team3s             Tuesday, July 25 2000             Volume 01 : Number 212




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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:51:56 -0700
From: "Vineet Singh" <billi_gates@hotmail.com>
Subject: Team3S: The Shootout!

Wow....

That pretty much sums up my experiences at Norwalk this weekend, but
if you want to read more, just keep scrolling!

A lot of fun and interesting things happened, as well as a few crappy
ones, let's start with all the good ones. We all met up with the
"caravan" going from California to Ohio, probably about 20 people,
maybe more. Put faces to names and cars, intimidated more than a few
"normal car" drivers, yet kept to what I think was a "safe" speed
limit of about 80-85mph for the most part (one of the years we did
this, speeds were higher, and I didn't like that as much).

It was an awesome sight to see that many turbocharged monsters on the
road all at once, both DSM and 3/S. Jack Tertadian(sp? hey, I finally
got to pronounce it right, so if that's spelled wrong, sue me :) is
one of the coolest "fast" guys I have ever met... I won't say names,
but there are others in the "10's" and they can be down right
rudy-poo's when it comes to conversation. I really didn't even plan on
racing the stealth there, as I didn't have much as in the way of mods,
and some of the other 3/S's were more souped up than mine.

Somehow, I ended up being lined up with Jack (and losing of course),
and it felt like a dream... wtf was I doing, racing the 3/S legend?
hehe. Somehow I edged out another 3/S owner and this is where the
chips fell. I had done about 6 runs that day, starting with a
13.2@100mph. My previous best with my once smokey turbo situation was
a 13.5@100mph, so I really wasn't expecting much in the way of
improvements, since the mods were still all the same. I was semi happy
with the 13.2 considering these as the only mods,

STOCK exhaust, but gutted cats. Active exhaust is stuck half closed.
STOCK turbo's, no porting or anything, courtesy of Roger Gerl
Magnecor's and stock .032 gapped plugs
Hallman boost controller (manual, ~80$)
S-AFC
450cc injectors
1g DSM BOV
and K&N FIPK

I had brought my datalogger, so I hooked that up to the car and
laptop, and started tuning the AFC like a mad man ... well only in 2%
increments. After about 5 runs, and massive tuning of the AFC, I
gained 6mph, and went down to a 12.8 with 1.74 60' times. My o2
voltages are STILL in the .92 range, I had ZERO to FIVE counts of
knock (7 is where the ECU starts to care about timing), and my AFC
settings are pretty much;

1000rpm  = -20%
2000rpm  = -17%
3000rpm  = -12%
4000rpm  = -8%
5000+rpm = -3%

I couldn't believe I was hitting 3 12's with just those mods! A lot of
others were surprised too... (no, I'm not tooting my own horn
dammit... well kinda :). I talked with Todd Day, and he told me that
there is no way I was seeing 36 degree's of timing, something about
the stealth ECU and how it's timing output is offset compared to the
DSM ecu. Well, with 0 knock most of the time, my car was happy!

Well, I'm bit by the speed bug, so maybe my next mods will be a
downpipe, and removing the (in)active part of the exhaust. I think
those are my bottlenecks now. This is so fun! I was so happy with the
12's, that I went up to the announcers booth, way up in the stands,
and after catching my breath after about 20 minutes, told the guy that
I wanted to give out CD's to all the 3rd place people... funny thing
was, the announcer knew me, and already had a CD, so he added some
nice words to the announcement. I was flattered by the responses
people gave me regarding the CD's.

I couldn't sell any (well, 2...) since everyone seems to have one
already, but hey, at least everyone seemed to know who I was, unlike
previous shootouts. We need to have more 3/S people join in on the
fun! The second day was pretty cool too, with the autoshow and the
autox. I tried my hand at that too, but I think I will give up...
because I was half a second slower than Josh Jones @ Conicelli's
RENTAL SATURN!!! :). It also doesn't help when you can't downshift
into first at speed (my stealth has to be below 1mph to do that).

