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Offline lsrjunkie

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #315 on: April 29, 2014, 09:48:59 AM »
Excellent Skip! Sounds great, fired right up, not much more a guy can ask for! What a big step in your build. Congratulations!  :cheers:
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #316 on: April 29, 2014, 09:50:15 AM »
I know that feeling Skip.

Great Job!
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #317 on: April 29, 2014, 11:56:00 AM »
Love it!

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #318 on: April 29, 2014, 01:20:23 PM »
Suwheet! Skip

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« Reply #319 on: April 29, 2014, 01:36:01 PM »
Fantastic!

Looking forward to running against each other in a little friendly competition. I cant wait to see how that ECU works for you. I keep putting off updating our car with the new ECU because we keep having other things to do in the off season and the current (old) ecu still works OK. Now with you running it, that may be the kick in the ass I need to update 369.

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #320 on: April 30, 2014, 03:12:40 PM »
Woohoo!! 
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #321 on: April 30, 2014, 07:49:52 PM »
John,

Lets step up! The pressure is on. An AEM in-house race, what prize?

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #322 on: April 30, 2014, 11:54:13 PM »
Skip ur the MAN!!!
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #323 on: May 01, 2014, 01:12:32 AM »
skip, good job you did your homework and it paid off.  anthony young :

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #324 on: May 01, 2014, 09:07:44 PM »
Skip,
Great job!!!! To bad it was so hard to start! Sure shows how much prep you did to get it right. Don't you just love EFI!!

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #325 on: May 03, 2014, 04:32:23 AM »
Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the kind comments. It’s been a longer haul than I expected. What an exceptional experience, and a moment to remember when it fired. I can’t thank enough those who helped and worked on the car. It maybe be my design/project, however, it was your help that made it come together into a running car.
 
John - Thanks for the kind words.
 
Friendly competition of an AEM in-house race sounds great, however, I wouldn’t mortgage the house just yet to step up your program. The #369 Roadster is the most sorted roadster running today; it’s in a league of it’s own. It’s what others strive to emulate (me included).

Me, I’m just a simple mechanic who enjoys building racecars ’s. As I anticipate a long learning curve, I’m just happy to run in the shadow of your program. 8-)
 
Rex – the AEM Infinity worked flawlessly. The switch to AEM was a late change, and I couldn’t be happier. Nathan Stewart is my tuner. He's super talented (brilliant) at sorting and tuning systems, and has put a lot of work/hours into my sub-systems to make it look easy. This evening we put the car on his chassis dyno and will urge the car along tomorrow.
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #326 on: May 03, 2014, 04:52:08 AM »
You're a humble guy and IMO will stand you in good stead up the road.
You did good and the help you got was deserved. :cheers:

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #327 on: May 04, 2014, 11:03:18 AM »
Very cool Skip!

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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #328 on: May 04, 2014, 03:57:15 PM »
Great work Skip, for all..... I am slightly disappointed in your decision to not having the white walls to outside. :-D....

Your design and dirt knowledge definately shows not only in the craftsmanship but the thought of what it takes to put the power to the ground in LSR. After all it's all about coming off turn 3 and hooking it up for 5 miles..JD
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Re: Skip’s “Thing” – Blown Fuel Roadster
« Reply #329 on: May 04, 2014, 09:43:40 PM »
Looks and sounds great Skip  its coming along great  cant wait to hear how it sounds under power. Hope the dyno goes smoothly