[Mr 5 0]

O.K. people, enough of this.

I'm closing the thread - for obvious reasons.

Let me suggest that before anyone posts a message they think about what they typed and maybe try calming down first. It saves a lot of hassles.

Using words like 'ignorant', 'stupid' and 'dumb' is totally confrontational and guaranteed to start an argument no matter how correct you are with your information.

If someone you didn't know - never met before - had a technical car discussion with you and halfway through it called you 'stupid' you would, at best, end the conversation and at worst, punch him in the nose.

Being online, behind a computer and a User Name doesn't give anyone the license to name-call over some technical disagreement. Simply saying 'I think you're wrong' works too. Saves a lot of typing and being annoyed with unseen, unknown strangers on the net. Life is too short.

No one has a corner on truth when it comes to automotive facts, especially in minutia about 30-year-old engine combinations and engineering details.

State your facts, back them up if you can and let it go. Stand by your facts. If someone doesn't agree, let them prove it. If they can't, hold your position. If they can, admit you could be wrong. Nobody knows it all. Not Dan McClain, not Chris Bowers, not me; no one.

We can't monitor and edit every post. We depend on our members to use mature judgement and not flame or get obscene on Mustang Works. Don't let us down. We can get the crappy, flame-heavy messageboards anywhere on the web. Mustang Works is different. We have some class and intelligence. let's keep it that way.

Thanks.