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.

[trdproven]

From a neutral standpoint, I agree, there is a bunch of posts here that may be answered wrong, but at some point I got to disagree because some of the posts that sound like guesses are sometimes actually personal experiences. People with the same issue might have different solutions to the same problem. Again, I agree that yes many of us may not know everything but people here don't answer based on knowledge, but based on what they've seen, done, or experienced. Its one thing to read and know but to feel and experience are totally different. A real community is not based on a bunch of all knowledgeable people but people who learn and experience the same interest together and get smarter. I'm not trying to take anyones side or even blame anyone, I'm just saying, for the most part, we are all learning as we go along and we share that information. If we were all knowledgeable, we all wouldn't be here. We will get better together. Hopefully, everyone even myself will post as honest and factual as possible.