Built a new "high" end parking spot for the Z today
 

Oil changes and wrenching just got a whole lot easier ;)

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Hopefully it never leaks LOL.
That is awesome!!


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It has thick plastic drip trays just in case :)
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Nice!! Thought of everything. I love it!


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Damn! I envy you so much right now! Haha superb man! Congrats!


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That's awesome man. How hard was the install for a lift like that, and what the price on that? How close does the garage door get when it is fully up, it's hard to tell in that one photo looks like your garage is pretty long so there's lots of room.

I'm sooo damn jealous!

Awesome!

Looks like the same lift I got. My garage is quite a bit smaller than yours, so space is very cramped. Yours has enough space to go full height, my lift can only go 8 locks when there is a certain car on it. A couple can only fit up to 7 locks, one can fit with only 6 locks and the truck can't fit on the lift. A part of the garage ceiling had to be cut out to clear the windshields. Here is a picture of my garage, I don't have one with my 370Z on the lift.

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Sweet. I would love to get one of these, but my garage is incredibly short. Whats the going rate for one of these lifts (if you don't mind sharing)?

A lift from Direct Lift is on my must buy list. I also need to rework the ceiling so I can get full hight out of it and park another car under it.

Install was a good 5 hours but I did almost all of it by myself. It was fun actually. Price was a little over $2k is all. I thought it was going to be more. I still have a foot of clearance to the top of the garage door when it is open so tomorrow I'm planning on putting the caster kit on and moving it back some. Still plenty of room in the garage to fully open all doors and lots of length. Loving the lift so far though thanks!

Looks good man! I was hoping to get my lifted tacoma under the Z but it is two inches to high. It fits if the lift is off the blocks and just on the cables but I'm not going to do that obviously. Luckily my wife doesn't mind parking under it

Not at all. ..paid $2200

Sweeet!!!!

Good stuff man! Wish I had something like that.

Phuck Trump, I nominate you for President!!!!

Hoists are awesome!
I have a 2 post myself at home.

At full height like that, there shouldn't be any problem with head clearance unless your wife is exceptionally tall.

I would suggest removing the ramps when it's in storage height just to be safe. Also, it seems your garage door is in the way; mine was too and I had a friend reposition the tracks so the door now hugs the ceiling at 1/4" clearance. The opener was changed to jackshaft-drive type which facilitates a wider ceiling cut-out opening.

If only it could resize pictures too.

Looks awesome!

Good points I'm going to have to look into the door going higher. Thabks!

After looking at this chit. I need a BIGGER garage. :shakes head:

OP, what are the dimensions of ur garage? Standard 20 x 20? And ceiling height?


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It is a little oversized. it's 23 feet wide by 26 feet long for the main area. Then it continues on another 15 feet by 8 feet wide on the right side where I keep a big tool box and my reloading bench. Sp technically the right side is 38 feet deep. 11.5 foot ceiling. Most of it has old carpet remnants through it and I keep it clean and organized. Nice to have my own space :)

I got a 5 lbs garage with 20 lbs of crap in it. :shakes head: If things work out. I'll have a 30'x30' built in the back yard in the next year or 2. :tup:

I'm in the same boat. Everything is fitting within a few inches of clearance. Garage door in retracted position to the nose of the car on the lift, roof of car to the lift underside, rear bumper of car on lift to back wall is measured in less than one inch, one side tires of car on lift to the lift itself, hood of car to ceiling.

Hell, even the truck fits in the garage with 2" to the wall and under 2" to the garage door. The truck headlight sits only about 3" or less from the lift reservoir. Left side truck OSRV mirror has to be folded when driving into garage and the right side clears the lift column by 2-3".

Parking a car under the lift requires finesse or right side OSRV mirror would scrape. Each car must be perfectly placed under the lift or it will bump, scrape, or damage an immovable object inside the garage. I also have to be on top of snow removal so driveway is free of ice, so the vehicle being "loaded" into the garage doesn't spin its rear tires and send its side kissing and crunching the garage door framework since clearance is mere few inches on both sides.

Each vehicle has an assigned parking stop. Misplaced or setting the stop for a wrong vehicle means pseudo disaster of various consequences. If one (or more) of those bolts or nuts holding the lift lock plate failed or one of the cables snapped, it would make for a very very bad day in a blink of an eye. Imagining one makes me cringe and shudder.

Plenty of space for that beautiful ride. Looks cozy!

Not really. Can't swing a dead cat without hitting something. :shakes head: There is alot more stuff in there since those pictures was taken.

Your garage is twice the size of mine. It's a one car from 1949. I would show you a picture of my Z in it, but it won't fit until I get everything out of there.

I have one foot on either side of the garage door and about 4 feet from the nose to the wall when I finally get it in.

very nice