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The Chevy Camaro has 2 significant performance segments. The V8 is a dominant powerhouse that is sure to compete with top exotics and sports cars. On the other end, the V6 is sure to participate in a highly competitive class of 300-hp cars. In effect, we have 2 areas of membership that must be addressed.

There should be separate discussion sections for V8 and V6 members. Failure to do this on CobaltSS.net until too late led to hostility between top tier and lower tier owners. Go to that site and look at the 2.2L section. I left because the SS members were telling people with 2.2L ECOTECs that it wasn't worth modding and they should have gotten the Cobalt SS. It was downright disrespectful, and many important site members were kicked, banned, or left like I did. If that were to happen to our tight-knit community, I'm sure it would create hostility, spam, and a need for more moderation. The site is great right now, but we need to keep people interested in the LLT in a separate area of discussion from the V8 members.

Evidence is already on the site that the V8 is the favored car for everyone, but the V6 will be the dominant seller. It is important to give equal sections to each car so that people are getting the right performance parts and mods for their engine. When we begin discussing exhaust setups and internal, we don't want to confuse members by discussing parts that aren't available for the car any particular member drives.

One way to do this is have an aftermarket section with a separate sub-forum for each motor. The LS3, L99, and LLT motors will all perform very differently with certain modifications. Moreover, we cannot expect a company that builds parts for the LLT to build a counterpart for another engine, so discussing all of these parts together will create chaos in the performance section of the site. Another way to consider is to create motor-specific sections within the performance section. All current threads could go into a pre-production section, and all future threads could be divided according to members. To help facilitate these sections, it may be necessary to increase the number of moderators by 1 or 2. This would probably have to happen anyway since the population of this site will increase as people get Camaros and want to discuss them. Our membership now is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is just and idea. Hopefully, you guys figure out a great way to organize our thoughts when aftermarket discussion begins.