Ojibwe Forest Pro Rally 2003

August 22-23
Bemidji, MN

My Minnesota luck is getting better...

Pre-Race: After replacing the intake manifold gasket which blew out at the last event, the car was ready to go.
As my brother Bob was unavailable this weekend, Chris Huntington, the owner of Metric Auto Works filled in as co-driver for this event....

Dave532

Went to Texas Motorplex in Ennis Texas on Friday. After getting used to launching the car (and some crap >2.0" 60 foots from 2nd gear mis-shifts), car finally dropped into the high 11's at ~120mph. Continued running the car on pump gas and refining the tune to vanish the 1* of knock I was getting in 4th gear, and working on my NLTS technique (which is REALLY nice not having to re spool up...

Boosted98gsx

Have almost a year of pacrastinating I finally decieded to drop it off for a paint job.

Ended up knowing someone who knew one of the guys at the place that painted my car ( Econo) so he gave me there 500 dollar paint job for 300 w/ 1yr warrenty.

Income tax came in at a good time or I may have kept pacrastinating on doing it since any extra money I have not going to school...

Black_Bullet

First, some background information:

I have a 1995 Eagle Talon TSi with a built motor and quite a few other goodies. The car currently doesn't run. I have to complete my fuel system upgrade, install my FMIC with custom pipes, make and install a coil on plug setup, remount my external oil cooler, upgrade radiator hoses, relocate the battery into the trunk, and a few others. I'm also a...

ilikespeeding

Well after getting my car back on the road I found there are several things that are quite a bit different from before.

With the balance shaft removal, the engine rotates completely differently from before. There is a much faster reaction time during acceleration, although it also takes much more time to decrease rpm once the throttle is removed.

There is a noticeable...

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