[TPR] KATCH IS ON BOARD RE: can you do the alphabet backwards if asked?
laurieferrari at aol.com
laurieferrari at aol.com
Mon Jul 27 17:33:03 PDT 2015
Goody, very nice! Would love to go and cheer on the team. My pleasure to cook and help out in whatever ways I can.... will have to work out the rest and details.
Laurie
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From: teampantera <teampantera at yahoo.com>
To: laurieferrari <laurieferrari at aol.com>; asajay <asajay at asajay.com>; tpr <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 1:20 pm
Subject: KATCH IS ON BOARD RE: can you do the alphabet backwards if asked?
Asa & TeamS,
I just had lunch with Paul Katchadorian who is president of Katch Environmental and he is again offering his sponsorship for us this year.
Okay, I may have offered more then Laurie is willing to do here for the team (as in take onen for the team).. but I said she will either be in her Pantera or mine...sorry Laurie but now we are all on the hook! I will be there for protection☺
Paul also wants to tow your Pantera Laurie and will make sure you ride shotgun in his tow truck. Alao asked if you could cook Armenian and I said,
"Of course she can...she cooks everything and JB has kitchen in the TPR Party Bus.
He asked about JB and Peter and of course I lied and said they were also coming...just didn't say what they were driving. \uD83D\uDE05
Right now ROWDY I need to know how many KATCH ENVIRONMENTAL decals for SORC are needed as thst is coming up quick!
Paul's Graphics supplier will send decals direct to you ROWDY.
Good Times
Mad Dawg
Ps you can all thank me later
Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™ III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
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From: laurieferrari at aol.com
Date:07/27/2015 11:36 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: teampantera at yahoo.com, asajay at asajay.com, tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Subject: can you do the alphabet backwards if asked?
http://biggeekdad.com/2013/06/best-dui-stop-ever/
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From: Mad Dog Antenucci via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
To: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>; tpr <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: [TPR] Ferrari Steering Rack Comparison
okay so share your or Marks view on comparing the stock POS rack with this new Ferrari rack
And no jokes about Lauri Ferrari either.
From: Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TPR] Ferrari Steering Rack Comparison
Ah contrair mon frair,
What we are doing is taking a Ferrari rack and -modifying- it, so it is
-better- than a Ferrari rack, thereby making it (nearly) a stock
DeTomaso Pantera rack.
Don't make me make Bullet hurt you.
Asa Jay
Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 7/25/2015 11:32 PM, TeamPantera via TPR wrote:
> A Ferrari rack?
> Are you kidding....your not stock anymore...and Mark got one too?
>
> Not even stock now huh..what CHEATERS ;-)
>
> Asa Jay Laughton via TPR< tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
>
>> My apologies, some of you will get this twice (once as POCA and once as TPR)
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Since I've not seen another real comparison yet, I figured I'd pop in
>> here. Attached are all the photos that accompany this comparison.
>>
>> I recently needed a steering rack to do a comparison with the one
>> installed in my Pantera. This was because a friend drove the car and
>> said he felt the rack was dangerous and should be fixed or replaced.
>> The easiest thing to do was to make a comparison.
>>
>> Peter (The German) Menyhart of The Whitehorse Ranch, fellow Pantera
>> owner and racer, just happened to have one of the ebay Ferrari steering
>> racks everyone has been talking about. He graciously shipped it to me
>> so I could do my comparison. Peter is in the midst of a restoration
>> project and is able to part with it for a while.
>>
>> The rack is very well packaged in an oversize box. It does not come
>> with tie-rod ends installed. The boots are a big larger than stock
>> DeTomaso, and they are clamped on with those funny one-time use on the
>> large end and a friction/spring on the small end.
>>
>> The movement of the rack feels rather stiff, not as hard as the one out
>> of my car but still not quite "like butter." However, you'll note from
>> the photos the tension can be adjusted without the use of shims. I will
>> work with that later. So far, one plus for this rack.
>>
>> I took measurements of the tube diameter in the mounting bracket areas.
>> The two tubes are within .005" at each location. The overall length is
>> the same as my Pantera rack. The big difference, as has been mentioned,
>> is in the drivers side bracket area which contains raised ribs for
>> either side of the bracket.
>>
>> Now, here is where I discovered something interesting. I was having a
>> very difficult time getting a good reading with my inside calipers of
>> that area. The bracket was easy to measure at 0.624" outside dimension
>> but the space on both racks measured at about 0.555" in width and that
>> didn't make sense.
>>
>> Well, I had to put my grandpa glassed on, but found the reason. Nearly
>> the entire ridge on the Pantera rack has a shoulder on it, that goes
> >from about 0.055" at the bottom against the tube, to just under 0.624"
>> at the outermost edge. Looking at the photos of the bracket you'll note
>> it too has a bevel cut into the semi-circle. In my case the brackets
>> still don't fit quite flush to the Pantera rack.
>>
>> The brackets -don't- fit the Ferrari rack at all. You'll note from the
>> close-up of that rack, there really isn't any bevel to it at all; it's
>> nearly 0.555" from tube to outer edge. In order to get this to the
>> 0.624" it needs to be to accept the brackets, I'll need to machine about
>> .070" split more or less equally on both sides of the channel.
>>
>> The last thing to note is that the tie-rods are a bit beefier. However,
>> they -are- cut with the same diameter and thread as the Pantera rack.
>> In the photo of the tie-rod ends, you see the Pantera rack with the lock
>> nut on the tie-rod end, and a used/spare/old Pantera tie rod threaded
>> onto the Ferrari rack.
>>
>> So there you have it. The rack is nearly identical with the exception
>> of beefier tie-rods (good thing), adjustable tension adjust (good
>> thing), and narrow mounting bracket channel (bad thing but workable).
>>
>> Mark Skwarek recently did one of these for his Pantera as well and used
>> an end mill with the rack mounted in a vise, cutting a path, turning the
>> rack and cutting again until he got all the way around. That's probably
>> what I'll do as well.
>>
>> The best thing would be to completely disassemble the rack and chuck it
>> up on a lathe, but I really don't want to take it apart; after all, it's
>> not really my rack. :)
>>
>> There, any questions?
>> Asa Jay
>>
>> --
>> Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>> & Shelley Marie
>> Spokane, WA
>> ******************************
>> http://www.racingagainstautism.com
>> http://www.teampanteraracing.com
>> http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism
>>
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