Yeh, I can remember seeing my first ABS and thinking what a dumb place to locate the injector pump [ah la deisel].
Since then I've got a shed full of tools, spanners, welders, air compressors, and do everything I can myself - in the middle of a turbo upgrade atm, only problem is juggling life, bikes, and cars, but I'll get it finished soon now.
But like ^^^^Birnie, done heaps of my own mods and still doing them - but we all started somewhere!!!