In two weeks we close on the house.  Since I started driving the kart down here I’ve had a single car garage and for the last year I’ve had a full blown shop in a two car garage.  When we get the house I’ll get the workshop space sorted.  Already have an Ingersoll Rand 3HP, 60 gal single stage compressor on order. 15 CFM @ 90 PSI. I’m going to plumb the shop for at least four air lines.  I’ve had a 180 amp Lincoln MIG welder for a while now and will wire the shop for that plus a few other outlets.  Thanks to help from Dave Robinson at EKN our floor guys are contracted to do a three layer urethane coating on the shop floor.  And I’m about to pull the trigger on a Hypertherm PowerMax 30 so I can get down to some serious cutting.  In a year or two I’ll lease a shop space but for now I need to do it in the garage. Just like I have for the last few years.

The next series of posts will chronicle how I convert a two car garage in the suburbs into a race shop.   It will be enough to build a club racing sports car and keep a shifter karting program going for practice.  After the floor (and a new insulated garage door with a Liftmaster 1/2 HP belt drive opener mechanism), the first purchase is the compressor.  An Ingersoll Rand SS3L3 plumbed for the workspace.  I’ve got most everything else.