It isn't a shed, its a garage.

This has been coming for a long time, but I would be fibbing if the jeep project didn't speed up my progress. I decided to try out some ideas with this project that I would one day like to use in a house. I like the idea of thermal mass and passive solar heat, so I insulated my concrete slab with rigid polystyrene and ran 1/2" pex tubing for in floor radiant heating. To passively heat the slab I placed my roof trusses such that they have a southern exposure. With the addition of three skylights, two straight through for direct sunlight and one into a hot box with a water cylinder painted black, I will use sunlight to brighten and heat the slab through green house affect and passively heating water that will circulate through the slab. I will put in a small hot water boiler in series with the system as back up heat, and the water will have a 20% Etheline Glycol additive for freeze protection. Having the solar collector in the rafters necessitates a pump to circulate the water, since its the reverse orientation for thermo siphoning to work for me. However I intend to use a small 12v pump with a solar cell. The pump doesn't have to do much work, as the system is balanced in terms of head; the only work the pump has to do is overcome the friction of the pipes and the difference in weight of hot vs cool water. Also, I only want the circulation to happen during the day, I don't want cool water circulated through my warmed up slab at night, a solar powered pump would be pretty good at circulating only when heat transfer is needed.

Engine part 3

The Engine has been back from the machine shop for a while now, but all I have gotten a chance to do is wash it out oil up the bores and give it a coat of POR15 and black engine enamel. Looks pretty nice I must say, looking forward to stuffing all the bits back inside. I have received my intake manifold and exhaust header from Clifford and did a trial fit of everything, will post those pics later. Most of my time of late has been fixing the sand blaster and wireing the Bakery for welder action. The electricity has been cut up there for years, and we have been using an extension cord for lights and angle grinders so far, but its time for welding so I needed 220v. Since I am building a garage to house this project, amongst others, after the bakery gets torn down (or falls down, which ever comes first) I bought the direct burial 8/3 cable and breaker box and temporarily ran it up to the bakery.