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RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?

To: Adam Steffes <asteffes@asteffes.com>
Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
From: Alan Gruner <algruner@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
What kind of POS was it? :)

--- Adam Steffes <asteffes@asteffes.com> wrote:
> A load induced by the 285-width Potenzas, I might
> add.  It's not like the
> car was just a cheap POS.
>   -Adam
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Navid Kahangi wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:59:55 -0700
> > From: Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com>
> > To: 'Carl Merritt' <CMerritt@luminous.com>,
> >      'Pat Kelly' <lollipop487@attbi.com>,
> >      'Donald R McKenna'
> <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>,
> >      Barry Spencer <bspencer@tsoft.com>, Peter
> Mottaz <mph_16@hotmail.com>,
> >      bchafin@attglobal.net,
> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com, ellamt@sbc.com
> > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> >
> > My power steering problem was not caused by German
> Engineering, it was good
> > ol' American handy work.  The hose that I busted
> at Stockton a couple of
> > weeks ago was on back order, so I had a hose
> fabricated to get me going.
> > They did a great job on the hose, but they either
> didn't tighten the bolts
> > hard enough, or they came loose under load.
> >
> > Carl did an excellent job of driving his underdog
> NA car in T3, especially
> > in the twisty technical tracks!
> >
> > --Navid
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Carl Merritt
> [mailto:CMerritt@luminous.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:44 AM
> > > To: 'Pat Kelly'; Navid Kahangi; 'Donald R
> McKenna'; Barry
> > > Spencer; Peter
> > > Mottaz; bchafin@attglobal.net;
> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com;
> > > ellamt@sbc.com
> > > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > >
> > >
> > > Speaking of German Engineering, at one point all
> three
> > > generations of M3s
> > > had power steering systems failing, Navid's E46,
> Lewis's
> > > turbo E36, and
> > > Tammy Hull's E30.  Oh, and let's not forget the
> Mini-S
> > > (essentially a BMW)
> > > having it's electric PS cooling fan break too. 
> Most amusing...
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > I just got videos up online from the OTC for
> those with
> > > bandwidth to spare:
> > >
>
http://www.binaryvista.com/ZCars/Z32/2002/OTC/index.html
> > >
> > > -Carl
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop487@attbi.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:49 AM
> > > > To: Navid Kahangi; 'Donald R McKenna'; Barry
> Spencer; Peter Mottaz;
> > > > bchafin@attglobal.net;
> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com; ellamt@sbc.com
> > > > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > > Subject: Re: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Typical. The old saying, 'first you have to
> finish...' Glad
> > > > the new models
> > > > are holding up the true Lotus tradition. :)
> > > > --Pat K
> > > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > >From: Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com>
> > > > >To: "'Donald R McKenna'"
> <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>,
> > > > Barry Spencer
> > > > <bspencer@tsoft.com>, Peter Mottaz
> <mph_16@hotmail.com>,
> > > > bchafin@attglobal.net,
> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com, ellamt@sbc.com
> > > > >Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > > >Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > > > >Date: Tue, May 21, 2002, 10:39 AM
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Speaking of British reliability, both
> Lotuses (Motorsport
> > > > Elise and 340R) at
> > > > > the OTC were kicking major butts right up to
> the moment
> > > > they broke down.
> > > > > Something about the harmonic balancer coming
> apart and
> > > > destroying the timing
> > > > > belt and the valve train.
> > > > >
> > > > > --Navid
> > > > >
> > > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > > >> From: Donald R McKenna
> [mailto:donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net]
> > > > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:06 AM
> > > > >> To: Barry Spencer; Peter Mottaz;
> bchafin@attglobal.net;
> > > > >> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com;
> ellamt@sbc.com; Navid Kahangi
> > > > >> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > > >> Subject: Re: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Barry,
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> >If Christopher and I can fix the clutch
> this weekend on his
> > > > >> KT100 he'll be
> > > > >> >there too. It's leaking oil and it's not
> British :>)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Now that's some "British" humor I can
> understand, having
> > > > "hung-around"
> > > > >> Trimuph motorcycles in my youth. But you
> know what? The Brits
> > > > >> must have
> > > > >> switched from Lucas refrigerators as, the
> last time I was
> > > > >> there the beer was
> > > > >> cold :-)
> > > > >>
> > > > >>         Don
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