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Duncan,

yeah a bit rough on dyno's, i believe in them, i just dont swear on them. I trust a chassis dyno for tuning as a safety point (ignition timing, boost and fuel) so that i can flog around a circuit and not worry about big lean outs, boost spike or irregular timing. Even then i err the paranoid side of things..I totally agree, its what hits the ground that matters.

Sydneykid,

-Fuel economy, i totally agree, but you know what my point was.

-Porsche racing is not F1 or V8 S/Cars, but i agree and take your point onboard.

-Sounds like you have a good dyno, Silverwater Automotive claim about 15% change in calibration every 3 months.

P.s what teams are you involved with? You may know my uncle (Pee Wee Siddle, Goold Motorsport) he has alot to do with Porsche Cup and runs the volkswagon racing team with Stokell and Timmy Leigh, not to mention unearthing Nelson Piquet into formula 1 back in the days, blah blah blah...

Tom Goold

Hi Tom, I know Greg, but not very well, he travels in higher circles than me. If I remember rightly I spoke to him a few times when he was the Ralt agent for Formula Atlantic/Pacific. I was at Calder when Nelson drove the Formula A/P for Greg, plus I saw Roberto Moreno drive as well.

Circuit racing people tend to be a bit insular and stay within their our team, plus he looks after a competing team now. The main issue is whether or not we will have any more production car racing, that's a bit of a focus right now.

As for "who is we", well a couple of years ago, on another forum, I told everybody who we is, and I got driven crazy by phone calls with people asking/begging for work to be done. We are a race team, we don't do any retail work, we don't have anything to sell. So it is of no benefit for people to know "who we is".

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