With an extra Porsche brake rotor lying about and a persistent friend to be silenced, [GordsGarage] decided to fabricate a one-of-a-kind man cave wall clock.
This was not to be a boring old hang-it-flat-on-the-wall design, though. The Porsche rotor is a composite design, with a steel hub and a ceramic disc weighing only a third of what an all-steel rotor weighs. That inspired [GordsGarage] to fabricate a wall bracket to hold the rotor and allow it to spin, showing off both sides. The business side has a brushed aluminum clock face with decals cut with a s vinyl-plotter and designed to look like a Porsche tachometer, while the reverse side has a nice custom badge for his friend’s shop. The build log shares some of the nice touches that went into the clock, like powder coated parts to mimic stock Porsche red brake calipers, and the secret [GordsGarage] logo.
It may not have been a clock for social good, but it’s a great design and a nice build that’s sure to brighten up his friend’s shop. And mancave warming presents are apparently a thing now, so we’ll be sure to keep our finger on the pulse of this social trend.
I was in the Porsche dealership recently and they had a table of various overpriced goodies available for purchase. One was a clock, largely similar to the one above but made out of a rim, however the price tag said $2800. Insanity.
Because of the rim. Performance rims usually are expensive…
http://www.motosport.com/marchesini-forged-magnesium-sbk-rear-wheel-with-sprocket-carrier
They probably take a wheel that didn’t pass QC and made it into a clock. Hardly $2800 worth of clock, unless you already own matching hat, jacket and car.
http://i57.tinypic.com/2j5glc2.jpg
I was just speaking to a client of mine about his Porsche the other day. He said he would’ve never bought the thing if he thought about how expensive it was to maintain
I know I’ll be “that guy” but a car themed cave doesn’t have to be a “man” cave. It can just be a cave, as evident by Adam Savage’s Cave.
My garage is poorly lit, has climate control by mother nature™, features decor composing of cardboard boxes and rusty license plates… oh, and there’s the hopeless amount of spiders that’ve taken up building massive webs all over my drill press and bandsaw to catch the moths that fly around the one bright light fixture I have… and the mice… I think it qualifies pretty well as a cave.
It would’ve doubled the price but the thing would look way cooler if the mount was a brake caliper.
Now that the kind of bomb i like.. The kind that’s a quarter mile away in less than 10 seconds.
Quarter mile in less than 10 seconds is pretty optimistic…
Should have made the mount yellow, Porsches equipped with ceramics come with yellow calipers, excluding the 918.
The design of the hour and minute hands doesn’t fit the overall design at all. They look like they were part of a cheap electronic clockwork kit (which they probably are).
good one. design is perfect.I tried to do once, but failed .do not know the reason but i got the inspiration now. surely this will look good when you keep it in workshop. car tires are the only part through which we can able to commute between A to B. no matter we must try to maintain these by checking the proper inflation level of the tires. http://www.europeanservicecenter.com/services/porsche/
warning: do not confuse with House of Gord.