thinking out loud: the main condition for the successful implementation of the project — Toyota Sprinter Trueno, 1.6 liter, 1983
Restoring such an old bucket as ae85, characterized by the presence of excessive pathos formed by such a subculture as drift and anime, I constantly observe the situation as people, like-minded people who restore similar buckets jump off in the middle (and sometimes at the very end) of the project.
the picture is the same:
— purchase.
— Institution bortovik on various resources.
— Declaring to everyone and everywhere about the birth of a new drift legend.
— Semi-annual (rarely annual) drive to parse and start the restoration of the machine.
- purchase in indecent amounts of pseudo-tuning with little or no connection with the intended goal
- then silence for several months and a completely predictable result in the form of an advertisement for the sale of an unfinished building.
in general, a bunch in a bowl of water ... everything is as usual.
naturally, many intermediate stages remain behind the scenes, such as:
- understanding that this bucket is no better than hundreds of others
- understanding the complexity and high cost of the project.
- understanding the severity of the burden voluntarily placed on oneself
If you still decide to do a similar project, then you need to prepare a lot in advance. In my opinion, proper preparation is one of the keys to the successful completion of the project. At least the chances will increase significantly.
1. financial issue.
Naturally, the availability of the full necessary amount for the implementation of the project is the key to its successful and speedy implementation. but we will not consider this ideal situation, in view of its utopian nature)))
So - in my opinion, the monthly budget of the project should not exceed 25% of your earnings. Only in this case, you will not find it difficult to consider your project as a financial burden, and its termination / sale as a way out of a local crisis.
2. an ideological question.
Before you have invested your first ruble (dollar yen) in the project, you must understand in detail the configuration of the machine being built. A spec sheet must be written prior to building the car and you must follow it carefully. In addition to the spec sheet, there must be a sequence of buying spare parts / tuning based on an understanding of the feasibility and sequence in the construction of the machine. Departure from this order should be considered and evaluated by the tuner as a shot in the back.
3. a question of psychology.
The tuner leading the project must necessarily have a podzhopny vehicle, so that constantly faced with the difficult life of a pedestrian, he does not project negativity onto his non-driving project. In addition to everything, the bucket under construction should be at some distance from its builder, so as not to depress every minute with its incompleteness and in case of temporary spiritual stagnation (binge) not to reproach with its appearance.
Itself more than once came to the conclusion that for some time it is necessary to forget about the existence of a machine to solve any other problems.
That's something like this ... I thought of it. I do not hope that someone will enlighten, but perhaps it will be useful.
Everything written is naturally only thoughts on the topic.
however, it is a shame to watch weekly people overstrained under their projects, for the most part good ones.
Well, just the bible of a bucket builder, to decompose it into commandments for all restorers and memorize it!
better than a jig for 10k rubles, something like a ride.
things will not go faster if you do not invest more money and time, and there everything is as I wrote above.
instructive)
it's true to have one more car, this of course will not always work out, I just thought that if the project is at hand, things will go faster, although it will probably already look like "cohabitation" :D
I don’t have a second transport (I got rid of half a year ago and I’m not overjoyed), and this not only doesn’t break off, but also “hardens†in its own way :) Now I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t really want to ride " project", much more fun from the process. And don’t care how long it will drag on and how much dough I’ll dump in relation to my income :)
but I changed the concept, and right now I'm trying to put ae 85 in order, and then I might even bother with 86 :)
That's right, but often a spare "asshole vehicle" in turn turns into a project itself. And so on, and on, and on))) A TV that shows a TV that shows a TV)))
I am now building a Suzuki Vitara 93 years old myself - I decided to purchase a VW Golf mk1 as a spare car - as a result I plunged into the vdub-area, well, and now I often look at springs and a grinder))) Another option is a "penny". But here onlydropped.com lies in wait for us and everything connected with it. And initially I generally wanted to buy a Chevy Van))))