Welcome to the FE Power Forums! This brief introduction will help you register, show you how to post messages and photos, and give you the rules of the road. Thanks for visiting, and we hope to see you again soon!
Viewing and RegistrationAnyone can view the forums at fepower.net, but if you want to participate in the discussions, you must register. In order to keep out known spammers and trolls, you must apply for registration and be approved by the administrator. This is a simple process, where you provide your email address, pick a username and password, agree to the terms of service, and answer a specific FE related question. Click the "Register" tab at the top of the main page to get started. Approval is normally given within 24 hours. If you have any problems getting registered, please email us at jayb@fepower.net. Also, please note that in some cases the registration email is either not sent, or can end up in your spam folder. If you don't hear back after you registered, just try to log in after 24 hours; odds are pretty good you are approved and can post.
Please note that in some cases, you have to activate your registration after you have been approved. All this means is that you have to log in to the forum after approval. If the registration email says you have to activate your account, and you don't log in to the forum within 30 days of being approved, your account will be deleted. This is a safeguard against spamming.
By the way, if you are trying to register and are asked a question about the FE, and don't know the answer, send me an email at jayb@fepower.net and I will tell you
Posting Messages and PhotosTo start a new topic, choose the appropriate forum and click the "New Topic" button. When finished with your message you can hit "Preview" to see what it looks like, and when satisfied click the "Post" button. To respond to a discussion topic, hit "Reply" at the top or bottom of the page. If you want to reprint all or part of a previous message in your post, click the "Quote" button in the message you want to quote, and a new message form will appear with the post reprinted in it.
There are two ways to add photos to your messages. When composing a message you can click the "Additional Options" link at the bottom of the message composer window, and put a file location from your computer into the "attach" box. The photo will appear at the bottom of your message. You can also embed photos in your message, but in order to do so the pictures must be hosted on an internet site. One site that is free and works well for this is photobucket.com. After joining this site and confirming your email address, you can log in and upload your photos to your Photobucket account. After uploading you can click on a photo and a box will appear below it that has several selections for copying and pasting a link to the photo. Click on the img code line to copy the link, and paste it into your message here. Other hosting services for photos can be used in the same fashion. You can also post a picture directly from any web location using the web location surrounded by image tags (
http://web location.jpg, where "web location.jpg" is where your photo can be found on the internet). Example text is shown below:
Click on "Profile" at the top of the page to edit your account or add a signature picture. To send a private message to another forum member, click on "My Messages" at the top of the page. Messages for you will appear as a small number next to the "My Messages" tab.
Forum Rules
The following rules will be enforced on the FE Power Forums:
- A civil tone is required. Abusive language, swearing, pornography, or hate posts will result in deleted messages and the user being banned from this forum.
- All content related to FE engines, drivetrains, and cars is permitted on the FE Technical Forum. Occasional non-FE engine, drivetrain, and car content is permitted. Regularly posting non-FE content on the FE Technical Forum is not permitted; please post these topics in the Non-FE Discussion Forum.
- The Non-FE Discussion Forum is for topics that are not related to FE engines or FE cars. Automotive or non-automotive topics are allowed. No political discussions allowed, except as they directly relate to the the automotive business or hobby. No religious discussions are allowed.
- The Member Projects Forum is for members to post photos and information about their current projects. These should be FE related projects, but any project that may be of general interest to other forum members is allowed.
- The Road to Drag Week Forums are home to blogs about building the cars that will compete at Drag Week. Comments about the builds, the event, or any other topics related to Hot Rod Magazine's Drag Week event are welcome. This is an unofficial forum, not endorsed by or connected in any way to Hot Rod Magazine.
- No advertising of any kind is permitted on the FE Technical Forum, the Non-FE Discussion Forum, the Member Projects forum, or the Road to Drag Week 2012 Forum. This includes asking for an estimated value of an item. Some specific rules are as follows:
* For sale or want ads should be put in the classifieds forums. Also, any requests for an estimated value of an item should go in the classifieds.
* No offering products for sale to another user on one of the non-classifieds forums. If you think another user may be interested in something you have for sale, send that user a private message through this forum.
* If you are a vendor of FE products, you may put your company name and contact info in your signature at the bottom of your message. You may not offer a product or service to another user on the non-classifieds forums, or make a general announcement about a product or service. Approved vendors may post this kind of information in the Vendor Classifieds.
- The Classifieds Forum is for private individuals to list for sale and wanted ads. Only FE-related ads are allowed. A price must be listed for each item advertised for sale; no "best offer" ads.
- The Vendor Classifieds Forum is for approved businesses to list items for sale. Only FE-related ads are allowed. If you are a vendor, please email the administrator at jayb@fepower.net prior to posting your first ad. A price must be listed for each item advertised for sale; no "best offer" ads.
- DMCA Policy: FE Power LLC is not responsible for copyrighted material posted by members on this forum. However, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Copyright-infringing materials found on any FE Power Forum or web site can be identified and removed via the DMCA compliance process listed below, and you agree to comply with such process in the event you are involved in any claim of copyright infringement to which DMCA may be applicable.
If a copyright owner finds copyrighted material on this site, please send a valid DMCA notice as described below to us via email at jayb@fepower.net.
Posting of copyrighted material on this forum is strictly prohibited. If you believe in good faith that FE Power LLC or members of the FE Power Forum have infringed your copyright, you can
request that we take down the infringing materials by following the steps in this DMCA compliance process. Please note that we do not make any legal decisions about the validity of your claim.
When a valid notice is received pursuant to the guidelines set out by the DMCA, FE Power LLC will respond by taking down the allegedly infringing content.
Under the DMCA, we are required to take reasonable steps to notify the forum member or entity who posted the allegedly infringing content. The alleged infringer is allowed under the law to
send us a counter-notice. On receiving a counter notice, we may restore the allegedly infringing content, unless we receive notice from the original notice provider that legal action has been
taken seeking to restrain the alleged infringer from engaging in the allegedly infringing activity.
Notices and counter-notices are not part of normal FE Power LLC web site activities or communications, and are not subject to any privacy policy. We may publish or share them with third
parties at our discretion. Anyone making a fraudulent notice or counter-notice of copyright infringement may be liable for damages under the DMCA.
Forum members who post copyrighted material on this forum more than once will be banned from the forum.
- Please note that the administrator of this site reserves the right to delete any message or ban any user for any reason. Please respect the integrity of this web site by following the rules. Thanks - Jay B
