[Curmudgeon]

(IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) WARNING

I would suggest that you read all the forum rules or be ready to be roasted.

I would suggest you lurk for awhile before stepping in. It is one of the best tech site out there that I know of, but the sites admin. Does not tolerate violations of there rules.

[Jon A]

Before I offend too many people, let me say the below is not directed at anyone specific in this thread or on this board--but toward the vast majority of F-Body owners who like to turn corners in general.

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Most want to learn, or at least they say they do. While picking up a book or two can work wonders, most are too damn lazy to do it. These days most will learn everything from the internet. Message boards. Most only read a couple specific to their make and model as if it's the only information in existence. I've got news for you, it isn't.

A car is a car. While the techniques used to apply them may differ from car to car, the laws are all the same. In the end, it's four tires on the pavement, nothing more. If you think reading what (many times, clueless) people say about your particular car is all there is to learn about it, you're kidding yourselves.

Frrax.com is wonderful, and I'm so glad it's here. But it has only been here for a few months. Before that, we had the AutoX/RR forums on various F-Body boards. If that's where you spent all your time, yes, you have missed out. While they did get a little better over the last couple of years, overall they still sucked. I did my best to try and make them better, but I was fighting a losing battle. Much too often I got the same frustration with them that the people who started CC.com got with the Mustang boards. I would stop reading and posting for a while. I wouldn't answer the questions I knew the answer to because I had already answered them a million times!!!

Technical discussions regarding suspension design, overall vehicle dynamics, etc? Pathetic (what little there was). No, the signal was drowned out by the noise. Explaining for the bazillionth time that poly/poly LCA's weren't the best idea. Even if they come powdercoated yellow. Where it's "mean" to tell somebody he is wrong. Even if he is.

So, for all of you who won't "lower yourselves" to reading posts with attitude, I'm happy for you. Maybe if you had spent a tenth of the time you spent on F-Body boards lurking on CC.com, things like what a motion ratio is, what a roll center is, what tire efficiency is, how and why weight transfer happens, etc wouldn't be such foreign concepts to you. Maybe you'd start to understand some of those things in that book you stopped reading because it all went over your head when you hear them explained and examples given in numerous discussions. This is basic stuff, kids. In "other words" you might know your butt from a hole in the ground.

Oh, but they're so mean! That's weak. Really. Just an excuse. I've heard it all before. You guys think you're saying anything new? You sound exactly like the crybabies on the Corral have sounded for years after getting a good tech smackdown. Exactly! But you know what? Many of those same people who said those things, really did want to learn. After learning the difference between their asses and a hole in the ground, they see just how wrong they really were and why they were smacked down in the first place. They become members of CC.com. Eventually, some even have something to contribute. Some even become moderators there! The ones who don't? Well, nobody at CC.com misses them. We don't need 1000 new members a day showing up to tell us 2+2=5.

Just a Mustang site? Go ahead and keep thinking that. Your loss.

And for anybody who has a problem with what I said above, I've got two words for you. Yes, you guessed them. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


SUCK IT!


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