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Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:16 PM
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Easy to spot his house by the van parked out front...

Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:19 PM
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No seriously, you take time to write your posts in geometric shapes, but you can't figure out how to use the quote button?
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:20 PM
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=798612

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...768150&page=28

These were interesting reads... google is your friend.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
No seriously, you take time to write your posts in geometric shapes, but you can't figure out how to use the quote button?
I just cut and pasted. Could have multiquoted. But…the text I C&Ped had text attributed to me…but altered by the forum moderator (just read it)…on some forum software that preserves what was posted…so I thought I'd do it that way.

I can see why this site has so little actual knowledge on it. It seems to be a fanboy ricer site.
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I can see why this site doesn't suffer fools gladly. I don't belong here.
Oh, you mean like that? Welcome to 2003.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I can see why this site has so little actual knowledge on it. It seems to be a fanboy ricer site.
I frequent this forum because of the high standard of knowledge that resides on here (Jason, Joe Perez, Abe, Savington to name a few high profile members). You are very much in the minority in thinking this is a poor site knowledge wise.

And fanboy ricer site? you have to be frigging joking, this is almost the antithesis of a riceboy site
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:37 PM
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Just go to the links I posted above... this is nothing new with sjmarcy's tactics.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:23 PM
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Well that sure did shut his *** up.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:27 PM
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Is this a ricer site…no knowledge, just forum games?

It's like that guy wrote me, apparently.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Is this a ricer site…no knowledge, just forum games?
Even your feeble retorts follow the same pattern - "if I say it over and over again, it will become true in their minds too!"

Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:50 PM
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i gotta give it up for hustler. just when i thought u couldn't top the previous post u is even funnier. :kowtow: x 10000 in your general direction sir.

sjmarcy, ok i'll bite. i have stock 1.8 brake hardware and in autox i lock up rf. i was thinking of cross drilling my front rotors to save weight, and i figured i would go ahead and add a 10% left bias. since area varies with square of diameter, i was figuring just a tiny bit bigger holes on the right rotor than the left. i was also thinking of using a masonry bit which i sharpen to a razor edge with a diamond wheel so it goes through the mild steel like butta.

interested in your analysis
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:02 PM
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to OP. sticky piston? i'm sure other folks here have better diag than this, but the first thing that i thought of was to substitute piece of wood for your pads on both sides. step on pedal real hard, and then inspect. if sticky piston on driver side, then it should show up in the piston imprint on the wood.

if this is dumb then please ignore
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jasonb
sjmarcy... interested in your analysis
You might want to go back and read his previous posts. Marcy can't provide true analysis unless you physically come inside him.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:04 PM
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It's all about the brake balance - and nothing more

http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=383339

JasonB - that's the first simple thing that should be checked...but we all now know you have to put in prop valve to fix a sticky slider.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Machismo
It's all about the brake balance - and nothing more
Well, brake balance and datalogs... can't forget the datalogs.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:10 PM
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Yep - forgot about that.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:11 PM
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Troll of the month, bet
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:16 PM
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Sjmarcy and Datalogs: A Retrospective...

Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I'd love to datalog such a car's performance against the throttle position sensor with different starting conditions. And compare this against a conventional turbo rig. Then you can spot lag issues very easily.
Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Following the principles I've explained here and elsewhere leads to better braking. I showed a now well-biased Miata braking system which can trail brake like crazy, unlike most Miatas. The car has been transformed, inexpensively. You can't fool the datalogger along with some basic tests.
Originally Posted by sjmarcy
I added some datalogs comparing a vette and a miata. I'll add PAX when the event results make it online.
Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Somewhere I have 1.6 Spec Miata DL1 datalogs from good examples.
Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Are there any FF275s in the greater NYC area? I'm in CT and would like to datalog one of them, to see what it can do in gear, very easy on the car.
Originally Posted by sjmarcy
Here is a little datalog comparsion between the two cars. Bench racing is great if you can backup your claims.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:20 PM
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The "Datalogging Process" by sjmarcy himself...
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:24 PM
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^^^ actually, thats not true. the real sjmarcy is a tray drifter in the TD1 series, where the real ricers hang out

EDIT: my 100th post is a tray drifting video. god i need to step away from the keyboard before i hurt myself




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