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Thank you! Sometimes I wonder if all the work is worth it, but then it does allow me to enjoy things like this and having fun with my car on the track. My wife talked me into buying a car just for fun a few years back, which was a first for me after spending 20+ years focusing on providing for...

For right now I don't plan to get into racing. That said, I'm currently doing a lot of things I never "planned" to do at one point or another. LOL

I expect to do HPDE events for several more years, so having a shop to work on the car makes things much easier. It certainly results in accumulating a lot of stuff. When the kids grew up and moved out we downsized from our 3,000sf house in a subdivision to a 900sf farmhouse that is 100 years...

It’s a 30x40. I thought about going bigger, but didn’t want to pay the extra it would have cost. I only plan to have one car in the shop at a time, so it works for me. Of course the problem is all the junk I tend to accumulate, which seems to take up more space than I ever plan.

Which is why I don’t plan on posting anything about my shop on Facebook or Instagram. Too many of those people know where I live. 🤣

Sorry, I’ve got about all I can handle with two sons and five grandchildren. :cwl:

I’ve been working on cars since I got my first piece of junk at 15 years old, which I had to share with my sister. That was over 30 years ago, and since then I’ve done a little of everything on my vehicles. I’ve rebuilt engines under the carport including using a cherry picker in the dirt. Fun...

Whichever cooler you choose, be sure it is going to have adequate airflow. I was originally planning to install the oem cooler, but I think the Dark Horse bumper has vents for air to run through the cooler, where the GT does not have the vents. I was worried the oem cooler would not have...

I went back and looked at Steeda's installation and review video of the Magneride Progressive springs, and your pictures look like what they have on the table for installation in the video. I would say you have the correct springs. You can see the springs on the table for much of this video...

I have these springs on my car, but I’m not certain of the difference in what you have versus the photo. Is the part number printed on the spring where you could check to be sure it’s the right number? BTW, those are the rear springs, not the front.

I do understand the concern. There are two main reasons why I do much of the work on my car myself. 1. I know exactly what has been done, and that everything was done according to manufacturer specs. 2. I can mix and match the parts and materials from different manufacturers based on my...

Regardless, it's still worth it to me to save the hassle. Most other automotive work I do myself, thus the reason I installed a lift in my shop, but oil changes are worth the cost for me at this stage in life. Twenty years ago, I was more worried about saving $15 (or $50 bucks); now I'm more...

True. Pricing varies. Right now, I’m willing to pay as much as $100 for the labor at the dealer to keep me from messing with an oil change. It’s worth it to me to save the hassle.

$165.70 for an oil change with full synthetic.

My last oil change was in my 2021 F-250 7.3. Total cost was $77.88. Oil and filter cost is around $60-65.

I’m 47 years old and still perfectly capable of changing my own oil. Since I was 15 I have worked on my own, and others, cars and used to always perform oil changes myself. I recently built a new shop and installed a two post lift to do automotive work. I generally enjoy working on vehicles...

In lowering both my S550 and S650 I did not add a bump steer kit, and I never noticed any bump steer. I haven’t had any issues even with tracking my S650.

LOL. It's not the lights that concern me, it's the pop up messages that cover up the main dashboard display items.

I've not been able to find any answers in the forums regarding what notifications and warnings display if you remove the driver's seat in an S650. I will be installing a racing seat for use on the track, and I'm wondering what types of warnings and notifications the car will give? My main...

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