1969 Torino

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Yea thanks for pulling me aside. Those were dark days in Austin. Where is that Brian guy ...

Ha sometimes a bit of reality needs to set into these build threads. Seeing huge amounts of work magically appear really gives the wrong impression.

For anyone building a car yourself you fast begin to realize how much time things can take.

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

You got all of that right for sure! I've spent numerous days at the shop trying to just figure out how I want to do something, much less the actual 'doing' part.

Very well said...

[Vegas69]

Originally Posted by FETorino

He's been tagged and relocated to BMF v2.2

You got that right....

These cars are a hell of a lot of work to put together. Then a hell of a lot of work to dial in. Then a hell of a lot of work to maintain. Enjoy the ride......

[Ron in SoCal]

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.

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? )

[Sieg]

Well said Rob

[badmatt]

The destination is only a small part of the journey.

[intocarss]

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.

100% correctamundo!!!

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

(Edit: now where'd I put my LS Camaro build manual? )

Paging Dr. Stielow...

[INTMD8]

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.

Great post! I have noticed that my car is failing to build itself, maybe I should have bought a 58 Fury instead.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Sieg I'm sorry if I mislabeled your favorite carb tuning tool.




Yea thanks for pulling me aside. Those were dark days in Austin. Where is that Brian guy ...



Ha sometimes a bit of reality needs to set into these build threads. Seeing huge amounts of work magically appear really gives the wrong impression.

I know, you know better Rick and you're just busting my chops. Remember that 69?

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.

(Audience claps and gives standing ovation)

(Pause... silence)

"And now for the nominees in the next category.... Best Cookie Cutter Camaro"... (oh wait, that's from that other forum)

Originally Posted by badmatt

The destination is only a small part of the journey.

But certainly the best part!

[Ripped]

I spent 2 years blocksanding and doing bodywork, and another year bolting parts on, to make a car, so I kind of have a little empathy for you.

Once I get the engine in and the car on the road, that attitude will change

It's all about a little progress at a time. Having really good music in the garage helps too.

BTW the wife was talking about driving down the coast from here through Oregon, through to Socal (we did that drive many years ago) won't be this summer, though.