[Shotimes] everyone needs these - SHO DVD

Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:36:50 -0400


Mark, could you post the information for ordering the DVD again
please?  I lost the last email.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan




shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 08/17/2004 09:06:26 PM:

> > To all owners of MTX SHO's:
> > If you don't already own all of the Videos
> > 1. Clutch install
> > 2. MTX rebuild and Quaife install
> > 3. 60k
> > you really should buy them, they are some of the most informative 
videos I
> have ever watched, hell you can even watch >them for fun.  BIG Kudos to 
Mark
> and Josh on doing them, I would probably never attempt to do those jobs
> myself, but >I will make sure anyone who is working on my car has seen 
them,
> > P.S. Guys in the future can we expect a DVD of all three on one disc 
??
> 
> I had been meaning to talk to Josh about putting the MTX and Clutch on 
DVD,
> but they'd be separate.  DVD uses MPEG-2, which is pretty high quality 
if
> the data rate stays above about 3-3.5 meg/sec, but you'd need lower than
> that to fit 4 hrs and 2 channels of stereo audio on there.  About the 
best
> you can do with stereo audio (using Dolby Digital 2 channel instead of 2
> memory hungry PCM tracks) is maybe 3-3.5 hr.  And you need a nice 
multiple
> pass variable bit rate compressor to make it look good.
> 
> As for the 60k, it's old and really needs a re-do...but 60k stuff is 
pretty
> well know to most folks by now.  I've been thinking more along the lines 
of
> possibly a "SHO Engine 101" type DVD, where we just go through with a 
full
> rebuild.  By that, you'd see ALL the stuff involved in doing a 60k, as 
well
> as the other bits and pieces of putting one together from a bare block.
> It's like everything else, been thinking of it for 2+ yr now, and don't 
ever
> have time to do it.
> 
> Finishing up the Convention DVD now, which I think everybody will enjoy.
> Hope to have these shipping out here shortly...(takes a long time to 
piece
> one of these together!)
> 
> mark
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