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    "We're out of roast beef..."

    So, my enduro co-driver Joe and I went racing this weekend, just to knock the rust off… I wrecked a couple of years ago, and work got in the way of getting on track between then and now. Joe, on the other hand, wrecked about a year ago, and has been rebuilding his car ever since. It’s still...
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    PCM tuners, inside please!

    Folks, I'm contemplating putting a fuel cell in my hooptie, and have a (hopefully) quick and simple fuel pump question. Rather than taking a stock pump, and breaking it into a million pieces, then fabricating a mount inside the fuel cell, is there any issue with using an Aeromotive 340 fuel...
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    How NOT to take The Kink at Road America!

    "Oh he can drive. He can drive beyond the limits of the tires, the engine, the car or anything else." Started in front for a little race-within-a-race at RA last weekend, and made some astounding discoveries! I CAN take The Kink (T11) at roughly 115mph and make it stick, at least on good...
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    Need just a LITTLE bit more power

    Changing classes, and now have a horsepower bogey to hit! Have 313RWHP, need to get between 347 and 357. Have 347RWTQ, need to get between 366 and 377. In short, I need 35-45HP and 20-30TQ. Those numbers will put my base weight between 3300 and 3400lbs. Current driveline mods: C&L Racer...
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    NASA's stance on 4-point harnesses

    Since this came up more than a couple times in the last few weeks, I thought I would post this up here: From the NASA CCR, concerning HPDE technical requirements: 11.3 (section 2): The driver and any passenger must utilize modern style stock seatbelts in very good condition, or a DOT approved...
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    Integrating a stock pump into a fuel cell

    First off, I was wondering if anybody has done this successfully before, and if so if they retained the fuel-level signal to the computer. First off, the application is road-race specific, in an endurance car, and I'm planning on a 22gal cell, with a 3-door center collector, aluminum can, and...
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    A day at the races, a night at the opera

    For the Midwest Region season finale, the NASA crew cooked up a doozie! The weekend started on Friday at noon, when Joe Sullivan (JSBumed here on the forums) and I rolled into the paddock with my #50 car, and a trailer full of consumables, for the penultimate round of the Endurance Series...
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    Rear Spring Location Analysis

    I'm starting this thread to (hopefully) avoid further diluting Terry Fair's excellent build thread, and to break this fairly narrow (but fascinating) discussion into it's own, separate, thread. So far, as a recap, we have a few things we are looking at, and that I would like to bring up for...
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    Track Brake Tech

    Written by Dave Lowum (SoundGuyDave) NASA TT, Performance Touring, CMC, and Endurance series competitor, Nationally Certified Instructor, Hooked On Driving Advanced Group team leader, Great Lakes Region There's been a lot of discussion about braking packages, what works, what doesn't, as...
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    Driving Techniques

    Written by Dave Lowum (SoundGuyDave) NASA TT, Performance Touring, CMC, and Endurance series competitor, Nationally Certified Instructor, Hooked On Driving Advanced Group team leader, Great Lakes Region Edited by Carl Komosa (Random Asshole) NASA TT competitor, MCSCC HSAX class champion...
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    What a week!

    What a GREAT week! Eighteen months ago, I had an “incident” at Mid-Ohio, resulting in my S197 meeting some double-high Aarmco at roughly 100mph, and the damage was extensive. The entire right side of the car was mangled; right-front suspension was destroyed, the Panhard bar had shattered...
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    Electrical issues, need help...

    Okay guys, I’ve got problems; electrical issues that I’m just not able to track down. Setup: After my wreck last year, I’ve slowly been fixing the car up as time and funding allow, and am now down to trying to fix the electrical issues, without much more to do before putting it back on...
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    Tech questions

    So, I had a wee bit of an off-track excursion in April in my Time Trial Mustang, finding some double-high Armco at around 70mph... The car is DONE as a "street" car, but has a bright future as a race car! I've been turning wrenches on it as time permitted since the incident, and I'm close to...
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    Track brake tech primer

    There's been a lot of discussion about braking packages, what works, what doesn't, as well as a lot of opinion thrown around about what you NEED to successfully track an S197 chassis Mustang. BRAKE THEORY: Just so that we’re all up to speed, the following is a brief-ish description...
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    Some fun from the weekend...

    aYyxtEWAgFw Previous personal best was a 1:40.9, and at a track that is DECIDEDLY unfriendly to high-horse, rear-stick-axle-driven pony cars. If you have one of those delicate German/Bavarian machines, or the AWD Swedish/Japanese shoeboxes, then you are right at home here. Since the last...
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    Cross-weighting results

    I just finished a short tour leg, and left my car with my sponsor, Elmhurst Auto Care (elmhurstautocare.com), and while I was away, he had the opportunity to corner-weight the car... Interesting results! I'd been running a 62lb cross-weight differential, which equates to 1.7%, and now that...
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    Garage sale!

    Gotta clear out some space, so... Steeda Competition fascia, with billet brake duct inlets: $650.00 Painted in Satin Silver, but will need the paint touched up on the splitter area. Includes stock grille and foglights. BMR swaybars with billet rear endlinks: $350.00 Quantum Motorsports...
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    AST Coilovers and Stranoparts bars: a review

    "What a long, strange trip it's been..." Towards the end of last year Sam Strano and I were talking about suspension options, and I elected to mortgage a lung and both kidneys and ordered the AST 4100-series coilovers, along with a set of Sam's bars. Initially, I was pushing for 500lb/in...
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    Lightweight grille

    Okay, I'm looking for either a source on a replacement grille that DOESN'T weigh a metric ton, and has no foglights, or a pointer to some DIY info for achieving same. Preferably some kind of expanded mesh, powedercoated black. Bling and Rice need not apply. Chickenwire is acceptable, but only...
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    Let's talk about cams...

    I decided to post this here, rather than in the main forum, since the drag guys don't seem to have any concept what "part throttle" is... I honestly know JUST enough about camshaft specs to be dangerous, so I'm hoping that somebody(s) that really understands how a cam will react based on the...
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    The value of good tires!

    I just finished the last event of my season...:damnit: Prior to this event, I avoided tracking in the rain like the plague, since every time I would THINK about the loud pedal, the car would kick the rear end out sharply at a minimum, and slide off the track on occasion. It was miserable. I...
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    Newest mod coming over the winter...

    It's a new trans, just released... DEMO VIDEO Nobody is going to be competitive any more without one...
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    Racing WITHOUT the restrictor plate...

    Due to a really weird confluence of events, I wound up back at Blackhawk Farms again last weekend, instead of Gingerman like I had planned, but this time I was armed with some serious power, especially compared to last time. As you may recall from THIS thread, I was down on power from a duff...
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    Restrictor Plate Racing

    As some of you know, I FINALLY got my tune sorted out (THANK YOU ERIC BROOKS!!), and the maiden voyage with actual power is next weekend. In the meantime, though, I thought some of you might get a kick out of seeing how an S197 chassis fares on the road course when the computer thinks it's in...
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    Tuning issues... (kinda long)

    Okay, a little background. The car in question is a 2006, formerly automatic, currently stick, running the VDX-1 auto computer with a 2006 manual strategy flashed in. There are NO DTCs, either with the Xcal2, or a Snap-On code scanner. Now that we have that out of the way... Mods are basic...

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