built after dark·logged to the minute·
estimates never make the card·nine systems — every build·
hours you can defend·parts cost never blended·
two clocks, never one·
built after dark·logged to the minute·
estimates never make the card·nine systems — every build·
hours you can defend·parts cost never blended·
two clocks, never one·
project builds · logged honest · est. 2021
Built afterdark.
One project car, two clocks, nine systems. Every hour here comes off a running
timer and every dollar sits in its own tier — if a number wasn't measured,
it isn't on the page.
build 001
1998 impreza wrx · gc8
photographed 2 oct 2022
The car is real.
So are the numbers.
// nothing logged yet
// the counters start at zero
// and only a timer moves them
§ clocked off
The timer is the product
no session running
Two clocks run on every job: time at the car, and time on the spanner. The
difference between them is the honest part — the walking, the looking,
the coffee — and it gets counted, not rounded away.
measured this session0h 00m
estimated this sessionnone
sessions logged0
session · not started
clocked off
no area selected
Waiting on the first clock-on
0:00:00
minute · 00 sidle
// logged hours only. estimates never make the card.
§ the laws
Six rules, no adjectives
a stranger could enforce all six
01
Log it or lose it
// a job with no timer on it did not happen. no backfilling from memory on sunday night.
02
Two clocks, never one
// time at the car and time on the spanner. both counted, never merged.
03
Three money questions
// parts on the car, cost-in-car, total outlay. three answers, never blended into one.
04
Nine areas, no tenth
// if a job does not belong to one of the nine, the nine are wrong — not the job.
05
Estimates sit in their own column
// backfill is allowed. dressing a guess up as a measurement is not.
06
Exact numbers, never adjectives
// "quick job" is not a number. 3.5 h is. every figure on this site has a timer behind it — which is why they all read zero today.
Nine fixed areas, the same nine the app tracks. Every guide and build log lives under
exactly one of them — so what you read here maps straight onto what you'd log there.
An empty area stays empty until a timer has run on it.
01EngineBlock, internals, forced induction, intake, fuel, ignition, tuningnothing yet↗
02DrivetrainTransmission, clutch, transfer case, diffs, driveshaft, axlesnothing yet↗
03Chassis & suspensionSprings, shocks, sway bars, control arms, bushings, bracing, cagenothing yet↗
04BrakesCalipers, rotors, pads, lines, master cylinder, fluid, biasnothing yet↗
05Wheels & tyresRims, tyres, spacers, lug nuts, beadlocks, TPMSnothing yet↗
06Body & exteriorBody kit, fenders, hood, bumpers, aero, paint, wrap, rust repairnothing yet↗
07Exhaust & coolingHeaders, exhaust, cats, muffler, radiator, oil cooler, water pumpnothing yet↗
08Electronics & controlsECU, harness, gauges, traction and launch control, lighting, audionothing yet↗
09Interior & safetySeats, wheel, pedals, harnesses, sound deadening, trimnothing yet↗
§ from the bench
Build logs & deep dives
nothing filed yet
the bench
Where it gets
written down.
Build logs are written from the timer, not from memory — which is why there
aren't any yet. The first one goes up when the first session closes.
// no queue, no drafts folder, no "coming soon" list.
// a log exists when a session exists.