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.

[CelicaGT04]

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.

I have to agree with MOST of what you said. The only thing i have to disagree with is what you said about the 3sgte swap as your example. Your saying that people SHOULDNT ask what engine he/she should look into putting into their celica, but tell me what engines came stock in the US model GT and ST, its not the 3sgte. So asking questions in my opinion on the topic is quite ok. THAT IS AFTER they have read the stickys which will inform then on OTHER swaps done by other members meaning other members OPINIONS and EXPERIENCES on how their swapped was performed and completed. You would peobably be suprised at the amount of research people put in, but i will agree some people just want it handed to them on a platter. But if you really think about it, the 3sgte swaps in the stickys are as close to the facts as we have and almost everyday i see something new about how you can better the swaps and how they get easier and easier.
That is just my opinion, i think everyone in this forum has the free will to say what they wish and if they say something irrational then someone will correct them, its as simple as that. Like i said earlier if everyone knew everything about the celica there would be absolutely no point for the forums. I hope this causes no controversy it is just my opinion on the topic and if you dont like it pay no attention to it.

Mario