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My current definition of frustration: Bought my car, had a singular day to look over it before coming back to uni - only since coming back, have I thought of a million things to check, fiddle with, and measure... and I'll only get a few days in April to peek at it again, before summer  also, my uni has some VERY nice tools (waterjet cutter, laser cutter, CNC lathe and Mill, etc, etc) But unless it's for a specific reason on my course, I'm not allowed anywhere near them  And... one more final frustration, I'm being GIVEN a citroen xm, with a diesel engine that I can fit into my scimitar, but I can't plan what needs to be done to make it fit, until I have the damned thing ripped out, and all measured up oh yeah, and my uni has turned out to be, how can I say... a tad dissapointing  Anyone else got similar educational/work related things stopping them from doing what they want to their cars? And time off doesn't count  Have some pics of lovely handmade car pieces (to me at least, this is porn!)    |
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You're like a crazy backyard genius! |
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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I was always lucky with schools/colleges/universities I was at, and always managed to use machines/get jobs done/parts cast/play with engines, in whatever capacity I needed. Maybe because things were a little more tolerant 'back in the day' (I'm talking about 15-20 yrs ago) I do however sympathise with all those lovely toys that you can't get to, and I certainly know your pain and frustration where time is concerned, but then, don't we all  |
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don't worry I'm in the same situation....
Cant work on the cortina because I cant store it at uni and I don't have any money to spend on it anyway!
Uni has some awesome facilities but apparently "seeing how much power i have" isnt a good enough reason to use the rolling road...!
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I share your fraustration!!!
I have a set of coilovers and low profiles in my bedroom waiting to be fitted to my car but I have my dissertation due in for the end or march! Also need to refurbish my alloys before fitting the tyres and do some other bits and bobs.
Just wish i could finish it now!
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vidal
Part of things
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I think I can define frustration quite well. This is what my garage used to look like:  Then one week I got phone calls from 8 of my clients telling me they'd been made redundant....... So my prides and joys had to go....to be replaced with a cheaper 'project':  Jump forward a few months and due to continued lack of funds.......goodbye Project DTM:  So....all that space, nothing to do with it and no money to buy anything. there....that's frustration |
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I too am at a uni with a full motorsport workshop and no allowences to mess about with my own cars. Not allowed my car anywhere near the workshops and I'd get bollocked for doing general maintenace in the car park due to H&S. Added to the fact my projects are 120 miles away back at home and I've not the money or space to store them over here. It sucks!
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welder
Part of things
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Projects in the garage/on the drive. No money to buy bits and dodgy health stopping any meaningful progress. Really thinking about selling up but can't bring myself to do it.
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I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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I think I can define frustration quite well. This is what my garage used to look like: Then one week I got phone calls from 8 of my clients telling me they'd been made redundant....... So my prides and joys had to go....to be replaced with a cheaper 'project': Jump forward a few months and due to continued lack of funds.......goodbye Project DTM: So....all that space, nothing to do with it and no money to buy anything. there....that's frustration I think you win  |
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Hows this for frustration, ive got a 6 car workshop just outside colchester with my mk2 cav in (which needs finishing) and my mates mk2 cav with 3.0 v6 is in there (which needs finishing) and my other mk2 cav (which also needs finishing!) my frustration? i live in germany. and only get home every couple of months.
It's taken me over a year to get the car halfway done.
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frustration for a lot of us is lower wages means less to spend on the hobby
few years back had full aviation engineering facilities and personnel trained to all sorts of levels to fabricate anything free of charge
knocked down the hangar people drifted off and now do what fabrication i need in my shed
never let it get me down
think of generations coming along with electric cars
bet theyll be frustrated when they see pictures of our retros 50 years down the line
thatll be frustration
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you could rent out garage space for extra income?  |
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I have determined that my sole purpose in life is to serve as a bad example...
CURRENT vehicles - '84 Saab 900 turbo classic, '93 Nissan 200SX S13, 2021 Volvo V90 Inscription.
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Manchester Met myself - they seem to pride themselves on making the following saying true:
"those who can DO, those who can't TEACH!"
got one bloke, who doesn't give a flying toss wether we actually learn or not, as he's already been paid...
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You're like a crazy backyard genius!
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The flipside of that is the two years I spent doing my foundation degree at a technical college where we were allowed to use the facilities for our own cars, but as a consequence spent so much time buggering around fixing people's exhausts and ball joints and things like that, that we didn't actually learn anything about motorsport like we were supposed to.
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary. |
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Frustration for me is stripping 20 odd year old paint from a set of Compomotice Cxs... Nightmare.
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cianha
Part of things
aka VDubbin
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I've had 5 years of frustration at my uni. Degree in Automotive Engineering. And we haven't learned anything about cars yet. Some of my classmates in a 4th year project (mostly international students) didn't know the difference between a conrod and a piston! And, we're not allowed to use any tools. All drawings for final year projects (the only year in which there is a project) are submitted to the workshop and fabricated by workshop staff. The uni has all the facilities you could need to make just about anything out of metal but the students don't get to use it. Thankfully I've broken the frustration outside of uni, by building my own cars, and now by taking a year off to do a Co-operative program as a student engineer at Holden. Everything is awesome now!  Moral of the story? Frustrating times will eventually end for you, but sometimes you have to find your own way to get there. |
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 174
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We never got to use the uni machining facilities. We had a session a week in a machine shop at the tech college, and managed to get a bit of time in there to make stuff.
I was on a motorsport engineering course which was curse word. I finally piped up about 3/4's into the 1st year when they were teaching use how to calculate forces etc that it was all well and good asking us to do that work, but most of the numpties on the course had no idea how to use it as they didn't know what the parts of a car were or even what they looked like.
Matt
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hodaz
Part of things
I wear this hat so they think I am one
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So glad I don't do Motorsport Engineering now, that course sounded awesome on paper but by the sounds it really really smokes wang.
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 174
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Was wibblepoo tbf.
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