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We went to the Great Loop Rendezvous, and here is the link to that.

40 minutes ago, RickyD said:

Steve

Have you made any progress on your dream trip? It was so interesting reading of your childhood and your dad. I was not blessed to to be a part of such a lifestyle, though I wouldn’t trade the love I had at home with Dad and Mom and the spiritual background they installed in me. 
I have always had a mind that was full of imagination, loved to read. Louis La’mour was one of my favorite authors and I lived through his writings. I will look forward to your writings and descriptions to do the same!

 

Ricky

Hey Ricky! 
We've headed over to Wheeler State Park in Alabama for a "Looper" Fall Rendezvous. It's a 3 day conference and there will be 25-30+ looper boats (some currently looping, others past loopers) there where you can tour and talk to the owners. I was waiting until then to "actively" start searching for a boat. I have a good idea what I'm looking for, but I'd really like to get on a few of these boats and talk with the owners about what they like, dislike, and what they would change about their boat. 

There is a group on Facebook where you can follow the activity and discussions.

The Great Loop | Facebook

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Welcome to The Great Loop--The "official" group of America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association (AGLCA)TM. This is the longest standing, largest, and most active Great Loop group on Facebook and we...

Registration for the event opens up at 12 noon on the 10th and it fills up fast, I so I need to be speedy. 🙂

Just now, Jeff9702 said:

Happy for you it sounds great. does this mean the weather is really gonna be put on hold? i really miss having my morning while reading your posts.

No, I will still keep track of the weather here and make posts as necessary. But I'll have to track the weather in two locations instead of one! 🙂

On 11/8/2021 at 8:26 PM, SaleenS7TT said:

What's the interior look like?

I'll get some pictures and post them. I just now saw your comment. LOL I need to subscribe to my own blog post I guess. 🙂 

I now have the as-built drawings. Waiting on the equipment list and pricing as well as the room construction cost, and should have those this week.

The door for the refrigerator has arrived and they should be bringing that out to install on Monday. I have 5 more boxes of reclaimed wood (~66 sq ft) coming and that should arrive on Wednesday and hopefully the cedar trim should be here this week as well. I didn't need the extra wood until we started filling in the storage area, but based on the way it's looking, it was worth it. 

Other than framing in the new door, we're at a standstill until the all of the wood arrives. I'll pick up the paint early this week and we could actually go ahead and fix and paint the side walls and ceiling if the painters can work it in. I'd really love to get that done. 

The inset area is really looking good, now I have to figure out what to do with it. 🙂 It's certainly too nice to put the storage tubs back in there. 🙂 I have some ideas but I need to think on it for a while. 

The black on the walls is roofing felt that goes down behind the wood. The wood is thin and has some holes in it, so you either need to paint the wall behind it or use the felt to get a dark background. The closet doors will be painted the trim color as well as the louvered door that will cover the the refrigerator/freezer. 

 A few more updates. We're going to make a change to the trim color to make it darker, as I am not pleased with the color we have now and I already have the new color picked out. 

The wainscoting on the side walls is done, and the focus now is on the back wall. I had plans on adding barn doors over the storage area, but after seeing how it looks with the wood on it, we're decided to move the tubs and rack someplace else and skip the barn doors. So now I have another area I can decorate. 🙂 It's pretty wide, it had that 90x90" steel storage rack in it. 

Here's what the back wall looks like so far. The entire wall will be covered in this wood. We have a door ordered to cover the refrigerator. 

I really like this area now and it would be a shame to cover it up with a rack and storage tubs. The still have to do the side walls in the area as well as the rest of the wall.

This is looking back toward the other end. Those walls are done except for paint (trim color). The doors will be painted the trim color as well. The ceiling will be a midnight blue called "In the Navy" (SW 9178 from Sherwin-Williams) and the trim is called "Cyberspace" (SW 7076 Sherwin-Williams). The walls above the wainscoting will be "Real Red" SW 6868.

I mounted the neon to get the placement correct, and of course it will come back down in order to paint. 

I had a picture framed (24x32) of one of the cars I use to compete in (still do every now and then) and I have another one picture the same size (of a different car) at the framers right now. It will go to the left of the door you see in the picture (far left). 

The opposing wall will have 6 pictures that are created using 3D acrylic, and those pictures have shipped and I should have them on Monday.

