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How about a dictionary of Forum-isms. For example, I still don't know what WOT means after more than a year.
Also, a link to threads discussing the differences between intakes, exhausts, etc. Perhaps an explanation that they won't make more than 1 hp per $1000 without FI would help too.
Also, a link to threads discussing the differences between intakes, exhausts, etc. Perhaps an explanation that they won't make more than 1 hp per $1000 without FI would help too.
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Originally Posted by dangators05,May 6 2007, 08:04 PM
How about a dictionary of Forum-isms. For example, I still don't know what WOT means after more than a year.
Also, a link to threads discussing the differences between intakes, exhausts, etc. Perhaps an explanation that they won't make more than 1 hp per $1000 without FI would help too.
Also, a link to threads discussing the differences between intakes, exhausts, etc. Perhaps an explanation that they won't make more than 1 hp per $1000 without FI would help too.
I also think a Dictionary of Forum-isms would be a good idea. It took me a quite awhile on a couple different car forums to decipher many of the abbreviations.
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Lots of good suggestions here, and Chaz, I think this is long overdue. 
Seems to me that anything we might need to say has already been said at some point, so maybe all we need is a post with links to all the appropriate threads. OTOH that might just overwhelm new or prospective owners, and I think there would be merit in making safety related and reliability related issues stand out.
A safety section should cover all the usual suspects, like cold tires, tire sizes, etc. This section should also (perhaps first and foremost) try to get the new or prospective owner to see the value of schools and other venues where they can learn to handle their new car effectively and safely.
A reliability section should cover the need to check the oil at every gas stop, to check AP1 retainers with any used car or any sign of an over rev, and maybe even some comments about the fact that some people have blown their differentials trying to lay rubber. Maybe the section even needs to say something about clutch drops, the problems it can cause if done in certain ways, and the problems the CDV has caused some owners. Of course anything like the latter needs to make it clear that some people do things like burnouts repeatedly and never have issues, but that owners do these things at their own risk. LOL, I'd like to see this section contain my mantra, the one that says, "It's not how hard you drive the car, but how you drive the car hard." (Along with some kind of explination as to what that means.)
Perhaps the most important thing is to avoid the "mine is better than your's" BS because that will only confuse people and has naught to do with the way they will end up enjoying whatever rev they end up owning.
Seems to me that anything we might need to say has already been said at some point, so maybe all we need is a post with links to all the appropriate threads. OTOH that might just overwhelm new or prospective owners, and I think there would be merit in making safety related and reliability related issues stand out.
A safety section should cover all the usual suspects, like cold tires, tire sizes, etc. This section should also (perhaps first and foremost) try to get the new or prospective owner to see the value of schools and other venues where they can learn to handle their new car effectively and safely.
A reliability section should cover the need to check the oil at every gas stop, to check AP1 retainers with any used car or any sign of an over rev, and maybe even some comments about the fact that some people have blown their differentials trying to lay rubber. Maybe the section even needs to say something about clutch drops, the problems it can cause if done in certain ways, and the problems the CDV has caused some owners. Of course anything like the latter needs to make it clear that some people do things like burnouts repeatedly and never have issues, but that owners do these things at their own risk. LOL, I'd like to see this section contain my mantra, the one that says, "It's not how hard you drive the car, but how you drive the car hard." (Along with some kind of explination as to what that means.)
Perhaps the most important thing is to avoid the "mine is better than your's" BS because that will only confuse people and has naught to do with the way they will end up enjoying whatever rev they end up owning.
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