Team3S: 3000GT & Stealth Sunday, December 30
2001 Volume 01 : Number
712
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Date:
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:23:48 -0500
From: "Aamer" <
aamer.mail@verizon.net>
Subject:
Team3S: Base to SL Weight Difference
Hello List Members:
I was
looking at the weight specifications on a Base '94 3000GT and an SL
model of
the same year. I've always known that the SL was heavier, but I
didn't
realize it was 154 pounds heavier. Considering the 17'' wheels and
larger
tires, I can understand a difference of maybe around 60 pounds, but
can
anyone tell me where the rest of this weight is coming
from?
Thanks
Aamer Abbas
'94 3000GT (DOHC -- Naturally
Aspirated)
email:
aamer@thepentagon.comfax: (707)
982-8817 [add +1 country code if faxing from outside the
USA]
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:42:24
-0700
From: "Will Fortenberry" <
BigWill_VR4@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Re: Team3S: Need new alarm/keyless entry
Bill,
From looking at
http://www.daveblack.net/asp/3SiSpecs.asp,
it seems it's
only on 2nd gen VR-4's. The Starnet list came to the consensus
that, if you
have a factory alarm, you have keyless entry. I only own one
3/S, :( so I
can't verify that. I don't know if there is a code for it on the
VIN (can
someone answer this?), but the sure way to check would be to look
for the
keyless entry receiver box. The instructions are at
http://www.team3s.com/FAQkeyless.htm,
and it shouldn't take but 15 minutes
to see if the box is there. Programming
takes another 2 seconds if you
actual buy a remote. Good luck and let me know
if I can be of help.
Will
94 VR-4
Bill vP
wrote:
Is this true of all tt 3/S ? Or just 2nd gen VR4s?
-
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Fortenberry <
BigWill_VR4@hotmail.com>
To:
<
ThorHolth@aol.com>; <
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.st>
Sent:
Friday, December 28, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Team3S: Need new alarm/keyless
entry
> Thor,
>
> I just left the factory alarm system
and bought the factory keyless entry
> remote. Supposedly, all TT's came
with keyless entry from the factory.
Check
> daveblack.net for info on
your year/model's options or check for a box the
> says "OMRON" inside the
left rear panel (next to the 6x9). That is what
> controls the keyless
entry.
> I ordered mine from Bill Siedle's Mitsu for $40 shipped. Contact
info,
> pictures, and programming info (took 15 minutes) can be found
at
>
http://www.team3s.com/FAQkeyless.htm>
>
Will
> 94 VR-4
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:42:37
-0800
From: "Jamie Marzonie" <
jsmarzonie@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Team3S: Plea for help... or at least for a tool
Hey guys-
OK... so
the damn Crank Bolt will NOT come the F off!!! I figured I
wouldn't
have need of the special tool, an impact wrench usually does the
job.
The bolt is obviously lock-tited on w/ over 250 ft/lbs (impact wrench
rating). I'm going to let some penetrating oil sit on it for a
bit.
So here's my big question. Anyone in the Bay Area / Sacramento
area have
the special tool to take the crank pulley bolt off? And if
so... can I
pretty please with all kinds of sugar on top borrow it for
a few minutes of
VR4
beatings?
OUT-
Jamie
916-683-7550
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:59:50
-0800
From: "Jim Berry" <
fastmax@home.com>
Subject: Team3S: Fw:
You might be a racer if ...
No real tech content but a little humor for
the new year can't hurt.
I was amazed at how many
'fit'.
Jim
Berry
- - You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT
flight.
- - You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses
- -or check out cars.
- - You feel compelled, on a road trip, to
beat your previous best time.
- - You are happiest when your street
car's tires are worn to racing
- -depth and the wear bars are showing.
- - When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight
- -you just saved.
- - When you hear 'overcooked it', instead of
food you think 'off the track'.
- - You change engine oil every other
week.
- - You sometimes hear little noises from your passengers when you
- -get on the throttle right after turn in.
- - You thoroughly enjoy
showing the tailgater behind how to drive
- -around a highway off-ramp.
- - Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.
- - You walk proper lines through the grocery store.
- - You've
paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.
- - You buy new parts
because you can't remember where you put the spares.
- - You bought a
race car before buying furniture for the new house.
- - You're looking
for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!
- - You measure
all family acquisitions in terms of the number of race
- -tires that could
have been purchased.
