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performance question

Cris-
  The problem is not the car.  It's the driver. Don't take that as a slam, it's just a fact.
as an example, at the last autox I ran the same basic car as the other five guys in my class.  So, the fact that I came in sixth is no reflection on my equipment...it states that my driving skills were way less than the other competitors.
Now, the reason I'm saying this is to prevent a supreme disappointment on your part when you do all the trick shat to your car and still find yourself finishing behind those same three drivers.  
It takes stick-time, dude.  Lots of stick-time....

Larry
sandiego16v
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carpenter/Graffy 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 6:36 PM
  Subject: performance question


  Hi All,
  Just came back from autocrossing the 81 at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, and 
  learned enough about the car to post a couple of performance questions. In 
  addition to the fact that I neglected to put high-temp brake fluid in the 
  car and felt my brakes turn to mush within the first few practice laps, I 
  seemed to be giving away a lot of high-end performance in the straights 
  (compared to the third-place Integra, second-place Taurus and first-place 
  Sterling. I have a stock RD (1.8L 8V) engine in the car with a new 
  Techtonics exhaust, but have retained the original 81 ignition system, 
  intake plumbing, fuel distributor, and injectors. I suspect that I'm 
  hindered by not getting the right air/fuel flow at the top end, with 
  perhaps a corresponding lack of ignition precision. My questions are:
  - If I want to maximize these elements for this motor, do I need to convert 
  to a complete CIS-E fuel/intake/ignition system, or can I just replace 
  stuff piecemeal, like the fuel distributor with a different regular CIS one?
  - Should I replace the injectors with the later "air bleed" ones?
  - And if I do that, should I also graft in the intake plumbing from a later 
  car to provide the air bleed to those injectors (yes I know it only really 
  matters at high manifold vacuum and low RPMs)?
  - Which ignition?
  Thanks,
  Cris


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