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APRIL NEWS This April marks Lindsey Racing's 8th year anniversary. Eight years since we sold our first Boost Enhancer. A product that still sells well today. Back then, we didn't have any plans to turn this into a full time business. We were just trying to help with the cost of two brothers attending PCA Driver Eds around the area. We have come a long way since then and want to thank each and every one of the current and past customers for helping make this a success story. Most companies don't make it past the first two years. Two more, and we will hit 10. We see 10 years as an easy goal since we're sailing along smoothly with continual growth. We wonder about the current economy with the price of fuel, the housing market, the dropping Dollar and all the economic factors that a business should worry about. For some reason, it seems that man's need for fun, speed and horsepower doesn't seem all that affected by it all. When the US market slows, the International market picks up. For our International customers, there has never been a better time to buy than now. We see that with an increase in larger than normal orders from our overseas friends. It seems a great time for them to take advantage of the situation and get their cars further along for less. Lindsey Racing has agreed to become a Title Sponsor for the 944 Cup series. Many of our customers already participate in this series, and we will be welcoming in many new ones. More on this in a later issue. APRIL & MAY SPECIALSFor the months of April and May, we will be offering the following special pricing for our retail customers only. Specials may apply to one or both months. Other discounts and programs do not apply and cannot be combined. You must request the special pricing at time of ordering. The shopping cart does not recognize our specials and will NOT automatically give you the special pricing. You MUST either send us a follow up e-mail immediately after ordering through the shopping cart or International Order Form, or give us a telephone call and ask for your special pricing. If you order by phone, you MUST mention the special pricing at time of order. If you contact us after the order is shipped and request the special pricing, it will be too late to receive it.
We're kicking off the Spring season with our Lindsey Racing 951 Headers on sale for $795.00 for the Month of April.
April means many of you are stretching your car's legs on a track. For some, they are finding out how their engine performance upgrades and rebuilds this winter are working out. You might find your suspension is now in need of some upgrading or catching up. This April, our very popular Bilstein Escort Cup Kit is $100 off regular price on the standard kit and $125.00 off the upgraded kit with our Lindsey Racing adjustable camber plates.
To kick off our new 5 way rear adjustable sway bar you're about to read about in shop talk, our 968 Sway Bar Kit with the upgraded Lindsey Racing 5 way rear bar upgrade is 10% off this April and May. Been thinking about sway bars for your car? This is a superb kit and at a great price! APRIL CUSTOMER CAR OF THE MONTHTony W's '88 2.8L Silver Rose Turbo SThis car has seen significant time on the Autobahn as Tony lived in Europe for a while and actually had it’s services performed at the Factory Stuttgart Dealership! After we built the 2.8L engine, the installation was performed by Park Place Porsche in Dallas under the watchful eye of Randall Johnson.
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Lindsey Racing Built 2.8L SHOP TALKLindsey Racing offers three different sway bar kits for the 944 family. Tarett, Weltmeister and the Porsche 968 MO30 factory style bars. Our most popular seller is the 968 MO30 Sway Bar kit and we sell quite a few of them each year. We believe they are a very good set-up above and beyond the stock bars. Although the front bar does not provide any adjustment , the rear bar has 3 adjustment positions. It's done with three different holes or positions to attach the rear drop links.For conversation's sake, let's call the center hole the neutral or standard position. From there you have one position in either direction. If you select the hole closer to the torsion bar tube the result is a 7% stiffer setting. If you select the hole towards the tip or end of the bar, you get a result of 7% softer. Lindsey Racing has now produced our own version of the rear bar and added more adjustment. Our new Lindsey Racing Adjustable Bar offers two additional adjustment holes for a total of 5. The center to center distance on the holes is the same on both bars. By adding another hole in each direction, we now have a bar that allows you adjustments of 7% and 14% stiffer as well as 7% and 14% softer. Those additional positions give the bar a far greater value in suspension tuning. This new bar is in stock and available to be purchased either separately, or as an optional upgrade when buying the complete 968 MO30 Sway Bar kit. We have priced the bar identical to the Porsche piece. The end result is an upgraded version of an already good thing.
