduits in there. Coming from the panels and going to a bunch of contactors to shut down power to all of the outlets in the science labs. Circuits were feeding out of the room at three different directions all cris crossing.




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Smiley, did you pull all the wire also.

 

[Wasted wages]

I'm the guy that designs, builds, installs, wires in, and programs the PLC controls for industrial refrigeration systems.. mostly large industrial freezers and coolers. This panel was designed for controlling a refrigeration rack system in a petrochemical plant.

 

[Mike Hughes]

Smiley, did you pull all the wire also.

That job I did just about everything. Built all electrical rooms. Rough in all the branch racks, pulled all the outlet wire and make up, and even did all the security wire/devices as well.
Me and another guy (Kyle) got er done.

 

[Mike Bontoft]

Not much in the way of good boating lakes here anymore so spending my time machining little engines. Honda GX 160 1/3 scale.

 

[RaceMechaniX]

My side job just for fun now is designing individual throttle body induction systems. At one point this was my full time job then it became a hobby to help the company continue to develop kits. I have worked on single cylinder kits to V12's with customers just as varied. The bread and butter of this business is the V8 kit car market with the likes of Kirkham Cobra's and Roush. We build downdraft's, cross-rams and all sorts of one-offs creations. My favorites were a rollerbarrel induction kit with dual stage injectors for an import dragracer, Gen 3 Hemi V8's and the late model Coyote V8. Some pics below.

 

[ricwally]

I need one of those downdraft induction systems to go on here Tyler!

 

[RaceMechaniX]

We've got 58mm throttles for big blocks. They are produced up in Johnson City. We can swing by and set you up. Just gotta find a manifold that fits your heads.

 

[Jeremyhines]

I like to build and work on model trains.
I fly RC airplanes as well as RC Helicopters.
I like model rockets too
I have a few cars.. 2002 Z06 and a 1969 Hurst SC/Rambler.. the corvette and the rambler are destine to REMAIN as stock as i can keep them! (which BTY is work too..LOL)

Being a gear head is a life style! Nice work Mario!

Grim

 

[Jeremyhines]

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We got something in common.

 

[Grimracer]

Hey.. That SF doodle bug is cool!.. Glad to see I am not the only one!....LOL

Grim

Check out my youtube page (Grimrace1) and you can see a few RR videos I did.. (NOPE.. not great but.. I will get my groove on them at some point! ..LOL)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHDEgZtO_UtFYIjyEnBElQ
Grim

 

[Grimracer]

I use DigiTrax too.. I print and sell these at shows.

Grim

 

[Jeremyhines]

I use DigiTrax too.. I print and sell these at shows.

Grim

Those are nice . I need 4. Lol i have 4 of those panels . I love digatrax.using cheap throttle pockets. I like those how much are they?