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    Clamps for wheel

    I just bought one for my trailer - stolen a year ago and about to be returned, found at a drug house bust. There are a dozen or so makes, mostly light weight. Go to youtube and search, and see some being defeated. I bought the best I could find, a Brahma. http://www.brahmalock.com/ $250...
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    Vanes with a Tilted Radiator

    OK, I have a race car with side pods with limited space, top-to-bottom (nine inches). I plan to have two radiators, one in each side pod. . . tilted 45 degrees back. To maximize radiator size. Back to simplify straightening fins hit by stones (yes, stones can come in from the rear, too, and...
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    Writing racing rules - ECU tune checking?

    Oh, heavens. I am in such a position, as a driver. I am certain that 98% of my REAL competition has had their ECU flashed, to advance timing for the allowed race fuel, remove the red line limit, remove the limp-home program, security lock-outs, and the like. In my case, the entire ECU program...
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    Source for CG Height of a 2012 Car?

    OK, a bit more info, and the method I will use. I have to measure the weight of the two axles separately, then again separately (though am only interested in the "down" axle) with one axle's tires lifted at least 10 inches. I stopped at a truck stop that had CAT scales yesterday coming back...
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    Source for CG Height of a 2012 Car?

    Mike. . . I know that you're structural, but. . . That's a bit too structural for me! I have advertized in the local region for someone with scales. But here in small-town West Virginia am coming up with nada. Now $7/weigh for three weighs (front tire, rear, front with rears up on ramps or...
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    Source for CG Height of a 2012 Car?

    Hi guys! Well, I'm an autocrosser - with an open wheel purpose-built car - but this January my local region has an event that sounds like a GREAT time to bring out my new ride, a 2012 Nissan Juke, for a spin. And what class is it in? Well, ah, no class, apparently. Yet. It seems to be (appears...

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