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Re: Prepping an 8v for AutoX



Well heres how I look at it.  The old DSP was dominated by the Fiats and
the hotruck was also tough to beat.  Wenzel and Mannix came in 3rd and 8th
in the same car.  Sommer 6th in his rabbit.  Zimmer and Peterson 11th and
14th in their rabbit.  Irvine 12th in his 87 Golf.

That makes the Baldoni/Garret mobile the 5th fastest VW in the country in
the old DSP(I know not everyone shows up but - you snooze you lose).
And it was Eli's first year driving the car.

Not bad for a car with no front bar eh?

Ok, I'll be at nationals this year - How about the loser buys the winner
dinner
Shawn?  Think you can beat my NFB little Rabbit?

This is starting to be fun now :)

Joe Oliveira                        ______________
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----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>
To: <ilium@bit-net.com>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Prepping an 8v for AutoX


>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:43:41 -0800 "Flying Toaster Motorsports"
> <ilium@bit-net.com> writes:
>
> >I don't know about that one.  The 13th and 15th place finishers at
> >the 1999 National Championship were in an 8V Rocco with no
> >front bar.
>
>
> No disrespect intended at all, whatsoever, but, 13th and 15th place
> finishes are not exactly top finishers in my book. top 5 to me is the top
> finishers. I realize they might of recieved a trophy for their respective
> finish and it is an indication of the competition that ahows up at
> nationals but still, to me they're not top driver finishing spots.
>
>
> >I've been beat by this car plenty of times and it has
> >NFB.  I've also watched this car beat Jinx Jordrdan's DSP CRX
> >straight up same day same course.  Jinx is a multi time national
> >champion and this car is just about prepped to the max.  I still
> >have nightmares about it.  Only 5-6 VW's finsihed ahead of them,
> >so they must be doing something right.
>
>
> Just think of how much better they can do to with a big front bar! :)
>
> OK, fun aside, to reiterate what I said earlier, you can compensate for
> not having a front swaybar with stiffer springs. This is probably what
> they have done AND it kind ofworks for them. I dont know what else
> they've done to their cars but it makes me wonder what they could of done
> with a swaybar installed?
>
>
> Shawn Meze
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