would be nice to get something like this to pass out to the members of this board, but sadly from the lack of activity i see on this board i can only see maybe a few people sporting something like this on their versa...not trying to be negative about it, but this forum, for lack of a better word is DEAD. alot of people looking, but nobody really participating
Hell to the yeah. I've never seen a more inactive forum. The main reason is that people who like to get to know their cars, and work on their car (usually those two go hand in hand) are not the typical Note/Versa owner. The main demographic is people who consider cars appliances, they don't care how it works, they just want it to start up every day and take them from A to B, and when the first major service comes along they buy another one. Throwaway cars unfortunately, i don't feel this way personally, but it's what the main demographic thinks.
As far as the more serious part of modding goes (creating, designing, experimenting), i wish there were more radical minds here. Many seem to think that there is this invisible barrier to hot rodding the engines, and are hesitant. When in reality, hot rodding an engine follows a general pattern/formula. I wish there were more people like this, it would make for a much more productive atmosphere. Shooting back and forth between like minds about engine power possibilities.
Why do i tend to focus more on improving technical aspects and engine performance on these cars? Because once someone builds a fast as hell Versa, people will notice. It will attract more "enthusiasts" to Versa's, and hopefully create a market for things other than cosmetic crap and mild bolt ons. The few people here (myself included) who are serious about hopping up the motors are always left out of real steps forward because there is not enough of us for companies to consider doing anything. Can you blame them? If there were more of us, cams, manifolds, injectors, lightweight lifters and more would have long been developed from the get go. Evidence of this stuff struggling to lift off is all around us, that Dynatek manifold, JWT telling me they would develop performance cam/valvetrain parts if there was more interest, mass produced true 4-2-1 headers.
I am grateful of what has been developed, but even then some of that was luck of the draw, namely the MR20 and MR18 identicality, creating a large enough market for an improved exhaust manifold and lightweight pulley to become a reality. Not to mention aftermarket intakes. The performance crowd of the MR20 and MR18 combined was probably just enough people for some of this stuff to be developed.
Just go in any one of the non-cosmetic related sub-forums here and you'll find that the ratio of "how do i check my oil" type threads to real threads is too damn high.
