Well, not to sound insulting myself, but that's complete and utter bull. Number one, they were not rants. You seem to be making me out to be an asshole here, when in fact I would have been more of an asshole if I'd just told him where he could find an intake and left him alone. This list is not designed as a place where we give any old answer that someone wants to hear just to save time or get rid of them. His questions were barking up the wrong tree. I could easily have sent him to some place that sells a $150 intake and he'd probably have gone and bought it. Then he'd have been REAL disgusted when he put it on his car and discovered that, at best, his car was louder. I told him what he needs to know in order to get REAL help in building up the performance of his car- - namely, he needs to learn about cars and how they work before he goes and spends truckloads of cash (and if he's like me he does not have an unlimited well of money around) on random parts that add little, if any, performance.
This is kind of like a question I got on a videography mailing list. Guy said he wanted a DVC-pro camera with a shutter. Some jackass sent him to a very expensive and not very good camera in response instead of pointing out that ALL video cameras have a shutter and that the guy needed to learn what he was talking about before he wasted over 5 grand on something useless. I feel that guy would have been better served if someone had provided him with links to where he could LEARN about cameras before he bought it (as I did by telling him to read this list and to look at the CRX forum). Instead that guy just gave him the quick, easy answer that didn't help one iota. I apologize if it upsets anyone, but I don't play that game. At 01:23 AM 5/24/2002 -0700, Kristian Hoffmann wrote: >Well, that's two for two. Keep it up Brandon. Don't be insulted, but >with as much typing as your two rants took, you could have just been >helpful or answered their questions. > >-Kristian > >On Thu, 23 May 2002, Brandon Bankston wrote: > > > Could I make a small suggestion? Please don't be insulted, but you say > > you're not good at this, which is fine -- you're new. It's pretty obvious > > from what you've said that you have absolutely no idea how to make your car > > faster, which is also fine because you haven't learned about that yet.l > > But, knowing that you weren't good at it you decided that you needed an > > intake and were determined to buy one. You had no real idea what an intake > > does or how a different one would help (or hurt) your car's performance. If > > I had to guess, you either read an ad somewhere that said intakes gave you > > power or you have a friend somewhere that says his intake gave him power, > > but you have no real technical data that actually says an intake gives you > > power. > > > > Could I suggest that you do some research about how cars work, and actually > > LEARN what works and what doesn't before you haphazardly go buying parts > > because you saw them in someone else's car? You don't have to take that > > advice -- I wouldn't be insulted, but I can guarantee with just about 100% > > certainty that if you don't learn how cars work you're gonna waste a LOT of > > money doing pointless crap to your car. > > > > this mailing list and crx-forum.org are both great places to learn about > > cars. Were I you, I'd sit back and read everything I could about cars and > > what mods work before I spent any money on upgrades. > > > > > > > > > > > > At 09:40 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, Fidel Garcia wrote: > > >Guys I'm not good in this, but which one will fit to my car? > > > > > >I want to buy one. > > >And Thanks to all those people that helped me. I'm new in this ;) > > > > > >http://www.knfilters.com/Racing/custom.htm > > > >
