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Anticipation and Aggravation

Posted 03-27-2008 at 02:01 AM by KS-CS
Updated 03-27-2008 at 03:02 AM by KS-CS

My first track days of the year are coming up this week-end and I have been eagerly looking forward to it. I had hoped to have some of my planned mods done ( e.g. Softronic Plenum, racing seats, track alignment) but I guess that's going to have to wait for next month (fingers crossed). At least that will give me a chance to do a little before and after testing with my lap times.

I did try to install my Mantis Fire Extinguisher mounting bracket - what a nightmare that turned out...

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First AX of the season

Posted 03-05-2008 at 04:46 AM by KS-CS
Updated 03-05-2008 at 07:56 AM by KS-CS

We had our first local SCCA Solo event of the season this past week-end. I decided to enter even though I am planning to concentrate more on DE/track events than AX this year.

But, I was suffering from cabin fever, and felt the need to get frisky in my CS. Since it was actually a pre-season warm-up (i.e. not for points), and the weather forecast was for bad to lousy weather, I decided to run stock and didn't even bother to change from my winter Alpins.

I did have...

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Trailering: A Cautionary Tale

Posted 02-09-2008 at 06:06 PM by KS-CS
Updated 03-06-2008 at 03:56 PM by KS-CS

I decided last fall that if I'm going to be taking my CS to the track at least once a month it probably would be worthwhile buying (as opposed to renting) a trailer to haul it.

At my last DE at Hallett, I met a guy from Oklahoma City named Bryan, who was looking to sell the Jim-Glo Tilt Bed trailer he used to haul his Mustang. My wife and I had both been admiring it, and I thought if the price was right, I would get it. He offered it at what I thought was a pretty fair price considering...

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Plenum
	The plenum is the piece that goes between the Cayman throttle body and the intake runners. The factory piece is a long black plastic tube with a divider down the middle. There are aftermarket replacements which are designed to allow the air to flow easier/faster into the engine and increase horsepower and torque.

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SOFTRONIC produces DME programming and hardware to suit your companies specifications. Our current software suite is a complex matched set of programs housed in a Flash Manager and Flash Client. This software is matched with two cables, an End User and Master Cable. The SOFTRONIC proprietary flashing solution outperforms all other combinations in speed and accuracy including the factory Porsche equipment.