Kurt Barnes

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago

The last month has been…interesting to say the least. A little bit of bad and good news. Not so much as bad, more along the lines of unexpected and unplanned. What do I mean? Well, I will tell ya.

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[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 4 months ago

It was a long 4 or 5 months. Too long to go without hearing #PoisonIvy run or at least drive. The last time I drove her was done without a clutch at all. Literally, the clutch pedal did nothing because a couple […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 5 months ago

Over the last month, I have spent a lot of time searching the pro’s and con’s of running a locked center differential. The center differential determines how much power is applied front to rear. Locking the cen […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww5hc6W4Q0g%5B/embedyt%5D

This video is one of several of the Weight Reduction Series on the eatsleepdsm YouTube channel. In this video, I show the removal of the basic […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4lHam6EUB0%5B/embedyt%5D

This video is one of several of the Weight Reduction Series on the eatsleepdsm YouTube channel. In this video, I show the removal of the basic […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41fnyuNWgCs%5B/embedyt%5D

This video is one of several of the Weight Reduction Series on the eatsleepdsm YouTube channel. In this video, I show the removal of the basic […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

I always find myself thinking of new, unique things that I can do to my 1G build. In the modern age, it seems like all DSM’s are built the same. Clean, nice paint, a good drop, and a decent set of wheels. Which is […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

I have been asked numerous times, most recently on one of my YouTube videos, on how I wired up my push button start. You yourself may have found that when searching exactly how to do this, it is very difficult to […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

I know, it’s been forever since I have updated Poison Ivy’s project log. It’s been a pretty busy period in life between my medical problems and the dirt race cars. But, I haven’t forgotten about ivy. In fact, the […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

Weight Reduction can be a game changer if treated respectively. It can easily be the difference between a 10 second car vs. a 9 second car as it directly affects the vehicles overall acceleration. The rule of […]

[SPOOLIGAN] replied 7 years, 6 months ago

Yeah, you got it man. It is definitely something that people don’t think about very often. And when they do, they only think about the obvious heavy items like the front and rear bumper support for example.

The little stuff is where you can really benefit from. There’s only so many heavy items that you can remove from your car. There are dozens and dozens of little stuff that can be removed. A pound here, a few here, “It Adds Up”.

I really want to think of a definitive way to show just how much less various parts have to work. Like the powertrain and drivetrain. Really, there is no way to show the difference before and after. But, I would imagine it makes a very large impact on the reliability of your car and the parts on it. Like I said before, at the very least, it is more efficient.

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 7 months ago

scheides tested, ecu-guru approved! Still, be careful.
Also, it may (and likely will) change, I’ll try and bump the thread with ‘updated’ as I do so…this is a work in progress!

Converting your evo8 to […]

Erick replied 4 years, 1 month ago

very very thanks my friend

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 8 months ago

Well…we finally picked up the Lias Chassis yesterday. And this time, it wasn’t covered in 30″ of snow so we really got the see every detail of the car. It is quite an impressive machine and was built very well. […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 8 months ago

It’s a nice feeling when you are building a race car and things start going back together fresh and new, especially when racing season is less than two weeks away. But, we still have lots of work to do and there […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 8 months ago

Over the weekend, my Dad tagged me in a post in a dirt racing group on Facebook of a post with a guy selling another IMCA Modified. The car in the ad was a car that I watched in the early years of my racing […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

I know I know, you probably didn’t expect to see this on Eat Sleep DSM, but this is a huge part of my life and I LOVE project logs, so I figured….why not make a project log for the dirt car? Because this is such […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

If you have a 95-96 DSM, you may end up using a 97-99 ECU in your 2G at some point whether it be from using a 2Gb EPROM ECU or an H8 Blackbox ECU. Maybe your 95-96 ECU took a shit and all you had was a 97-99 ECU […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

For years, there has been a lot of confusion about the differences between 2 step and antilag. I just recently posted a video on Facebook of my 2G hitting 2 step/antilag and some people asked what the difference […]

[SPOOLIGAN] wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

I haven’t been able to do a whole lot yet as I have been taking things easy with my recovery. But, I have done a few things so I figured I would make another update.

First things first, I finally put some […]