[Gary L]

HeathGT350, You sound a lot like I was several years ago. I have only general automotive skills. I ordered and built a cobra kit and would never have ordered a kit without an instruction manual and the prospect of tech help from the company. There was still many hours spent starring at parts not exactly sure what to do. Manuals are good because it gives you the general order that components are assembled. This prevents you from getting to far ahead and having to disassemble something to install something else.
My first kit required a Mustang donor car. It took a friend and I two days to dissassemble. The second time I dissassembled a Mustang for another kit it took me working by myself less than 8 hours using air tools.
My confidence and skills were much better the second time around.
This brings up another good topic. The more time that I spend working on cars the more tools that I seem to acquire. Air compressor/with all the goodies, torque wrench, grinders, new tool boxes, etc. etc. How cool is that? I always have a list for birthdays and christmas to increase my tool inventory and my wife and children have been happy to oblige. My wife is on to me though and is getting concerned about what my next project will be. She noticed that I changed my screen saver from a mountain scene to a GT40.