Thursday, November 03, 2005

Planning

Planning is key. As a newbie at this, planning is always key. This project will require a vast amount of funds. With good planning there will be no need for spending money on items that will not be required, thus reducing the cost.

When ever you start a new project, always plan all your goals ahead of time. For planning out how to "trick out your ride" you need to ask yourself a few questions portraying to the different parts of the car. Examples:
  • General:
    • What is the car going to be used for?
      • Track, Drag, Show, Daily Driver?
  • Performance:
    • Horsepower goal?
    • Torque goal?
  • Exterior:
    • Body kit?
    • OEM Look?
    • Sleeper?
  • Interior:
    • Gut out?
    • Pimp out?
With these questions you can then point out what exactly you want out of your project. The most important question is "What is this car going to be used for?" for most newbies, this is their only car, so its for daily driving with weekend show or track, of course no illegal street racing, of course.

By finding out what you want from your project, you start building your car on paper. Research is key. Research how you are going to obtain those goals, because by researching how to obtain those goals, you find out there are many options out there.

After selecting all your goals, and fully building your car out on paper. You can then see the price of this project start to emerge. The price will scare you at first. But then you start building a work plan.

Always start from the bottom up, and outside in, or inside out. Either way, doing this step by step will save you money, and allow you to have a slow but continuous progress.

When you start to plan out what you will start to change. Always make sure that what you are changing isn't going to affect anything else to the point that your car would become unsafe or not even run. Because if it is, then you might as well change that too.

So to conclude. Planning is key. Find your goals, research how to obtain those goals, then research the options. Pick your options, and build your car on paper. Then plan out the modification.

posted by Brian @ 6:25 PM

1 Comments:

At 1:36 AM, Blogger Brian said...

The question may be: "Where do i start researching?"

There are so many places to start researching what can be done to your car. Good places to start are car magazine sites: Import Tuner, Sport Compact Car, etc.

Then as you move on from there go to forums, this is where you get into the serious stuff, from people asking for tech help to the problems that people have with doing some mods.

But its really up to you where you get your information from, and how much effort you put into obtaining it.

happy hunting.

 

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