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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 09:42 AM
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A small video of my race car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mh6MM24wA

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(Hope this is the correct section for this)
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 12:20 PM
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Yeah I saw that, I'm mrwankel82 on youtube.... like I said sounds great!
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 12:24 PM
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Sounds great, which class do you race?
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 12:34 PM
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With this car I do some 4 hour endurance amateur races, so there are not much rules :-)
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 12:38 PM
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Yeah I saw that, I'm mrwankel82 on youtube.... like I said sounds great!
Tanks for you comment mrwankel82
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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Tanks for you comment mrwankel82
Thanks for your comment, mrwankel82
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 02:30 PM
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freekin sweet man. congrats.
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 03:02 PM
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Geezuz, I've never seen a race staged 7 idle flames like that before. That is wicked. Glad to see you worked it out. Wouldn't mind seeing more videos of it in action.
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 04:37 PM
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I'll post some more stuff here as soon as I get the material from my friends.
They made some nice videos from the race. I hope they are nice :-)
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 08:42 PM
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Damn, I can't find my marshmallows anywhere!
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 08:51 PM
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Looks like a great car to have at a cookout.

Looks like you could have tons of fun in that car, too. That is awesome. I'd love to do some real races in my FB.
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Old Nov 12, 2007 | 02:35 PM
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I just love the sound the exhaust pulse was making. Did someone say "weenie roast" ?
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Old Nov 12, 2007 | 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 85 FB
I just love the sound the exhaust pulse was making. Did someone say "weenie roast" ?
We speak Luxembourgish here, that’s far away from English
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Old Nov 12, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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What did you do to the snout? I paused it at 0:25 and it looks like its not stock (although I dont know if anything else on the car IS stock )
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Old Nov 12, 2007 | 06:08 PM
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love it. love it. loooove it.
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Old Nov 13, 2007 | 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeezus
What did you do to the snout? I paused it at 0:25 and it looks like its not stock (although I dont know if anything else on the car IS stock )
About the front:
Before we crashed the car in a race 2005 it looked very normal, like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMhKlXyBfl4

As we damaged the whole front very badly, we had to rebuild the entire front.
We removed the fenders, the hood and the rest of the front body.
Then we cut everything away from the bumpers up to the front, except parts of the chassis.
Next we built a new front of light weight tubes.

As we wanted to mount the new snout (never heard that word before) we thought that we had too much spare room under the hood. So we decided to cut the fenders in the middle and to shorten them by 20-25cm. This counts also for the hood.

That’s all.

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Old Nov 13, 2007 | 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by TomaSoft
We speak Luxembourgish here, that’s far away from English
That's a figure of speech. When someone has huge flames like that, someone would either say "Damn, where are my marshmallows?" or "Did someone say 'weenie roast' ? " Because it's normally something a (camp)fire would create for one to toast marshmallows or hot dogs (weenies). See what I'm getting at?
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Old Nov 14, 2007 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by 85 FB
That's a figure of speech. When someone has huge flames like that, someone would either say "Damn, where are my marshmallows?" or "Did someone say 'weenie roast' ? " Because it's normally something a (camp)fire would create for one to toast marshmallows or hot dogs (weenies). See what I'm getting at?
Thanks for your explications, now I got it.

We already planned a barbecue extension on the passenger’s side for next season
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Old Nov 14, 2007 | 02:55 PM
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By the way, I got some new material today from a friend that you can see on may first video.
I’ll have a look at it tomorrow, to see what I can upload.
I’ll post the link(s) here as soon as possible.
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Old Nov 14, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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Very nice car. Thanks for sharing the front nose info, you did a fantastic job in repairs
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Old Nov 14, 2007 | 04:55 PM
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Here is another video, where you can see the front part oft he car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1TnqT6fqR8

2 more small videos will follow tomorrow.
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Old Nov 15, 2007 | 08:54 AM
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And here are the last 2 out of the pids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEWxqEr-Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DteJUGkQ0

I hope to get some more material of the race itself.
So stay tuned
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Old Dec 2, 2007 | 01:40 PM
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I just added 2 new videos.
Not very spectacular but you can see and of course hear my RX7 in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoQodes7dDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2_GuUQSMQ

Sorry for the bad quality, video has been taken with mobile phone.
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Old Dec 2, 2007 | 01:42 PM
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Sounds/looks good.
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Old Dec 16, 2007 | 05:14 AM
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Thumbs up

Just want to thank all the people that wached and/or voted for my videos.
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