How much room will I need to inventory the Charger parts?

[bull]

I finally got an 8X12 storage shed up today and began clearing one wall of my garage to store the parts i'll be pulling off the Charger. The wall is roughly 13' wide by 9' high by 2' deep with two shelves running the full length up top. My upright freezer takes up the lower left corner so it's probably 10' wide from there down. I'm no math expert but I think it ends up being roughly 200 cubic feet once I clear out the remainder of the junk you see below and install two or three more shelves.

The engine will be going to the rebuilder but will likely be finished before the car is ready so I may eventually need some room for that and the transmission.

[Old Moparz]

It will depend on how extensively you dismantle the entire car. I have a front end out & it's attached to the K-frame & sits on a moving dolly. It takes up a s**t load of floor space. Same with the rear end housing, & trans. I have lots of smaller parts in boxes & labeled & they filled up shelves in the loft fast. Fenders, hood, doors, grille, valance & dash frame are too big for the average box. The odd size & shape really kill space & I'm glad my wife talked me into building the 2nd floor for storage. If you have spare parts like a lot of people, well.......good luck.

Room to work gets smaller as you take more apart, so be consistent in staying organized & put things away. It was a little different for me since my Charger was only the shell on casters. I didn't get into the dismantle stages until I had the Charger parts car, & even then is was only 1/2 a car. I still felt I needed more space & try to keep clutter under control by going high up on the walls with shelves to the ceiling. I don't think there is any one "best" way to organize since every person has different spaces to work with. When you get cramped it's easier to have an accident & damage something, so keep that in mind like Murphy's law. "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."

Like the 5 foot tall rake handle that's 4-1/2 feet from the fragile plastic trim part. It'll hit it on the way down as it gets knocked over.

[cudaken]

 If you take it to bare body, will need about 5 times the room that it takes up together.

                                              Cuda Ken

[hotrod98]

Unfortunately, the loose parts from a Charger don't stack well. The fenders will need to be set on the floor upside down and not stacked and don't put anything on top of them. Theres a 4 foot by 6 foot area needed just for the two fenders. The doors, deck lid and hood leaned up against the wall will take a 4 foot by 5 foot area easily. Now we're up to 44 square feet minimum. The engine and tranny will need approx 3 foot by 9 foot as an assembly. You're up to 71 square feet now.  You still have the grille, front and rear valances, windshield, back glass, rear end, k-member, wheels , tires and a couple of decent size boxes of trim, lamps, etc. I'm guessing at least 120 square feet total if you manage to stack a few things and probably another 50 square feet if you remove all of the interior. You'll need a space approx 12 feet by 14 feet for storage with as much stuff stacked as possible. Been there...done that. I had my 70 chal vert and my 73 cuda apart at the same time. I had a two car garage full of parts from both cars ( not including the car bodies) with no space left over. Have fun...it's worth the hassle. 

[PocketThunder]

I've got half my basement and all of my 3 car garage piled up with Charger parts.  But thats from two cars.... 

Can you spare any space in your basement?

[Dodge Don]

You'll need more room.......lots more room.

[Chad L. Magee]

Well, if you are like me with no significant other (to kill you about this that is), you can always store car parts inside your house.  I think of my living room as a secondary workspace for my car parts.  Right now, I am redoing the weatherstripping on my corvette's t-tops there......

[Telvis]

A full 1/2 of my garage has parts stored in it. I have tried to hang parts to maximize space.  It's amazing how much space a dissasembled car can take up.

[Runner]

theres always the closet,,       just teasing man!     just for the record,  i dont have a block in my closet,we have a room full of trim for our 72 satellite thats getting the body work done now,  i could store in it my garage or shop,  but a room in the house laying on a spare bed just seems safer for the delicate stuff.

[bull]

Unfortunately, the loose parts from a Charger don't stack well. The fenders will need to be set on the floor upside down and not stacked and don't put anything on top of them. Theres a 4 foot by 6 foot area needed just for the two fenders. The doors, deck lid and hood leaned up against the wall will take a 4 foot by 5 foot area easily. Now we're up to 44 square feet minimum. The engine and tranny will need approx 3 foot by 9 foot as an assembly. You're up to 71 square feet now.   You still have the grille, front and rear valances, windshield, back glass, rear end, k-member, wheels , tires and a couple of decent size boxes of trim, lamps, etc. I'm guessing at least 120 square feet total if you manage to stack a few things and probably another 50 square feet if you remove all of the interior. You'll need a space approx 12 feet by 14 feet for storage with as much stuff stacked as possible. Been there...done that. I had my 70 chal vert and my 73 cuda apart at the same time. I had a two car garage full of parts from both cars ( not including the car bodies) with no space left over. Have fun...it's worth the hassle.  

I won't be taking any body panels off -- that job will be left to the body man. Here's the process as I have it planned: I will remove the interior, grille, bumpers, trim, engine and tranny. I will leave the K-member in place for now. The car will go to the body shop at the same time the engine goes to the rebuilder, the grille will go to AllBlue's house (if he still wants to restore it) and the seats go to the upholstry shop. I will most likely sell or scrap the bumpers so once the car leaves I will be left with the trim, trans., interior pieces, gas tank and other assorted parts. I hope to leave the glass in place and let the body man deal with that. The problem with my plan is that all the smaller stuff will be coming back to roost before the car is out of the body shop but I'll hold off on buying new bumpers until close to the end of the project. So I'll need to store the seats, engine and grille with the other stuff assuming those things are finished before the car. The good thing is that once the car is out of the garage I'll have a 17X6 empty spot on the floor and access to my attic again (the car is directly under the attic door) so I can start outfitting that for the return of some of the parts. I'm sure something will go wrong, but hopefully not too wrong.

[Wakko]

Do you have a storage rental place nearby?  I know it sucks to have to do that, but if you can get one for $40 a month and use it for two months, it'll pay for itself when you don't accidentally drop/step on a part and break it.