Getting Ready for the 2008 - 2009 Series - Page 3

tsiboosted · 07-16-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by talonTSIDriver

ha, simple fix!!!!

Believe me Andy, I am SOOO glad it was you dont even know man. I believe it is all good to go now

talonTSIDriver · 07-16-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by tsiboosted

Believe me Andy, I am SOOO glad it was you dont even know man. I believe it is all good to go now

its seems that those types of problems always pop up after a major rebuild like you just went through. just keep an eye open and try to catch the problems before they becomes a BIG problems.

tsiboosted · 07-16-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by talonTSIDriver

its seems that those types of problems always pop up after a major rebuild like you just went through. just keep an eye open and try to catch the problems before they becomes a BIG problems.

Will be doing that for sure Andy. Thanks man

tsiboosted · 07-17-2008, 08:00 AM

Well tha car is officially back home now which is very nice. Has 30 miles on it now and per Moto Mans procedure, the car should be good to go on break in now. Its ready for its 3rd oil change and 2 hard days of racing coming up. Ran the first 20 miles with the boost control off so it was only going to about 10 psi. Everything ran well. And yesterday we turned the boost controller back on ran another 10 miles. It is MUCH faster than the old setup and we have not even began to tune it any.

Just got my confimred E-Mail from the PCA for the event at Road Atlanta August 16 - 17. So if there are any DSMers in the Atlanta area, you guys should come on out and check out Road Atlanta. There will be all types of cars there (157 entries as of today) ranging from DSM's, Porsches, Panoz, Ferraris, Lambo's, Nobles etc. etc. It is always a good weekend for watching races.

talonTSIDriver · 07-17-2008, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by tsiboosted

Well tha car is officially back home now which is very nice. Has 30 miles on it now and per Moto Mans procedure, the car should be good to go on break in now. Its ready for its 3rd oil change and 2 hard days of racing coming up. Ran the first 20 miles with the boost control off so it was only going to about 10 psi. Everything ran well. And yesterday we turned the boost controller back on ran another 10 miles. It is MUCH faster than the old setup and we have not even began to tune it any.

Just got my confimred E-Mail from the PCA for the event at Road Atlanta August 16 - 17. So if there are any DSMers in the Atlanta area, you guys should come on out and check out Road Atlanta. There will be all types of cars there (157 entries as of today) ranging from DSM's, Porsches, Panoz, Ferraris, Lambo's, Nobles etc. etc. It is always a good weekend for watching races.

I wish i was closer, I'd love to come play some cat/mouse with you.

tsiboosted · 07-17-2008, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by talonTSIDriver

I wish i was closer, I'd love to come play some cat/mouse with you.

LoL...Wisconsin....Florida, not all that far apart we ???

tsiboosted · 07-21-2008, 10:39 AM

Ok, so here are a few pics of thd car all back together. All (mostly) cleaned up after getting it back from the shop.

RipperXX · 07-21-2008, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tsiboosted

Well tha car is officially back home now which is very nice. Has 30 miles on it now and per Moto Mans procedure, the car should be good to go on break in now. Its ready for its 3rd oil change and 2 hard days of racing coming up. Ran the first 20 miles with the boost control off so it was only going to about 10 psi. Everything ran well. And yesterday we turned the boost controller back on ran another 10 miles. It is MUCH faster than the old setup and we have not even began to tune it any.

Just got my confimred E-Mail from the PCA for the event at Road Atlanta August 16 - 17. So if there are any DSMers in the Atlanta area, you guys should come on out and check out Road Atlanta. There will be all types of cars there (157 entries as of today) ranging from DSM's, Porsches, Panoz, Ferraris, Lambo's, Nobles etc. etc. It is always a good weekend for watching races.

DAMN IT! If I wasn't in Iraq

I was suposed to be out of the army (ETS) July 10th but nooo stop loss so here I sit in ####ing Iraq.

