{"id":334,"date":"2018-01-29T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howtokauai.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:56:51","slug":"the-beauty-in-the-struggle-of-building-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtokauai.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/29\/the-beauty-in-the-struggle-of-building-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty In The Struggle Of Building Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"
Despite often being depicted as such building a car isn\u2019t easy. This is a reality that I have become intimately familiar with as I fumble through of my own build, Project Why Wait<\/a>.<\/p>\n No matter how you slice it building a car is a form of skilled labor, and there\u2019s a learning curve to every new task. How-to articles and YouTube videos have made these learning curves smoother, but the road from idea to execution is by no means straight.<\/p>\n It\u2019s full of switchbacks, hair pins, forks, cliffs, dead ends and everything in between. Say nothing about the number of roadside distractions (life, other projects, etc) that appear along the way.<\/p>\n The challenges one encounters during a build are virtually endless and frustratingly, not all of the challenges are fun. Some are even downright stupid \u2013s10 motor mount engineer I\u2019m looking at you\u2013 but each offers a teaching moment.<\/p>\n Be it how to do a specific task, or just another lesson in being proper planning and patience.<\/p>\n In moments of frustration it is important to remember that every project hits peaks and valleys.\u00a0From the best of the best, to the weeknight, or weekend warrior. Everyone\u00a0<\/em>finds more rust than they expected, more damage than they thought possible, and more fitment issues than they care to admit.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n