To Build, Or Not To Build,.....that Is The Question.

Bullitt347 said:

How about a build thread that has all of the wiring, cutting, welding, and grinding, but don;t have any pictures of it, cause it is essentially boring? I have done all of that, but it is bolting the new stuff on that looks kool and gets all of the ooohs and aaahhhs. I paid to have a custom inlet and outlet manifold made for my supercharger, cause I can't TIG weld. I paid to have someone else convert my 8.8" rear to 9" axle ends and have the diff braced and welded, cause I am not set up to do that. I paid someone else to build a bullet proof glide, cause I don't do auto transmissions. I paid to have all of the machine work done to the engine cause I don't own/operate a machine shop. I bought from various vendors all of the electronics, hoses, fittings, wheels/tires, suspension, chassis stuff. I paid to have a 8.5 cert cage put in the car. Essentially, I had to pay out of pocket for a lot of stuff, but I in the long run actually bolted all of that sh*t to the car and made it work. Does that count as a "build thread"? Even if it is a "drag car" cause we all know you think that is about the most stupid thing you can do to a car before sending it to the scrap yard.

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Since all of your chassis fab is behind you, and because you think posting pics of it make for a boring thread, I'm actually wondering why you asked the question in the first place, but since you asked:

I agree that it's the pics of all of new shiny stuff bolted on to a part of the engine or car that makes looking at the pics entertaining. Regardless of whether the intended usage for the car is on the street, or at the track, the criteria remains the same either way.
There are alot of specialties that most of us either are not equipped for, or simply lack the skills to do that require a professional instead, me included.
The services provided by machine shops, body shops, chassis shops, and dyno tuners all exceed the skill sets of 95% of every person on this board.
Despite most of us being "professionally challenged", I can say with confidence that everyone here would like to see the pics of engine, before, during and after the machine process, the pics of the body as it goes through it's stages towards getting it's paint, (The drag racers can even go as far as taking a pic of that paint their newly painted car left on the guard rail at the 60' mark)
While it's at the chassis shop who wouldn't like to look at a nicely done 25-? cert'd chassis?, and everybody loves to see the 30 second vid of all of that put together making 1000 HP on the rollers.

But, that doesn't change the fact that looking at pics of all of those specialties isn't gonna help to teach,or inspire you to machine an engine, paint a car, tig weld, or tune a car.
I don't have to even name the individuals, because all you have to do is think about it. There is easily over a dozen threads going on here at any one time where somebody has pics of an engine scattered all over a work bench getting ready to go back together, an engine compartment w/ all of its holes welded shut as it progresses along towards a smoothed engine bay, the floor of their car cut out and a SW kit laying around in pieces before it becomes a mild steel back half, or a Ron Francis wiring harness in some form of prewiring chaos just to name a few that people look at and can take inspiration from, and possibly attempt to do on their own because of them.

To answer your question: That depends on how much of the stuff you take from there and do yourself after the fact. (i.e. wiring, plumbing, suspension, or any other of the assortment of stuff that you know goes into a car to get it done) If it's full of pics of completed work done by pro shops and all you are doing is bolting stuff on than by my criteria, it's a progress thread. Everybody here knows which direction to turn a bolt to tighten it.

All I'm doing here is using the prefixes that are supplied in the forum to categorize the differences between a progress thread, and a build thread. Like I said in my very first post, it's really NBD. In the end the difference between the two prefixes is just a fork in the road that leads to the same destination.

2000xp8 said:

Me personally I don't necessarily feel we need the distinction between the two as long as it is noted as for what someone worked on and what they didn't.

The fox is perhaps the best "bolt on" car in existence so most of the work will fall to doing researching, picking parts and bolting them on. You can even build an entire race car from one right out of a catalog. Progress, build, all the same to me.

If people like to call what their doing a build or progress I think that should be up to them, I just don't think we should force them into a category based on what we as readers perceive it to be. As long as they are honest and don't take credit for someone else's work, they should name it whatever they want.

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I guess it comes with the territory. If I have the responsibility of "managing" this particular forum, then by definition I have certain things that I just want in place. People are free to call it what they want to from the jump, but it starts life w/ a prefix labeling it as a progress thread. And it'll stay that way unless they want it changed.

I'm perfectly willing to let the stay where it is if that is the common concensus. I just thought it'd be easier to tell the difference between threads like @RacEoHolic330 's build vs @hoopty5.0 's progress.
I'm not taking anything away from the hard work to Collin's car, I just wanted to use it to point out that there is definitely a difference between the content of both threads w/ both guys doing almost all of the work themselves.