Re: Drag Starts
Hi Phil,
dumping the
rear
100 MPH.
over-rev in
before?
>
Just a thought, the S4 should be making max torque (ft/lbs is what
really counts right!?) at around 3500 rpm. Depending on how close
3rd
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midlman@...
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#98
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Drag / G-tech
Hey,
All this talk of the bracket drag has me thinking... Does anyone
have
a G-Tech so we can get some comparative data? The G-Tech is one of
those gadgets I would love to get sometime and would
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midlman@...
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#97
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Re: 928 for sale
Would that be considered a hybrid? Lemme get Jim Viglietta's opinion before
I make this decision. Jim, you out there?
-Oscar
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Oscar Munoz <OscarM@...>
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#96
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Re: 928 for sale
Okay, so maybe buy the S4 and transfer the powerplant into your '81!
or not :).
Maybe you could arrange a test drive for June 25th, and then bring the S4
out to the shark drags. Oh
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Adam Birnbaum <adamb777@...>
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#95
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Re: 928 for sale
Adam,
Hummm... lemme see, an 81 928 with 167HP.....hmmmm,
towards an 89 S4, hmmmmm.... you're right it's a tough one! :-)
-Oscar
81 auto with 167HP at the NW dyno day (with tail still between my
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Oscar Munoz <OscarM@...>
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#93
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Re: 928 for sale
Oscar!
No way! Tell me your not going to let that chiffon white beauty go for
"just" another black S4?
-Adam
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Adam Birnbaum <adamb777@...>
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#92
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Re: Drag Starts
Anybody have any tips for a 5-spd without limited-slip? Simply dumping the
clutch high in the power band will really smoke the passenger-side rear
tire, but probably won't move the car very
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Phil Wilson <pwilson@...>
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#91
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Re: Drag Starts
pwilson@... writes:
in
Hi Phil,
Never, ever, having done this before, I'll chime in as an expert. I think the
main idea on these bracket drags is consistency rather than absolute best
time.
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LouisOtt@...
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#94
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Re: 928 for sale
Hi Rob,
Im not sure what your customer was thinking, but I suspect he would
be
considering the KBB Retail value at around $19K rather than the KBB
Trade in value of $13500 as you stated. Then
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midlman@...
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#89
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Re: Tune Ups
Hi Louis,
disconnecting the
relay. I've
want. Once
won't
kick
(Devek).
I have thought about disconnecting the kickdown, but not the throttle
position cable. Does the TP cable actutuate a
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midlman@...
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#88
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Re: 928 for sale
Rob,
Where is this car located?
-Oscar
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Oscar Munoz <OscarM@...>
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#87
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Re: Tune Ups
midlman@... writes:
Hi Tom,
I think the TP cable determines at what speed the trans will do an upshift.
You have noticed that at small throttle openings the upshifts come early
while at
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LouisOtt@...
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#90
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Re: Drag Starts
Hey Chris,
Have you been power braking on your starts? I don't know if I'm going to
load the tranny or not, or shift manually or just leave it in "D". I'll
probably do one dial in run with the full
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ADAM BIRNBAUM <adamb777@...>
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#86
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Re: Tune Ups
Hey Tom,
I'd be up for a post tune up dyno, what the heck.
-Adam
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ADAM BIRNBAUM <adamb777@...>
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#84
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928 for sale
Hello all,
I have a customer of mine that is selling his shark to get money for
his sons education. It is a 89 S4. Black on Black/Auto with 42,000
miles on it. He has several cars so it was only
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Huntnphool@...
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#83
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Re: Tune Ups
Hey, looks like we may need to arrange for a second dyno day!!!!
I would definitely like to do the tune-up and then re-check on the dyno. Also
would like to find a way to get a full run for the
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tmm <midlman@...>
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#82
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Re: Tune Ups
Tom,
I'm game. The car is together, ready, willing, and able.
Terry
midlman@... wrote:
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[email protected] <redinger@...>
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#81
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Re: Tune Ups
I also have previously damaged the lip on an upper ball joint by using a
pickel fork. My advice is never pound on our sharks with a pickel fork.
Whether you do a group buy or individual purchase of
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[email protected] <redinger@...>
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#80
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Re: Tune Ups
midlman@... writes:
to
Tom,
I found that you can do a full rpm run on an auto 928 by disconnecting the
throttle position cable to the trans and pulling the kick down relay. I've
never tried
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LouisOtt@...
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#85
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Drag Starts
Come on then who's been practising ??? Well I have been playing a little
.....
Seems my PSD light will only come on briefly when accelerator is nailed on a
decent surface, Pirelli tires don;t squeal
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Chris Ford <cford@...>
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#79
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