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RE: More Power for the 5cyl without turbocharging
You are absolutely right about the tranny in the 323. Fortunately in
our old car, which belonged to Satch Carlson, he had the transmission
and the engine rebuilt at 80K, and when he had the tranny rebuilt, it
was built with no play in the linkage, which is apparently what kills
these things. You could of course go to a full rally transmission from
Mazda Motorsports for a measly 7 g's =).
Anyway, if you wanted information about Supercharging, you should talk
to Paul Timmermann, who is very well in tune with that stuff.
cya!
-Mark Nelson
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>From: Mike Burke
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 1997 11:38 PM
>To: Mark Nelson
>Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: RE: More Power for the 5cyl without turbocharging
>
>Hey Mark! Thanks for your note. I was slamming the fine Oriental
>iron as an Inside joke. Having just run the 1997 Headwaters Div
>Pro rally in MN. The first three cars were Mitsubishi
>Eclipses(or their derivative. There are a bunch of Audi guys
>in Minneapolis that have as their goal to beat them at their own
>game. Yes, I do think the 323gtx was a good car. It's problem
>was it's fragility. I was a mechanic for Tom Ottey in 1990 when
>he won the production GT championship with one. We went through
>eight or so transmissions. The internal guts were very whimpy!!
>Tom now has a Huyndai Elantra from Jamaica and it has Mitsu
>guts. This is a proper rally car. All high tech stuff..very
>nice. when it gets a chance to run..Watch out!! Back to
>Audi stuff, Has anyone thought of using the Corado
>supercharger? I would like to stay clear of turbo/super if I
>could. This may be the only for me to get good power though. let
>me know how your things go!! good
>luck Mike
>Burke
>Temple of Speed
>Motorsports
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