My electrical engineering these days has been building controllers and subsystems for machine tool CNC conversions. I have gotten very used to product spec sheets having mechanical drawings, an exact specification of the electrical properties of the widget in question, a list of part numbers for...

As it happens, I'm designing a system for 3SGT, which is basically a DSM with 2 extra cylinders / 1 extra ignition channel.There is a Bosch part number 0221604800 which is an Audi R8 coil, that also appears to refer to a Denso 673-9302 coil... not sure how that works? Bosch makes the Denso...

> It's people like you that made that forum toxic..Ow! I pulled my irony muscle reading that!> I had to pipe in as a nabr member > it was a toxic environment led by toxic peopleOh, my sides!> Do you not remember all the nabr members that would go around on all the other DSM forums and...

Fixed.

Huh. These drawings have been up since 2005 and that’s the first time somebody caught the typo.Yes, the groove is 0.032” deep, front and rear.I’ll fix that this weekend.

> I’d like to sincerely thank you for your contributions here.Thanks.It’s rare to hear that expressed.> people not sharing ideas and solutions as if those concepts will somehow become watered down or taken for granted.That’s not what was going on in the NABR inner circle.The...

>It couldn’t ever be fully appreciated because of its nature and how it was run.Which is why I felt the need to eulogize it - it’s time this history is better known.

> literally no one else has broken any of the records held by anyone on therePretty sure Brent Rau’s record still stands dude.> near strictly tech forum without the fluff that tuners hasExactly this. And everyone involved (in the inner circle) was actively involved in racing, and/or was a...

That depended on the personalities involved.It was less like a blog where everyone reported everything they did, and more like “hey, I tried this, and this weird thing happened” “oh yeah, that happened to me, and I did this analysis, and tried this other thing, and that fixed it”.It was a...

> I just wanna know what happened to the deer leg?LOL!I haven’t thought of that in a *long* time!

What a bunch of people don’t know though is that there were multiple layers to the NABR onion. Anyone who wasn’t invited the the innermost layer didn’t get to see the “real” NABR.And yeah, the outer, public-facing layer was nasty. It was kept that way on purpose, to try and see what people’s...

> It's honestly super cringeNot as “cringe” as a grown-ass man trying to use the kid’s TikTok slang to, what, seem younger? More relevant?And you necro-threaded a two year old thread (and ended a decade long post hiatus) to throw shade?Seriously?Here’s an age-appropriate word for this...

> Welcome back Dennis! It's been a while.It has.Once and a while I surface to see if it is safe to participate without my personal SuperFan showing up to shit in the punchbowl.> You bring up some valid points about the Feals,Sees Feal in the banners in the bottom of the page.Ah.>...

Man, the loss of historical knowledge and general corporate history. You cats have no idea.NABR was established as a safe haven against the never-ending parade of posers who talked big but had nothing to back it up, or n00bs who were unwilling to read detailed articles and/or get their hands...

After a quick perusal of the Feal website, I would be super dubious about those shocks.Red flags:1. Some sort of off-brand spring, almost certainly not up to the quality level of an Eibach, never mind a Hypercoil - and Hypercoils are dirt cheap. If you are scrimping that hard to push prices...

Print version is live!https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521406987

OK, I just pulled the trigger on the approval process. It takes up to 72 hours for Amazon to process it.Pricing... I tried to keep it in the same ballpark as the Ross Bentley series, as size-wise it is very similar. Unfortunately, because I wanted colour illustrations instead of B&W /...

Yes. Given that the demand appears to be there, I'm working on the print version now. The aim is to have the required files uploaded by Sunday. There will be a delay as Amazon does QA, and then it will go live too.

And we're live!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072C8RKHR/

http://i.imgur.com/QUo50RG.jpgDG

Over the years, many people have inquired about these parts, but - much like when I was making them - nobody ever buys. So they don't exactly fall over themselves with glee when somebody calls.It is hard to commit to buying material and scheduling machine time when the customer always bails...

Per the web page, Magnus, or have a local machine shop make them according to the drawings provided.BTW, those aren't "pillowballs", they are "spherical bearing housings". A "pillowball" is a ball bearing designed to support a rotating shaft, commonly used in farming or HVAC applications where...

Oi.Over in this thread http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/site-problems-feedback/430373-neg-rep-gsx-coilovers-2.htmleverybody's favourite "wiseman" has this to say:Pay attention to that last sentence. As it is impossible for him to ever admit that anything I ever did has any value, he has...

