In the last week, I've been reminded of a couple of things:
Grassroots Motorsports is the best damned automobile related magazine out there.
This is the best message board in the frickin' world, and obviously not just for auto-related stuff.
Our Challenge car this year will be a bit of a departure from our normal schtick, so I've been picking up "other" magazines and frequenting "other" message boards looking for inspiration and technical info.
I'm abso-smurfing-lutely amazed at the lack of content in a lot of other automotive magazines. I flipped through one last week (I won't name any names, but it's an offshoot of a REALLY popular mag that's been around FOREVER,) because one of the "feature cars" was really inspiring. I was more than a little disappointed to find that not only was the article barely a page long (if you removed the 15 photos spread over 5 pages,) but there was hardly ANY relevant information on the car OR the driver.
The kicker is that the magazine is HALF as thick as a GRM and cost $5 freakin 99!!! I'll never make that mistake again.
Likewise, asking very simple questions on other message boards has proven to be incredibly frustrating. As to not come off like a lazy dreamer n00b trying to waste everyone's time, I perused the FAQ's, How-to's, etc. on said boards, looking for very simple answers to very simple questions. After mulling through and not finding much useful information, I very politely and humbly posted questions on the boards. The responses I've gotten have ranged from disappointingly unhelpful to downright nasty, and I'm realizing that a lot of folks on a lot of boards are just plain full of berkeleying E36 M3. They want to talk a lot about what they're "gonna" do, and "this is how so-and-so did it, so that's the only way," etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, thanks to GRM AND the members of this board for providing valuable, easy to understand, fluff-free, timely, and often very witty and entertaining CONTENT.
kisses.
...but I might dip my toe in the darkside. Talk to me after our buddy Kevin (the guy with the turbo AWD Challenge Tracer) gets his new CSP motor buttoned up. 