- - You know that Orthodontic work is the
equivalant of three sets of tires.
- - You sit in your race car in a
dark garage and make car noises and shift
- -and practice your heel and toe,
while waiting for your motor to get back
- -from the machine shop.
-
- You look at the purchase of tools as a long term investment.
- - Your
garage holds more cars than your house has bedrooms.
- - You have enough
spare parts to build another car.
- - More than one race supply house
recognizes your voice and greets
- -you by name when you call.
- -
You have car parts in your cubicle at work.
- - You're registered for
wedding gifts at Pegasus and Racer Wholesale.
- - Your Christmas list
begins with "another set of BFG R1s and
- -Pauter rods," and your
'significant other' knows what they are
.
- - After your answer to "What
did you do this weekend?" the next
- -question is always: "And you do this
for fun? Right?"
- - The reading material in your bathroom consists of
auto parts and
- -racing supply catalogs, several books written by famous
drivers,
- -every book Carroll Smith has ever written.... and 400 car
magazines,
- -none of which have centerfolds.
- - People know you by
your class letter, car number, and car color.
- - People know you
by your "off"s". "Oh, you're the one got stuck in
- -the mud at ButtonWillow
last weekend!"
- - You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by
the manufacturer's name.
- - Your first date involves asking her to crew
for you.
- - Your criteria for selecting a significant other include
auto repair
- -skills. Air tools optional.
- - Your friends don't
recognize you without a helmet and driver's suit.
- - Your family
remembers your hair color as "grease".
- - You plan your wedding around
the race schedule.
- - You astound the clerk at Sears by bringing in a
snapped breaker bar
- -every other week or so.
- - You remember the
dates and details of every race you've ever been
- - in, but can't remember
your phone number.
- - Your family brings the couch into the garage so
they can spend
- -some time with you.
- - You complain when cars in
front of you on highway off-ramps don't
- - stay on the line, causing your
exit speed to drop.
- - A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which
you query, "Synthetic or
- -organic?" and they reply, "Vegetable or corn."
- - You give out Summit Racing's number when a friend asks for the best
- -hardware store.
- - You refer to the corner down the street from
your house as "Turn One."
- - You look at the fire hydrant at that
corner and see an apex marker.
- - You enjoy driving in the rain on the
way to work or school.
- - You always late apex the intersection and try
to pass a few cars coming out.
- - Everywhere you go, you try to find
the fastest line through the turn.
- - You always do a toe & heel
downshift while whoever might be your
- - passenger gives you a real funny
look.
- - You can't stand understeer.
- - You always want to
change something in your street car to make it
- -handle better.
- -
You will gladly pay up to $8 for a quart of engine oil.
- - You hate
long distance driving, but you will gladly drive 800 miles
- - to the race
track.
- - You think that traction control and ABS are for those who
can't drive.
- - You've ever tried to convince your wife you needed
that flow bench
- -to fix the air filter on her station wagon.
- -
You save broken car parts as "momentos".
- - Your last several freeway
forays included just brushing the
- -curbs as you apexed the on-ramps
perfectly....
- - You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108
octane
- -gas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol).
- - The
local tire shop won't honor the tread life warranty on any
- -car you have
been within 50 yards of...
- - The shop manager at your local car dealer
mutters "dear Lord"
- -under his breath after he sees the size of your
exhaust piping.
- - The local police and state Highway Patrol have a
picture of
- - your car taped to their dashboard.
- - You spend more
time polishing your exhaust tip every day than
- -you do bathing.
- -
Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have timeslips.
- - You would
choose a rollbar over air conditioning if it were an option.
- - You
enjoy driving through wet, empty parking lots and using the
- - emergency
brake to kick the back end out.
- - White smoke coming out from under
your tires is a common sight.
- - You spend more on insurance
premiums than on food.
- - Your idea of a good time is sitting around
figuring out gear ratios
- - and the ideal final drive ratio for given
situations.
- - When someone asks where you went to school, you reply,
"Skip Barber".
- - You have racing shops programmed on on your
speed dialer.
- - You own five cars and only one of them is street
legal.
- - You know the 1/4 mile times and skid pad numbers of your
riding
- - mower and want to improve them.
- - You've embarrassed
your significant other at least once by
- -insisting on wearing your full
face helmet while driving.
- - You know the "racing line" of every turn
in your daily commute,
- -including your alternate routes, and practice
hitting them every day.