Well, that's all for now, maybe I will write more when I have the
time. All in all, thanks guys and gals for a wonderful experience in
Norwalk, next year I hope to have both my stealth and my 91 AWD talon
out there (wife will drive one of em). I hope more 3/S people will
make it, I think this was the largest showing yet! (for both types of
cars, DSM and 3/S).

Oh, my bad experiences? My $600+ Kodak DC280 was "taken" from my hood
when I was moving some stuff, and I got very lost in the middle of
Ohio looking for Buschurs shop... with only 1 gallon (perhaps less) of
race fuel left. Why did I get lost? I was following a 91 GSX, and
assumed he was going there too... NOPE, after finally pulling a very
scared man over, I was shocked to hear him say "who's buschur? what's
club DSM?"... OH NO!!! I was in the middle of BFE, and the corn wasn't
gonna turn in to ethanol magically anytime soon! I got back by pure
instinct... and a large reserve tank :) .

What's the fastest anyone has gone with the same mods as above?

Vineet Singh
http://at.dsm.org - "Never Lift To Shift!"
http://chi.dsm.org - "ChicagoDSM - Go Fast With Class!"
http://manualcd.dsm.org - DSM & 3/S Service manuals on CDROM


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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:01:12 -0400
From: "Michael" <mdorsey@mindspring.com>
Subject: Team3S: Front wheel bearing

Are any special tools required for replacing the front wheel bearing on an
AWD?

Michael
98 VR4


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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:06:36 -0500
From: xwing <xwing@execpc.com>
Subject: Team3S: Re:  The Shootout!

DSM Shootout 2000 is Done, and I think it was great!

We almost TRIPLED the number of 3S cars compared to last year, with 8 cars
racing; there were some others there too, not racing!  The weather was
great, no rainouts.  I think Joe Gonsowski has a tally of the ET's and
such for the 3S cars...engineers are good at organizing things sometimes
:)      I don't have all the names, chime in you guys!

There were some impressive times-for-mods-done including Jason Barnhardt
(?sp) with ~12.4 @ 108 on stock turbos (all are from memory to be
corrected by the people or Joe etc)...Vineet Singh doing 12.8 and proving
what benefit datalogging can be especially O2 readings (wish I had that,
more later  :(          Anthony Ng with 12's (see message), I can't recall
all and would probably get them all wrong so will leave to the people.
None of us did poorly, we all made a good showing, showed the flag well.
It was heads up racing on a pro tree (one yellow) for everybody, but the
times were still great and managed well.  Vineet and I were in the finals,
I took it but had more mods than anybody else.  I decided my trophy was my
free Budweiser can (going to mark my name on it :) and Vineet had the
Pepsi for 2nd, and all 3rd place finishers for all classes got a CD ROM
shop manual from our own Vineet Singh!  Next year we'll have trophies from
Dave Buschur (not that we need them!) since we WILL be there and in
NUMBERS!

All the 3S guys were of course great people, enthusiastic and helpful; I
hope I got to talk to (or bore) everybody enough, but race days are always
sorta hectic for me.

My Wisconsin group went to the Cedar Point gigantic amusement park
Saturday (not the Autocross) so can't give a report on that...Sunday was
the IDRC Import Shootout and this year was way bigger than last year, a
big crowd, many show cars, some FAST race cars etc.  My Atomic Motorsports
partner Paul Martens with his 94 Supra TT was in the "Street 8" quickest
shootout, qualified 4th with an 11.35 @ 140 mph (!), he had done an 11.00
before, all bests.  Got beat due to a blown fuse in NOS, but had done an
11.xx @ 133+ no NOS.  Of course the fastest was a DSM doing best 10.12
(John Shepard).  My car would have qualified, with a one-pass 11.5/119mph
with 50hp NOS, but it broke that run.  I thought it might break; it had
lost about 8-9mph off its 125mphNO NOS  times from a few weeks ago, and
was using alot of oil (1 qt/225 miles!) so was IN PROCESS of breaking, but
I HAD to go race, I had yelled at everybody else to go and heck if I was
going to weenie out on it.  I think it holed a piston; we'll see how bad
it is soon.  Oh well, it was going bad and would've needed changing
anyway, this just diagnosed it for me  ;)

Like I said, I need some of that datalogging stuff  :)  My Jumptronix O2
gauge is in the box, had no time to install.  Stupid, dumb and/or lazy,
take your pick...

