Just to be clear here, there is nothing wrong with hot rodding, if it makes you want to drive the car more. But so many mods actually make people drive their car less. which is ok if your not a driver but a tinker type owner or C&C guy, or some sort of show guy.
We could start a thread ( but should not) here in Porsche market place on all the awesome builds done in the 930 and 911 tech threads that took years and huge money and then we find the owner is selling the car shortly after finishing it.

Did they just get over their head on the disposable money and time it took for the fun of the build? or did they build something they just do not want?

Happens a lot, do not be that guy, I have and it is no fun to find your self there.