- - You quote your street tire wear life in
weeks rather than miles.
- - You regularly live test your rev limiter on
that straight that's a
- -little too long for 2nd but not worth going into
3rd for.
- - You've started looking for sponsors for your daily commute.
- - You've slalomed in a construction zone, and counted your penalty
- -time in the rearview afterwards.
- - After you tell your wife
where you'd like to go on your vacation
- -she answers: "Why... is there a
race there?"
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:12:32
-0800
From: "Ken Middaugh" <
kmiddaugh@ixpres.com>
Subject:
Team3S: URGENT! CAPS parts lookup needed!
Hi Folks,
I hope
someone with CAPS is not on vacation! I was hoping to install my
4-bolt
conversion engine tomorrow and need someone with CAPS to verify a few
part
numbers for me.
I need to know if the following parts have different part
numbers for 1st
gen and 2nd gen engines:
crankshaft timing belt
pulley/sprocket
harmonic balancer
lower timing belt
cover
Problem:
I am doing a 4-bolt main conversion on my blown '91
engine. I installed the
timing belt using my '91 crankshaft timing belt
pulley, a new harmonic
balancer, and a new lower timing belt cover. (I
ordered everything from
Norco Mitsu, so I assumed the harmonic balancer and
lower cover are for the
2nd gen engine. At the time, I didn't know the
balancer and pulley were two
parts). I aligned everything up just fine
using the mark on the crankshaft
timing belt pulley and the marks on the
camshaft sprockets. However, when I
installed the new timing belt cover
and balancer, the mark on the balancer
does not line up with the 0 degree
mark on the cover, even though the mark
on the crankshaft tbelt pulley is
lined up with the mark on the oil pump.
Anyway, before I install the
engine, I like to resolve this problem.
Thanks in
advance,
Ken
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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:03:17
-0600
From: "Philip V. Glazatov" <
gphilip@umich.edu>
Subject: Re:
Team3S: Need new alarm/keyless entry
I found out all the options that my
car came with at a Dodge dealership.
They just type your VIN number in their
computer and all the factory
options show up right there. They might be even
nice enough to do it over
the phone.
So this is where those $25
remotes were hiding,
http://www.team3s.com/FAQkeyless.htm.
I was looking for one.
Philip
At 03:42 PM 12/29/01, Will
Fortenberry wrote:
>Bill,
>
> >From looking at
http://www.daveblack.net/asp/3SiSpecs.asp,
it seems it's
>only on 2nd gen VR-4's. The Starnet list came to the
consensus that, if you
>have a factory alarm, you have keyless entry. I
only own one 3/S, :( so I
>can't verify that. I don't know if there is a
code for it on the VIN (can
>someone answer this?), but the sure way to
check would be to look for the
>keyless entry receiver box. The
instructions are at
>http://www.team3s.com/FAQkeyless.htm, and it
shouldn't take but 15 minutes
>to see if the box is there. Programming
takes another 2 seconds if you
>actual buy a remote. Good luck and let me
know if I can be of help.
>
>Will
>94
VR-4
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:44:16
-0800
From: "Jim Berry" <
fastmax@home.com>
Subject: Re: Team3S:
Plea for help... or at least for a tool
Some folk have made their own by
using a large channel locks,
drilling a couple of holes in the jaws and
inserting some bolts
in the holes. Others have used a breaker bar and socket
on the bolt
allowing the bar to rest on the ground or frame and hitting the
starter.
If you're using an extension on the impact wrench that
absorbs
a lot of the impact ---- use a very short extension or non at
all.
Jim
Berry
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- ----- Original
Message -----
From: Jamie Marzonie <
jsmarzonie@hotmail.com>
To:
<
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.st>
Sent:
Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: Team3S: Plea for help... or at
least for a tool
> Hey guys-
>
> OK... so the damn
Crank Bolt will NOT come the F off!!! I figured I
> wouldn't have
need of the special tool, an impact wrench usually does the
> job.
The bolt is obviously lock-tited on w/ over 250 ft/lbs (impact wrench
>
rating). I'm going to let some penetrating oil sit on it for a
bit.
>
> So here's my big question. Anyone in the Bay Area /
Sacramento area have
> the special tool to take the crank pulley bolt
off? And if so... can I
> pretty please with all kinds of
sugar on top borrow it for a few minutes of
> VR4 beatings?
>
> OUT-
>
> Jamie
> 916-683-7550
>
>
>
>
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