Anyway, I know there were some 3S in the bracket classes and due to my
break and finding transport for car (had driven there from Wisconsin) I
don't know how everybody came out in the end.

Arty, Vineet, Matt, Oskar, Jason, Anthony, Aaron from WI, Mike Mahaffey (I
think), etc etc are ALL planning to be at DSM Shootout 2001--So are YOU!!
Pencil in your calendar, it is always mid July!

Jack Tertadian



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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:17:10 +0100
From: George Shaw <george.shaw@btinternet.com>
Subject: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Electric windows and sunroof.

Can I convert the passenger side window to "express down/up"?

Can a manual sunroof be converted to a electric one? How? What parts?

Has anyone ever fitted a RaceLogic traction control system?
http://www.racelogic.co.uk



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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:31:22 -0500
From: "cody" <overclck@flash.net>
Subject: RE: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

With alot of ingenuity, the passenger side could be converted to express
down (meaning touch the button once, and it goes down)  If you do it like
the drivers side, it is a mechanical switch with a relay to throw a small
motor that pops the switch out back into it's original place.  I suppose you
could wire it so that it is an electrical deal also, but that is beyond me.

You could probably convert it to an electric sunroof, but it would mean
removing the existing one entirely, which also means alot of customwork.

The traction control looks badass, although I'm sure it costs a pretty
penny, and wouldn't that money be worth more to you spent at driving schools
and on the track learning how to drive.  That way you know how to drive, not
the car helps to drive for you....

- -Cody

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.st
[mailto:owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.st]On Behalf Of George Shaw
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:17 PM
To: Team3S@stealth-3000gt.st
Subject: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control


Electric windows and sunroof.

Can I convert the passenger side window to "express down/up"?

Can a manual sunroof be converted to a electric one? How? What parts?

Has anyone ever fitted a RaceLogic traction control system?
http://www.racelogic.co.uk



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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:42:19 -0400
From: Joe Gonsowski <twinturbo@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Team3S: The Shootout!

Congrats Vineet for making it from a field of 8 to racing Jack in the
finals.  I wrote up a summary of the drag racing results on the 3SI site
(I'm surprised it only got one response, feel free to add to it):
http://www.3si.org/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=8846

Sorry to hear about your camera.
Joe Gonsowski

Vineet Singh wrote:

