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.

[BLADDER_MASTER]

If people here aren't willing to search for the answers to their Celica-related question, what makes you think they're going to search through books to help themselves be more educated. I'm sorry but this forum aggravates me often because the amount of mis-information being spread about things. You have people replying to topics with info that someone else said. Problem is, how does that person know that info is correct or not. Most of the time they don't bother to look for themselves to see if that is a fact or opinion. Like for instance, the most common reply to a "What engine should I swap?" topic is "3S-GTE". The people that ask that question shouldn't make a topic to see what engine he/she should swap. He/she should do his own research to see which engine will satisfy his own needs. He/she shouldn't get an engine that everybody else is telling them to get, because more than like the people that reply to him/her are basing their opinion on what everyone else has told them to get.

Research, it is an action that a lot of people here do not seem to do.