Twice!

 

In the end, he's a kid. Let him dream. Im sure every person in this thread young and old did the same damn thing at that age whether it was pimping out an old Chevelle, Firebird, or even an El Camino.... or seriously wanting to tune and work on an 85 mustang for the drag strip. Even those who owned FD's and FC's and wanting something more out of them. Most probably didnt go the distance, but nevertheless they most likely dreamed of it and maybe went the extent of "asking advice."

Year's of pre-programming by video games have nothing to do with it. We as people want to express our own individuality using the things we own and cherish the most. Video games just gave us the cheap and easy way of doing it digitally. If you had Need for Speed for the PS2 back in 1970 featuring Mach1 Stangs and Plymouth Cuda's with a 440 and a 6 pack carb, you would be feeling the same way. Movies like "Fast and Furious" may have started a hype with the tuner world... but im sure people watching "Smokey and the Bandit" or "Starsky and Hutch" also wanted to go out and buy or work on their 78' Trans Am or 74' Gran Torino.

A simple steer in the right direction would have been sufficient.


EDIT: And I don't need no Kool-aid suit.

 

A simple read of the forum would have been sufficient.

When I was that age, there is absolutely no way I would take the risk of looking so stupid as to go barreling into a room full of people having a specialized discussion and interrupt with loud, misinformed questions. Certainly not without having first looked into what had been the discussion in the room had already been about.

 

i just had to quote this part of your post.
Im currently going to school, studying to become a mechanical engineer. The largest reason for posting threads like these is to learn more of the mechanics and technology incorporated into this car, and others like it. Never once did i ever say it would be cheaper, or easier to go that route.

I remember when i was younger i would take lego's, in quantities as much at 10,000 pieces, and just let my imagination go to work and make whatever i would want. Making cars, boats, planes, mixes of everything. As i got older i started working on other things. Taking everything from gameboys apart to repair and repaint them, to plasma globes, remote controls, guitars, xbox's, cnc lathes, 3 axis mills, laser "printers", and building my own custom airsoft guns that compete with some of the most expensive ones.

To sum everything up, most of my posted threads and questions are put up for the sake of learning more about things i havent found, or havent been discussed.

Sometimes, you just need to open your mind to other possibilities cause you never know what you might find, could surprise you. Isnt that what Felix Wankel did?

 

You and me both. But unfortunately not everyone is like me and you (and lots of others). I just feel the sarcasm, although that is the very thing i usually do to prove a point (in my opinion its the best way), was not warranted here. I dunno, maybe im a hypocrite with certain things

 

I agree... as i learned how to build gaming computers by pulling apart... well... a computer and figuring it out. It was interesting for me. I pulled apart a Pentium 1 machine with windows 95. I dissected it.

After teaching myself slowly over the years out of pure interest, i built every desktop every friend and family member of mine own, and i still currently upgrade for them. And mine is still godlike.



The point of this whole thing is this: You will learn, rather quickly i might add, that this forum/community will lecture you on the "search" feature. This is mainly because this is a very small community. Understand that the people here have been here a long time... and there arent that many of them. Now that RX8's are getting dirt cheap, more and more people are buying them. They come here with questions and we get lots and lots of similar threads all asking the same thing. The problem is now, with so many new threads asking the same thing... using the search feature becomes even less useful because you get countless of pointless search results with no valuable information contained within them.

Its good to learn. Just always bring your flame suit.

And never ask which oil is better.

 

apparently thrice even ...

 

This has been a fun read :D. Amongst all the chatter there actually is a bit of information that can be taken away :o