> Wow....
>
> That pretty much sums up my experiences at Norwalk this weekend, but
> if you want to read more, just keep scrolling!
>
> A lot of fun and interesting things happened, as well as a few crappy
> ones, let's start with all the good ones. We all met up with the
> "caravan" going from California to Ohio, probably about 20 people,
> maybe more. Put faces to names and cars, intimidated more than a few
> "normal car" drivers, yet kept to what I think was a "safe" speed
> limit of about 80-85mph for the most part (one of the years we did
> this, speeds were higher, and I didn't like that as much).
>
> It was an awesome sight to see that many turbocharged monsters on the
> road all at once, both DSM and 3/S. Jack Tertadian(sp? hey, I finally
> got to pronounce it right, so if that's spelled wrong, sue me :) is
> one of the coolest "fast" guys I have ever met... I won't say names,
> but there are others in the "10's" and they can be down right
> rudy-poo's when it comes to conversation. I really didn't even plan on
> racing the stealth there, as I didn't have much as in the way of mods,
> and some of the other 3/S's were more souped up than mine.
>
> Somehow, I ended up being lined up with Jack (and losing of course),
> and it felt like a dream... wtf was I doing, racing the 3/S legend?
> hehe. Somehow I edged out another 3/S owner and this is where the
> chips fell. I had done about 6 runs that day, starting with a
> 13.2@100mph. My previous best with my once smokey turbo situation was
> a 13.5@100mph, so I really wasn't expecting much in the way of
> improvements, since the mods were still all the same. I was semi happy
> with the 13.2 considering these as the only mods,
>
> STOCK exhaust, but gutted cats. Active exhaust is stuck half closed.
> STOCK turbo's, no porting or anything, courtesy of Roger Gerl
> Magnecor's and stock .032 gapped plugs
> Hallman boost controller (manual, ~80$)
> S-AFC
> 450cc injectors
> 1g DSM BOV
> and K&N FIPK
>
> I had brought my datalogger, so I hooked that up to the car and
> laptop, and started tuning the AFC like a mad man ... well only in 2%
> increments. After about 5 runs, and massive tuning of the AFC, I
> gained 6mph, and went down to a 12.8 with 1.74 60' times. My o2
> voltages are STILL in the .92 range, I had ZERO to FIVE counts of
> knock (7 is where the ECU starts to care about timing), and my AFC
> settings are pretty much;
>
> 1000rpm  = -20%
> 2000rpm  = -17%
> 3000rpm  = -12%
> 4000rpm  = -8%
> 5000+rpm = -3%
>
> I couldn't believe I was hitting 3 12's with just those mods! A lot of
> others were surprised too... (no, I'm not tooting my own horn
> dammit... well kinda :). I talked with Todd Day, and he told me that
> there is no way I was seeing 36 degree's of timing, something about
> the stealth ECU and how it's timing output is offset compared to the
> DSM ecu. Well, with 0 knock most of the time, my car was happy!
>
> Well, I'm bit by the speed bug, so maybe my next mods will be a
> downpipe, and removing the (in)active part of the exhaust. I think
> those are my bottlenecks now. This is so fun! I was so happy with the
> 12's, that I went up to the announcers booth, way up in the stands,
> and after catching my breath after about 20 minutes, told the guy that
> I wanted to give out CD's to all the 3rd place people... funny thing
> was, the announcer knew me, and already had a CD, so he added some
> nice words to the announcement. I was flattered by the responses
> people gave me regarding the CD's.
>
> I couldn't sell any (well, 2...) since everyone seems to have one
> already, but hey, at least everyone seemed to know who I was, unlike
> previous shootouts. We need to have more 3/S people join in on the
> fun! The second day was pretty cool too, with the autoshow and the
> autox. I tried my hand at that too, but I think I will give up...
> because I was half a second slower than Josh Jones @ Conicelli's
> RENTAL SATURN!!! :). It also doesn't help when you can't downshift
> into first at speed (my stealth has to be below 1mph to do that).
>
> Well, that's all for now, maybe I will write more when I have the
> time. All in all, thanks guys and gals for a wonderful experience in
> Norwalk, next year I hope to have both my stealth and my 91 AWD talon
> out there (wife will drive one of em). I hope more 3/S people will
> make it, I think this was the largest showing yet! (for both types of
> cars, DSM and 3/S).
>
> Oh, my bad experiences? My $600+ Kodak DC280 was "taken" from my hood
> when I was moving some stuff, and I got very lost in the middle of
> Ohio looking for Buschurs shop... with only 1 gallon (perhaps less) of
> race fuel left. Why did I get lost? I was following a 91 GSX, and
> assumed he was going there too... NOPE, after finally pulling a very
> scared man over, I was shocked to hear him say "who's buschur? what's
> club DSM?"... OH NO!!! I was in the middle of BFE, and the corn wasn't
> gonna turn in to ethanol magically anytime soon! I got back by pure
> instinct... and a large reserve tank :) .
>
> What's the fastest anyone has gone with the same mods as above?
>
> Vineet Singh
> http://at.dsm.org - "Never Lift To Shift!"
> http://chi.dsm.org - "ChicagoDSM - Go Fast With Class!"
> http://manualcd.dsm.org - DSM & 3/S Service manuals on CDROM
>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:49:22 -0500
From: "Jannusch, Matt" <mjannusch@marketwatch.com>
Subject: RE: Team3S: The Shootout!

> I had done about 6 runs that day, starting with a 13.2@100mph.
> My previous best with my once smokey turbo situation was a
> 13.5@100mph, so I really wasn't expecting much in the way of
> improvements, since the mods were still all the same. I was
> semi happy with the 13.2 considering these as the only mods,

Yup, you did very well!  The 12's you got are great times for the minimal
number of mods that you have!

