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Date Posted: 07:48:28 11/15/01 Thu
Author: Kaz
Author Host/IP: 66.122.134.116
Subject: Yeah, leave it up
In reply to: Phil 's message, "hit return too early" on 02:02:22 11/15/01 Thu

Enough of us have beautiful and shiny 928's. Nothing wrong with a rough 'n ready battle scarred race car for once.

By the way, what was the HP on that car?

K
>Anyways, with guidance from Red McClintock from this
>car sprang all kinds of 928 goodies we enjoy today -
>stroker engine technology, suspension technology,
>wheel fitment, all kinds of developments! (side note:
>I wonder who exactly came up with pinning the axles)
>This is how Devek was created. Bob wanted to whup
>Corvette butt :) and then with Lucky, another long
>time 928 fan and McClintock Porsche Service customer,
>filled a huge void left by the factory and 928
>aftermarket which was pretty non-existant at the time.
>
>Earlier conversations with Mark Anderson revealed Bob
>must've had in excess of $100k wrapped up in that car
>with all the experimentation and tuning. Plenty of
>dough then and now - not many of us want to toss
>Porsche cranks and keep going. Red was the man with
>the wrenches, know how and rolodex and one name for
>example was Martin Schneider. Yep that's the MS in
>MSDS headers!
>
>This tradition of real world test and tune is still
>carried out today by Marc and Susan Thomas at Devek.
>And quite sucessfully I might add, to whit Marc's
>white car many accomplishments. Yes it truly started
>out life as his stock 928 S4! He just had to take it
>out to the nth power, yheh heh der crazy professor. I
>think Bob's near 7-liter 16-v still stands as the N/A
>928 high HP high water mark though? At least in c.i.
>:P
>
>So there's some history on our great beginnings!
>
>I think Bob's car will stay at the top here.

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  • Re: hit return too early -- Flint, 21:45:21 11/15/01 Thu
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