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Re: Mazda Rev it Up !!!!

To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Mazda Rev it Up !!!!
From: "James Creasy" <james@thevenom.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:28:24 -0800
did you torque load in the staging area?  if you heat up the fluid enough it
gets thinner id think.  one guy i watched got some wheelspin on launch.
david reported to me that the power varied between the two cars he drove.

-james

----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>; <Sethracer@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:55 AM
Subject: Mazda Rev it Up !!!!


> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
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> Message text written by INTERNET:Sethracer@aol.com
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> "
> I give you that, John. But the Automatic "6" model that I drove, even with
> the "handling" mods, seemed like a slug when compared to the 5-sp
> MazdaSpeed Protege's they let us drive on the slalom practice course."
>
>
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> The automatics felt like slugs to me, too. That brief encounter with the
> manual 6 speed was better but the official timed part was with the
> automatic. When standing on the start line with foot on brake the engine
> just couldn't seem to rev it up, thus all my starts felt sloooow. On
Friday
> press day David Colman was 4th overall (in the 34s) and I was 11th overall
> in the low 35s.
>
> --John Kelly
>
> --J

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