Well maybe some time in the future.

tsiboosted · 07-21-2008, 01:34 PM

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DAMN IT! If I wasn't in Iraq

I was suposed to be out of the army (ETS) July 10th but nooo stop loss so here I sit in ####ing Iraq.

Well maybe some time in the future.

That does stink that you wer suppose to get out then and you are still over there. Next time for sure though man. Stay say over there and thank you

talonTSIDriver · 07-21-2008, 10:31 PM

Looking good number 32!!! Good luck at your first event!!!

Jordanbutter · 07-22-2008, 12:09 AM

The car is looking good Eddie, real good.I can't wait to see what times that monster puts down.

tsiboosted · 07-22-2008, 07:52 AM

Thanks guys. Yeah, I cant wait to see what the new setup is going to do at Road Atlanta. Not too much longer I guess, 3 more weeks or so.

tsiboosted · 08-06-2008, 10:53 AM

Well, really just an update on whats been going on with the car these days. I have the enterior almost completely back buttoned up for a while now. All the switches and gauges are soldered up at the connections and ready to go. Gauges are not new they are the same old gauges I have had...I just went back through the conections and took the wire crimps off and soldered all the connections on everything. New switches are all in and working properly as they should.

Little issue that come up last night. I was under the car running some wires, I noticed over on my outer tie rod end on the drivers side something looked funny. And indeed it did...as the nut (with cotter pin missing) was not there AT ALL !!! I went through my manuls and sure enough, it was suppose to be there (joke of course). I turned the steering wheel to watch the tie rodend just fall out and my drivers side tire remain perfectly still as the passenger side did what it was suppose to. I went over to the passenger side under the car to find out what the bolt was suppose to look like....Only to find out that one I could take off with my fingers and again, no cotter pin in place. This upset me to no end and scared the crap out of me even more. I am SO glad I found this in the garage and not doing 150 mph down the back straight at Road Atlanta in a week and a half.

So its off to the autoparts store today to get 2 new tie rod ends and COTTER PINS. For the time remaining till Road Atlanta, I am going to be going through the car and nut and bolt this thing. Just figured I would share that with everyone on here. Not long now until there will be some action shots of the new setup and even possibly some video from Atlanta

talonTSIDriver · 08-06-2008, 12:48 PM

good save man.

That would not have turned out nice.

tsiboosted · 08-06-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by talonTSIDriver

good save man.

That would not have turned out nice.

No it would not have. A bit scary really Andy. But I have 2 new ones sitting in the garage now and ready go on. Like I said above, I will be going through the car and making sure everything is good to go for here on out. Nut & bolt the car. Using some bright pink nail polish to mark where the nuts & bolts should be tighten to. Things like that.

drivemusicnow · 08-08-2008, 10:38 AM

I'm not sure how much weight in the rear you have, but I'm pretty sure that stock talon wing is worthless. I would either step up to a real wing to get some real downforce on the rear, or just remove that other. It's possible that the stock one adds some high speed stability but I'd highly doubt it.

Car looks good though, Have some fun at Road Atlanta!

tsiboosted · 08-08-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by drivemusicnow

I'm not sure how much weight in the rear you have, but I'm pretty sure that stock talon wing is worthless. I would either step up to a real wing to get some real downforce on the rear, or just remove that other. It's possible that the stock one adds some high speed stability but I'd highly doubt it.

Car looks good though, Have some fun at Road Atlanta!

Its funny you bring that up...Last night I was looking at some "real" wings on-line. I know the factory wing does about nothing for me...Just have not bothered to take it off really. I wanted to get the one from Greg (Collier) but he had sold it already. There is a guy that I race with over in Louisiana that did some SERIOUS research on wings and found an eBay one to actually be one of the better performing ones in his testing. It was actually pretty cheap as well. I think with shipping he got it for around $100. So I was looking into those as well.

And thanks Greg...I am looking forward to next weekend VERY much