AquaRSSS' comment about car guys is something that I'd hafta agree with 100%. Rob, I'm more than a little saddened at how few true gearheads there are in this forum. What I see more often than not are guys throwing on a couple bolt-ons like cold-air, K&N filter, axle-back exhaust, and thinking they are now car-guys. At the risk of sounding like a geezer, I gotta say I grew up in a time where it was a matter of pride and a rite of passage to work on your own car, and do REAL stuff - like camshafts and heads and gears and etc. I see very few people in this forum (of course there are a few exceptions) that actually do some serious gearhead wrenchin' on their Camaro's. Seems like most guys just take their car to someone, hand them the keys and a pile of money, and then think they've "built" a fast car. Guys act like changing out heads or a camshaft is equivalent to building the Atlas V rocket. These cars are so incredibly simple to work on - I'm stupified that people aren't rolling up their sleeves and getting into it on their own. Personally, I have ZERO respect for a guy that just hands his car to another dude and says "make it fast" and writes out a check - and THEN talks like he actually knows something about cars, or making cars fast. Oh, and then of course, most of the guys that do that have no clue how to even shift their cars, but that's a WHOLE 'nother issue.
This is a roll-call...if you're an old-school gearhead, please check in!!
Sam