The floors have been completed (except maybe for a small closet area) and the wainscoting is going up but we've hit a roadblock. We're going to be using cedar trim for those areas that need it, and we can't get it right now. So the back wall is still not completed since that is where most of the trim goes. We still have to install the baseboards (cedar) and then all the cedar has to be stained a relatively dark color. 

Here's the way it looks so far. The black you see where the baseboard goes is roofing felt that goes on behind the wainscoting. The wood is very thin and is rustic, so it has holes and knots and the felt covers the white of the walls. The darker trim and baseboard (dark gray) will create more of a divide between the wall and floor for it doesn't look like they just run together. The wall above the wainscoting will be a red similar to the color of the car and the ceiling will be a midnight (almost black) blue. The garage doors will be painted the trim color.

I like the way they covered the stairs that lead to the office above the garage.

Thursday, October 28

 The wainscoting arrived today, all 360 square feet of it. It's reclaimed wood planks in 3"-5" widths

You can see that the wainscoting and the floor match pretty well. You can also see that the floor is not yet completed. 🙂

Installation instructions and tips.

Tuesday, October 26

There are some edges left to complete as well as the storage areas, but the floor is mostly done. Wood for the wainscoting will arrive Friday and hopefully that will start to go on the walls next week. That entire back wall that you see in this first image will be covered with the same reclaimed wood as the wainscoting. Barn doors will cover the storage area and a louvered door will cover the refrigerator. The trim around the closet door will come off and will be replaced using the reclaimed wood. THe sink and vanity will go where the garbage can is on the right wall.

It is starting to look more like a room than a garage. 🙂 

October 26

Installation is moving along. The floor should be done today.

October 24

Wainscoting has been ordered and will arrive next Friday, and they will be here Monday to install the floor. 

This is what I'll be using for the wainscoting. It's 3", 4", and 5" reclaimed wood. It will be installed horizontally and have chair rail type border across the top that will be painted the trim color. 

October 23 - Friday

1200 lbs of flooring arrive. They will be here Monday to get it installed.

October 17

A piece of neon arrived today and it looks awesome! I had to hold it up on the wall where it is going to go and it is perfect fit. You see it as soon as you open the door to walk out into the garage. Even though it has a pull cord to turn it on and off, I really need to add a Control4 switch so that the pull cord can be hidden. You don't want to run the neon any longer than you need it to be lit in order to make it last.

The flooring arrives this Friday and we did decided to use the RaceDeck Smoked Oak flooring that looks like this.

The vanity and sink have been ordered and this is the one we are getting. The vanity is 36" wide (38" including the top). The sink will be mounted on the left side instead of the right that you see in the picture and the sink is 19" antique hammered copper. I hope to mount a spigot on the left side (the side you see in this image) so that I can hook up a hose to a hot water source for washing the cars. 

We have also decided to use barn doors on the back wall to cover the storage area. I really struggled with this decision since these aren't cheap. The deciding factor was the fact that we wanted to do something different on the back wall, and the door style would go perfect with the wainscoting and the floor. Plus, I was going to need custom doors anyway since the opening is 83". The wood color will be similar to what, but we will need to have two doors. Each door needs to be about 44" wide (so it covers the trim), so they aren't small. I won't be using "wheels" as large as what you see here since I don't have a lot of space between the door trim and the ceiling. The doors come with a header board (that matches the doors) that the track mounts to, and there has to be a minimum of 6.5" between the door trim and ceiling to put that. 

The actual door "style" is like this. Also, notice the smaller wheels on top than the picture above. Ours will be the same size wheels but black. All door trim/screws will be black.

We are still working on the colors, but we have it narrowed down. The ceiling is going to be a color like what you see here, something like a midnight blue. When done, the ceiling will just fade away under the LED lights.

Trim color will be some shade of a darker gray. This is called Forged Steel.

So that leaves the wall area above the wainscoting (which will be a rustic lapboard). We are currently thinking something like this.

I'm working on some ideas for the walls that primarily involve pictures, but I need to get with Amanda to talk about those and get her opinion. I also trying to come up with a way to display some trophies that I have, but I'll figure that our later.

October 4

The demolition started today.

Before...

After...

The baseboard was pulled up around the entire wall, that will be pre-painted and put on after the floor is installed so painting won't mess up the floor which tucks up underneath the baseboard.

