I loved cars so when i bought my first one (93 chevy beretta) i taught myself how to supercharge and tune it (i'm a machinist now thanks to that), used the internet and service manuals a lot, talked to some good guys on a beretta forum(which got me hooked on car forums), and considering doing my own work is a necessity as i don't have the kind of cash to throw at other people to have them do it for me, and my parents made me pay all my own bills, buy my own cars, and pretty much everything else, it worked out pretty good. I got a kick out of sitting through consumer auto in highschool bored out of my mind, not learning a damned thing i didn't already know thanks to the internet (slept 3/4 of the time and passed with an A. man does that Pi$$ off a teacher). He even gave me the good old "why did you take this class?" line, priceless. Don't get me wrong some people just don't have mechanical aptitude, but for the most part if you read a thread about coilovers, just google every technical word you can see and you will learn a lot. It helps if you start on an old american made V8 car with a foot and a half to either side of the engine and less than a third of the parts than are on a z too. think of it as wiring up a AA battery to a light bulb instead of building your own computer.
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