pauleyman
DSM Wiseman
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- Nov 19, 2011
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oklahoma city,
Oklahoma
It's fine to make a shopping list but I think we've seen way too many lists that simply describe a list of parts with no goals in mind and no clue why each part might be "better".
I've watched newbies come and go over 20 plus years and the one common thing I've seen so many times is a newbie bolts on a whole bunch of parts, hates the car and bashes dsms as unreliable crappy cars. The fault isn't the car, it's the user.
It's true DSMs respond very well to basic modifications and many of them CAN be made immediately, easily and will yield results. The problem is SHOULD they be. The cars are obviously not new anymore. You must understand the difference between "driveability" and "working like new". A car may be driving for you find every single day but if you add a power adder suddenly the car behaves badly. It is NOT necessarily the part that caused this. It may be the part simply pushed another system of the car past it's breaking point or made a change you did not expect because you did not understand the part and what it does.
A driver should understand each system on the car and what any changes may cause BESIDES changing a parameter of performance.
Can you answer "what specific area of performance will this part change and what will it affect?". If you can't answer this then you aren't ready to buy that part.
I've watched newbies come and go over 20 plus years and the one common thing I've seen so many times is a newbie bolts on a whole bunch of parts, hates the car and bashes dsms as unreliable crappy cars. The fault isn't the car, it's the user.
It's true DSMs respond very well to basic modifications and many of them CAN be made immediately, easily and will yield results. The problem is SHOULD they be. The cars are obviously not new anymore. You must understand the difference between "driveability" and "working like new". A car may be driving for you find every single day but if you add a power adder suddenly the car behaves badly. It is NOT necessarily the part that caused this. It may be the part simply pushed another system of the car past it's breaking point or made a change you did not expect because you did not understand the part and what it does.
A driver should understand each system on the car and what any changes may cause BESIDES changing a parameter of performance.
Can you answer "what specific area of performance will this part change and what will it affect?". If you can't answer this then you aren't ready to buy that part.