The National Motorists Association has a good website on fighting tickets at
www.motorists.org There is a lot of free info and more for a fee
(naturally). I also recently received a ticket for speeding (clocked by
plane) and am planning on fighting it, because a. I don't believe I was
going as fast as the ticket was issued for and b. I have a problem with
speedtraps and the ticket racket in general.
No offense to the officers on the list, but I question the data on the
causal relationship between speeding and traffic fatalities. Speed
differential and fatalities I can understand. I'm no saint when it comes to
obeying speed limits and with well over 250,000 miles of driving I've not
been in any accidents (other than a non-chargeable one when I was 18 and I
was rear ended). I've also never been cited other than 3 speeding tickets
and one "excessive noise" violation which was another way "don't be cruising
around here." I understand that police officers are just upholding the laws
on the books and I'm always very polite and cooperative with them. I do,
however exercise my right to fight like @&!% in court when I feel that I
have been wronged.
Dave Rench
1997 Dakota V-8 (" honest officer it can only go 65 mph " ) :~)
-----Original Message-----
From: David Rench <renchd@krause.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 8:23 AM
Subject: KB Superchargers (observed performance)
>Since this topic came up again and someone has alluded to my post a month
or
>so ago, I'd thought I revisit my observations.
>
>My local track has a 1999 CC R/T equipped with a KB Supercharger. The
truck
>is running 275/60 Drag Radials, a traction bar setup (looks like the
>Calvert Racing one), has headers, the optimizer system and a boost retard
>system of unknown origin. That's what I have seen. Over the course of two
>weekends(with good racing conditions), the best pass I've seen this truck
>make was in the 14.3 at around 95 mph range. The system looks well
>engineered, but the performance was a little off what I expected. I don't
>know what the truck ran without the charger or if he even ran it before
>supercharging it. The owner seems to be relatively sharp and apparently
>works at a new car dealership and has a nine second street driven BB Camaro
>among his other vehicles, so I can't chalk this up to an uneducated owner.
>I believe he was running 6 psi of boost and was talking about trying a
>little more. He wants 13's bad.
>
>I haven't been to the track in several weeks, so for all I know he's in the
>13's now and my perception is wrong, but based on what I saw I wouldn't
>spend the big $$ on a KB system is you're out for hot 1/4 times as I don't
>see where they are any better than the competitors. Theoretically they
>should be better on the street (more low end power), but I'd want to have
it
>proven to me.
>
>Dave Rench
>1997 RC Sport 2WD (with the "little" 318)
>
>
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