My name is Ironic these days, it's from the old site when I spent all my money on rigs and booze, the rest I wasted.
I had to grow up a little.
Projects are planned before they start, and kept on budget, a means to an end.
I don't get into engine rebuilds anymore, they snowball, salvage yard engines are fine.
I don't order parts until teardown is completed, so I'm not financially committed to using any component.
If that part is half worn out, it's still half good.
I pick my battles, I have to accept that some shit is good enough, I sell a lot of half done projects. I sell a lot of project cars.
Everything is for sale. A while ago I got a Lincoln mark 8, that didn't run right, for a song. It's the 32 valve aluminium cobra motor, detuned by 15hp, I'd wanted one for a while, turns out it had a broken cam or timing chain. I couldn't even get the valve cover off without removing the master cylinder, to see what's going on. I didn't have time for it. I could have stick it in storage and let the fuel system gum up, the tires and inteior get sun rot, fuck that, guy offered me a pistol, I delivered the car and threw the gun in the safe.
I don't build guns, off the shelf is fine. I don't modify quads, Honda made it right the first time. I don't soup up my diesels, 400-500lbft moves my trailers just fine, I started towing with 250lb ft
I want a paid for house and a paid for shop, once I have that, I can build all the junk I want, when I find something cool, I have to decide if it will help me reach my goal, or get in my way.
I want to set up a business, an income stream so that I can have freedom to do what I want. So my current project is to set up a sustainable life
I do have a family crawler / truckster moving to front burner, but it's to get it done, and enjoy being outside together, not a jack stand queen