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Dyno Day for REAL with MM in Portland

Old Oct 19, 2010 | 12:27 PM
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Yikes. Definitely need more people.... Hopefully more people will join in as the date gets closer
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by dondo
what do the costs look like if ggavgg joins us with his turbo 8?
Depends - is he an AP owner with a current MMCCS agreement? Does he need to buy an AP? etc.

It comes down to this formula:

$600 Surgeline is split equally among confirmed cars.
$1200 MM is split per time slots allocated.
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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All of us need to recruit people to fill the (12) time slots. Remember, I will pay the first (3) hours of Surgeline overtime also....
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 12:42 PM
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If this evaporates down to (3) cars, (My NA Streetport, Dondo's Pettit Supercharger, and pdxhak's BNR Turbo).... Then maybe we can talk to MM about a reduced rate?



I'm surprised we don't have more interest, with such a great opportunity to get DYNO TUNED by the one tuner that has the most experience with our cars, and the AccessPort.

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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 12:56 PM
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I know I thought more people wanted an AP? Especially since Cobb stopped selling them?
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 01:20 PM
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time for the ms3 crowd man.. i dont mind them spending money to make my portion cost less.
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by dondo
time for the ms3 crowd man.. i dont mind them spending money to make my portion cost less.

good idea - I'm not a member over there, but I will look into it.
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 02:22 PM
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Did zoom44 mention he is interested?
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Nemesis8
good idea - I'm not a member over there, but I will look into it.
yeah i don't know their forums either but you might have luck with that new site: nw-built.com
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 01:31 PM
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Last night I sent a PM to GeorgeH. He had his NA car tuned a while back at Surgeline. Hopefully he will join us
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 01:40 PM
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Well the thing is for me that this is my daily driver and it's on emanamge right now and I was planning on buying an accessport from driftoffice and getting it tuned from them..driftoffice specializes in Cobb ap... I might not wait till December since my last motor gave up on me while it was running too rich on emanage piggyback ecu with the "out of the box" tune
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 01:57 PM
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^ that makes no sense man..
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 02:01 PM
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Is driftoffice familiar with the RX8? I have not heard of them doing any tuning on the RX8. IMO you are 100% better off working with MM who is very familiar with our car.
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ggavgg
Well the thing is for me that this is my daily driver and it's on emanamge right now and I was planning on buying an accessport from driftoffice and getting it tuned from them..driftoffice specializes in Cobb ap... I might not wait till December since my last motor gave up on me while it was running too rich on emanage piggyback ecu with the "out of the box" tune

If you don't have the money for the AP yet, I bet Jeff can tune the GReddy e-manage also, just need to ask him. But if you are turbo, I would not wait to go Cobb AccessPort and have a professional tuner, like MM, dyno tune your car.

All of ours are daily drivers I bet, so it would be wise to at least consider this option. It will be a long time from now that he will be back up this way.
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Nemesis8
If you don't have the money for the AP yet, I bet Jeff can tune the GReddy e-manage also, just need to ask him. But if you are turbo, I would not wait to go Cobb AccessPort and have a professional tuner, like MM, dyno tune your car.

All of ours are daily drivers I bet, so it would be wise to at least consider this option. It will be a long time from now that he will be back up this way.
+1

this is a great opportunity to dyno tune your car once and for all. once we all get tuned there'll be no reason for him to come back unless you pay all this yourself.

i know drift office has tuned one turbo 8 but don't know about the results..
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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 06:49 PM
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any word on more people?
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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 06:56 PM
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Not yet... I have not had time to check the other forums yet.
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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 09:41 PM
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Normally, I'd jump at this. I've had my car tuned at Surgeline and while Tim does a great job, both of us have wondered how much more Jeff could get out of it.

Unfortunately, my last tune has indicated (along with the onset of the dreaded hot-start symptom) that my engine is loosing compression, so I really don't see the point.

If this happens and I'm town, I'll be sure and drop by. Surgeline has a great facility.
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Old Oct 25, 2010 | 09:24 AM
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Where are all the PNW 8s?
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 11:44 AM
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 09:26 PM
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So, uh, are we there yet?
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 10:49 PM
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Yes and No...

Yes, I think we will commit soon, even with the low turnout.
No, we do not have enough yet to make it cost effective, and that may kill it.

Not sure what else I can do to get interest?
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 11:21 PM
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Where the heck is everybody?
Is it because it is so late in the year?
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 11:27 PM
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did you scare everyone away already Jeff?
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Jedi54
did you scare everyone away already Jeff?
Apparently.

I try to make it as good a bargain as I can without going broke, but tuning is just not a priority for many people.
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