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Oregon is going, Info is Trailing

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Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 06:00PM
Where's Albatros Kunkanenen? What happened to the New and Improved Dave Clark?
Anybody noticed the rwd Nissan from Oztralia

Stage6 time for Evan Cline---is obvious flyer obvious?

Such a shame those midwestern guys insist on doing their results in such a intentionally confusing format.


Who is down there?



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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 06:38PM
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Where's Albatros Kunkanenen?

He never showed up for tech. I guess he withdrew.

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What happened to the New and Improved Dave Clark?

The bleed cap for a t-fitting in the cooling system popped off on the first stage. They withdrew after checking in to the second stage, thinking that it was possible blown head gasket. After finding the problem and fixing it, they rejoined the rally.

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Anybody noticed the rwd Nissan from Oztralia

Actually, there are two. Didn't seem them on stage, but, in his video commentary, MJ said that they were crazy.

There was also a Lancia Scorpion that was pulled out of a barn and last run in 1999. Last night was a shakedown for the team since it had been a while since any of them had been on stage. I thought that they were gonna run today, but I don't see them in today's regional standings.

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Who is down there?

I was doing tech yesterday. After that, I hung out and said 'hi' to people. I am back home now. I watched the live video from the service area and the occasional snippets of video from the stages.

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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 07:11PM
Spent most of the day yesterday on and off the phone with Al diagnosing his car. The motor quit on the press stage, it sheared the pin on the cam that locates the gear. Before they got that figured out, they swapped a coil, dist, ign control module. After properly diagnosing the cam timing, they swapped the head, then it cranked and no start. The fuel pumps would not turn on, pinpointed to a defective replacement dist not supplying crank sensor signal, hence no fuel pumps. Straightened that out, then it would almost catch, and the fuel pump relays were "fluttering" When Al had replaced the coil initially he had crossed a few wires, so improper B+ signal to ignition module. I left them last night at 6pm with the negine running. That is the last I heard.

I think I offered to hop in the car and head down there at least 5 times. Hate to see someone fail to start after all that effort. Did I mention I went down to his place in Cali 3 weeks ago and completely re-wired the chassis, minus the engine management....
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 08:17PM
The cheesoid roll pin is cheesy, but it ought not to shear id the big bolt holding everything together is torqued to hell. Crying shame.



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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 09:11PM
Yeah, don't know what happened today, why they did not start. Like I said, it was running last night.... And ho won't return a call or text. Hope all is ok.
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 09:13PM
Oh, john, did you see, the RWD Nissan Silvia disobeyed the laws of phisics and set a top 3 stage time OA. Very impressive.
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 11:57PM
I was helping Al figure out the volvo. Thursday couldn't really do much without proper tools (and a bunch of other things). Friday around 1pm, checked compression: 8,20,8,40 (psi). Head off, and noticed the roll pin was sheared. Explains why all the timing marks lined up and the cam rotated at cranking speed, but lacked compression.
Last I heard from him at 10pm on Friday was that he was on the way out to The Dalles.
The Nissans were fast and fast-ish at PIR. One was having problems with fuel pressure regulator and starting on Thurs. Explains the rough running on Friday.
The Lancia was making a new route at several location.
An Awwdee went into a creek (PIR). The Saab 96 were a crowd favorite.
Why are there no VW this year?
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 05, 2012 11:59PM
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Did I mention I went down to his place in Cali 3 weeks ago and completely re-wired the chassis, minus the engine management....

The engine harness and sensors need a little work. The hall sensor on the side of both distributors were broken, just hanging on by their little wires. A properly made and routed engine wiring harness would make working on a simple car even better.
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 06, 2012 12:27AM
No duplessis?

lots of top ten OA stage times from 2wd cars - two 3rds from Orders and a 4th from ACP. hell, 4th and 5th OA are currently 2wd.

from finishing that high up (and having not done so in the car recently) have ACP and/or the Scion improved that much?

Or, seeing that ACP and Orders are trading stage times, are we still going to have Chris D walking away with it at most events?



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May 06, 2012 12:46AM
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No duplessis?

He didn't finish his car in time.



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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 06, 2012 01:27AM
I think they have made big improvements to the Scion. I hope they take the fight to Chris. Where ACP and the Summit team are finishing is right where Chris was finishing at the last round. Should be good...
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 06, 2012 09:03AM
ACP is just very fast. He knows and likes the roads down there, has always done pretty well in NW events. Scion must be giving up 150 hp to the Nissans. Nissans are very sweet too, massive power on the racetrack Friday nite.

Dave Clarks new car is purdy.

Decker is flying in our old Sube (much improved version), likely be podium for the national.

Rumors persisted that Block was showing up at the last minute but never happened. Fast AWDs not so much this time, kind of nice for a change.

Nick Ellefson had the new Audi, fresh build, nice car, nice kid...nice landing in the puddle sad smiley . Looks like they got it going again.

Can't wait for Olympus...
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 07, 2012 03:10PM
Those auzzie silvias were pretty cool. I heard there were pics of the Neon. But I didnt have cell evc at the Stop of Starve out. Oh, my lanyard gave me the wierdest sun burn.
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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 07, 2012 06:33PM
Not to take anything away from the 2wd "top stage times" but didn't just 12 finish the event in the national?

Looks like:

Open > 2wd > SP

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Re: Oregon is going, Info is Trailing
May 08, 2012 03:03AM
Came back from the trail! had a great time more than once I caught people talking about the
focus makes me so happy that people have faith in my idea.

On the Nissan's I talked to them about their suspension the only real mod on there set up is
11 mm down on the front trailing mounts and the coil overs don't look all that wonderful.
Watching them try and put that power down on the straights and they had tons of wheel
hop it was violently bouncing about 4 to 5 inches. That being said, watching the M3 you
can see it digging and gripping under power. Just makes it all more exciting for me they were
really nice guys and very fast and threw down for all the rwd guys!!!!!!! they will not be at
Olympus though sad smiley....



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