> I couldn't sell any (well, 2...) since everyone seems to have one
> already, but hey, at least everyone seemed to know who I was, unlike
> previous shootouts.

Since I got 3rd place, I won one of the 3/S CD's.  I bought one as the first
"mod" to my car, so I donated mine to Oskar who doesn't have one yet.  :-)
Oskar is now required to bring his car next year.

It was great meeting everyone out there and I had a fun time despite the
lackluster performance of my car.  Once I put the race fuel in and turned up
the boost for my first run, it pretty much destroyed the clutch for hard
launches.  I was reduced to running very poor 2.1-2.3 second 60' times, and
spun the clutch a few times during my 1-2 shift.  Still, the trap speeds
were between 107-109 (excluding a run where the clutch slipped a ton in
second) so I think the performance of the car is getting there, but I just
need to figure out what clutch to use and improve my launch technique.
Should be good for low 12's or maybe high 11's at a more local track.  I was
afraid of breaking the car so far from home (and thought I may have damaged
a ring or piston), so I'll reserve the serious attempts for Rock Falls
Raceway which is quite a bit closer to home.  I only ran 18-19 psi of boost,
so there's more power potential there as well.

I need to pull the plugs and check out the cylinders with a compression test
to make sure everything is okay (I had some top-end stumbling problems on
the race fuel), probably replace the plugs and decide what to do next.
Probably the MSD ignition box and a new clutch for sure.

I took about 3 hours of video, so if you were there and would like a copy of
it I will try to edit something together and make copies.  I'll post
something later after I get it going...

- -Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder VR4  (Full street trim weight - 4100 lbs.)
12.993@108.35 with a 2.115 60'
Previous best:  13.230@103.62

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:56:05 -0700
From: Wayne <whietala@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Front wheel bearing

Yes,
An air compressor with impact wrench (good one) or a lot of muscle. You
will also need a large socket (i think 32mm) Amateur Zone (among others)
has them. Technically you are supposed to use a NEW axle nut, lock washer,
and cotter pin too (although i didn't)

Wayne

At 02:01 PM 07/24/2000 , Michael wrote:
>Are any special tools required for replacing the front wheel bearing on an
>AWD?
>
>Michael
>98 VR4


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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:36:43 -0400
From: Denny Maderi <dmaderi@iname.com>
Subject: Team3S: Buckin' like a Bronco!!

Summer is half way over and I have had nothin' but problems with the
car. My last post was about my car not starting properly(During the
starting process the engine control relay was just clicking away) Well a
few of you e-mailed me back and I took all of your advice...Thank
You...Well I did what you said which was generally to replace the
Electrolytic Capacitors on the ECU board, which I did. Well it starts ok
now but the problem I am having now is a problem that I was having
before and maybe it might sound familiar to someone. Here's the
scene.....at the light, car right next to me revin' their engine. Light
turns green, slowly slip the clutch (Just to tease, give them a little
head start) then I gave it gas pretty quick. The car jump about three
feet in the air(at least it felt that high) dropped back down, jumped
again and during this jump I slammed the clutch to the floor the engine
dribbled back down to a pathetic idle and the check engine light stared
at me for about 6 to 7 second (Same amount of time it stays on as soon
as you turn the ignition on) check engine went out and all way fine. Now
unfortunately it's not that the car having problems that is bothering me
it's the fact that the pimped out Saturn laughed all the way to the next
light :-) .. Well any idea's??? Help!!??

Thanks for any advice, I prefer not taking the car in unless I feel I
really can't fix it!!

- -Deano
Syracuse, NY
'93 Stealth ES
24V DOHC - Non Turbo :-(

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:51:12 -0500
From: "Oskar" <swede@pclink.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: The Shootout!

Congratulations to everyone who ran at the Shootout this year!!

It was sure nice to see a larger number of 3/S cars this year.  Hopefully
next year we will see an even larger number.  I was not able to bring my car
this year due to other commitments (2x12 hrs driving from Minnesota), but
decided to fly out and take in the action.  I'm sure glad I did as it was
just as good as last year.  It was nice to meet all of you that showed up,
with and without cars!

