extremely stupid question

Yep, Spidey, you're right. I owned both a 914 and a 924 when they were new back in the 70's. The 914 was a blast to drive; most fun car I have owned. I had the heads milled and the FI turned up a bit, and the tach would literally race to the redline. The targa top made cruising even in winter a lot of fun. Felt like driving a can-am car! It was so close to the ground, and the hood was short & low.

The 924 I modified with an aftermarket BAE turbo, and 911 turbo fuel pump, and fuel enrichment device. Never got it quite right, but it was dyno'ed at

155 HP. You should have seen the looks on 240Z drivers when I blew them away! It was stealth, also. Only a "turbo" badge on the rear...

Those were the days...

No, just yours.

No time like the present to learn - that's my motto. I figure if someone can find USENET, surely they know how to use a browser.

My answer was useful, and indeed can be used for other questions. Your piss-take aside, try and expand your mind as to what might constitute "helpful."

Why are you concerned about my time?

That really wouldn't help him with the next question, though, would it? I realize that you would rather have everyone spoon-fed, but I think that is the exact opposite of the spirit of USENET. If people learn how to find their own answers, then they can in turn help others find their own answers, or relate their experiences.

Everybody wins.

Now the question remains as to what exactly your postings are doing to help anyone, other than just humping my leg because of your hard-on for me in particular?

Spider

Nothing really, besides the fact that they're both German car manufacturers. Audi is part of Volkswagen-Audi Group, commonly known as VAG, and also includes Seat and Skoda. They share a lot of engines and mechanical designs.

BMW is a completely separate company. Both BMW and Audi compete in the "luxury" sector of the market. Probably the wrong choice of words, but they are considered to be amongst the higher quality brands, also along with Mercedes, and maybe Jaguar as well, possibly others. These days though, due to the market dictating it, they've both started producing much cheaper and smaller cars, when they traditionally only used to knock out nice saloon cars. Examples are the BMW MINI, the Audi A3, 3 Series Compact and the Audi A2.

Heh!

Well there's my token useful post anyway, for those that doubted my ability to make one.

Peter

You don't know this for sure.

I'll give it a go - anyone got any mind-expanding drugs to assist me in my research?

Because I'm a very caring person generally. Ask anyone.

Oddly enough, I do agree with this to an extent. But if every time a fairly commonly asked question came up, and someone then replied with "just look on google for God's sake, and stop wasting everyone's time", or words to similar effect or in a similar tone, then that itself would be the exact opposite of the spirit of usenet. It would discourage people from using newsgroups if they thought that they were just going to be called a lazy useless c*** every time they asked a question that happened to have been asked before.

Bloody hell, am I actually starting to agree with you? Maybe to an extent, but everyone's got to start somewhere.

Hard-on for you? Please, give me some credit.

As to what exactly my postings are doing to help anyone, well I've done a token useful post to this thread, so there :-)

Peter

All your circumlocution has ended up here. Which is nice, because it is here that we finish these issues for good.

1.) Your claim that I was the only one of a certain opinion is dead wrong. Even a cursory search of a netiquette FAQ shows this to be the case. But let us just assume for a moment that your claim is not false. 2.) "...it's mine to do what the hell I like with." This tightly-held belief, in contravention to majority opinion of USENET etiquette, mirrors my idea that folks should post whatever they like, and it is up to others to avoid what they dislike. Like not wasting bandwidth complaining about that which you cannot change, right? So, from this, one can either assume that you a world-class hypocrite, or just a low-grade troll. From your own postings, there can't really be any other conclusion - well, no *reasonable* alternate conclusion.

Combine this with the hilariously wrong "advice" on how to get 225HP out of a 1.8T motor, and how that proves my point of looking stuff up before coming to USENET, and it seems as though you've really got nothing of value to say.

You have proven my points thrice over, and for that I thank you.

Most sincere regards,

Spider

Well yes, let's end this, because it's getting a bit silly :-)

A search of a netiquette FAQ doesn't show anything. That is something very general indeed. I was talking about a specific situation, in which only you shared your opinion, and at least 2 or 3 others defended mine. Having said that, the person who sent me the mail also shared your opinion, so yes, in that respect, my claim was wrong.

Maybe I am a world-class hypocrite, or a low-grade troll. Maybe I'm just something in between - a cross between the two. I think we all are from time to time.

Maybe so, but usenet is *not* just for experts to contribute. If people without all that much knowledge want to throw a suggestion in, then that's their right. It's a bit like free speech, except it's the written word (albeit in electronic form). OTOH, if someone reading that suggestion wants to politely suggest that the person who wrote it is completely barking up the wrong tree, then that's their right. OTOH again, if someone reading that person's post feels the need to be downright rude about it, via private email or otherwise, then that's their right. In the real world, all of the above happens. It's called life.

Don't mention it. The pleasure was all mine.

Peter

Audi contains more letters than bmw so that is one difference. another is that audi is a far superior machine and another is y do u wanna know....gee ....mused harold...i must tell ms rawlins about this.