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Originally Posted by FETorino
For anyone building a car yourself you fast begin to realize how much time things can take.
I spent a couple hours the other day accomplishing nothing with my hubs. Then I spent a couple hours building all my rotors. Then a couple more taking the hubs off the floater and test fitting the brakes. So I have a days work into it and not much to show in pictures but I have made a bunch of progress and when it comes time for finally assembly of my brakes it should go pretty smooth.
People lose sight of this when they drop a car off to be built. Just the grunt assembly work takes a considerable amount of time. Then the planning 
We aren't building kit cars with instruction sheets or manuals (well there are those first gen LS Camaro builds  ) things need to be thought out.
Just staring at the frame rails and envisioning how to route your lines is working on your car. It is something, one of many mundane things, you have to do but nobody wants to hear about it.
When somebody looks at a shop bill and goes WTF that means they probably never went through doing any of this stuff themselves. If somebody is going to do something right you are going to pay. If you do it yourself be patient because it is going to take you time.
So I made progress today. I spent 20 min following up with a source for stainless tubing in straight sticks so I don't have to try (unsuccessfully what a F  bi if you don't have some fancy roller tool) to uncoil the long sections running down my frame rails. Nothing to show, but progress none the less. 
Don't worry though I have some eye candy progress that I'll be posting coming around the corner. I just have to get some more of the boring stuff done so the car can actually run one day. 
Moral of all this babble. Take a breath and get somethign done even if you can't post it.  One day you (I) will walk outside and have a car.
For now I'm still just an enlisted man in the Jackstand army.
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First of all...go get a tissue and wipe your tears away.
Like Weld says, these car's don't build themselves. So true. Every little bit, every part requires thinking it through.
I remember building my first Harley. When I went to the shop and drooled at some of their completed bikes, they said, "yeah, someone put a lot of thought into it." Little did I know many builds later what that meant; I'd stare at my bike on the lift in my garage every night trying to figure out how to make it
my work of art (and to me they are rolliing art).
Easy for the Pros to do. They have vendor relationships and a number of builds under their belt that defines their 'style.'
Us newbs...we just have to think it through as we go. And the next one is an evololution of that thought process.
Keep going Bro. That's how it's done
(Edit: now where'd I put my LS Camaro build manual?
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