LUV94RX7

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I finally was able to pick up my white FD from GothanRacing on 9-30-06.

Steve picked me up at the airport. I had a stage III street port built, his GR67 turbo kit with custom headers, the transmission completely rebuilt and many many other items fixed that I did not know existed. I think the repair costs more than the car is worth.

Steve will be coming to Twin Cities next week to dyno tune about 10 RX-7s including mine and 3 of the 4 20Bs in the state. It will be a nice cool day for dyno tuning. Probably low 45F and high 65F degrees.

Kan set it up to drive back to MN to break it in (1000 miles to MN). He set it up with no boost and I ran 87 octane all the way back. No traffic except for the Blue Angel’s airplane show and a big car show, which slowed me down for the first leg of the trip. I got 19.1 MPG on that bad leg. Took 30 minutes to go three miles in the traffic jam.

We pumped the tires up to 40lbs and I was on my way. I left at 6:00pm. I arrived in home at 9:30am Sunday. I was on cruise control all the way and just went the posted speed which was 70mph 95% of the way back.

I averaged 22.5 mpg and averaged 66.8 mph. The last leg was 340 miles and I averaged 24.4 MPG. Commander air temp was 16C – 23C and water temp was 85C governed by thermostat. Best trip I have ever made and I made three of these last year. Gas for 87 octane ranged from $1.99 to $2.19 a gallon. I used 43.5 gallons of fuel.

I’m hoping to get 500+rwhp at 22psi boost with 110 octane race gas. Pump gas will be 15psi and I don’t know what he expects to get. I hope it’s a good number as this is what I will be running 95% of the time.

Thanx,

Ken

GoodfellaFD3S

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Sounds like the car is running great so far Ken . I'm sure you'll exceed 400 rwhp at 15 psi. Did you opt for the dual bb setup or plain bearing?

LUV94RX7

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Cheapest setup, I'm broke.

Ken

LUPE

Awesome, I bet you're extremely happy to get your car back.

ihavetwins

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ur lucky man my car has been down for 5months. congrats o n getting ur car back.

cymrex

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Hey Ken,

No big story with snow like last time from KD Rotary? Do you have Racelogic traction control on this car? Also how about an update on your thoughts on traction control. Do you still have the other car? Good luck with this one, sounds like a nice setup.

Dale

LUV94RX7

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This car has traction control and I like it alot. Besides performance it might save a crash and injury. High performance cars can be a handful and get out of control.

I have the other FD and will sell it as I can't afford one FD let alone two.

Ken

Improved FD

the addicting money pit

RE-Amemiya

Sounds really nice!

Rotary4tw

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Welcome back! I hope to make it out on Saturday to see you hit your mark!

-Ben

FDNewbie

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Hey Ken, is this the Racelogic traction control you're referring to? If so, who set it up for ya? Gotham? Got any more info about it? There's VERY little first hand feedback about it on this forum...

Thanks!
~Ramy

LUV94RX7

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KD Rotary installed it a few years ago. There was a group buy on the forum and about 90 units were purchased. Lots by RX-7s and some by Viper and Supra owners.

http://www.racelogic.co.uk/?show=Traction_Control

I love it.

Ken

LUV94RX7

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KD Rotary installed it a few years ago. There was a group buy on the forum and about 90 units were purchased. Lots by RX-7s and some by Viper and Supra owners.

http://www.racelogic.co.uk/?show=Traction_Control

I love it.

Ken

LUV94RX7

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That group buy was in 2003,

Ken

Improved FD

how were Jim's bushings on the long ride home?

LUV94RX7

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I currently have stock shocks and there was some clunking but the ride was fine.

Ken

FDNewbie

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Yea I remember that group buy, but still, very few ppl every actually installed them, and even fewer posted their feedback about it after it was installed.

Thanks
~Ramy

LUV94RX7

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I suppose I could use my Vericom computer or Datalogit logs to do some runs with traction control on and off and see what's up.

My car will be tuned this weekend.

Ken

David Hayes

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Maybe now your car is out of the way Steve will be able to focus on mine Selfish of me, isn't it?

IRPerformance

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Glad the car came out good. Make sure you thank Alex and the other mechanics at Gotham. Steve actually works on cars? Thats a joke.

Kyro-2

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HAHAHA

He dosnt?

IRPerformance

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You've been around the shop enough.

LUV94RX7

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I think Kan builds motors and tunes cars. He's very good at what he does. But I doubt he does very much on your car. The peole he hires does most of that and sometimes they are not up to his standards. I picked my car and wanted my replacement parts back. I replaced a Centerforce clutch with about 5k miles on it. It was only good for 400hp and I was expecting to get much more than that so I upgraded to a Spec 3 clutch good for 500+rwhp.

Well when I went to put up the the cluitch all they had was the disc, the pressure plate was scrapped. I asked were that guy was to make sure he really tossed it. He was no linger working there.

So good shops can hire incompetent people.

Ken

IRPerformance

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That is very often the case. I myself have a hard time finding trust worthy people.

LUV94RX7

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Here are some videos from the dyno event this last weekend:

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Look at MIDWEST section for more good stuff in MN.

Pics etc.

Ken