I want to punch someone every time I read "G50"

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by 911heaven

That's so awesome Matt!...

Thank you Matt for sharing that. Very cool, innovative stuff and way over my head. I enjoy learning and hearing about it all.

bernie

Thanks mate. Now you might have bit of an idea why I talk weird for an American. Be around people who talk like that enough and you absorb some of it. I'm not being pretentious or snooty. I just say "piss off" and "no worries" because I regularly communicate with people who talk like that.

I know you like your pictures and movies so I'll share a couple.

Here's the gearbox on the bench. You can see the different sections here.






Here's the year I campaigned a car in the 24 Hours of Daytona. This was 2012. We came in 18th out of 25. I ran it with Bullet Racing out of Vancouver. I campaigned cars with them for 3 years, but this was the one year it carried my logos as a major part of the livery. We made the front page of the local Daytona rag next to Scott Pruitt's Lexus on race day and into a Porsche Motorsports promo video. You can see us at 1:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOKPqIu2p0

The irony is that in 2011 and 2012, most of the teams and drivers in the video were running my gears. We helped Leh Keen win that title in 2011 and worked with Brumos, Alex Job Racing, The Racers Group, and several others. We supplied the gears for 10 out of 18 Cup Cars entered that year. Eventually, Porsche got IMSA to rewrite the rules to effectively ban us from their series. There were some crazy arguments and the series sanctioned gearbox sealing mechanic was fired when he was caught by Porsche putting my gears in a car after the rule change. Lots of yelling that day!

And here is my favorite motorsports achievement. We spent 3 years working with Jeff trying to break the world record and get into the sub 10 minute club at PPIHC. This is the year he finally got it. He's got my parts in most of his personal cars, including he street driven 908 and his Colorado driver seen here. He's got a roof rack on it and drives around with a canoe and his dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVmPoWImMTk

I didn't build the company, I bought it almost exactly 10 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary July 1st. I used to call myself the Dread Pirate Roberts because it was really Paul Guard's thing. But I've managed to make it mine, do some new things, form some really good relationships, and win a bunch of motorsports titles. For example, being the OEM for Ruf was his relationship. Being the OEM for Mosler, 9FF, Singer and making a product that competed with Porsche Motorsports directly on the world stage was mine. They've even talked to us about this gearbox and maybe putting it into the GT4 Clubsport rallycars. They are having Francis Tuthill help with the car, and they are one of my bigger Euro customers. I don't know if it was the bad history or just leaving it in Francis's hands, but he, and not Porsche made the call.

I don't talk myself up much, but since you rubbed the lantern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDWgqDBNXA

[juanbenae]

if you were to hard boil your eggs in the still hot brat water could you ever be a celebrity chef? or are you one already?

[wgwollet]

Has anybody bought a car from the CarFax.com.?

I am buying one long distance for a nephew. Me in Nashville, him in LA. Is it me or does the LA basin has the cheapest cars in the world. I see KIA, Mazda, Nission all the brands but Toyota and Honda

For example, a dealer has a 2018 KIA Otptama LX for $14,000 with 16k miles. I priced a new one they are $25,000 list with $3,000 off....so this car lost 33% of it value in one year...

There are so many cars in LA that the auction houses have so much buying power and a lot of competition

[wgwollet]

Hey, hickory is by far the best for BBQ. Used only in regions it can grow, old fashion BBQ from Memphis or St Louis, parts of Tennessee and Kentucky.
It’s the best, I have about a dozen shag bark hickory tress left on the farm. It’s becoming very rare to find just to burn up for BBQ

Ask me about using Chestnut?

[ljpviper]

Hey I got an 89 930.Every time some one drives the car they mention how nice the tranny is. So got to say g50

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

Thanks mate. Now you might have bit of an idea why I talk weird for an American. Be around people who talk like that enough and you absorb some of it. I'm not being pretentious or snooty. I just say "piss off" and "no worries" because I regularly communicate with people who talk like that.

I know you like your pictures and movies so I'll share a couple.

Here's the gearbox on the bench. You can see the different sections here.






Here's the year I campaigned a car in the 24 Hours of Daytona. This was 2012. We came in 18th out of 25. I ran it with Bullet Racing out of Vancouver. I campaigned cars with them for 3 years, but this was the one year it carried my logos as a major part of the livery. We made the front page of the local Daytona rag next to Scott Pruitt's Lexus on race day and into a Porsche Motorsports promo video. You can see us at 1:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOKPqIu2p0

The irony is that in 2011 and 2012, most of the teams and drivers in the video were running my gears. We helped Leh Keen win that title in 2011 and worked with Brumos, Alex Job Racing, The Racers Group, and several others. We supplied the gears for 10 out of 18 Cup Cars entered that year. Eventually, Porsche got IMSA to rewrite the rules to effectively ban us from their series. There were some crazy arguments and the series sanctioned gearbox sealing mechanic was fired when he was caught by Porsche putting my gears in a car after the rule change. Lots of yelling that day!

And here is my favorite motorsports achievement. We spent 3 years working with Jeff trying to break the world record and get into the sub 10 minute club at PPIHC. This is the year he finally got it. He's got my parts in most of his personal cars, including he street driven 908 and his Colorado driver seen here. He's got a roof rack on it and drives around with a canoe and his dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVmPoWImMTk

I didn't build the company, I bought it almost exactly 10 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary July 1st. I used to call myself the Dread Pirate Roberts because it was really Paul Guard's thing. But I've managed to make it mine, do some new things, form some really good relationships, and win a bunch of motorsports titles. For example, being the OEM for Ruf was his relationship. Being the OEM for Mosler, 9FF, Singer and making a product that competed with Porsche Motorsports directly on the world stage was mine. They've even talked to us about this gearbox and maybe putting it into the GT4 Clubsport rallycars. They are having Francis Tuthill help with the car, and they are one of my bigger Euro customers. I don't know if it was the bad history or just leaving it in Francis's hands, but he, and not Porsche made the call.

