How do you guys keep you garage/ man cave from smelling like gas/exhaust?

[ryanchevelle]

Race fuel smells great to me. That’s not the smell I’m encountering. I wish I could pinpoint it, but it’s more like old exhaust fumes and old stale gas, which doesn’t make sense to linger so long. I just hoped some of the hardcore collectors could chime in and tell me what kind of filtration systems they were using because my mini split isn’t bringing in fresh air and I’m going to eventually look to build a nice garage to fully enjoy my collection.

[60sStuff]

Here’s what I did and it works perfectly ….. for me.

When I had my small back yard garage built for my two Survivor GTO’s, I designed the back wall to have 4 exhaust fans installed.

Since I back my cars in I purposely located the 2 pair of fans directly in line with the 2 cars tailpipes.
These fans are quiet, powerful and efficiently pull the air from the pipes and entire garage with the front garage door open.
The fans have automatic shutters to keep the critters out, plus I installed the galvanized hoods on the outside to protect from the rain.

Open the front garage door.
Flip the single wall switch for all 4 fans.
Start the cars, let them run and you won’t smell like a 60’s muscle car exhaust when you go into the house later.

[ryanchevelle]

Thank you. Very good idea! I don't think I can incorporate that into my garage based on how its set up, but I like the idea. My garage shares common walls with the house on the garage back wall and 1 side. Also have a second story bedroom above the garage. So that only leaves one side wall to add ventilation. Ventilation or air circulation appears to be the answer thou so I'm going to look into my options. Or maybe just live with it until I can find a permanant solution for storing the cars as again its already packed full and its more of a storage locker at this point then somewhere I can enjoy the cars. This hobby has been something I wanted to do for years so when I finally got into it its become an obsession and I ran out of room fast. Thanks for potential solutions so far guys, keep them coming.