Some 14 months after we put my shop in storage, the project car and shop contents are in their new home! In mid-March, my wife and I flew to SLC from CA and rented a U-Haul car carrier for towing the Cobra to our new home. Towing the carrier and Cobra was easy. A moving company took the stuff in storage and brought it down to the Moab area.
Above is a panoramic shot of the space (note: the ceiling isn’t curved). I’m still getting things put away and the shop organized how I want it to be. I can’t find a few things (e.g., a large torque wrench and and a ‘smart’ battery minder) but for the most part everything is accounted for. They’ll show up.
The heating and cooling are done by a mini-split system. The last few days it has been in the mid-90’s in SE Utah and the shop has remained a great temperature. You can see a ceiling fan in the upper left-hand-corner of the photo (there are two) and they work well to break up the thermal layering in the shop. There is a lot of natural light plus the 30,000 lumens of LED lighting. I can also open up the to large doors to connect with the outdoors when it get cooler out.
After all of this time away from the project I’ve had to reacquaint myself with where I was in the build. I left off doing the wiring and I’ve had to spend a lot of time rethinking what I had planned. For me, the wiring has been the least straightforward part of the project. Fortunately, I had the foresight to label many of the wires so some of the scheme came back to me quickly; other parts not so much. Some things that I still need to get for the shop are a large desk that I can sit at, mostly for doing electronic projects, and a beer fridge.
I did make some progress today on the actual car. One of the puzzle pieces from a year ago was the 4 ga. wire going from the positive on the battery to the master cutoff switch. I’d completed the wire and connections but when I went to test the fit I remembered that the battery-end of the wire, i.e., the terminal connector, was just a bit too small to fit over the battery post. The post is 3/4″ and the terminal connector ‘hole’ for going over the battery post was about 1/16″ too small. So, I used a 3/4″ drill bit and carefully enlarged the terminal connector. There is now joy in Mudville.