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The Making of a Project: A Journey of Frustration and Perfectionism

As I sat in my shop, surrounded by half-assembled parts and tools, I couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration. The project that was supposed to be a simple installation had turned into a complex nightmare. Every time I thought I was making progress, something would come undone, and I'd have to start all over again. My friend Adam was working on his E30 M3, and every time he came in for a visit, I couldn't help but feel a sense of envy. He seemed so much more relaxed and in control, while I was stuck in this never-ending cycle of frustration.

The project had started with a simple plan: to install new speakers and seats in my Nissan Skyline. It seemed like a straightforward task, but as soon as I began disassembling the car, things quickly became complicated. The seats were removed, and the windshield was taken off, leaving me with a mess of wires and screws to deal with. I had envisioned a smooth, stress-free process, but reality had other plans.

As I worked on installing the new speakers in factory panels, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. It was a new challenge, one that required patience and attention to detail. But every time I thought I was making progress, something would go wrong, and I'd have to start over. The little things seemed to add up, and before I knew it, hours had passed, and I was no closer to completing the project.

My friend Michael would often come in to visit, and we'd chat about our respective projects. He would tell me about his progress on his E30 M3, and I would share my frustrations with Adam's project. It seemed like a never-ending cycle of frustration, but I couldn't help but feel drawn to the process. There was something therapeutic about working on a car, about seeing it come together piece by piece.

The Breakthrough: A New Approach

One day, as I was struggling to get everything installed, Michael suggested a new approach. He told me that sometimes, you have to take a step back and re-evaluate the project. He said, "Just put some duct tape on it and make it work." It was a simple solution, but one that made sense. Instead of getting bogged down in details, I should focus on getting the car running.

I took Michael's advice to heart and decided to try a new approach. I put everything back together, but this time, I focused on getting the car running rather than perfecting every detail. It was a liberating feeling, like I had finally found my way out of the frustration cycle.

The Final Touches: A New Era for My Skyline

As I worked on installing the new AR system in my Skyline, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. It was a new era for my car, one that promised faster speeds and improved performance. The little things seemed to add up, and before I knew it, the project was complete.

I took the car out for a spin, feeling the rush of adrenaline as I pushed it to its limits. The AR system was working seamlessly, and I could feel the power surging through the engine. It was exhilarating, like I had finally reached my goal.

The Future: A New Project on the Horizon

As I looked at my completed Skyline, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction. The project had been a challenge, but one that I had risen to. But as I looked around my shop, I knew that there was always another project on the horizon. Adam's E30 M3 was still waiting for its finishing touches, and I couldn't wait to get started.

