MT Wash....

[Brett Dikeman]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Beatty, Robert wrote:

>  Doorpanels you say?  The steel bar
> inside the doors?  All extra weight says Chris, dont need any of that stuff
> anyways.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa WHOA.  Clarification time here :-)

Chris's car is, I believe, a race/rally car, and is probably as a result
equipped with a full roll cage.  In which case, the below does not apply.

In a street car, that "steel bar" is NOT extra weight.  It is the ONLY
protection you have in the event of a side impact collision aside from
the B pillar.

If you have a roll cage complete with side protection bars(my father's
rollcage in his 944 has removable side bars you remove for street use of
the car, and bolt in for use on the track), maybe it's OK...but otherwise,
NOBODY should go removing those bars!
(end motherly speech :-)


> The ride home was a blast too!  8 of us took Bear Notch road to the
> Kangamangus Hwy and other than the moron on the motorcycle that couldnt be
> bothered to move over at one of the NUMEROUS turnouts and the absolute
> IDIOTS in the subaru, it was a great fun ride.  Course keeping up with a S4
> and a 200 20v with a 200 10v thats overboosting wasnt easy either!  I will
> be replacing the large WG hose to the back of the manifold as i think its
> sucking closed and causing at least part of my problems.  We will see this
> afternoon.

Actually...Chris Lau's yellow car is a chipped A4(not S4 :-)

Kind of funny. I was wondering how a stock 10vt was doing such a great job
of keeping up with me on the highway. Amazing, that extra boost.  Now you
just have to fix the problem, and get a chip from SJM, so that it's
-supposed- to do that :-)

Brett