And therein lies the problem. You guys think that you're omniscient and get pissy the instant somebody challenges your statements instead of bowing before you.

You talk about pooling knowledge, well that's what I'm trying my best to do here too. But everytime I try to make a point about something one of you guys starts flinging poo like an agitated chimp. I sure as **** don't know it all, but neither do any of you.
I use the search function plenty, and I've read a ton of threads here before I even joined. There's a lot of good info, and an equal amount of complete garbage. Don't confuse someone's shoforum seniority as making them God's gift to motorsport.
What exactly is it anyone's accomplished here, anyway? Spent money and (sometimes) installed their parts themselves? Sent an email for someone else to tune their car for them? Are these supposed to be impressive skillsets? ****, can everyone in the supposed brain trust here even say they were in their car when it made its fastest pass?
Having even 100,000 timeslips doesn't immediately prove that someone knows how to read or interpret them. Especially when they're arguing about the big end but their track doesn't even have 1000' times...
The notion that a 4-5 shift eats up anywhere close to .2 seconds of et is absolute bunk. It's not theory: traveling x distance at y rate of speed takes z seconds whether it's a taurus, a corvette, or even a damned school bus. No amount of flaming on either side will change that.