Originally Posted by snitm

Like much of this thread you're misreading me. My point was: follow-ups to this thread have only prolonged what was already established 3-4 pages ago. People asking followup questions that were previously answered just kept the dialog going. As such people following along have seen an evolution to the handful of changes that offer me some hope at making my car whole again. So yes I've certainly gotten answers. But all who think any one of these answers is the obvious way forward is full of shit. So sorry for responding to each person who posed a question built on misunderstandings (that I assume were born out of fatigue from a lengthy thread rather than s2ki contributors' poor reading comprehension) -- whereby beating this dead horse of a thread.