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pintoca
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I'm starting to worry.
As of late I've noted I go crazy over anything I buy that has the potential for some "tuning".
Tuning, understood as simply trying to take object A and make it outperform object B (usually, Object B is X number of times more expensive than object A).
It applies to anything and (at least to me) gives great satisfaction.
It all started with a little PNA (Personal Navigation Assistant) I bought. The thing was great, then I started reading and reading and reading. At the end, I cracked it, installed additional software into it and now is running a totally different software, different maps, a video player, mp3 player, totally new battery that lasts about 50% longer...etc.
Then I put together a PC and when I was done with it, it was running 72% faster than the processor I bought (which costs about 150US$) and outperforms a 1300US$ processor.
The latest is I got, somehow (don't ask) into RC models.... So I joined an RC forum...
and read
and read
and read
(this sort of sick behaviour reminds me when I started this whole diet/fitness thing, God can I be anal about things... compulsive/obsessive some might say).
then I went and hunted for an offer... found a 300US$ worth kit for 130... and then started ordering all the parts I needed, carbon chassis, new engines, differentials, etc.. about 100US worth of aftermarket parts...
end result? I owned my neightbor and his 520US setup... sweet.
so you get the point... yo take something cheap and through research and educated decisions you start owning "better" more expensive things.
Some people, however, forget the core of "tuning"... they spend so much money on their tuning parts that at the end the end product is so expensive it doesn't make any sense... I have seen people buying 500US worth of parts for a 100US car... (kinda like 5000US wheels on a Ford Pinto)
so, post up your tuning victories.
(btw, if you juice, that is tuning as well, of your own body)
(I just feel like writing today)
As of late I've noted I go crazy over anything I buy that has the potential for some "tuning".
Tuning, understood as simply trying to take object A and make it outperform object B (usually, Object B is X number of times more expensive than object A).
It applies to anything and (at least to me) gives great satisfaction.
It all started with a little PNA (Personal Navigation Assistant) I bought. The thing was great, then I started reading and reading and reading. At the end, I cracked it, installed additional software into it and now is running a totally different software, different maps, a video player, mp3 player, totally new battery that lasts about 50% longer...etc.
Then I put together a PC and when I was done with it, it was running 72% faster than the processor I bought (which costs about 150US$) and outperforms a 1300US$ processor.
The latest is I got, somehow (don't ask) into RC models.... So I joined an RC forum...
and read
and read
and read
(this sort of sick behaviour reminds me when I started this whole diet/fitness thing, God can I be anal about things... compulsive/obsessive some might say).
then I went and hunted for an offer... found a 300US$ worth kit for 130... and then started ordering all the parts I needed, carbon chassis, new engines, differentials, etc.. about 100US worth of aftermarket parts...
end result? I owned my neightbor and his 520US setup... sweet.
so you get the point... yo take something cheap and through research and educated decisions you start owning "better" more expensive things.
Some people, however, forget the core of "tuning"... they spend so much money on their tuning parts that at the end the end product is so expensive it doesn't make any sense... I have seen people buying 500US worth of parts for a 100US car... (kinda like 5000US wheels on a Ford Pinto)
so, post up your tuning victories.
(btw, if you juice, that is tuning as well, of your own body)
(I just feel like writing today)