I took a deep breath, feeling the excitement build within me. It was time to start something new, something challenging. The future was bright, and I was ready to take on whatever came next.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so - the cab delete injectors in tune which won't be here till probably later this week I want to get everything done on the side by side so I can get it out of the way picking up a lot of space with all these parts and everything so I think the first thing I'm gonna tackle even though it's my least the thing I want to do the least I'll probably do the skid plates underneath since that'll be the messiest and save the fun easy stuff like harnesses roof and the other little bits that I have for later so that's what we're gonna do and I'll finish drilling all those rivets and then we'll see what we got but now or later I'm on the very last row of it Penny's used to drive at the pressure instead of the spin like it's still fully mounted no it slides up in the air so you gotta pull straight back oh I wonder if the camera got me getting dusted well that's floppy yeah so Tommy I asked mm kind of what they recommend it because you can do lumina plastic thicker I don't know if this is the a be after something else and at first I was like man I kind of want aluminum I mean tell me you're thinking about I feel like the aluminum was just so yeah because it would kind of like dent and rip right this is this is like like thick with like three KS for this like you can tell the difference just by holding it yeah yeah that this is gonna be so it kind of sucked we need to get a rivet gun ii put it back on well we're getting one delivered in about three minutes so you could take a punch like a little like launch and tap them all in oh you again yeah I mean what else can you do I had a couple pieces of weather stripping to install just on the roof and then it just bolts right up pretty easily so I owners made me come out here and show my DS a rivet gun but they were not this hard these are thick boys I didn't rip it off at Fall River notes are completely different but the same here we go look at him look oh yeah that's it okay I'm trying make sure I save all these I don't know just for sure see you guys he's trying to make sure it sounded like he's looking out for my best interest but slow is zoom in the game here we go oh yeah snap what do you think we're nuts are way easier to do smack me in the face three times during livestream the frame call your insurance company welcome to hein call it is such a nice break to take from like doing difficult knowing stuff and just do a nice simple little over fender install you gonna bag this thing to performance honestly the bags are as good as coilovers now so that's what I keep hearing from all the people that are on bags look at that what I did on the other side because I did the other side it's big piece of plastic machine even come with these flaps they're like some mud fender thing come on anyway so anyway just add I'm installing this wide body kit did you get wider wheels and tires so I came out here and Adams got the whole thing disassembled I think you know before I do the harnesses maybe I should do the speaker system all the seats are out in case I need a route wires and stuff true maybe you should put some r32 GTR seats in here too dude I want to put Brides in this so badly so giggles so girl I can't put these seats back in here dude they mount it's the same way there's Colin Oates same exact way what serious Scotland it doesn't look similar to the skyline a with a welder where you get skyline seats in this thing I know dude this is this thing is fully stripped now what is wrong why am I doing this I've been getting no satisfaction in doing this but I'm just like you have all these parts so yeah it's put a while and it's like it's like a Lego right early that's what I kept telling myself so Michael be fun why didn't you take that seat out what why didn't you take that seat oh geez so periodically I'm coming into the shop because I'm working on my computer I'm checking the progress of mr. Adam LZ and every time I come in this thing is like well every other time it's disassembled more so I'll come in he'll have something done and then six things around it will be removed he's got the whole - disassembled the windshield that he installs now off the roof is off the seats are out and he looks a little flustered yeah that happens to me every day guys that's why it's just annoying because I feel I got like half got and a lot of things done instead of getting everything done and it's gonna sit for a while because I'm not gonna have time the good news is tomorrow I'll put the bigger AR on the skyline there's gonna be even faster so new hot side of the skyline and reach you tomorrow right now I'm actually putting these little speakers going in factory panels and get mounted up kind of like this I figured why the seats Adam as well start doing speakers so I'm not with backtracking doing stuff eight times put in the comments if you needed the skyline to be any faster just forget just put it in there if you needed that to make more power what do you think do you what so this may be the last time you guys ever see the kam in one piece well it's not in one piece right now so I guess it's over yeah maybe you just push this thing into the woods got some dinner plans with old grandi boy today so tip out of here a little bit I would have liked to sucks cuz I want to finish something and I didn't get to I have this like always unrealistic expectation amount of stuff that I'm gonna get done so I was leave dissatisfied but tomorrow should be a good day so anyway all I want to give grant a ride in the Kibo in films reaction so maybe we can do that 4-cylinder you know rock grants first ride in the Evo it's so excited should you say really what our discussion was like two seconds ago that I got a little frustrated / mad at him and I said if you dress like that I'm getting out of the car on the highway I just okay I just want to pull and then I told him if there's a rotary it feels comfortable enough for me to take a corner to show you the grip of the tie I believe you if there's a safe zone that you give me the approval I give you the approval it's a slight possibility that camera doesn't have a very good wide-angle and I feel like you're very close to my something smells good in this car and it's not my gasoline probably me refresh all yummy hold this thing it felt fast that car was pulling out I was like yeah you know what don't drive on an help yep there's a car pulling out with a rule that breaks yeah no that was good really sick yeah they're great I don't need to feel the full potential of them but they are good so we've had two cops that decided to pull out right before we went by and I've been this poor clutch dead stop traffic for absolutely no reason just bucking and chugging and oh hey there's cars never been officially the driver this is actually terrible I don't feel good either nor does she hey Bailey do you wanna go for a ride do you wanna go for ride are you excited to go for right yeah shoot the video at end do you is that what you want is that what you want or do want the toy video or toy huh I don't get why you're being so mean relax max it's okay it's okay it's okay I promise are you I give up and this is what happens because Adam doesn't have any friends he tries to date my dog I