[TPR] Houston we have a problem

DENNIS ANTENUCCI teampantera at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 10 22:06:27 PDT 2016


This Richard Clewett guy is amazing.

He has a small house and shop in Manhattan Beach. Former machinist  by trade he now has loyal following among Kinsler etc 8-stack fuelers. 

Mike Trusty turned me on (thanks again Mike) to him back in 2008 and he was worth the 8 hour round trip. 

Charged me a $100 bucks!!
And handed me some decals to put on cars😆

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Bob Radefeld via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good Luck tomorrow Dawgy! Hoping you don't have to resort to Plan "B".........................
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:05 PM, ehpantera via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
>> Congratulations!!!
>> 
>> We knew you could do it. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Mad Dog Antenucci via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
>> Date: 9/9/16 5:05 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: cengles at cox.net
>> Cc: pmenyhart at msn.com, tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>> Subject: Re: [TPR] Houston we have a problem
>> 
>> The TPR gods are shining on us today.....think I saw a rainbow too...yea its California.
>> Peace Love AND Give Me a hug brother.
>> 
>> So Richard Clewett who is in LA agreed to fix my problem if it is as we believe it is the EFI tune.
>> So loading up tonight and leaving O'dark hours in the morning to his shop. Should be there by 9 if I leave by 4.
>> 
>> Richard is the guy who originally tuned the IR-EFI after Mike Trusty set it up....For 8 years it has been golden.
>> So hoping to share good news tomorrow
>> 
>> MD
>> 
>> 
>> From: Chuck Engles via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
>> To: teampantera at yahoo.com 
>> Cc: pmenyhart at msn.com; tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 6:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TPR] Houston we have a problem
>> 
>> Dear Dennis,
>> 
>> 
>>           The Pantera Gods favor these characteristics in their 
>> followers:
>> 
>> 1) a calm and competent demeanor in the face of adversity
>> 
>> 2) an incredible capability for eleventh hour frenzied wrenching
>> 
>> 3) having a Plan B
>> 
>> 
>>           I think you're covered!
>> 
>> 
>>                       Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci via TPR wrote:
>> 
>> > Thanks guys......I still have time.....if we don't have it right by 
>> > Tuesday going old school again will work.
>> >
>> >      From: Peter Menyhart via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
>> >  To: team pantera racing <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>  Sent: Friday, 
>> > September 9, 2016 5:37 AM
>> >  Subject: [TPR] Houston we have a problem
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>> > I can bring the Roush Hi rise and Holly,that came off the Dawgs car
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     
>> >
>> >
>> > check out our website at:   www.whitehorseranch.com  
>> > Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:55:34 +0000
>> > To: asajay at asajay.com; tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>> > Subject: Re: [TPR] Houston we have a problem
>> > From: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>> >
>> > Asa,Bring a carb and I'll bring a strip dominator manifold and we'll 
>> > get it running better than ever.Mark
>> >    On Friday, September 9, 2016 12:55 AM, Asa Jay Laughton via TPR 
>> > <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  Dennis,
>> > What are the symptoms of the engine running?  What prompted you to 
>> > have the EFI checked?  Does it "feel" bad in some way?
>> >
>> > Have you talked with Mike Trusty?  Has he given any idea what might be 
>> > a cause of being out of sync?
>> > Dick had it tuned pretty sweet, so it could be something benign like a 
>> > fuel filter or FOD in a fuel log leading to one bank.
>> >
>> > If all else fails, if Mike can give me a good idea of what to do, we 
>> > may be able to do it in Ely.  Though honestly I -don't- want to be 
>> > compared to the guy tuning the carbs on his ancient Jaguar a few ago 
>> > and who (I think) never even started the race.
>> >
>> > We might need a special tool or two.  If so, we have half a snowballs 
>> > chance of getting what we need prior to flight.
>> >
>> > Don't give up.  We can make this happen.  After all, we can't let Paul 
>> > run and not you.  ;)
>> >
>> > By the way, did you get Paul a waiver from Rookie school?
>> >
>> > Asa  Jay
>> >
>> > Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>> > &  Shelley Marie
>> > Spokane, WA
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>> >
>> > On 9/8/2016 9:23 PM, DENNIS ANTENUCCI via TPR wrote:
>> >> The performance shop I found here in Fresno whose fuel injection 
>> >> expert had a personal crisis and has went AWOL for a week and half is 
>> >> still AWOL and the shop where the Pantera was at waiting for this guy 
>> >> to come back to work just called me to say they have given up on the 
>> >> guy and fired him...I quess assuming they can find him. They have 2 
>> >> other pissed off customers who have also been waiting a week plus for 
>> >> this loser to show up. Bad news for all involved....and I thought 
>> >> painters were bad. This beats the cake. Yea like you say John, "ya 
>> >> just can't trust people".
>> >>
>> >> So tomorrow morning I will call 2-3 other guys recommended to me 
>> >> tonight who all do IR-EFI Kinsler etc tuning in Sacramento and back 
>> >> down in LA plus the tuner who did work for MikeT originally who is 
>> >> also in LA.
>> >>
>> >> Either way I figure if Mark can drive all the way from the right 
>> >> coast to get here I can drive where ever it takes to get the FI 
>> >> tuned. Again issue is TB's are out of sync and one bank is too rich 
>> >> and the other is lean.
>> >>
>> >> Quess I gotta count my blessings that this is the only time in 9 
>> >> years I have even had a FI problem serious enough that I couldn't run 
>> >> the Pantera.
>> >>
>> >> So praying to the TPR gods tonight...
>> >> Road trip either tomorrow after work or Saturday morning or Monday to 
>> >> wherever I need to go to get it done
>> >>
>> >> MD
>> >>
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