As Custard has said, it's me who gets the (wonderful
) job of moderating the new forum (at the start at least - getting someone who knows about it at a future date would be very helpful).
The other mods aren't trying to be difficult and I'm certainly not trying to kill this section, I am just really baffled. I've now put in a lot of work to get this section to be a possibility and I'd really like to move forward.
The bigger picture has to be seen - and that is most users simply won't know what Tuning is, you can see examples from this with the prefixes that have been used about the forum. It doesn't matter that the tuners know what is what, it's the users who will be posting threads in your section you don't want there.
I'll be moving them for sure - but I also need to know what's what. The mods also need to know so we can accurately prefix threads in the individual sections.
It's all well and good saying the tuners will come in and decide what is what - however, at the moment we have over 3000 threads to re-prefix, so we need to know NOW (otherwise the Tuning forum is just going to be cluttered up).
Some people have said tuning is just for engine stuff, some say it's for engine and handling things (which for most people means suspension, rollbars etc etc) and Dave's link says it is for all this - PLUS things like spoilers.
Basically it seems like a total minefield.
As I said, I'm happy to do it - but I need guidelines - otherwise there is just going to be report after report and things all in the wrong places.
Would everyone be happy, if (for now) I set it up as the following:
Tuning Threads = Anything changed on the engine to make it go faster/have more torque (inc cams, exhaust, filters, ecu mapping). I'd also say this includes "would it be possible" threads (such as the idea of a v6 in a Panda for example).
Replacing an exhaust with a new looking one (but without gains) WOULDN'T count, neither would changing the cylinder head for a red one (or stuff like that).
Non Tuning Threads = Anything else - including suspension and brakes.
... ?
If we at least start off with this, I know what I'm doing - and as more people get posting and putting in ideas, we can look to evolve?