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.

[malpaso]

Here is my point of view:

1. "I am not saying I know everything" ...amen
There are just two groups of answers. "IMHO" answers and "advice" answers. When I know something for sure (because I'm good at it), it's (IMHO) "duty" help other people who just don't know. I belive it's right help each other in one community of people with same interest... We all heve our celicas and we all want just the best for it, am I right? And if I'm not sure about anything, it's not wrong at least write opinion... (else why English has words like "I belive", "I think", "In my point of view", etc.???).

2. "posting incorrect information" thing
My aim is all people here will think like: "Malpaso wrote it, it's good advice" or "Malpaso wrote it, he know what he doing". You know what I'm talking about? It's called reputation. And I will not do anything what should harm that... It's somethong like personal pride. Even if internet forums are "faceless" there still is (in my opinion ) some kind of identity and that identity has own value.

3. "WHY you are doing a certain modification" part
Here I don't understand if it's general question or it's something factual. However I have made some (a lot ) external modification on my celica because I love SS-III celica type. I will never have real one, now I know that... so I want make my ST leastwise look like SS-III celica... I have made also some non-SS-III interior modifications... Why? I want my celi looks unique. You can belive me there is no other celica with same look like mine . That's all