botbasher wrote:
why is it such a topic of conversation with those watching this build?
Because it's different. Make a topic on something that has been done 100 times and nobody will have anything to say. Everyone is different and the reason we all come here is to see those differences, we want to learn from other people's experience and help others by sharing our own.
We all know that eveything about building a car is a compromise, including the design/build balance. Since we all have different goals, resources and skills, we will all take different paths. My "leap before you look" comment was made to indicate that it was predictable that you bought the suby diff and axles without planning how to attach them to the wheels, perhaps that phrase carries too much negative connotation, but I wasn't trying to say you were "wrong", just that I didn't expect you to have an answer to my question.
Considering all of your "That's me.. Design a little, build a lot" comments I thought you were proud of your approach, but every time there's a comment you take it as criticism, which makes you look pretty insecure about it. I have much respect for people who have to skills to see something in their mind and build it with minimal planning, I doubt I could ever learn to do that.
I don't think Kurt's last two comments were negative at all (I'm not going back to find others), perhaps you should reread them and pretend you don't know who posted them. If you disagree with him (and me) that choosing to do less planning will result in doing things more than once, then you need to look back at the number of re-do's you've had already, there's not anything wrong with that, but maybe you're in denial that they are part of the path you are on.