What are you building that prevents you from working on your cars?

[Lids]

All of us have excuses why are projects seem to take years even decades.

so i though I would start a thread whereby you can show what you are doing instead of working on your car.

For the last month or so, I have been sorting out my front garden.  New top soil, levelled, edging, grass sead.  Landscape fabric and bark.

Finally a new fence to stop rubbish blowing into my garden.

[karl h]

good thread
i have to build i stupid firewall along the side of my carport. working on it for a week now (at 37° )

[henk]

no garden work for me.
i still have to finish of my motorbike gonna make it look like a racing,lots of carbon,...
cost a fortune as well.
and when this one is done i have another one standing for a retoration.

henk!!!

[Fastbrit]

What am I building? An overdraft!

[Neil Davies]

What am I building? An overdraft!

That's one of the reasons I'm having a clearout! That and the fact that I'm building a collection of projects I'll never build!

Housewise in the last year or two I've redone the bathroom, new wooden floor in the hall and lounge, replaced all the internal doors (just need to fit doorhandles...) and built an outdoor run for my cats - we've got eight, including three pedigrees, all housecats! Next project is the garden - that'll be a monster...

[Bendik]

Bsa B50, various scooters and a line of pushbikes..

[iowa mark]

A little one-man roofing.

[stealth67vw]

I'm in the middle of a frame off restoration of a 2004 Kia Sephia.

[Rennsurfer]

Pulling the frames off of uni-bodied cars is quite a challenge, too. I wish you well with your endeavor, John.

[j-f]

Too much things to do, to much quick projects that turn to major rebuild and all the little things that kill your planning and motivation.

Like burst a tire and wait 2 hours to have it changed...

[speedwell]

i've started to clean the original engine of my 61 , removing old grease etc... , just for the fun 

[JezWest]

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A nicer place to split wood. Six months ago this was a vast pile of (frozen) soil and bricks. This is why my rims are minging!

[TexasTom]

This!

Xr100/CR85 Expert build:

BBR aluminum perimeter frame conversion!
Stock, NEW Cr85expert swingarm, subframe, lower triples, disc brakes, etc.
Stock Showa front forks lowered 2" internally and revalved by Department of Suspension
TAG billet upper triple clamp and bars
Rear Ohlins shock lowered internally 1" and revalved as well
Custom built wheels: Excel 2.5" & 3.5" X 17" rims f/r on anodized billet hubs with stainless spokes, 90 & 120 X 17 Brigestone Battlax slicks f/r, balanced
Engine - NEW CRF100 engine with following mods:
Takegawa 115cc high compression piston & cylinder
Takegawa big valve, high flow cylinder head with mild porting and Takegawa camshaft
BBR ignition revbox
Kitaco rotorless ignition
Custom intake manifold, match ported
CRF150 carb, jetted
BBR coated exhaust, silencer w billet tip
428 chain conversion
modified stock airbox to accept BBR ramflo filter assembly

Wow, it seems as if there's SO MUCH MORE going on here! LOL

[richie]

This!

Xr100/CR85 Expert build:

BBR aluminum perimeter frame conversion!
Stock, NEW Cr85expert swingarm, subframe, lower triples, disc brakes, etc.
Stock Showa front forks lowered 2" internally and revalved by Department of Suspension
TAG billet upper triple clamp and bars
Rear Ohlins shock lowered internally 1" and revalved as well
Custom built wheels: Excel 2.5" & 3.5" X 17" rims f/r on anodized billet hubs with stainless spokes, 90 & 120 X 17 Brigestone Battlax slicks f/r, balanced
Engine - NEW CRF100 engine with following mods:
Takegawa 115cc high compression piston & cylinder
Takegawa big valve, high flow cylinder head with mild porting and Takegawa camshaft
BBR ignition revbox
Kitaco rotorless ignition
Custom intake manifold, match ported
CRF150 carb, jetted
BBR coated exhaust, silencer w billet tip
428 chain conversion
modified stock airbox to accept BBR ramflo filter assembly

Wow, it seems as if there's SO MUCH MORE going on here! LOL

Tom arent you a little big for that?

[TexasTom]

It aint the size, it's how you USE it! LOL

ULTIMATE pit bike?
Anyhow, it's a freakin' BLAST to get together and race in the parking lot with friends.
They even have classes to race at local tracks, but I prefer the lot.
When you're on someone's fender, speed no longer is perceptable ... it'll go about 50 with current gearing.
Turbo?

HeHe

[Eric Ellis (57HotrodVW)]

Tom arent you a little big for that?

I know that I am... (but that doesn't stop me from having fun!)

Tom - my CRF50 has a BBR 106cc motor and I'm gathering parts to build a similar motor for my Z50RD. Build thread at http://www.tinyurl.com/TxZ50RD

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[mg]

what you are doing instead of working on your car.
For the last month or so, I have been sorting out my front garden.  New top soil, levelled, edging, grass sead.  Landscape fabric and bark.
Finally a new fence to stop rubbish blowing into my garden.

looking good. 
same here garden work, tools of torture. 
Garden thing of beauty and a job forever, it will take all the effort you put into it.
40 roses and a dozen Plumarias make springtime something to look forward to.
Downside is it can fill 10 cans of greens a week this time of year.
 

[Dyno-Don]

Mostly other cars! Although I did just complete an addition to the garage.
I am in the middle of a 29 Ford Roadster Pick Up ground up build for a friend, along with my own 37 Ford Coupe, my 63 Falcon Convertible Auto Cross car and I still need to finish the new motor for the Anglia Gasser. Seems like work just gets in the way! LOL

[Lids]

Latest thing to happen is the back garden:

[bugnut68]

What am I building?  At present, I'm working on increasing both my level of patience as well as my checking account, as both have been taxed by my current engine build.  Lol.