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People's Exhibit #1:

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Randy Johnson (Midwest, Great Lakes)
#767 2005 Subaru STI PTB

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Greg Greenbaum
National TT, PT, & ST Director
Nat. Medical Director
greg@nasa-tt.com

There are quite a few cars with cockpit selectable modes. Not sure how many have their own shock ecu though. To the OP my 308 GTB broke me of the Ferrari track habit in the 80's. It had no ecu though...

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NASA-SE Time Trial Director, Instructor

Would unplugging the ECU be a +3 for aftermarket or revalved shocks? That would probably be a more effective (and cost effective) route for me to take once I get comfortable enough with the car to actually want to mess with shock damping. At least there are a bunch of 355 challenge parts out there to play with, but the cost will give you a grabber.

I would say that it would be hard for anyone to argue that if you unplugged the shock ECU, and even re-valved or changed to a new +3 point shock, that it would be any more than +3 points. Even though the BTM comes with the shock ECU, it functions to adjust the dampening of the shocks real time. Changing to other shocks that have fixed damping is no different than anyone else switching to the same shocks for +3. (And for those of you ready to jump on your keyboard, this is not the same as someone with a BTM wing that removes it and doesn't want to take the points, where there is clearly the possibility that removal of the often large BTM wing will have a direct performance improvement compared to the BTM classed in the rules by decreasing drag.)

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Greg Greenbaum
National TT, PT, & ST Director
Nat. Medical Director
greg@nasa-tt.com

bobzdar what region are you in? I want to see a 355 on track running TT!
We had one at roebling road once might have been an old GT car or something it sounded awesome

We have Ferraris run at Road Atlanta about once a year. The drivers fly in to meet their big rigs.

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NASA-SE Time Trial Director, Instructor

Mid Atlantic. I'm in Richmond, so a couple of hours from VIR and Summit Point. Don't know if I'll make any TT's this year, but plan to do the THSCC VIR North event in April and am doing the VIR Grand East Chump 24h race in August in a 944. I still have to put a clutch in the 355 and decide on track tires, so we'll see what all of that does to the budget. I should have a lot of seat time at VIR after all that and might be ready for a TT. It all depends on what breaks on the 355 - Fra-gee-lay.

Non e' vero, e' un'automobile piu forte! Your maintenance budget makes my stomach churn.

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Randy Johnson (Midwest, Great Lakes)
#767 2005 Subaru STI PTB

I'm hoping to do the VIR chumpcar