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I wonder if a Conversion Tech forum, about converting automatic cars to manual, would bring in users and a bunch of technical discussion?
Would a hypermiling forum be too controversial?
Just a couple ideas I thought of for this place.
Would a hypermiling forum be too controversial?
Just a couple ideas I thought of for this place.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Re: Forum suggestions
we could go on about hypermiling just as much as we could about how to prevent clutch wear, or the usefulness\uselessness of DCing. i say lets do it.
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Re: Forum suggestions
I think that because auto to manual swap can have such intricate details that may vary from car to car, users would be able to get more of their questions answered on forums that are focused on their vehicles.
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Agreed, but if you do a swap, do a writeup for those who try it in the future.AHTOXA wrote:I think that because auto to manual swap can have such intricate details that may vary from car to car, users would be able to get more of their questions answered on forums that are focused on their vehicles.
Good ideas in this thread though!
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I vote yes on hypermiling forum.
I vote no on conversion forum, but present the following alternate: Maybe a "Mad Science" forum. Any large undertaking / major mod writeup could be presented there. Your transmission project, my (upcoming) ECU tuning project, etc. would all be located there... waddayathink?
I vote no on conversion forum, but present the following alternate: Maybe a "Mad Science" forum. Any large undertaking / major mod writeup could be presented there. Your transmission project, my (upcoming) ECU tuning project, etc. would all be located there... waddayathink?
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I think my conversion project, your ECU, and really any such discussions fit just fine in "Parts and Problems". The conversion forum idea was because this is a site about manual transmissions and that might bring in more people who want to discuss manual transmissions.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Half of what I do to my car can be considered Mad Science...
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Half of what you do to your car is considered 'modding with no budget'.
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Did somebody say mad science?watkins wrote:Half of what I do to my car can be considered Mad Science...
I will be securing it a lot better than that while I work under it.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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And yet I still manage to do it the right way.AHTOXA wrote:Half of what you do to your car is considered 'modding with no budget'.
Most of the time.
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Re: Forum suggestions
I suggest that we get a favourite icon (favicon.ico or something like that) so that I can get rid of the "SS" test in my bookmark bar.
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You wouldn't believe a few of the odd looks I've gotten when I made a mention of "SS" in conversation...Tups wrote:I suggest that we get a favourite icon (favicon.ico or something like that) so that I can get rid of the "SS" test in my bookmark bar.
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I guess I could remove the texts as I probably remember which one is SS and which one something else... Still, it'd be prettier if there was a unique icon for it.
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What browser are you using? There's got to be a way to assign a favicon.
If there's not and you're using Firefox or Opera, you could make a UserJS/Greasemonkey script that will insert a favicon into the HTML in your browser.
If there's not and you're using Firefox or Opera, you could make a UserJS/Greasemonkey script that will insert a favicon into the HTML in your browser.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD