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Originally Posted by willravel
My philosophy is if you have to ask on a forum about something to do with cars, it's best to leave it to a good mechanic. Go to a trustworthy mechanic, someone who has decades of experience with midifications like forced induction, and ask him/her. Just IMO.
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I'd have to disagree. Several years ago I knew very little about working on cars. I'd always been interested, but I never had the opportunity to learn from someone or in a school setting. After having two mechanics in a row try to take me to the cleaners, I decided I needed to learn how to start doing things for myself. Being a geek, I started searching on the web and came across a club for owners of my car (
http://www.beretta.net). I started reading the forums, asking questions, and learning. When I bought a new car, I found a club for that one too (
http://www.clubgp.com) and continued to learn.
Today, I am hardly a master mechanic, but I have saved myself literally hundreds of dollars performing maintainence and making repairs myself. I have learned a great deal about how cars work and I continue to do so. It's incredibly satisfying to be able do the work yourself, and just as satisfying to be able to hold your own in a conversation with mechanics and "car guys".
The information is out there. You just have to know how to reach out and grab it, and how to separate the good advice from the bad.