A Challenge to the community Options

[boosted_K2]

Personally I have become increasingly agitated at the amount of people posting incorrect information and unbackable claims... its one thing to post to discuss it, but when you are posting "as fact" you need to make sure your facts are correct. In my honest to god opinion it would be beneficial for a good portion of the forum's members to stop posting for a while and go read a few automotive and/or engineering books or hell... even for the laziest of people, go over to howstuffworks.com or wikipedia.com and just start searching automotive related topics that you "THINK" you know about, they dumb it down so much anyone can understand it, but its technical enough to give you a much better understanding.... I challenge all of you to do it and come back with certifiable evidence to have intelligent conversations with each other, and hopefully make me feel like an idiot at some point and prove me wrong. I am not saying I know everything (hell, I don’t have a clue on a lot of things, I usually just say I don’t have a clue instead of making **** up), I'm not saying there aren’t any good or informative topics on here (skimming through a lot of the FI forum proves that), but just in general I feel this would be beneficial.

My other challenge is to understand WHY you are doing a certain modification. One thing that really bewilders me is suspension modification. Why do you spend money on body braces and sway bars and fender braces... how is that cost justified? If you are doing it for the look or the show of the part then fine I can’t have any disagreement with that. But IMO people need to start asking "what am I trying to accomplish with my setup" before they start part shopping. Save yourself the time and money by formulating a plan before attacking.

Ok, my rants over, thanks for reading.

[Kwanza26]

I agree... too often people want and follow others off of cliffs without ever asking 'why'... although boosted_k2 might not condemn many of the community, I will, short of naming names. Sometimes I wonder why people so enthusiastically preach "3SGTE" or "it'll drop right in" or whatever topic, yet the only mods they've ever produced or experienced themselves are a muffler and some taillights? There's a difference between 'free discussion' and 'out of the box' ideas and simply repeating 'information' that lingers from person to person (remember that game telephone?)... unfortunately when 1/2 of the community are "internet mechanics" who've honed their skills from scrolling text and vague pictures, this 'information' is worth nothing. This is what's called "hear-say" in court and isn't permissable as evidence... therefore... some should make an effort to simply... well... shut the hell up. Research is easy and I hear this google thing is really intuitive and easy to use... so why not make the effort to feed yourself information sometimes the hard way... instead of letting someone else feed you mis-information the easy way. Like they say... you get what you pay for.