Other that the already described 3/S action there were of course several
fast DSMs.  The real fast cars were Sean Glasar's 9.8@148 front drive Mitsu
Mirage, and a rear drive, 4G63 powered Honda CRX.  This car went down the
1320 in an amazing 9.16 @ 136.

Vineet, I have run several 12.6 passes with similar mods to yours.
Actually, since  Jack T. did not run his car at last years shootout I was
able to win the 3/S class with the following time slip:
- -------R/T----60'---330'----1/8----1/4-----MPH
 -1.038--1.749- 5.193-- 8.097-12.681--106.14

My mods were:
Stock exhaust, but gutted cats and test pipe.
STOCK turbo's, no porting or anything
Magnecor's and stock .037 gapped plugs
Old style Apex~I SAVC-R
Completely stock fuel system
HKS BOV
K&N FIPK

I ran on 112 octane leaded.

Oskar
'95 R/T TT



- ----- parts of Original Message -----
From: "Vineet Singh" <billi_gates@hotmail.com>
To: <team3s-digest@mail.stealth-3000gt.st>
Cc: "stealth@starnet.net" <stealth@stls.verio.net>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:51 PM
Subject: Team3S: The Shootout!


> Wow....
>
> That pretty much sums up my experiences at Norwalk this weekend, but

>
> What's the fastest anyone has gone with the same mods as above?
>
> Vineet Singh



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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:09:37 -0500
From: "Oskar" <swede@pclink.com>
Subject: Team3S: Re:  The Shootout!

Jack - sorry to hear of your breakage.  I know you mentioned your car didn't
feel right after the shootout.  Too bad it didn't hold up for you on Sunday,
now you're back to having no 3kGT :-(  You know you're not supposed to mess
with the "winter beater"...

Oskar

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "xwing" <xwing@execpc.com>
Cc: <team3s-digest@mail.stealth-3000gt.st>; "stealth@starnet.net"
<stealth@stls.verio.net>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:06 PM
Subject: Team3S: Re: The Shootout!


> DSM Shootout 2000 is Done, and I think it was great!
>
> We almost TRIPLED the number of 3S cars compared to last year, with 8 cars
> racing; there were some others there too, not racing!  The weather was
> great, no rainouts.  I think Joe Gonsowski has a tally of the ET's and
> such for the 3S cars...engineers are good at organizing things sometimes
> :)      I don't have all the names, chime in you guys!
>
> There were some impressive times-for-mods-done including Jason Barnhardt
> (?sp) with ~12.4 @ 108 on stock turbos (all are from memory to be
> corrected by the people or Joe etc)...Vineet Singh doing 12.8 and proving
> what benefit datalogging can be especially O2 readings (wish I had that,
> more later  :(          Anthony Ng with 12's (see message), I can't recall
> all and would probably get them all wrong so will leave to the people.
> None of us did poorly, we all made a good showing, showed the flag well.
> It was heads up racing on a pro tree (one yellow) for everybody, but the
> times were still great and managed well.  Vineet and I were in the finals,
> I took it but had more mods than anybody else.  I decided my trophy was my
> free Budweiser can (going to mark my name on it :) and Vineet had the
> Pepsi for 2nd, and all 3rd place finishers for all classes got a CD ROM
> shop manual from our own Vineet Singh!  Next year we'll have trophies from
> Dave Buschur (not that we need them!) since we WILL be there and in
> NUMBERS!
>
> All the 3S guys were of course great people, enthusiastic and helpful; I
> hope I got to talk to (or bore) everybody enough, but race days are always
> sorta hectic for me.
>
> My Wisconsin group went to the Cedar Point gigantic amusement park
> Saturday (not the Autocross) so can't give a report on that...Sunday was
> the IDRC Import Shootout and this year was way bigger than last year, a
> big crowd, many show cars, some FAST race cars etc.  My Atomic Motorsports
> partner Paul Martens with his 94 Supra TT was in the "Street 8" quickest
> shootout, qualified 4th with an 11.35 @ 140 mph (!), he had done an 11.00
> before, all bests.  Got beat due to a blown fuse in NOS, but had done an
> 11.xx @ 133+ no NOS.  Of course the fastest was a DSM doing best 10.12
> (John Shepard).  My car would have qualified, with a one-pass 11.5/119mph
> with 50hp NOS, but it broke that run.  I thought it might break; it had
> lost about 8-9mph off its 125mphNO NOS  times from a few weeks ago, and
> was using alot of oil (1 qt/225 miles!) so was IN PROCESS of breaking, but
> I HAD to go race, I had yelled at everybody else to go and heck if I was
> going to weenie out on it.  I think it holed a piston; we'll see how bad
> it is soon.  Oh well, it was going bad and would've needed changing
> anyway, this just diagnosed it for me  ;)
>
> Like I said, I need some of that datalogging stuff  :)  My Jumptronix O2
> gauge is in the box, had no time to install.  Stupid, dumb and/or lazy,
> take your pick...
>
> Anyway, I know there were some 3S in the bracket classes and due to my
> break and finding transport for car (had driven there from Wisconsin) I
> don't know how everybody came out in the end.
>
> Arty, Vineet, Matt, Oskar, Jason, Anthony, Aaron from WI, Mike Mahaffey (I
> think), etc etc are ALL planning to be at DSM Shootout 2001--So are YOU!!
> Pencil in your calendar, it is always mid July!
>
> Jack Tertadian
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:58:40 +0100
From: Gordon Tyrrell <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

