Freedom of Modification, pt. II

[JKEROUAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Alex F. and anyone turned off by his derogatory 
writings against other digester's postings:
     Since you seem to know it all and need to seek to 
abuse the English language in half truth and false 
logic portray my or anyone else's creative low bucks 
95 percent as effective modifications sound inefective 
or invalid,
     I challenge you and your car, versus me and my 
car, to put up or shut up from writing anything other 
than constructive positive technical articles from 
this or any other BMW related digest.  No criticism, 
no invalidations, no putdowns from you against anyone 
ever again.
     I'm not afraid to dyno my //M3, or put it on any 
alignment rack you want, while comparing how much we 
each spent. Are you?
     What I do works, and works well, both for me and 
sufficient others who try what I write up to justify 
continuing to write.  The most effective way to do a 
modification? not always.  the best value of 
performance gained for $$ spent?  Usually, and 
sometimes by a considerable margin.

     If you want to say what I wrote as an E30 front 
front suspension setup was 'BS', then you just 
attacked an E30 318i car that finished FTD by over a 
one second margin autocrossing a BMWCCA octoberfest 
some years back.

     How do other digesters feel about Alex's writing 
style when he disagrees with other articles?
     Is the consenses that the digest is better off 
for everyone if people would just stating technical 
opinions and mechanical experience, and letting the 
other digesters take what they like and leave the 
rest, or correspond directly with the writers for 
further info and discussion?  Rather than some 
loudmouth trying to tell the rest of us how we should 
think?

Reverse Rod Motor?
     What would anyone feel about building a reverse 
rod motor?  Specifically, power output? durability? 
oil consumption? rev limits?
     What does Alex think about this?  There is no 
right answer here, just a lot of wrong ones.  After a 
few responses, I'll describe the results I got when I 
tried one.  I learned many aspects of engine building 
in the process.

     Btw, thanks to all the rest of the digesters for 
to the point technical questions and lucid well 
thought out or researched answers to relevant 
questions of common concern to many.
     Its the rest of everyone on the digest that make 
it worth it to everyone who posts here to continue 
doing so.
      So let's all tell Alex and anyone else like him 
via email directly (don't waste further digest 
bandwidth) two things:
One, that we appreciate the good technical writings 
that he has done.
Two, that postings with the intent to invalidate, 
demean, insult, or discourage, other digesters from 
posting here are inappropriate, unwelcome,
have no place here on the digest, and are better sent 
to  /dev/null than submitted to this forum.

Thanks,
'jk

btw next time I hope to be able to write about the 
reverse rod motor experiment.
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