I'm a piker compared with some of these guys. My wife (to be, back then) wondered what she was getting into back when she first visited. I didn't work on engines in the house, but there was a mostly disassembled 911 engine in card board boxes in the dining/kitchen/entry area. Nicely out of the way, only leaking a little oil but the floor was tile so no problem, what's to worry about.

When I was about 20 I built an aluminum V8 in my apartment's living room. The owner of the apartment complex heard about it and showed up one evening a little worked up. All the parts were spotlessly arranged on a white sheet stretched over a piece of plywood.
He took a long look at it and said, "Well I think that is OK." and left. :D

How about doing a hotrod 914 -4 engine in a double-wide???
 

Between marriages, (I'm part Italian), I pulled my 914 engine to pump it up for auto-xing. At the time I was living in a used double-wide I had planted on an inexpensive lot. Not having a garage, I cleaned up the parts at the car wash and brought them into the kitchen/dining room, set up an engine stand and proceeded to use the living room for a shop, to polish the rods, install Z28 rod bolts, light flywheel yada, yada, yada.
The refer was close by with beer and the stereo was cranking.

Life has been tough, now I finally have a Rotary 9K asymmetric lift and am off my knees and dining room chairs.
Today I was cleaning up the fuel tank on the 74 and found perforation - sigh
chris

In college, rebuilt mc engine in Apt. Also did a rattle can paint job with lace and clear laquar.....

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Most of a 911 upstairs!!

My college buddy and I rebuilt his VW bus engine in our second floor apartment. Bathtub was the parts washer. Unfortunately we didn’t really think about what the long block was going to weigh assembled, and it was a backache carrying it down the stairs, but we got it done.

We were too broke to go home that Christmas or even get a tree, so we took the bus’ muffler and leaned it up against a wall, draped xmas lights on it and put presents under it.

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