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Old 10-05-08, 07:03 PM
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ralph from ground zero

does anyone know how i can get ahold of him so he can tune my car? phone number email address?
Old 10-05-08, 09:16 PM
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I don't think he's doing tuning anymore. From what I understand, he sold the dyno awhile ago. But I haven't talked to him in a quite awhile. CJ
Old 10-05-08, 09:22 PM
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dang ok well do you have his phone number i might just try to call him and see whats going on anyways
Old 10-07-08, 12:52 PM
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Dyno is at Forged Performance. Who knows where Ralph is.
Old 10-08-08, 04:50 PM
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well ****. who else does tuning around here besides steve kan?
Old 10-08-08, 09:38 PM
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I'd like to talk to ralph too. Maybe I could talk to him about tuning my car here in the tri cities at kaizenspeed.
Old 10-09-08, 12:56 PM
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You can go to unnatural. They are doing more and more rotaries now. Or go to Forged Performance, those guys had a lot to do with Ralph's gunmetal FD.
Old 10-10-08, 04:47 PM
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good to know. mendozam if you do get ahold of ralph please let me know so i can talk to him also. in the meantime i will be checking out other tuners
Old 10-12-08, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by NinjaGUYdan
You can go to unnatural. They are doing more and more rotaries now. Or go to Forged Performance, those guys had a lot to do with Ralph's gunmetal FD.
Im going to kick you in the ***** if you recommend Unnatural for tuning. Unless they have a new tuner again, who wont blow your engine.

Forged bought ground zeros dyno, ralph is not interested in tuning anymore, and you should know the rest :p.
Old 10-13-08, 12:34 AM
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I understand your concern about unnatural, but one blown motor from being tuned that wasn't broken in right that got touched by too many people before it made it to unnatural is an unfair slam against their abilities. All I was saying is they are taking on more rotary projects and builds, so they are starting to understand our silly motors more and more.
Old 10-13-08, 12:40 AM
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Don't mean to thread jack, but is forged performance pretty good with our cars? I got a some vacuum leaks that I can't seem to fix, and am short on time to mess with it more. There might even be a couple more issues.
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hmmm. i think the tuner at unnatural blew up 4 rotaries not just one. even though im not a huge fan of the tuner as a person (talkin *****) take it to r rev they've had a few rotaries b4
Old 10-14-08, 10:52 AM
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Forged is pretty good with anything. Something like vac leaks and general maintenance should be no problem. And yeah so the unnatty guy blew up 100 rotaries, point is, the only shops left are going to be Unnatural and Forged.
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What about Corksport? Do they do any tuning?
Old 10-20-08, 06:53 PM
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Yeah if you take it to r rev, just don't leave your car there. A recent incident was related to me about a friend of mine getting a very nice car totaled by their staff out on the road when it shouldn't have been.
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wow this blew up pretty quick lol
Old 10-24-08, 01:48 PM
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Karl, there is a reason that I like to fly Steve in. Locally he has tuned close to 30 rotaries. I might bring him back next spring depending on interest. I bring steve in because he deals with rotary powered cars day in and day out. His prices are very competitive with local tuners.

I have seen a couple cars that have been tuned with Corksport. I dealt with them a few years ago and they were a great group of guys. Their cars seem to do relativley well.
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well i think i will have to wait for the next steve kan tune sesh. the previous owner had the car tuned by him but on a stock fuel pump and i just got a supra pump and a few more things so it needs a tune again. do you know steves rates at all? unfortunately my car has been having quite a few problems. mainly idle and heating problems. i need to find some where to take the car or have a forum member look at it. if you know of any good places to take the car to have it looked at i would be really appreciative. thanks Z
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