revealed her she's a good girl isn't that what all girls are in it for is it no no put in the comments my associate lawall right so - the cab delete injectors in tune which won't be here till probably later this week I want to get everything done on the side by side so I can get it out of the way picking up a lot of space with all these parts and everything so I think the first thing I'm gonna tackle even though it's my least the thing I want to do the least I'll probably do the skid plates underneath since that'll be the messiest and save the fun easy stuff like harnesses roof and the other little bits that I have for later so that's what we're gonna do and I'll finish drilling all those rivets and then we'll see what we got but now or later I'm on the very last row of it Penny's used to drive at the pressure instead of the spin like it's still fully mounted no it slides up in the air so you gotta pull straight back oh I wonder if the camera got me getting dusted well that's floppy yeah so Tommy I asked mm kind of what they recommend it because you can do lumina plastic thicker I don't know if this is the a be after something else and at first I was like man I kind of want aluminum I mean tell me you're thinking about I feel like the aluminum was just so yeah because it would kind of like dent and rip right this is this is like like thick with like three KS for this like you can tell the difference just by holding it yeah yeah that this is gonna be so it kind of sucked we need to get a rivet gun ii put it back on well we're getting one delivered in about three minutes so you could take a punch like a little like launch and tap them all in oh you again yeah I mean what else can you do I had a couple pieces of weather stripping to install just on the roof and then it just bolts right up pretty easily so I owners made me come out here and show my DS a rivet gun but they were not this hard these are thick boys I didn't rip it off at Fall River notes are completely different but the same here we go look at him look oh yeah that's it okay I'm trying make sure I save all these I don't know just for sure see you guys he's trying to make sure it sounded like he's looking out for my best interest but slow is zoom in the game here we go oh yeah snap what do you think we're nuts are way easier to do smack me in the face three times during livestream the frame call your insurance company welcome to hein call it is such a nice break to take from like doing difficult knowing stuff and just do a nice simple little over fender install you gonna bag this thing to performance honestly the bags are as good as coilovers now so that's what I keep hearing from all the people that are on bags look at that what I did on the other side because I did the other side it's big piece of plastic machine even come with these flaps they're like some mud fender thing come on anyway so anyway just add I'm installing this wide body kit did you get wider wheels and tires so I came out here and Adams got the whole thing disassembled I think you know before I do the harnesses maybe I should do the speaker system all the seats are out in case I need a route wires and stuff true maybe you should put some r32 GTR seats in here too dude I want to put Brides in this so badly so giggles so girl I can't put these seats back in here dude they mount it's the same way there's Colin Oates same exact way what serious Scotland it doesn't look similar to the skyline a with a welder where you get skyline seats in this thing I know dude this is this thing is fully stripped now what is wrong why am I doing this I've been getting no satisfaction in doing this but I'm just like you have all these parts so yeah it's put a while and it's like it's like a Lego right early that's what I kept telling myself so Michael be fun why didn't you take that seat out what why didn't you take that seat oh geez so periodically I'm coming into the shop because I'm working on my computer I'm checking the progress of mr. Adam LZ and every time I come in this thing is like well every other time it's disassembled more so I'll come in he'll have something done and then six things around it will be removed he's got the whole - disassembled the windshield that he installs now off the roof is off the seats are out and he looks a little flustered yeah that happens to me every day guys that's why it's just annoying because I feel I got like half got and a lot of things done instead of getting everything done and it's gonna sit for a while because I'm not gonna have time the good news is tomorrow I'll put the bigger AR on the skyline there's gonna be even faster so new hot side of the skyline and reach you tomorrow right now I'm actually putting these little speakers going in factory panels and get mounted up kind of like this I figured why the seats Adam as well start doing speakers so I'm not with backtracking doing stuff eight times put in the comments if you needed the skyline to be any faster just forget just put it in there if you needed that to make more power what do you think do you what so this may be the last time you guys ever see the kam in one piece well it's not in one piece right now so I guess it's over yeah maybe you just push this thing into the woods got some dinner plans with old grandi boy today so tip out of here a little bit I would have liked to sucks cuz I want to finish something and I didn't get to I have this like always unrealistic expectation amount of stuff that I'm gonna get done so I was leave dissatisfied but tomorrow should be a good day so anyway all I want to give grant a ride in the Kibo in films reaction so maybe we can do that 4-cylinder you know rock grants first ride in the Evo it's so excited should you say really what our discussion was like two seconds ago that I got a little frustrated / mad at him and I said if you dress like that I'm getting out of the car on the highway I just okay I just want to pull and then I told him if there's a rotary it feels comfortable enough for me to take a corner to show you the grip of the tie I believe you if there's a safe zone that you give me the approval I give you the approval it's a slight possibility that camera doesn't have a very good wide-angle and I feel like you're very close to my something smells good in this car and it's not my gasoline probably me refresh all yummy hold this thing it felt fast that car was pulling out I was like yeah you know what don't drive on an help yep there's a car pulling out with a rule that breaks yeah no that was good really sick yeah they're great I don't need to feel the full potential of them but they are good so we've had two cops that decided to pull out right before we went by and I've been this poor clutch dead stop traffic for absolutely no reason just bucking and chugging and oh hey there's cars never been officially the driver this is actually terrible I don't feel good either nor does she hey Bailey do you wanna go for a ride do you wanna go for ride are you excited to go for right yeah shoot the video at end do you is that what you want is that what you want or do want the toy video or toy huh I don't get why you're being so mean relax max it's okay it's okay it's okay I promise are you I give up and this is what happens because Adam doesn't have any friends he tries to date my dog I revealed her she's a good girl isn't that what all girls are in it for is it no no put in the comments my associate law\n"