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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jrgunn5150" data-source="post: 258672" data-attributes="member: 9682">Why is it that car guy's nowadays want to leave everything up to a shop? People are afraid to assemble their own motor's, tear into a trans, rear end, or learn to tune. The stock response is to leave everything alone, or let a "pro" do it, or otherwise you will surely destroy your car... Head's can only be CNC ported now (a nice piece of propoganda there), mod motor's are best assembled by engineer's, tuning can only be done on the dyno. Hell I've run acrossed people on the board's afraid to swap an alternator or waterpump. And people want a damn write-up on flippin wikipedia for everything, complete with pics. I mean I'm all for learning and researching, but people seem to want to be able to do it in their sleep before they even pop the damn hood.I'm just wondering whatever happened to getting out there and actually flipping getting your hands dirty, doing something, and figuring it out as you go?. I was not born with the knowledge on how to rebuild an auto trans, set up a rear end, degree cam's, or measure crankshaft end play. Nor did I achieve the engineering degree I was pursuing.. yet I can do these thing's now.A guy in his basement can port your head's, yes even your modular head's, better than some lame, cheap CNC program. You CAN tune on the street, by yourself, especially now that widebands are so cheap, but even 5 years ago, widebands were unheard of, yet people still had 4-500 rwhp car's. You CAN assemble a motor yourself, probably better than the "pro's", you can do your own gear's, a pair of calipers and a mag-based dial indicator is all you need.I think the interweb is turning car enthusiasts into a bunch of pansies afraid to do anything, yet chock full of worthless "knowledge", like you just can't run boost on a stock block, it will surely blow... But I'm all about healthy debate, so feel free to go at it.</blockquote>