On July 5-6th there's a NASA-OH/VA race/hpde weekend. I plan on going and may need help driving Camel Tow up and back. Was anyone planning on going to this?

my mom has been tinkering with the idea of buying a convertible as a "summer" car. As of right now we are pretty much deciding between a 90's BMW 3 series, a miata of some sorts and possible an old skool VW bug. Have at it boys.......


o yeah she is looking for anything undre 15K so any other suggestions would be appreciated

A guy posted to an E30 list I'm on recommending Water Wetter, says it works for him. His digital temp gauge he mounted in the thermostat housing showed ~5deg cooler readings. Ok, great! Hey, I use it too. So do a lot of people. It's supposed to help prevent cavitation and lubricate the pump if you run without antifreeze. Good things. But I've been thinking.... so I responded to his message. What do you guys think?


Not at all an attack on your results, I use Watter Wetter too. But I was just thinking:

I've often wondered how products like Water Wetter claim to reduce cooling system temps. Because from what I know, that's up to the thermostat. I imagine that no matter what I run through my cooling system, (water, antifreeze, Mr. Pibb) the thermostat is going to open and close at a given temp and try to maintain that small temp range. The only reason the temp sender would see anything slightly different is that, of course, it's not located in quite the same place. It's usually just before the thermostat in the flow. But it should be pretty close right? Maybe seeing temps a couple degrees hotter than what the thermostat "sees"? In your case, it should be exactly the same!

But then, how would any product have an effect on what the temp sender reads? Is it changing the thermostat's response too? I have no good explanation for that. And if anything, I would think that if the temp sender is reading slightly lower... is the coolant not doing its job as well? Isn't the engine putting out just as much heat as it was before? Where did it go now? In reading reviews of waterless coolants like Evans NPG+, they claim that the coolant does a better job of reducing hotspots and has better thermal transfer properties, and that you might actually see slightly HIGHER readings on your temp gauge because of this. It's taken MORE heat away from the engine. So we've got one product bragging that the temp gauge is reading lower, and one bragging that it's reading higher. Which is better? Sure, the temp sender doesn't tell the whole story, temps could be all over the place inside the engine, it only knows what the temp is as the water leaves. But what should we really be happy about, higher or lower readings on our temp gauges? Or are we looking in the wrong place?

Ok, heres the deal, I was planning on building this up to a 2.0T but I found another project that was further along. The car is in GREAT shape. More details at the for sale post here.
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Id like to see $2000 and am looking to sell it this week. Im picking up a stage 2 ATP corrado. :lol:

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This is the kind of patently foolish and masochistic behavior that beckons me to bikes. When we all get bikes we need to have a mini Iron Butt Rally...Brick Booty maybe? I've gotta add this one to my evil schemes list...

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Look under events for the July 18th Autox in Lynchburg. I didn't see anyone from MM registered yet. Has anyone decided on this?

Also, when is the next MM NASA autox?

Not at all thinking about it mainly because I know my fat ass wouldn't fit in it, but give me your opinions on the SRT-4. 2.0 liter turbo, 230hp, 250lb/ft

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Ok...at the risk of no one reading this thread, I decided to leave the NASCAR part out of that subject line. However.....the NASCAR IMAX movie at the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space museum is really good, as all IMAX movies are. They have some amazing garages in that movie...made me want to forget the whole nursing thing, go back to school, and be an engineer for NASCAR. My MOM even has a newfound appreciation for it. Anyway, it's a movie with a screen that's 5 stories tall about motorsports, and I highly recommend it.

Well, it's official, the XR is off to the tuners! Sean and I trailered it to Fredericksburg this past Friday. The guy is stoked about working on it, which is certainly encouraging. He's a "world class ASE Tech" for whatever that's worth - but more importantly, he's worked on literally hundreds of XR's and has a great rep on every board I'm on that's XR related. Once he gets it together and gets it pretty tuned, I'm going to drive it to break it in, then take it back and we'll put it on the dyno and squeeze every last HP out of that 2.3 that we can. I'm looking at roughly 4 weeks until I can pick it up, basically because he's slow and I don't want to rush him. It'll be worth the wait though, I can't wait to have it running. So, for those of you that care, there's the status on my project, and for those of you that don't, o well. I hope it's all I'm dreaming it will be! :twisted:

Pete