Projects bilding a motor inside your house

I rebuild a 302 in my living room once,(Late 70's) when I didn't have a garage, and was single. Then took it 200 miles, installed it in a 66 mustang and drove it back the 200 miles. Wouldn't even think about doing it now. Besides, I now have a house with a garage.

 

An uncle of a friend of mine dismantled his new Harley in his dining room, right down to the last nut, bolt and gasket because he thought the government was "bugging" him with listening devices...true story

 

Lots of motorcycles. My 73 Z1 900 engine complete down to splitting the cases to replace broken gears and all. More motocross engines than I can remember. The spare bedroom was my moto shop.
And when I was in the main stages of constructing my custom, my whole house was filled with fenders, wheels, hood, trunk lid, etc. to leave room to work in the garage.
Not so bad, the wife was cool with it, but my house is also my home office, so when clients came over it got some pretty strange looks out of them.
But one of my customers was so enthused, he decided to build his own custom.
Not in his house tho'

 

Wow what a trip this is. I thought I was crazy for keeping my Schwinns in the house. When I was younger I stored a 360 Mopar motor on a stand next to a stack of mounted Cragar S/S wheels in my Mom's living room. She wasn't too thrilled, but let me get away with it. Right as I started reading this thread, my Mom showed up and helped me assemble shelving in the front room of my house to put all my car / Schwinn / motorcycle parts on as I have no garage. I spent today trying to figure out where to put my BSA to keep it out of the weather - hmm I think I know where it's going.

BTW, for you guys that keep your bikes in the house, do you drain out the gas tanks? Do the carbs ever leak on the floor. What's the best way to store a bike in the house? Only on the HAMB...LOL.

 

I built a sbc tall block in my basement one winter and painted it too. Of course I had a helava time getting out so I had to take the heads off and get a friend to help carry the block. Fortunately it is a daylight basement so we didn't have to climb stairs. I am a real genius sometimes. Never tought about the weight.

 

back in the mid 80's i raced flat track on honda ATC's.
we lived in a small duplex, no garage, not even a driveway. i built all my motors on the coffee table, i had a homebuilt beadbreaker set up in the "dining room". spare tires, wheels ect stacked up where i could find room.
both the race bikes were chained to a tree out back, covered with a tarp

egads wtf was i thinking

 

Did any of you A-holes rent a house from me in OK in the late 90s? You still owe me $3,000.

 

keep em coming !

 

Back in 1986 I ported and polished a set of small block Chevy cylinder heads and an aluminum intake manifold. Also did carb. rebuilds and other important automotive tasks in our spare bedroom. We lived in that joint about a year before we bought our first place with a garage. The wife said she kinda missed the smell of gas/grease and oil and the sound of that die grinder at 1 in the morning .....NOT!

 

I have a fordomattic transmission in my living room right now. Built my first chopper in the bed room of my parents house. I have only assembled cylinder heads in the house have not yet built an engine in the house yet. I will before it's all over.

 

That's funny, thanks for the laugh and causing me to spit coffee on my keyboard.

 

I knew a guy that watched another guy at work tear his welder apart because he thought someone was hiding in it. Meth is a hell of a drug.

 

Does cutting up deer in the spare bedroom count for anything?[/QUOTE]

We dressed out a deer in my bathroom. Too damn cold outside. Good thing the bathroom was in the middle of a remodel anyway.

 

Built a VW twin weber 44 IDF carbed 2 liter on the kitchen table of my parents house. Cleaned the pistons on a cookie sheet, rods in a tupperware etc. My mom was thrilled!! The catch was it couldnt stay there......so I carried it to my room every night when I was done!

 

You dont have any pics of the threesome do ya. Maybe some home videos. Just curious.
All that chrome What a vision

 

Here's a shovelhead goin together in the kitchen, but it was her motor so I guess thats why it went down so smooth

 

Sort of - my former employer ordered one of these and wanted it placed inside his office. It was up about three stairs with a 90 degree approach, and with no warning, I was asked to grab a few metric tools in case we needed to remove a winglet. Well I grabbed a small travel box and was pleased when it turned out the thing was SAE fasteners (UK car, UK boss you'd think he'd know) and was thrilled to have to disassemble the right side and under tray with one to two sockets, and a set of Allen wrenches. Of course it arrived late at night in the country side - no where to go get some tools and miles from the shop.

