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Unfortunately Justin and Jenn can't make it this weekend,  please remove us from the list.  Thanks Randy & Dianne for putting this together.

Please add Justin and Jenn to the list

I had an awesome time again this year.  Thanks everyone for making this such a great event (as usual)!

Justin & Mike Fujita are in

Like Jay said,  I don't know where to begin when thanking everybody who helped put this event together, but I do know that Lance and Scott have my sincerest gratitude for helping make this happen. 


It was the inaugural track event for my sister Akemi and Roxy (and about 30 other new viper owners) and I couldn't have thought of a better event to have begun that journey on. 


Thanks again and I hope to see you all very soon!


-Justin Fujita

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[/size][size=78%]Ben, are you still going?  I'll probably be trailering up either Friday or Saturday![/size]


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Thanks Lance, Scott and everybody who helped with this event!  I look forward to it every year!

And now for the obligatory screeching:

http://youtu.be/u7W517SuDkA?hd=1

http://youtu.be/ow-fVESgows?hd=1

Hey Lance,

I think my sister(Akemi) is going with Mike Fujita and will be taking Yoko's spot for this event.  Akemi and I are planning on renting the drift car!

-Justin

Hi Everybody,

My 2001 ACR has been having electrical issues. 

The story started when I noticed my car would lose all (Engine/instrumentation/clock/alarm/signals/lights) power when coming to stops at intersections/stopsigns.  The power would cut out and the engine would die.  By the time the engine had died, the power would instantly come back (the instrument lamps would go through their startup sequence and the stereo clock would have reset to 12)  and I could restart the engine and drive away until the next occurrence. 

I washed the car a couple weekends ago and when I tried to start it the battery had lost it's charge and the starter would barely crank and the car wouldn't start.  Here's where things get interesting.  I attempted to jumpstart the car from two separate other vehicles.  Again, the starter would barely crank the engine (not enough to actually start).  I tested the starter relay and discovered it was bad.  I suspected that a faulty relay had discharged the battery, so I hooked the battery up to the trickle charger overnight and went to find a replacement relay.  The next day after replacing the starter relay, the car would jumpstart fine, but the original battery wouldn't hold a charge.  I wrote off the battery and replaced it with a new one and the car started normally.  Hooray.

Fast forward to last weekend, while driving I noticed the instrumentation/warning lamps/dome lights would flicker sporadically like a bad contact was being jiggled and the car would momentarily lose power (engine would miss and buck, clock/instrumentation would flicker and reset, spedo/tach would zero, then come back).  I was able to reproduce this at idle a few times before the entire electrical system failed and I completely and permanently lost power. 

I was wondering if anybody has experienced anything similar.  The battery is brand new and I checked the terminals and ground points for any play and found no issue.  I'm going to jump another battery to the jumper terminals under the hood to see if it's a connection issue with the battery in the rear or something with the PCM/ECU.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Justin

  Heading  out now

I'm in!