[Goat Blower]

I started out doing my own work because I couldn't afford to have someone else do it. Now I can afford it but still do most of my own work because I enjoy it to some degree. I actually got into doing everything myself because I had a shop do my timing belt way back in the day and it made it 500 miles before it snapped and took out the head. Learned to do timing belts right then and there. Then I had a local speed shop(not around anymore, nobody that's on here) build a short block for me which they effed up. That experience got me to build my own engines from then on. Now I sent me Lotus off to a shop for repair and it took all summer and it still isn't done, so now I'll probably do all the work on them as well. I guess your experiences can drag you beyond the basic mod install. And BTW, I found that the money I saved doing this stuff myself more than paid for all the tools needed to do them, that's how I built my tool collection.

Just some hopefully useful tidbits from the old guy.