The areas of the sheetrock that will be exposed have to be repaired and the wainscoting needs to go on before the floor goes in. Right now it takes two weeks to get the floor but I need to time it so it's not sitting outside for very long. The sink and vanity will take a little longer but it needs to go in after the floor goes down anyway.  We have a new idea for the back wall and how to cover the storage rack as well as how we want to cover that wall. 🙂 More on that coming up... 🙂

October 3

In the garage is a white tub sink that is very useful, but also very unattractive, so I want to replace that with some more fitting for the new room. Notice I didn't call it a garage. 🙂 LOL!

You can see the sink in this image. While it's VERY functional, it is very ugly. One nice thing I do like about it is that I can hook up a hose to the faucet and get hot water to wash the cars when it's cold out. That comes in VERY handy. 

So to replace that, these are what I'm thinking about. I would get a 36" wide version (the current sink is about 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep). I would also get the sink mounted to the left or right of the cabinet instead of the center so I can have some drawer space for cleaning items etc. The other thing I will do is add a spigot on the left side of the cabinet so I could still use a hose for hot water. Gotta have my hot water. 😉 

You have a choice for sinks and you can even get it with no sink, but I like the hammered copper.

Rustic Reclaimed Barn Wood Sink Center Bathroom Vanity

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The guys may be out here tomorrow to start ripping the shelves off the wall and start patching some holes where the electrical work was done. We haven't decided on the final wainscoting for the wall, so I need to get with Amanda about that. The baseboards have to be removed and raised so the new floor can slide underneath, and those will be painted before they go back on the wall. Amanda has my floor sample and is working on a color scheme for the room. We know the ceiling is going to be dark, and we've initially talked about a really dark blue (think planetarium blue) so that the ceiling just fades away. 

We're making progress but it's never fast enough. 🙂 While we're redesigning this room, I also have a company designing our new media room, we have new motorized shades coming for the big windows in the house, and we are replacing our motorized screens on the upper deck with motorized vinyl so we can better utilize the deck during bad weather. Fun times. 🙂 I must be crazy....

On 8/24/2021 at 5:45 AM, Dyan said:

That's pretty awesome!!

It's a blast to drive but not without any traction. 🙂

On 6/24/2021 at 6:35 AM, Dyan said:

Wow, nice cars, they look great!!

Thanks! Our toys!!! Seems like I'm always washing them so they stay clean, but it's hard not to drive them! 

On 4/17/2021 at 12:27 PM, Reverand said:

So you are running up to e50 with just the pump and no lpfp?  

Rev

It has a HPFP and LPFP and is now running on E72

2 hours ago, Reverand said:

Turbobay turbos, is this upgraded?

It is in the shop right now, I'll be making a new post shortly.

2 hours ago, Reverand said:

Turbobay turbos, is this upgraded?

Yes, this is the one with Turbobay turbo's.

02/22/21

My car has been at the dealer another 10 days. Cadillac was called on Friday. I finally got to talk to the technician and explained what was going on, so he now knows what do to. What a waste of a month.

The good news is the the wheels for the wife's car have shipped! Now I need to call Gran Turismo East and get scheduled to install. The images below are the wheels on my car, and hers are EXACTLY the same in every aspect except for the rear offset which is slightly different between the coupe and sedan.

02/18/21

The low pressure fuel pump arrived today and James Renick said the wheels are in the box and should ship out tomorrow. I also received the AEM wideband AFR sensors and gauges that will be used in the tuning process. 

Part of my problem is finding any place with dyno time.

I'm really torn here. I've paid good money to Trifecta to get a good tune, and I think it's ok. But I see guys making big power with very little mods, and I feel like I'm missing out. Here's an example. Compare the mods...
I will have downpipe, flex fuel sensor, 35% fuel pump, and E47.

I should be making this much or more after Justin's tune, "if" that's who I go with. With Trifecta, just not sure I'll even have 600. 

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Before Mod: downpipe, flex sensor, Schmidty Tuned on E30

After Mods: downpipe, flex fuel sensor, Tapout 21% fuel cam, and Schmidty Tuned on E47

The only change that has been made is the fuel cam and of course tuning to get the most from the fuel cams additional fuel capacity.

Peak power gains were still impressive, going from 592/555 to 622/606, however the power gains under the curve are really where this mod shines.

From 4,000 RPM to 5,500 RPM we are seeing gains of 50-60 ft lb of torque and 30-60 rwhp