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ozaristov300
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Re: Toymods forums at a new low	Sat, 29 January 2005 12:24

If this is a low point, I'd love to have been here during the glory days. Now before I go on (which I tend to do a bit), a little scene setting please: I'm in my rocking chair on the porch and you whipper snappers are assembled cross-legged around me.....Back in my day: I was member of the Celica Car Club of Victoria for 10+ years from 1978 to 1987, including a stint as Competition Secretary. I raced Clubman karts with my son from 1997-2000. I've owned KE10 Corolla, AE82 Seca, AE82 Twin Cam hatch, 2 * TA22 Celica, 2 * RA40 Celica (one genuine GT), 1 * GT4 Celica, 2 * Cressida, UZZ31 Soarer, Aristo V300 (still got), RX300 (still got), IS200 (latest acqusition), AE86 SX (son's car), plus unmentionables (Audi A4 turbo quattro, Civic, Verada, Cortina, Honda VT250 etc) I clocked up 30 years in IT yesterday (still a techno-peasant when it comes to PCs though) but am a newbie to Forums and internet based car clubs. As part of my commitment to remaining immature regardless of chronological achievement, and to maintaining my penchant for Menoporsches, I recently bought the IS200 to get back into building and racing cars. Also a shameless ploy to get my son to stay close while practising his new skills from his soon to commence RMIT engineering degree course. So how do you put a V8 in an IS200? Google "IS430" and one of the links is to toymods.org. After more than 100 hours (trust me, my wife is keeping score) of reading posts on toymods and other newly discovered clubs/forums (Altezza, Lextreme, Lexus Owners UK, IS300.net etc etc etc), I feel I could just about do the conversion with my eyes closed. I have learnt more in the past 3 weeks than 25 years of traditional methods ever taught. Along the way I'm sure I've committed dozens of Forum sins but am growing more and more comfortable with the technology and trust I'm sinning less each day. Please be tolerant with us newbies until we come up to speed. I have no doubt we will prove to be a valuable contributor in time, hopefully as valuable as Norbie, deesonet, KoffeeBlack, Nark, gianttomato, CrUZida and many others. Oh, and that Search thing, I continue to struggle with it, preferring to scan entire forums looking for info. Re the "fooly sik" contributions - YYGT. You are on the Web and open to the world, so you are exposed to all of it. You have to find the balance between maximising exposure to extract the value of openness or minimising exposure to retain control. IMO (took me 3 weeks to figure out what this stood for!) you have the balance pretty right. As a reader I have quickly learnt what to skim past and what to absorb. The only suggestion I can make is to consider a tiered strategy, where say financial members get access to and can contribute to a wider range of elements than public access members. Just don't make it onerous to administer. (This is the part of IT that large companies pay me money to fix.) My membership application and joining fee is in the mail to you. I look forward to a long and mutually beneficial membership. Regards Wayne Yes, You Get That [Report message to a moderator]

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