If someone already brought this up, then please forgive me.


Although I have been just curious and decided to do a search through a few of the How To's and such, only to discover a lot of the photos that were posted through a hosting image site have been deleted or expired. Was wondering if there is a way to prevent this in the future, and (heck even I would do it if you let me know when) whenever someone posts photos, to make a copy and have it on an account through an image hosting site or a database where they will not be deleted, so that new members can get the same advantage as the more later members all the same.

I am not sure if this is making sense, but it is helpful (even though the information is posted) to have photos. Also, such things like removing the amber part of the JDM tails and possibly other "how to's" are missing the links. I was just curious and clicked on the removing of the amber piece, only to find it was a dead link.


Just thought I would bring this to your attention mods, and if you guys don't want to bother, provide me with a way to make this happen and I will do it for everyone. It makes no difference to me, so long as we can make it happen.


Thanks

on the subject of that removing the amber link, i submitted a new link for it some time ago. would be nice to have those updated with some new how-tos.

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You did? Is it a sticky? Because when I went to exterior>How To Remove The Amber part, the link was dead for a .uk site




Still no mods have any say or suggestions on this?

we need some new members to makle some new how-tos and update the old ones.

id be down to do a few

Anybody have information on the following: How to custom your own strut bar, fixing horn for the 6gc, rebuilding engine.

Dude I'd LOVE to see someone try to write a how-to on how to rebuild your engine. That would be hilarious! And LONG.

When I FINALLY finish my manual-to-power window conversion (i.e. figure out my wiring issues) I will definitely post a how-to for it. If anything it'll be a good resource for people trying to replace or repair elements of their existing window and lock setup!

i will try and document small things like swaybar installation and some other stuff.
alot of the pics are dead as well

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I think that's pretty much what this is: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=51960&hl=
I'll be rebuilding a 5S soon so I'll probably put up something on that too.

SWEET!

I would consider yours the closest to a how-to thread there is on this, but it's more of a progress and "what I did" thread than an instructional "do it yourself" thread. Although I have to say it's got EXCELLENT information, and I've thoroughly enjoyed following it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking it. I just think a "how to rebuild an engine" do-it-yourself thread is impractical. Elements of the engine? Sure. But the entire engine? I don't know about that. But I'm certainly open to being disproved.

There are a lot of how-to's in the forums, nobody has put them in the actual how-to section in a long time.

Also, I tried to submit a correction to the auto-to-manual how-to a while ago (when the edit feature first came around it deleted the comments, I had put my correction in a comment) and the change was never made.

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Well it seems the MODS need to get cracking. I haven't been on lately because I seen some crap where the mods were getting on people's asses for small things like "Post Whoring" and crap like that. When obviously this topic brings up a good point (I feel) that focus needs to go to more important things like replenishing the photos in the HOW To's. Why don't we have a photo upload data base for the important things or maybe a photobucket account as a backup for all of our photos for the HOW To'S?


Some serious work needs to be done. Give me the authority and I will do it, otherwise, GET I DONE!! No doubt about it, it is needing to be done one way or another, so don't get mad at me for sounding demanding. Like I said, I will do it if no one else is. For the good of the community.

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i love this guy so much

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Aug 10, 2008 - 8:05 PM

what exactly can the mods do?
its up to YOU guys to do the how tos.
i've DONE my share of how tos on this site, in case you havent noticed.

i can't speak for everyone, but i know a lot of us are just looking for the stickies to get updated. we don't expect the mods or the creators of the stickies to go thru and find how-to's, but when one gets submitted, it would be appreciated if it was updated onto the sticky, like the "removing the orange bit" link that is dead, and i sent an update for.

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Ok Ok, sorry. I didn't think what I said through prior to writing it. Sorry. I Dunno. I guess I will take it up myself and do all this then. Like keep records and photos so if they disappear I can restore them.

Maybe instead of getting pissy up in here, someone should make a purposal :idea:

Talk to Christian (ie PM) and see if he can enable an attachment feature. (Many forums have this) But limit the attachment feature to creation of how to articles (don't know if this limitation is possible) This way the images for the HOW-TO are stored/hosted on the 6gc.net server and not an independent provider.

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i HAVE asked chris MANY times to add this feature to the site.
and offered ideas on how to offset the cost of doing so.
sorry, guys, but i cant sit here, and go thru every how to and sticky and fix everything myself. i just do not have the time. when i get PMs about sticking things ect, i try my best to get on things and update or add as best i can.
other than that, i just dont have the time.
its up to ALL of you to do your part, weather by PMing myself or one of the other mods when you see somthing not working or a dead link or whatever, (now that we actually have other active mods) and creating new stuff for us to add.

that looks a lil ghetto death..lol


And manny we dont need u to do ALL of them but it would be nice to add a few here and there when u have spare time..

put all the "build" threads in one place. i think they sink to the bottom to quick. so much good info in them. stefs rebuild, manny's 5sfte, defgeph swap, ect ect ect.

OG 6gc ftw.

This post has been edited by x_itchy_b_x: Aug 11, 2008 - 12:55 PM

I fixed the 'How to remove orange bit from JDM tails' link btw.

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a few of the ccuk links I originally posted are bad now, can you fix them too
do you want me to find them over there and link you to them ? (you're gonna have to search)

*cough* stickes should be copied/pasted into the how to section of the site *cough*

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I'll see what i can do.

I see the climate control ones are bad but i'm not sure what was originally in them
If you have links then that would be good.

Updating the stickies is an ongoing process and we will always have threads that should be there and aren't. It takes EVERYONE here. Please PM one of us if you see a how-to that you think needs to be stickied. I know for myself, i stickied 2 threads last week, but that is only because i saw them while browsing - you cannot expect us to be trolling every thread here, it takes everyones participation. If you have further site improvements, i suggest PMing Coomer.

thanks luke!

I just submitted the change to the Auto to Manual conversion How-To again to see what happens this time.

(I just corrected the statement that a starter relay was needed to make the car start when pressing the clutch in.)

i can make a clutch one, since i have most of the pics when i did it.