Best part was trying to get it through the door, turned 90 degrees on its left wheels, on two carpeted furniture dollys - and the roll hoop hits the door frame.

 

btt

 

had a friend who built a sprint car in his living room, all winter we sat on his davanport and used the frame for a footrest
come spring he grabbed a chainsaw and sawed down the wall and put ramps down to ground and pushed it out,
ah the old days of racing, like tipping a sprint car on the side and putting in new used bearings, made about 10 laps sure got the photogrphers on the site!!!

 

when I got married in 73 I had a bike room in our 2nd story apt, I also built a 331" sbc when we lived in a basement apartment layed out the parts on the kitchen table cover with a white bed sheet washed the block in the bath tub and carried the completed motor up stairs to the parking lot where a neighbor help me install it by hand to-day I have a 47 knuckle sitting next to me as I write this

 

The only way I would try that is if I wanted to get a letter
from an Attorney that the wife filed and my "Duds" in a bag on the front porch !!!!!!! LOL Tom (Tired Old Man)

 

How the hell did you carry 500 lbs of engine out of a basement? Maybe you should enter the world's strongest man contest.

 

Yeah, you gotta do that stuff while you are young, before all your buddies have bad backs, when it only takes a day and a few beers to recover from the injuries and before you know any better!

 

When I first bought my Harley I put it in the dining room of my rental house. For some reason I thought it wold get too cold in the garage, parked the HD right next to the rice burner I was selling. Couple times a night I would walk into the dining room and fire up the HD, just to hear it run, fill up the dining room with fumes and shut it off. Freakin house was so old and had so many leaks I had good air again in about a half hour.

 

Built several in the house.

Built a '36 Flathead Harley complete in the living room as well as a '49 Panhead. Once built complete including paint in the spare bedroom and once the engine in the living room on the coffee table (did the machine works somewhere else).

Pre unit BSA in the living room.

Many carbs and a couple of trannies, and heads ported in the kitchen.
Porting is messy BTW, never let the wife cook while the dremmel is whining.

The SBC that I currently own in the living room (again machine work somewhere else).

I currently have a 394 Olds complete with a B&M Hydro here in my office (in the house). They will both get torn down for inspection where they sit.
The mill will most likely get reassembled here. I'm hopeing for no machine work, but that remains to be seen.

I'll probably freshen the SBC right here in the office also.

I have a large one car garage but it is full of project car I could probably pull the SBC down in there but it would be tight, I have a table down here that I can spread my parts out on for assembly.

I'm sure I've missed something other than to say that Mrs Beaner is extremley tolerant.

 

I built my first seriuos race engine in the kitchen, it was a 460 Ford. Got it built & rolled it through the living room to get it onto the front porch where I had built a ramp to get it on the ground. Damn thing wouldn't fit through the door! Had to pull the intake & heads to get it outside

 

Hmmm, could be my wife's uncle Gary...never understood why all crazy people think the gov't is bugging them.

My old man and his friends used to do VW engines in the kitchen.

I've done ONE carb rebuild on the kitchen table. I've been "instructed" that won't be happening again.

Had to throw this in here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxemEXkSSg&feature=related

 

Next, we investigate the reactions of women to cleaning parts in the dishwasher and curing enamel spraypaint in the oven...
Did you realize that what smells good to us does not to them???

 

Back in the 80's I had a 396 in the kitchen in my mobil home , built a 351 C and many tranies in that same kitchen over a couple of years time .
Heck right now my 1961 Simplex go kart is in the living room of our house .

Brian

 

On the History channel a few years back, there was a documentery about how Lamborghini started his motor co., and the story went on to how well his cars sold.
The high point of the story is that a customer contracted a $650,000,00.00 car and had it delivered to his house south of Springfield Missouri, and placed behind his couch in the window overlooking Springfield Lake just to "piss off" his wife.




I can make mine mad much cheaper.