In the next couple of weeks, you will see our latest replacement harness unveiled. At last the final parts required to complete everything attaching to the engine for control makes for our TPS and MAF/AFM Harness. This harness attaches to the Throttle Position Switch (TPS) and Factory Air Flow Meter (AFM). If you're running a MAF (Hot Wire Mass Air Flow) meter, we will have the option of a TPS with MAF plug instead. These last two missing links will allow us to produce what we will call our Master Harness which will be a combination of all the harnesses in one. Our Injector Harness, Knock Sensor Harness, Reference Sensor Harness, Idle Stabilizer & Coolant Sensor Harness in conjunction with this latest TPS and AFM/MAF harness. We have sourced a larger diameter like quality thermal sleeving allowing us to put all those harnesses in one sleeve. The individual colors previously offered will be limited to portions of the harness as these larger sleeves are going to be black. We are already building our first Master Harness and nailing down all the final details. Details such as which wires are internally tied together or shared with others and the proper lengths. Expect the price to be the same as purchasing all of the individual harnesses sold separately. If you read our March 2007 Horsepower Talk, you probably read about Joe Gibbs Racing Oil. Our position still remains that this is the best oil for your Porsche and anything less you're taking unnecessary risks. But after twelve months of it's availability, we keep having conversations with some customers who haven't converted. Although we have switched many people over to Joe Gibbs, it seems that many others still have their own personal favorite. The usual comment we hear is... "it's worked for me so far, so why switch". We understand and can appreciate loyalty and personal experience. Many of these oils our customers have used for years. Perhaps their fathers or grandfathers used them. It's hard to get them to switch. Their affiliation for one particular brand of oil can be so strong that suggesting they switch is like asking someone to switch political parties. A hard sell. We know first hand that there is a problem with today's oils and it's not going to get any better, and if anything, worse. We have talked to too many customers, shops, piston companies, camshaft companies and people in the industry to think anything else. So when we got a telephone call last month from a long time supplier with something exciting to tell us about, we listened carefully. It seemed like this just may be the perfect answer for the die hard brand loyal oil customer. We're talking about ZDDPlus. One 4 ounce bottle adds back the critical components the oil companies have reduced over the last couple of years. You can add it to your favorite oil whether petroleum or synthetic. Just add one bottle during your oil change and it's as though you just went back in time. Back to when the essential anti friction ingredients were still in your favorite oil. One $10 bottle can give you back what, unless you change to a product like Joe Gibbs, you have otherwise lost. Any flat tappet engine has this potential failure problem. Flat tappet means that you have a camshaft lobe sliding across a lifter to raise it versus a roller style lifter. Many modern engines have roller cams, but those are not what we are concerned about. Our customers primarily run a flat tappet style. Let's use the 944 Turbo for example. Imagine what it's like to be a hydraulic lifter. Even on a new stock genuine valve spring, the spring is applying 130 pounds of installed height pressure. So there are 130 pounds of force holding the valve closed. This means that as the camshaft comes around from the backside of the lobe and starts to raise the lifter to open the valve, there is the equivalent of 130 pounds of weight it's trying to move. You have the metal on the cam lobe swiping or sliding across the lifter surface. You're relying on the oil film between the two to lubricate that process and keep the two from scoring or otherwise getting damaged. As the camshaft lifts the valve further, the weight increases. Again, using the stock genuine valve spring as example, the nose (peak of the camshaft lobe) pressure or pressure at the highest point of lift is 270 pounds. Now imagine how important that lubrication between the two surfaces must be. With larger lift cams and/or stiffer valve springs for higher revving and higher boosted engines, those pressures are increased even further. We run springs that can have as high as 150-160 pounds installed height and 290-300 pounds at full lift. Now think about raising that lifter 3500 times a minute in 250 degree heat. Is everybody starting to see the full picture here? When the oil manufacturers started cutting back on the Zinc and Phosphorus to keep a catalytic converter going 100,000 miles to meet the EPA, the flip side is the engine suffers the consequences. You can even find new car manufacturers using special friction coatings on surfaces in modern engines. In places like bearing, lifters and camshafts. Why would they do that? Maybe because they know the oil isn't going to get the job done any more by itself? S ure makes us wonder. We offer ZDDPlus by the bottle, 4 pack, 6 pack, 25 pack and 150 pack. We have pricing for the customer, jobber and wholesaler. It's a very affordable insurance you can provide for your pride and joy. Add a bottle to your next order with Lindsey Racing and, because of it's compact size and light weight, most likely it will go along for a free ride. Lindsey Racing feels that you should either be running Joe Gibbs Racing Oil or adding ZDDPlus to your existing engine oil if you want to provide the best insurance against valve train failure. Lastly we have added a new item to our product line. Our Balance Shaft Delete Kits.
We have a kit for the '86 and earlier blocks as well as the '87 and later blocks. These kits allow you to remove your balance shafts completely and still supply oil to the turbo. We feel the engine block should have the balance shaft covers in place to maintain engine block strength. These kits allow you to do that and seal things up. NEW PAGES, PRODUCTS & DRAWINGS @ LINDSEYRACING.COMWe are continually doing things to improve and grow www.lindseyracing.com, adding new pages of product as well as new and exciting information to current pages. Since the site is always growing, we thought it would be beneficial to share some of the "CHANGES" with you in this new section of our newsletter. Otherwise, who knows how long it may take to discover them.
986 Camber Plates New Page FINAL THOUGHTS Until next issue, we wish you many safe and quick laps. - The Lindsey Racing Crew |
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