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1. Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:36:17 -0500; Here's a new one to me -- is this just urban legend or is it really A driver in a Corvette Z06 came and ran his first event with us recently. Today he called me to ask that if our results would be po; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00357.html (8,341 bytes)
2. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Jamie Sculerati" <pullg@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:15:30 -0400; I have no idea if this is true (other than seeing the rental car article posted earlier), but think of the implications for older cars in the sport.... :) Jamie '92 Prelude Si (well past warranty, no; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00358.html (9,157 bytes)
3. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Arthur Emerson" <vreihen@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:23:20; VW and Nissan have been known to send district service managers to drag strips in New Jersey, taking pictures and documenting every car that's competing. I've heard about one person in for a grenaded; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00359.html (9,499 bytes)
4. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:27:57 -0500; Apparently, according to the fellow involved, there is a line in the warranty about it being void if the car us used for racing purposes. The real question here is the one you raise below: Is Solo II; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00360.html (12,077 bytes)
5. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Rand E" <rande@mwis.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:40:05 -0500; I have heard of the dealers (manufacturers?) sending agents to the dragstrip, etc., and photographing the cars. Many of the drivers began removing or covering their license plates when competing. Law; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00361.html (9,420 bytes)
6. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Will Kalman" <will@kalman.org>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:46:24 -0700; In 1963, a computer was something your Suburban could barely TOW! Will Kalman '91 Escort GT CSCC #232 STS; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00362.html (7,817 bytes)
7. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: Snapspinnr@aol.com; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:53:07 EDT; The bigger question here is Why should solo II, or drag racing for that matter, void your warranty? If the company sells you a sporty car they should assume you intend to drive it in a sporting manne; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00363.html (8,089 bytes)
8. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: <hottvr@birch.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:57:42 -0500 (CDT); The dragstrip is always in the same place. Our events move around too much for them to find us easily. Besides that we are the "Secret Car Club of America" They will never find us!!!!!! Its gotta be; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00364.html (10,277 bytes)
9. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Carlos" <carlos@orbitdevelopment.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:24:29 -0700; 1) Subaru ADs shows the WRX off-road and competing ... would it void warranty if u do in stock form ? 2) Some manufacturers ads show stock cars in competition environment to sell you the car, then i; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00365.html (10,211 bytes)
10. RE: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:49:46 -0500; <<5) SOLO II is not a racetrack, is a parking lot, so they have no rights to say you were in a race track...>> But you were racing. The car was going as fast as you could make it go. Didn't we cover; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00366.html (8,324 bytes)
11. RE: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Carlos" <carlos@orbitdevelopment.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:18:54 -0700; That is why they have "speed and revolutions governors so the car cannot go over its limits. I doubt that is called racing. If it were really "racing", you would not have a "stock" car. Otherwise it; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00369.html (9,431 bytes)
12. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: WARP9Z28@aol.com; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:29:29 EDT; this is so true when i saw the Z28 on motor trend TV they did not spend all day driving around town back and forth to work. i saw it at dragstrip and a road course racing a Ford Mustang! bragging abo; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00370.html (9,517 bytes)
13. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Larry Steckel" <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:11:23 -0400; The VW diff defect went back much earlier than 1995-1999. The diff in my 1987 16Valve GTI ate its bearings and blew up twice. Larry Steckel ___________________________________________________________; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00373.html (10,381 bytes)
14. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Arthur Emerson" <vreihen@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:11:10; I'm referring to the VW 02A tranny (VR6) and it's uncanny ability for the ring gear to pop out of it's rivets and blow a physical hole through the side of the transaxle. VW blamed "wheel hop" on hard; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00375.html (9,516 bytes)
15. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: Greg and Valerie Holden <gholden1@nycap.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:14:56 -0400; Donate your GW Bush "Come on... like me please!!!" $300 or $600 check to the ACLU when you get it. I probably will. Greg Holden; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00380.html (8,677 bytes)
16. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "Brian Berryhill" <brianberryhill@flashmail.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:23:51 -0500; So that's why Subaru offers contingency and free SCCA licenses... if they can prove you were autox'ing, they don't have to fix your car if it breaks, thus making them money. But what about the label; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00381.html (9,060 bytes)
17. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: John Lieberman <johnlee@softdisk.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:24:43 -0500; All this talk about voided warranties takes me back to a true experience. I had an '87 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z. Traded in my '83 Shelby Charger for it. During the four years that I had it, it was auto; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00384.html (10,709 bytes)
18. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "brianbec1" <brianbec1@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:17:23 -0700; It's real. Happened to a friend of mine, & I was present (I helped him tow). Details: service manager downloaded OBDII (or is it III?) from my friend's '99 Hardtop vette (not Z06). Data showed multip; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00385.html (8,976 bytes)
19. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: Dick Rasmussen <rasmussend@mindspring.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:42:27 -0400; '99 Question? Did your friend actually overrev the engine on downshifts (which rev limiters obviously won't prevent if you let the clutch out) by shifting to say a 70 mph at redline gear at say 80 mp; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00386.html (9,851 bytes)
20. Re: Big Brother is watching (score: 1): Author: "brianbec1" <brianbec1@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:00:39 -0700; Not as massively as you suggested, but he did overrev on down shifts. I don't know whether the OBD distinquishes between riding the rev limiter and downshift overrevs, but it seems that it would have; /html/autox/2001-06/msg00387.html (9,311 bytes)

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