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📌 Welcome to Garage Therapy
Sometimes the best mod is just clearing your head.
This group is built for those moments in between the wrenching and racing — when you just need to talk it out, vent a little, or remind yourself why you fell in love with this culture in the first place.
Whether you’re deep in a 2 a.m. garage spiral, fighting off burnout, or riding high off a perfect weekend cruise — this space is for you.
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What This Group Is For:
Do you remember the feeling of when you got your first garage? You finally moved out of that apartment or that tiny house at the end of the road and are looking at your new garage feeling the weight fall off of your shoulders, knowing you have a place to get lost now. A place to find solace.
What was the first thing you did when you got your first garage? What was your first project in it?
What did garage therapy help you get through this last year?
I hope everyone is having a fantastic day remember some one out there loves u an cares about you
As we welcome the new year, how do you plan to use your garage as a therapeutic space? Any new projects, organizational goals, or self-care rituals you’re incorporating into your automotive haven?
Organizing the garage, getting some stuff up on the walls and been looking into refinishing the floor so that is super noice.
What is the worst part about your build, and what has been the most rewarding?
I think the worst part of the build on the driftcar, is the Aces EFI system that’s on it I’m still figuring out how to navigate the programming, and sort through the previous owners poor execution of wiring and exhaust routing and other things. BUT. Since I got it up and running, that sweet sweet slap of that cam makes a fella happy.
Worst Garage Injury/Mistake: Share a story of a time your 'therapy' session went wrong (and how you fixed it)."
As the weather gets colder we all know the motivation begins to lack when it comes to getting your ass in the garage and getting to work. What helps motivate you to get out there and start wrenchin?
First of all, a heater in the garage helps a TON. Just saying! Personally I don't love extremely hot or cold weather. So spring is usually chaos trying to get things I ordered at Christmas installed and wrap up any winter projects to get ready for the first car meet of the year and fall is when I get to actually enjoy being in the garage working on and installing all the parts I've collected over the summer. Being on a budget usually, it can sometimes make progress feel painfully slow. But spending the summer collecting parts and making plans and then being able to make some big moves when the weather gets tolerable is a really good feeling.
I've got vinyl in hand that needs to go on my roof, some tint that needs installed, fog lights ready to go on, some stereo upgrades to make, and a set of wheels to refinish this fall/winter and I'm more than a little anxious to get in the garage and do it!
The question was posed a while back, "What is your garage to you? How do you see that space?" Well, I've never been good at short answers and this is no exception so please bear with me. If you'll indulge a longer post, I'd like to tell some of my story and share some thoughts I've been mulling over and sorting out for the last few weeks.
Here goes...
Growing up, my younger brother and I spent countless hours in the garage shoulder to shoulder with my Dad and grandfathers and uncles doing everything from a timing belt on Mom's Dodge Grand Caravan to a transmission swap on Dad's Mazda MX-3 to learning to adjust carburetor jets on Grandpa Dave's '57 Chevy coupe. We built small block Chevy motors for my uncle's dirt track cars and tuned up boat motors and built and modified go-karts. The list could go on…
lemme hear it - what is the most annoying thing you have broken while trying to wrench for clarity? Only to find yourself more upset.
Exhaust bolts in general due to rust (thanks NJ). Also, brake lines (incl. broken hard lines), same issue, and bleeding brakes is always a pain, especially when alone. I love upgrading brakes, but broke a bolt that held my caliper together once, drilling that out and re-tapping it, not fun
What’s a “therapy drive” spot you swear by when you just need to clear your head?
In Ohio, 10/10 the back country roads through Waynesville. In Canada, Waverly Road in NS (name speaks for itself) lol
What are a couple must play garage songs that are therapeutic for you? Something that makes you either feel big feelings or makes all your feelings fake away. Whatever calms the storm in your mind as it drowns out in the background.
I love punk and hardcore, but for me it's a nostalgia thing of having classic rock on, as that's what always plays when I'm at my dad's wrenching away
When you see “Garage Therapy” what do you think of? What is your hope to get out of being a part of this discussion board? I wanna hear about why it is you found yourself in this group.
Venting usually about time or lack thereof to finish xyz project currently in the “garage” or being worked on.
Fridays are for paychecks, which means… car parts 👀 what do you have sitting in your cart waiting for that check to clear?
More like what do I have sitting on my work bench that I'm too lazy to install right now lol
So been waiting almost 3 months for my custom vertex bumper to be finished and painted.. painter is dragging his feet but can’t say much because he’s doing it for free along with my new widebody fenders.. but damn 🥲 he’s had my bumper almost 3 weeks. Keeps telling me the end of this week.. well we’re coming up on 4 weeks and now it’s Monday he will get to them with my fenders. I have a show in 8 days I thought I’d be more than prepared for and finished with paint. But uhhh.. 😬 just loosing steam on the car. I thought I’d make it into one showcase with her this year but not looking like it. None of my friends care about this kind of thing, it’s all hair and nails for them so they don’t understand the disappointment I have for not only myself but my…
Keep your head up and just keep grinding I know the waiting game sucks but once it’s finished your whole attitude will change and you will be killing it!
Well folks... This one got me today. Full-blown panic when I got an email from my wife while I was working saying, "Call me right now." She's 29 weeks pregnant and had our 5-year-old son in the car with her on their way to an ultrasound appointment when they were rear-ended by a teenager driving aggressively in a one-lane construction zone. Officers and the trucker who stopped as a witness said impact was around 50 mph while my wife was completely stopped for traffic. And I believe it. The trunk floor is shoved all the way forward into the rear sub-frame and diff and both trailing arms are bent badly. It'll be a right-off I'm sure.
Enough about the car though. My boy was checked out on the scene and cleared by paramedics and went home with my best friend who dropped everything (bless the man) and rushed to help…
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After comparing myself to other people’s builds from Integras to skylines, and after getting rid of both of them I realized that I should’ve been more grateful/appreciative with the work, time, and money I’ve spent and done with the cars. And that I should’ve stop telling myself in the past “You’re at a good state and good area, where you have these cars at a young age”