# The Garage

The Garage is the umbrella for my automotive practice. It covers a 1,500 sq ft industrial studio in San Rafael, California — internally referred to as Node 000 — and a working collection of vehicles I drive, maintain, and document.

## The Studio (Node 000)

Node 000 is a working space, not a showroom. Equipped with an Autostacker and a Rotary scissor lift, it serves three roles: vehicle storage, professional maintenance and detailing, and the production studio for Pacific Muse content.

The aesthetic is industrial-chic, vintage luxury — concrete, raw steel, walnut, charcoal. It is built around an operator who is 6'4", which constrains workbench heights and ergonomic tolerances in ways most studio builds do not account for.

The studio is also a partner-facing surface. It is where partnership conversations with operators, makers, and other collectors happen in person, when those conversations are appropriate.

## The Collection

The working collection currently includes:

- 991.2 Porsche 911 Turbo S — PCCB carbon-ceramic brakes, center-lock wheels, 20" Litespeed Racing motorsport setup
- 718 Porsche Boxster S — motorsport-spec 18" wheel and tire fitment, PASM suspension
- 1969 Mustang Fastback — restomod project
- 2018 F-150 Limited EcoBoost — 3.5L EcoBoost, 10R80 transmission, full preventative-maintenance regimen across the AMSOIL fluid stack (Signature Series ULV ATF, SEVERE GEAR 75W-90, Signature Series 5W-30)
- 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX — 4G63 platform, 3D-printed exhaust manifold development project

Collection management is treated as portfolio management. Each vehicle has a documented service cadence, a defined use case, and a sale or transition trigger.

## Practice Areas

**Porsche 991 and 718 platform engineering.** Working knowledge of the flat-six architecture, transaxle behavior, PCCB carbon-ceramic brake systems, center-lock wheel specification, PASM suspension tuning, and the 991.2-versus-718 platform distinctions that matter for daily-versus-track configuration. Pre-purchase inspection methodology for older Porsche platforms — including 968 transaxle and VarioCam diagnostics — is part of the same body of work.

**4G63 turbocharged platform restoration.** Long-term restoration project on a 1990 Eclipse GSX, including exhaust manifold development via 3D printing for fitment validation before final fabrication.

**Performance ECU tuning ecosystems.** Tracking the active state of major modern performance ECU platforms — Bosch MG1, Denso R7F701216, GM Bosch E68 — and the tuner shops, reflashing tools, and standalone ECU options that mature alongside them. This is current-state research, not implementation.

**High-performance collection management.** Maintenance scheduling, fluid specification, pre-purchase inspection methodology, and disposition strategy across the collection. Each vehicle is treated as a documented system, not an enthusiast object.

## Why It Exists

Pacific Muse documents driving. The Garage is where the cars that document it live, and where the studio that produces the documentation operates. It is one practice, not two adjacent ones.