[DeTomaso] Bigger-Better-Heavy Duty Shocks for Silver StateWOOPS -No Slacker Content

[Art Stephens]

        I always suspected the Dawg had a feminine side.

   " I did a test fit with the exhaust that you had used on your car, but I 
don't
   think it looks as good on my car as it does yours".

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> From: Mad Dog Antenucci [mailto:teampantera at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:53 AM
> To: Mark McWhinney; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Bigger-Better-Heavy Duty Shocks for Silver State
> WOOPS -No Slacker Content
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> Slacker ;-]> Get your Pantera on the road again....yous starting to sound
> like Larry from Cleveland
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> Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com> wrote:
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> Skid plates.
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> :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] 
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> Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:04 AM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Bigger-Better-Heavy Duty Shocks for Silver State WOOPS
> -No Slacker Content
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> Off Roaders & JORN IN NORWAY:
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> Bilstein and Aldan were wrong.....rebuilding the shocks for the Pantera
> with 25% more compression and rebound was not enough to stop full
> compression at the dips (at WOT) at Silver State in the Pantera....you
> couldn't have pulled a greased string out of my backside on the hardest 
> hit
> so its back to the drawing board.;-]>
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> In the last ORR I had another great run....engine although it had too much
> compression ;-]> ran great....the Pantera is handling better then it ever
> has.....but hitting full compression broke the ABS side skirts and bottom
> of the air dam in the dips. Shock mounts and chassis all look good and the
> Pantera stayed straight and true on full compression so no handling 
> problem.
> Te ABS was meant to provide some added hi-speed stability which it did 
> until
> it broke ;-]> but the ABS was also meant tobe the 'sacraficial lamb' which
> it also did but bottom line I still got full compression in dips above 145
> mph
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> So, as part of this winter's projects (MORE engine compression) ;-]> I
> need some customized shocks with added compression to handle these dips
> (aka WOOPS). I don't think there are any plans in 2008 to regrade the
> course dips so the challenge is to build shocks around the course
> conditions.
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> No Col. I still can't afford those high tech $5 grand computerized units
> but a couple people I spoke too suggested adding a stop on top of springs 
> to
> eliminate the 'full compression'.... the negative to that suggestion is
> others have suggested it could also cause wheel hop 'at speed' on full
> compression which could lead to loss of control and an off road 4x4
> excursion. ;-]> So goal is to STOP full compression.
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> If YOU have a contact name of anyone you have personally dealed with on
> customized shocks for off-road conditions send it to me. I gotta figure
> those guys who are running offroad at 150 mph can help where 
> roundy-rounders
> can't.
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> JORN, SEND ME contact infor on the VIKINGS that ran 200 MPH last week.
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> MD
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> Mad Dawg Antenucci
> Team Pantera Racing
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