My power steering problem was not caused by German Engineering, it was good
ol' American handy work. The hose that I busted at Stockton a couple of
weeks ago was on back order, so I had a hose fabricated to get me going.
They did a great job on the hose, but they either didn't tighten the bolts
hard enough, or they came loose under load.
Carl did an excellent job of driving his underdog NA car in T3, especially
in the twisty technical tracks!
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Merritt [mailto:CMerritt@luminous.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:44 AM
> To: 'Pat Kelly'; Navid Kahangi; 'Donald R McKenna'; Barry
> Spencer; Peter
> Mottaz; bchafin@attglobal.net; ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com;
> ellamt@sbc.com
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
>
>
> Speaking of German Engineering, at one point all three
> generations of M3s
> had power steering systems failing, Navid's E46, Lewis's
> turbo E36, and
> Tammy Hull's E30. Oh, and let's not forget the Mini-S
> (essentially a BMW)
> having it's electric PS cooling fan break too. Most amusing...
>
> ;-)
>
> I just got videos up online from the OTC for those with
> bandwidth to spare:
> http://www.binaryvista.com/ZCars/Z32/2002/OTC/index.html
>
> -Carl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop487@attbi.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:49 AM
> > To: Navid Kahangi; 'Donald R McKenna'; Barry Spencer; Peter Mottaz;
> > bchafin@attglobal.net; ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com; ellamt@sbc.com
> > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> >
> >
> > Typical. The old saying, 'first you have to finish...' Glad
> > the new models
> > are holding up the true Lotus tradition. :)
> > --Pat K
> >
> > ----------
> > >From: Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com>
> > >To: "'Donald R McKenna'" <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>,
> > Barry Spencer
> > <bspencer@tsoft.com>, Peter Mottaz <mph_16@hotmail.com>,
> > bchafin@attglobal.net, ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com, ellamt@sbc.com
> > >Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > >Subject: RE: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > >Date: Tue, May 21, 2002, 10:39 AM
> > >
> >
> > > Speaking of British reliability, both Lotuses (Motorsport
> > Elise and 340R) at
> > > the OTC were kicking major butts right up to the moment
> > they broke down.
> > > Something about the harmonic balancer coming apart and
> > destroying the timing
> > > belt and the valve train.
> > >
> > > --Navid
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Donald R McKenna [mailto:donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net]
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:06 AM
> > >> To: Barry Spencer; Peter Mottaz; bchafin@attglobal.net;
> > >> ellenrosenbluth@hotmail.com; ellamt@sbc.com; Navid Kahangi
> > >> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > >> Subject: Re: Jr. Cart Entrants Round 9?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Barry,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >If Christopher and I can fix the clutch this weekend on his
> > >> KT100 he'll be
> > >> >there too. It's leaking oil and it's not British :>)
> > >>
> > >> Now that's some "British" humor I can understand, having
> > "hung-around"
> > >> Trimuph motorcycles in my youth. But you know what? The Brits
> > >> must have
> > >> switched from Lucas refrigerators as, the last time I was
> > >> there the beer was
> > >> cold :-)
> > >>
> > >> Don
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