Mike's LS3

Hello, I think its time for a Forced Induction/Nitrous section for the C7.

beachcomber

I'm with you!

mkr1966

Amen!

Little Red Corvette1

Savewave
Can we? Yes, it could be done. But is it a good idea and would it serve the C7 community?

It certainly would be an opportunity for IB to make more money by selling vendors the opportunity to sponsor an additional section. It also would create another section where supporting vendors could post sales threads. They currently are allowed just one sale thread on the first page of a two-day directory in each of the C7 sections.

The problem is that we don't really have a great deal of traffic yet in the C7 Tech/Performance section. So, if we would split the current activity into two sections. If we also created a Scan and Tune section, it would split the current activity into three sections.

Then, we'd have three sections with even less traffic than C7 Tech/Performance. That would make each of the three sections seem static and site users would stop checking them because they didn't perceive there was anything new to check.

It makes more sense to me to hold off on splitting C7 Tech/Performance into separate sections once there is more traffic.



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imxz28

C6 tech thread has 30 new posts today so far.
C7 tech thread has 24 new posts today so far.

Keep in mind, the c6 thread has been growing for years and years.
The c7 thread has ramped up nicely!

savewave

Active threads during the past 48 hours:
C6 Tech = 52
C6 FI = 29
C6 Scan & Tune = 6
Total = 87

C7 Tech = 41

So, it seems to me that if you split C7 Tech into two sections to add Forced Induction, you would end up with two pretty small sections without much activity.

Frankly, I think the best move would be to return FI to Tech in C6, but we'll continue to watch the situation.

Bucknut2006

10 years of C6's being owned vs two of the C7 probably lends itself to the difference in active topics. However, I like them being together, especially since FI is so prominent on the C7 at this point.

OBSSSD

Way overdue IMO

The heavy duty modder has to sort through so much trash about hand held tuners and such to find anything on FI it is ridiculous

Mike's LS3

The FI post data of 48 hours is to short of a time frame to collect frequency data. To get accurate data one needs to collect data for the last 3-4 months and analyze the increased frequency. Is there is a simple way to collect this data?

savewave

The over-arching point I'm trying to make is that splitting a section which does not yet have much traffic into two sections gives you two sections with even less traffic.

When that happens, the sections with little traffic have a tendency to become dominated by sale threads and appear to be static, rather than dynamic. People stop checking static sections because they see nothing new posted. That leads to the death of the section.

I don't want that to happen. Instead, I'm hoping interest and activity in FI threads will increase to the point where a separate section can be added without dooming it to oblivion.

DOUG @ ECS

People want to be able to find the topic they are interested in without sifting threw unrelated items. The traffic quantity is far less important to the end user here. Adding a section costs nothing, helps the end user, and creates a revenue stream from the potential sponsor of that section IMHO.

savewave

Hey, Doug. Go ahead and tell IB you are interested in sponsoring the new section when it is created. Maybe you'll be the first on the list.

Creating a new FI section would benefit to IB in that it would create a new revenue stream with a sponsor for the section. It also would give supporting vendors another section in which to post sale threads. But would it benefit site users? I don't think it would right now because then the site users interested in FI discussion would have to weed through sales threads to find the FI discussion.

In the meanwhile, there is nothing to prevent those vendors and site users interested in FI to start threads addressing the topic in the Tech//Performance section.

Doing so might stimulate interest and activity in FI among C7 owners and enthusiasts. That might, in turn, create the need for a separate FI section.

DOUG @ ECS

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Happy holidays Jim!

savewave

Merry Christmas to you and the ECS family, too, Doug. Hope you have a healthy and prosperous 2015.

OBSSSD

100% correct sir!

Let's see it mods

Randy WS6

,I look threw most of the threads any way, Because there is so many things and upgrades going on threw the whole site. It hard not to look, at least to see what's every body is doing with power and customizing.

Mike's LS3

Thanks for the explanation.

Happy Holidays!

js1977

I'd love to see a FI section as I'm about to add it to my C7 and would like to post a thread with my findings so others looking for the same setup might have a better idea before purchasing. I'll hold off starting one until there is actually a FI section so it doesn't get lost in the sauce of the whole performance section and the user spends the whole time searching for it. I'm just happy I don't have to share the C7 performance section with the C7 Z06 discussion section… geez… No one would ever find anything except hate threads on the Z06 regardless what the thread started out talking about… haha!