The racelogic system is actually amazingly cheap considering. I think it
was around £500 when I looked last. How come it costs £3,000 or more as
a factory option from manufacturers???? :)

I read a complete review on it fitted to a Honda CRX turbo in Max Power
magazine (ok, I'm not proud of it but I bought a copy to read about a
nitrous kit fitting company). It has a launch button for traffic light
tearaways and they couldn't match it for takeoff no matter how they
tried without the button so it really works.

Gordon

cody wrote:
>
> The traction control looks badass, although I'm sure it costs a pretty
> penny, and wouldn't that money be worth more to you spent at driving schools
> and on the track learning how to drive.  That way you know how to drive, not
> the car helps to drive for you....
>
> -Cody
>

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:09:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Really?

What issue..and if they have a WWW site where I can get a former copy Id
love it.

Would seriously consider on the Celica GT-S.


Yannow, it would take 12 months to get real-live data like this from the
starnet list..



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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Gordon Tyrrell wrote:

> The racelogic system is actually amazingly cheap considering. I think it
> was around £500 when I looked last. How come it costs £3,000 or more as
> a factory option from manufacturers???? :)
>
> I read a complete review on it fitted to a Honda CRX turbo in Max Power
> magazine (ok, I'm not proud of it but I bought a copy to read about a
> nitrous kit fitting company). It has a launch button for traffic light
> tearaways and they couldn't match it for takeoff no matter how they
> tried without the button so it really works.
>
> Gordon
>
> cody wrote:
> >
> > The traction control looks badass, although I'm sure it costs a pretty
> > penny, and wouldn't that money be worth more to you spent at driving schools
> > and on the track learning how to drive.  That way you know how to drive, not
> > the car helps to drive for you....
> >
> > -Cody
> >
>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:13:28 +0100
From: Gordon Tyrrell <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

It was a good while ago now as I was considering it for my MR2 Turbo and
that's gone over a year now. The car on the cover was a CRX with a turbo
mod. Unfortunately, I did the big cleanout about 3 months ago and all my
old stuff is now in magazine heaven (I needed space to move around my
apartment).

You should call them directly and speak to them about how the system
works and see if they've done a GT-S before. I spoke to them about the
GTO and they were up front and said they hadn't done one but that they'd
never had a problem with it working with any car they've done.

Geoff Mohler wrote:
>
> Really?
>
> What issue..and if they have a WWW site where I can get a former copy Id
> love it.
>
> Would seriously consider on the Celica GT-S.
>
> Yannow, it would take 12 months to get real-live data like this from the
> starnet list..

