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I need someone to finish building my buggy, but who?
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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 347439" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>Man, I hate that you are in this predicament and I have declined to join in so far because I know you don't want to hear it. But I am of the opinion that you need to start over, strip everything off, and pay someone to build you a new chassis. The fact that Jim's wasn't interested should tell you something because they have a lot of experience and know the most probable outcome. Even if you do find someone who is willing to work on it, you're never going to be happy with it. Every time something breaks you're going to have to work around a bunch of crap to fix it that you wish wasn't there or was done differently, or you'll have to fix stuff in less than ideal ways to get around less than ideal designs. I read through some of your linked threads and saw that you want it to hold up well during multiple rolls, which I think is fair. But that says to me that you want it to be a long-term rig which means you'll want to be happy with the whole thing, not picking at imperfections forever. No offense, but that chassis appears to be a jumbled together mess. I think you probably agree though. And is that what you want to be stuck with? Multiple people here have said that it will probably cost more to fix it than to start over. So why would you want to pay more to get less?</p><p></p><p>I loved your old single seater. I want to see you end up with something that is worthy of that and is a step forward. IMHO, continuing with this one is a step back.</p><p></p><p>My brother's old Toyota buggy was built by someone who didn't know what they were doing. I spent a lot of time fixing and redoing stuff for him, suspension, ride height, etc, time he could have / should have been out riding. He was happy with the end results but we both knew what that rig could have been had I not had to work around the mistakes of my predecessor. He's sold the buggy and got out of wheeling now but to this day I keep hoping that he will surprise me by calling me up and saying, "Hey, I want to get back to riding. Let's do it right this time and have you just build it for me." I have all these ideas, plans, and designs for him that represent what could have been and never was. I would build that buggy for absolutely nothing just to show him what a real rig is capable of and that they aren't all like the last one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 347439, member: 483"] Man, I hate that you are in this predicament and I have declined to join in so far because I know you don't want to hear it. But I am of the opinion that you need to start over, strip everything off, and pay someone to build you a new chassis. The fact that Jim's wasn't interested should tell you something because they have a lot of experience and know the most probable outcome. Even if you do find someone who is willing to work on it, you're never going to be happy with it. Every time something breaks you're going to have to work around a bunch of crap to fix it that you wish wasn't there or was done differently, or you'll have to fix stuff in less than ideal ways to get around less than ideal designs. I read through some of your linked threads and saw that you want it to hold up well during multiple rolls, which I think is fair. But that says to me that you want it to be a long-term rig which means you'll want to be happy with the whole thing, not picking at imperfections forever. No offense, but that chassis appears to be a jumbled together mess. I think you probably agree though. And is that what you want to be stuck with? Multiple people here have said that it will probably cost more to fix it than to start over. So why would you want to pay more to get less? I loved your old single seater. I want to see you end up with something that is worthy of that and is a step forward. IMHO, continuing with this one is a step back. My brother's old Toyota buggy was built by someone who didn't know what they were doing. I spent a lot of time fixing and redoing stuff for him, suspension, ride height, etc, time he could have / should have been out riding. He was happy with the end results but we both knew what that rig could have been had I not had to work around the mistakes of my predecessor. He's sold the buggy and got out of wheeling now but to this day I keep hoping that he will surprise me by calling me up and saying, "Hey, I want to get back to riding. Let's do it right this time and have you just build it for me." I have all these ideas, plans, and designs for him that represent what could have been and never was. I would build that buggy for absolutely nothing just to show him what a real rig is capable of and that they aren't all like the last one. [/QUOTE]
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