I don't talk myself up much, but since you rubbed the lantern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDWgqDBNXA

Just phenomenal Matt! I had no idea you had your hand in so many pies, even making your own meat pies from scratch! Now I understand why we often use similar/same vernacular from time to time. It's only culture/language learned over time through experience and it comes out naturally as a result.

I always said I was a fan, and I appreciate you sharing some of your life experience on this thread, and this forum, especially with me. You have always been cordial and kind, even most generous. By the way, the tri tip offer still stands if you change your mind.

bernie

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by juanbenae

if you were to hard boil your eggs in the still hot brat water could you ever be a celebrity chef? or are you one already?

Now that is the riddle extraordinaire!

Trying to solve it -- If one were in a French fountain yesterday @ 41.9 degrees celcius, balls deep from behind,
one couldn't be a celebrity chef, unless one were already.

Have I solved the riddle? Perhaps the Raw man can help me out here, or should we call Confucius in on this one?

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

. . .
Here's the gearbox on the bench. You can see the different sections here.





. . .

WOOD!!!

It looks like there is a servo motor used for gear selection (as opposed to a cable operated mechanism)? Damn that's boss!

[mooty]

reading 911heaven and Matt's exchange: good stuff
matt is the real deal, but quirky and short tempered like me if you rub him wrong way but the dude knows GEARS and LSD's. whatever he tells me to put in my car, I do it and it's good ;-)

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by mooty

matt is the real deal, . . . if you rub him . . . and it's good ;-)

???

!!!



Rumor has it that M2 likes to be rubbed down with a balm of honey and brown sugar (or maybe it was maple syrup?!?!)! I'll ask Bernie to clarify!

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

???

!!!



Rumor has it that M2 likes to be rubbed down with a balm of honey and brown sugar (or maybe it was maple syrup?!?!)! I'll ask Bernie to clarify!

All I know is, as he said, he loves a good pork butt and can't/will not lie. The sauces he uses seem to be classified. That's his craft, so I can only leave it to the collective imagination. Though he is VERY generous, there some things he just won't share!

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

WOOD!!!

It looks like there is a servo motor used for gear selection (as opposed to a cable operated mechanism)? Damn that's boss!

Yep. The initial install is being done with a console mounted shifter, but phase two will have a proprietary steering wheel for shifting.

Originally Posted by mooty

reading 911heaven and Matt's exchange: good stuff
matt is the real deal, but quirky and short tempered like me if you rub him wrong way but the dude knows GEARS and LSD's. whatever he tells me to put in my car, I do it and it's good ;-)

Mooty knows that the way to my heart is through my stomach. Last time I saw him, he took me to a little hole in the wall back in my old hometown of Berkeley. I forget if it was Thai or Vietnamese. Doesn't matter as I love anything SE Asian. He knew the owners and ordered off the menu and we ate until we could barely walk. He really knows how to make a girl feel special.

Bernie,
No secrets to my cooking. I brined the butt for 24 hours in advance. Then it got a pretty traditional dry rub using mostly salt, sugar, pepper, chile powder, paprika, and some achiote for good measure. Made a chimichurri from scratch out of my garden to serve it. First night we have it with potato salad. Since then I've made tacos, tossed it into some home fries for breakfast, and just last night served it over rice.

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by NYNick

I'm hoping to spend a month or so in NZ next Spring. Fingers crossed.

Nick! Go if you can, for it's one of the most beautiful countries in the world! It's changing for the worse year by year. Used to be they had no spiders or snakes in that country. Still virtually none. AUS by contrast has 5 or 6 of the deadliest Spiders and snakes in the world.

I'm sure you already know what a country it is. I like the people too. That is part of what entails seeing a country. I have been there and cherish the memory.

bernie

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by 911heaven

Now that is the riddle extraordinaire!

Trying to solve it -- If one were in a French fountain yesterday @ 41.9 degrees celcius, balls deep from behind,
one couldn't be a celebrity chef, unless one were already.

Have I solved the riddle? Perhaps the Raw man can help me out here, or should we call Confucius in on this one?

I just realized my typo. 114.6 degrees (45.9 celcius) in a French fountain in Paris is hot enough to boil eggs hard. Not 41.9, it was around 45.9! You gotta feel for them. Sorry for the typo.

[Matt Monson]

Couldn’t boil an egg but if you put your cast iron out in it for an hour you could easily fry one.

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

Yep. The initial install is being done with a console mounted shifter, but phase two will have a proprietary steering wheel for shifting.

Being a sequential box, does that mean you will be able to set it up to up-shift without the clutch or closing the throttle (perhaps with an ignition kill device that is tied into the shift servo of the shift mechanism itself)? Man, it is fookin' awesome to do that on a motorcycle, so I imagine it would be in a car (have never driven a car set up like that)!

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

Couldn’t boil an egg but if you put your cast iron out in it for an hour you could easily fry one.

Maybe so, but if it were gonads, like I meant, they would be scorched!

[911heaven]

Forgot to say too, if one were to stick a 200v iron into a fountain in Europe, one would die for sure I believe.

[ficke]

Very cool Matt M.

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

Being a sequential box, does that mean you will be able to set it up to up-shift without the clutch or closing the throttle (perhaps with an ignition kill device that is tied into the shift servo of the shift mechanism itself)? Man, it is fookin' awesome to do that on a motorcycle, so I imagine it would be in a car (have never driven a car set up like that)!

That’s a yes. Motec and other motorsports ECU can program throttle cut and blip based on a strain gauge reading off the shift.

I was trying to find the KZ kart video I’ve posted before. Don’t know where it went.