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:26:33 -0700
From: "Bob Forrest" <bf@bobforrest.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Mohler" <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
To: "Gordon Tyrrell" <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
Cc: "Team3S" <team3s@mail.stealth-3000gt.st>
> What issue..and if they have a WWW site where I can get a former copy
Id
> love it.
>


http://www.maxpower.co.uk/



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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:05:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Ive sent a request for more data for my Supra.

However..I did point out a stupid ugly error of thiers.


They claim that by using thier unit as a launch rev-limiter (which IS
cool) you can just nail the gas to say 4k rpm, and watch boost climb.


*bzzz*

Wrong.  We'll see what they have to say about my comments on that.



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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Ya..I did notice in about the first 5 seconds on thier homepage that mag
has to suck.


http://www.racelogic.co.uk/ for those looking.


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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Roger Gerl wrote:

> I got the MAX some years ago in the UK and I must say that it is one of the
> most stupid mags I've ever seen. The articles are even worser than the ones
> in Turbo Mag (they installed a fuel controller and said it controls boost
> and so on ...) and are more sound-and-look related than anything else. The
> good things are the so many adds as one can see what parts are available in
> Europe ... for really high prices !
>
> Roger
>
>
> At 00:26 25.07.2000 -0700, Bob Forrest wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Geoff Mohler" <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
> >To: "Gordon Tyrrell" <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
> >Cc: "Team3S" <team3s@mail.stealth-3000gt.st>
> > > What issue..and if they have a WWW site where I can get a former copy
> >Id
> > > love it.
> > >
> >
> >
> >http://www.maxpower.co.uk/
> >
> >
> >
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:23:46 +0100
From: Gordon Tyrrell <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Yep. That's about right. They get 150bhp cars up to 210bhp with an air
filter and a chip (non-turbo that is).
I think they feel they need to cater to their normal readers so they let
them claim what they like.
You know the kind. Ford invented the Escort Cosworth for them as that's
the way it would have ended up looking by the time they their type was
finished with it anyway so Ford decided to cut out the middle man. :)

I check the cover for anything of interest and have bought 4 or 5 copies
for various articles (1003bhp Supra vs 1007bhp Skyline etc).

Roger Gerl wrote:
>
> I got the MAX some years ago in the UK and I must say that it is one of the
> most stupid mags I've ever seen. The articles are even worser than the ones
> in Turbo Mag (they installed a fuel controller and said it controls boost
> and so on ...) and are more sound-and-look related than anything else. The
> good things are the so many adds as one can see what parts are available in
> Europe ... for really high prices !
>
> Roger
>

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:59:09 +0200
From: Roger Gerl <roger.gerl@bluewin.ch>
Subject: Re: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

I got the MAX some years ago in the UK and I must say that it is one of the
most stupid mags I've ever seen. The articles are even worser than the ones
in Turbo Mag (they installed a fuel controller and said it controls boost
and so on ...) and are more sound-and-look related than anything else. The
good things are the so many adds as one can see what parts are available in
Europe ... for really high prices !

Roger


At 00:26 25.07.2000 -0700, Bob Forrest wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Geoff Mohler" <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
>To: "Gordon Tyrrell" <gordon.tyrrell@openet-int.com>
>Cc: "Team3S" <team3s@mail.stealth-3000gt.st>
> > What issue..and if they have a WWW site where I can get a former copy
>Id
> > love it.
> >
>
>
>http://www.maxpower.co.uk/
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:51:12 -0500
From: "Jannusch, Matt" <mjannusch@marketwatch.com>
Subject: RE: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

> They claim that by using thier unit as a launch rev-limiter (which IS
> cool) you can just nail the gas to say 4k rpm, and watch boost climb.

> *bzzz*

> Wrong.  We'll see what they have to say about my comments on that.

What's wrong with that statement?  The stutterbox on my Eclipse built 12 psi
of boost at 5000 RPM.  Works great...  If they just change the rev limit,
it'll work fine.  You can do the same thing with the MSD DIS-4.

- -Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder VR4

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:20:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
Subject: RE: Team3S: Conversions / Traction Control

Yer kidding.

Ive honestly never seen a turbo motor ever build boost W/O load.

Im wanting to understand why that happens..on your car..etc.



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