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May '04 NEWS
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May
- Well, unfortunately I've been slack again and we have basically no
worthwhile May news.
The
sequential project is still waiting on us being able to find someone
who is electronically minded enough to design a microprocessor to
receive inputs from the car and trigger the sequential changeover at
the best time. We're narrowing it down, so hopefully it won't be
long.
In
other news... hopefully I'll come to an agreement with my audio
installers regarding a little redesign of my stereo system to
incorporate the new Alpine 1507 into it. The idea is to put the 1507
where the two current amps are located (under the perspex), and
"float" the two 409 amps above on the left and right of
the 1507, suspended by chrome piping. At the same time, the boost
and door panels will need fixing/repainting and the sub box in the
boot needs to be sealed. That should give a nice increase in SPL
volume.
I've
been thinking about what to do with the interior... It's bugged me
for a long time now, since I didn't really want to go stupid, since
the car IS daily driven, and I don't want it to be a shocker to
maintain. Cream/White seats, etc... now that would be annoying.
I'm
planning on keeping to the dark/black interior theme, though the
green lighting has annoyed me to no end for a long time now. Thanks
to Fabio, I've acquired a set of bright blue LEDs, which are a total
replacement for all lights in the dash. This should come up looking
great, and I specifically wanted blue as they should fit in
perfectly with the blue faced Empeg and Alpine head units. The kit
goes as far as changing the Cig lighter light, the ignition light,
and all the air conditioning lights to blue, as well as the speedo,
tacho, fuel, clock, etc.
When
the urge is there to pull the dash apart again, I'm sure this will
be happening :)
Headlights.
Have been slack with this... I'm planning on picking up the ball on
this, and getting the headlights cleaned and the interior of them
painted, then installing a HID kit. I'm sick of headlight bulbs
blowing.
Not
too much more happening on the car right now... as I said, I've been
slack.
Incidentally,
grats to Tris for running a 12.5 down the 1/4 mile, even with his
car in a minor state of tune. Expect an 11 shortly. :)
In
the Team WTF section of www.wtfauto.com
there's a little graphic of Team WTF 1/4 mile times. Yes Mesmerize
is still at 13.2, but I'm hoping that won't be for much longer... ;)
In
the meantime, thanks for coming back to check on the page... I'll
try to keep it updated more as we get some more work happening on
the car.
Take
care,
Jason
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