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Originally Posted by bigs
You were just bitching about how that guy didn't have a nice splitter on his drift car for max down force.
When are you going to stop shitting out of your mouth? I know zilvia resembles the color of a litter box, but don't be fooled.
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You missed my point completely. If you're going to run a splitter, run a proper one. If you're going to participate in a "motorsport" that eats fiberglass aero and in which downforce is inconsequential, don't run ANY aero. You can go out and bash the stock urethane bumper on whatever you want.
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Originally Posted by shanelach
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that nobody cares.
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What a coincidence, I don't care what anyone else thinks either...
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Originally Posted by derek_s13
...we don't build F1 race cars here. No need for cutting edge technology to protect my knockoff fiberglass bumper that I can't even spend the time to fit to the car properly.
are you getting it yet? made that one about as simple as it could be. see what I did is, I mimicked your exact sentence,
but changed the subject matter. that was so you can understand someone else's perspective on anything on earth.
and I did it in a way that demonstrates how biased you are on this, since your thoughts on low quality sheds
being "good enough" is just fine. but others' thoughts on appropriate skid car parts are not.
see matej did the same thing, but he's just so damn clever that I think it went straight over your head.
thought i'd splain it to ya.
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Thanks, you're so smart...
I prefer to
attempt to apply that kind of F1 attention to detail to my own vehicle. Why? Because those are the kind of cars that I grew up with. In all my years working the pits the biggest thing that I have learned is this: The difference between the fastest car in the field and the slowest is all in the details. To be successful in motorsports you've gotta sweat the details like a fat man on a treadmill. Good enough is never good enough. ONLY PERFECT is good enough.
The "good enough" attitude of the general drift community is the primary reason that we've got soooooooo many shitbox "missile" cars and so few nice, clean examples left. There is very little encouragement for precision and skill, and no importance whatsoever to patience and hard work. There is very little importance attached to learning about ACTUALLY driving a car. All these kids just up and decide one day on their lunchbreak in high school that they're going to be a "drifter" because it's super cool. Nobody stops to advise the kid that jumping right into drifting is probably a bad idea. Nobody advises the kid to go to some trackdays first and learn the basics of driving a car fast on a racetrack. Nobody suggests that going to a race driving school is a great idea. Nope, just jump right in! Who cares if you bash up the car almost immediately? I will argue that attitude to the death. All it leads to is shitty cars and shittier drivers.
The best drifters in the world are RACE drivers and drifting is simply a driving technique that they acquired along the way. THAT attitude I encourage. There is more to driving than simply drifting. Just because you're a decent "drifter" doesn't mean that you're a good DRIVER in ANY way. I encourage ALL of you to go out and learn about MORE than just drifting. Expand your automotive horizons, learn absolutely EVERYTHING you can.
Sometimes "elitist" assholes like me can have something useful to teach you, even if you don't agree with everything I say...
Enough of the rants, I'm done here. It was really just stubborn of me to continue this far. Do what you want, I can't stop you. BUT, I don't have to like it or be nice about it either. You'll just have to deal with that.