Autocross to Win got some more updates over the holidays, and Far North Racing got some small tweaks.DG

Notwithstanding the initials, I have nothing to do with these shocks.When I sold shocks, I dynoed every single shock and gave the customer the plot for his exact shocks. There's just too much manufacturing tolerance variation in most shocks to rely on a "typical" plot, plus that way I knew for...

Heh.If you poke around farnorthracing.com, you can see what my license plate was.That's not an accident. I got that plate to #### with Bob Endicott back in my G Stock days.DG

This setup is similar to a design I had mostly worked out in 2004 or so; a way to fit Penskes (or any shock with an integrated 1/2" heim joint) onto a DSM.So in broad strokes, this is a way to do it.As always though, when it comes down to implementation, the devil is in the details.- my...

I've tested this. Both 1G and 2G.The ABS car stops WAY quicker.On race tires, yes, the human will stop faster than the ABS if the ABS driver just smashes the pedal and tries to let the ABS do all the work. But that's not how you do it - you modulate to ABS engagement, then back off. Treat...

Then fix the droop travel and the damping."Doctor, my head hurts!""OK, we'll cut off your foot then."Notwithstanding the lack of sophistication on the DSM ABS, the money you save on not flatspotting expensive race tires makes it worthwhile. And in the rain, the ABS will beat any human...

If you cannot afford a set of Koni shocks - which are the cheapest real shocks you can find - then you cannot afford to race. Find a new hobby.DG

Every time someone mounts a narrow tire on a wide wheel for the "stretched" look, God kills a kitten.DG

2000 is now done - which means I'm very close to being completely finished, as in 2001 I was updating the FNR website concurrently with posting to the Talon Digest.Interesting some of the omissions... I promised (but never delivered) a Part 3 to my report on Nationals 2000 - meaning that...

You want to be *really* careful about conclusions I arrive at prior to about 2003 or so. There's a lot of "the seven blind men and the elephant" going on where I'm seeing just a small portion of the real problem yet I think I've got a handle on the whole picture.The end of the 2002 season is...

1997 is done.Far North Racing - Race DiaryDGUp to early 2000...DG

IT'S DONE!!!!!!!!!!!All the old pages have been backported to the new content management system. Every single stinking page.YAY!!!!!!!!!!!Now I can start scraping my old Race Reports out of the Talon Digest Archives and fill in the missing Diary pages.DG

The home page for "Build your own Konis" has been updated at:Autocross.dsm.org - Build Your Own KonisI have added in some more part numbers, some advice for assembly and sourcing, and some rules for group buys and shops.Enjoy!DG

For those wanting to know haow to set up the boost control features and functions on an AEM EMS, have a look at this:Far North Racing - Stealth MAP_SensorYeah, it's on a Stealth, but it works the same way on a DSM.DG

I was going to work on the Diary stuff today, but I got sidetracked into mucking with the CSS and layout.It's a little cleaner now.DG

Just the Diary section to do.Say, does anybody know how to get their hands on a tarball or zip file of the Talon Digest Archives?DG

Some final tweaks and edits, and ATW is fully updated! (For now)Tomorrow, back to the rest of Far North Racing.DG

MASSIVE update to the Shocks section. Now four full pages of shocking goodness!Autocross to Win (DGs Autocross Secrets) - ShocksDG

...and it's fixed.DG

Some more updates in.DGMassive update to the Suspension page....Autocross to Win (DGs Autocross Secrets) - SuspensionDG

Looks like Todd's dsm.org redirect server has blown up - you can reach autocross.dsm.org at its base url of Autocross.dsm.org until he gets it fixed.DG

Two more pages updated. I'm adding content as I go, which makes things a little slower, but makes for better results:Autocross to Win (DGs Autocross Secrets) - The Driver Autocross to Win (DGs Autocross Secrets) - The GoalDGHrm, it seems that Todd's redirect server for autocross.dsm.org...

I couldn't help myself - I built the new template for Autocross to Win.Here's a sneak peek: Autocross to Win (DGs Autocross Secrets) - Caveat Lector!DG

Hey guys,I've got some time on my hands before my next callout so I'm (finally) overhauling the Far North Racing website to bring it screaming and kicking into 2010.Most of this is behind the scenes stuff; I'm converting to a site management system I wrote that allows sitewide template...

Eeeewwwww, Eibach....DG

That's pretty much what they look like.DG

Hey guys,If you are planning on building a set of these, or if you just think that it was cool of me to make this public, I'd appreciate a visit here: here2 of the soldiers in my regiment have come down with MS, and I do a charity bike ride to raise money to fight this horrible disease...