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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TxCobrA98" data-source="post: 259924" data-attributes="member: 8384">im 18, and I dont have a lot of experience with cars. my dad does, but not a massive amount. he can basically do everything, besides tear into a motor and rebuild it. we learn things together. however, come in the next month or two, my dad and I will be ripping into my 4.6 dohc mod motor and will be putting forged goodies into it as well as getting the heads rebuilt.. once the heads are finished, i may give a shot at porting them MYSELF.you guys are probably thinking this is a disaster waiting to happen. i thought so to at first. I knew i had no experience in doing this, so guess what.. i was going to pay a pro. see, time is an issue for me. my cobra is a daily driver, i go to college, im doing 19 hours this upcoming semester and will have a job... so dont say time is not a factor. but my dad likes to do work on his own and i respect him for that. my dads buddy that is about 55-60 years old and has been building drag cars for almost 30 years i think is going to help with the rebuild. so he knows WTF he is doing hahah. he is going to watch over me when i port the heads, or at least show me the correct way (mild porting) and he is going to rebuild my motor for me, but also teach me how to do it and how to do it right.to answer to your thread, i am actually against most of you guys. some of us dont have the experience to do all of this wrenching on our own. not turning the wrenches definitely doesnt make me a WANNABE car enthusiast thought. a car enthusiast IMO is based on someone who respects and loves cars, not their capabilities of working on them. thats being kind of ignorant if you ask me.just because those with less experience cant do what you can doesn't mean you are a true "car enthusiast" and I am a fake, it just means that you have the capability of doing more things. i would be willing to bet i read more than a lot of people on this forum to try and learn about cars and whats better than what. according to your first post, you would be saying that I am apart of that crowd that just reads and gets bogus information and passes it on.. well reading up on things is how people learn. i dont go around telling people my newly learned information that I have no clue is true or not.. furthermore, do you expect someone who just bought there first higher performance car, to rip into a modular motor, rebuild it, and then put it in the car and drive it for another 100,000+ miles without a problem. i seriously doubt it...people have to start somewhere... reading on the internet is probably one of the best ways to LEARN about cars.. working on them is also important but you have to have a general idea of what you are getting into before you start. so reading and researching on the internet is nothing bad.i think this thread is kinda lame because half of you have owned cars for years and your saying that us young kids are sissies for not doing our own work. we have to learn somewhere.. and paying someone to do work you aren't capable of doing is nothing bad. your still a car enthusiast for loving your car and wanting to make it nicer.</blockquote>