Scanned the index with my flatbed scanner - good thing I'm not using a period-correct dial up connection.
Note - I believe this to be fair use since a list of contact information is not normally subject to copyright. However, if the book's author, S-A Design, or Motorsport Marketing objects to posting scans, I will take this down immediately.
In reply to MadScientistMatt :
Love seeing all those AOL and Earthlink e-mail addys.
And you're all going to make me dig into my personal stash, aren't you?
And a taste. :)
And I'm going to cheat and share some photos that I had already taken of some books and magazines here at home.
And this is where I worked after graduation. One day, I should scan the entire catalog.
Man this takes me back. Would be awesome to do a "where are they now".
Anyone remember Tuning Zubehor? That catalog was as thick as a phone book.
I've got a massive German tuning catalog from 2000 or so, I'll pull it out. Can't remember the name but it's full of period stuff. Well, current stuff for the time. Including the blue Hella taillights that I put on my MkIV Golf.
Pretty sure this is from a NOPI Nationals in Atlanta.
So, some old-school hardware still in service: This is still in my Miata.
Tuning Zubehor for the win! Euro kids wanting all the Euro ish we didn't get here stateside.
Yep I had that same catalog. Then I got out of VWs and into DSMs.
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
That reads like a who's who of 2000.
TRE are still around if they're who I'm thinking of. Build driveline components? They're featured a lot on the Gears & Gasoline YouTube channel building their rx7 rear end, EVO trans/tcase/diff, and I think they did a K series trans for them too.
Drive shaft shop is still around.
Greddy and HKS I believe are still around, but they pulled out (or significantly scaled down) their north american market due to the influx of cheap knockoffs of their products. Not sure about a'pexi.
Apex, Im pretty sure, are still around
But none of them have the market share they had 20 years ago
Run_Away said:Greddy and HKS I believe are still around, but they pulled out (or significantly scaled down) their north american market due to the influx of cheap knockoffs of their products. Not sure about a'pexi.
Wasn't just the cheap knock offs that ran Greddy and HKS out of the US market. They tended to put out fairly basic designs and leave them unchanged while other companies would then move in with more aggressive race parts and attack them from the high end.
Look at where Greddy was in the late 2000s when Bell and FM were fighting over the Miata turbo kit market. Both sides were ratcheting up what they could sell in terms of power, durability, and tuning. Greddy was trying to stay in the game with a kit that only fit the 1.6 and you had to cut the manifold with a hacksaw to avoid cracking. They didn't offer a 1.8 kit or step up their electronics past the E-manage piggyback. Maybe they didn't have the cash. But then didn't even try cheap fixes like having somebody cut the manifold flange with a chop saw. They were just content to have the lowest price for a name brand kit. Then their rivals started offering decontented kits to invade Greddy's price point, and it was game over.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
I had one of those in my G60 swapped GTi. It would back feed voltage to the O2 sensor and burn it out. I removed it and threw it in the garbage
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
That buschur back from the dead thing made me look them up. I was deep in that crowd in the early 2000s but fell out after I blew up my car and got rid of it.
That was a wild ride that seems like it's not necessarily over.
I've been reminiscing since the initial post.
In the late 90's I was approaching 40, the wife/kids/mortgage thing was finally settling, and I was able to consider a project car again. At the same time my youngest son was newly teen-aged and knew everything JDM, probably from GT, and we started going to sport compact car shows together. I used to build cars before marriage and kids, but this scene was completely different, way more exciting, and it was like we were both discovering the hobby for the first time. The next few years were the most fun of my life. The sport compact thing was all new, I was finally in a position to afford it and have some fun. Those were great times, and we both still talk about it.
MadScientistMatt said:Run_Away said:Greddy and HKS I believe are still around, but they pulled out (or significantly scaled down) their north american market due to the influx of cheap knockoffs of their products. Not sure about a'pexi.
Wasn't just the cheap knock offs that ran Greddy and HKS out of the US market. They tended to put out fairly basic designs and leave them unchanged while other companies would then move in with more aggressive race parts and attack them from the high end.
Look at where Greddy was in the late 2000s when Bell and FM were fighting over the Miata turbo kit market. Both sides were ratcheting up what they could sell in terms of power, durability, and tuning. Greddy was trying to stay in the game with a kit that only fit the 1.6 and you had to cut the manifold with a hacksaw to avoid cracking. They didn't offer a 1.8 kit or step up their electronics past the E-manage piggyback. Maybe they didn't have the cash. But then didn't even try cheap fixes like having somebody cut the manifold flange with a chop saw. They were just content to have the lowest price for a name brand kit. Then their rivals started offering decontented kits to invade Greddy's price point, and it was game over.
That was a fun description to read. It didn't feel like that from the inside, we were just trying to make the best parts we could. Nothing we were doing was being driven by what was going on at Bell. But yes, the FM parts were getting better and better fairly rapidly over that period as our new generation of parts matured.
German and French tuning mags from the turn of the century along with a few Japanese Miata books. And the French weren't scared of boobs, not all the pictures are of cars and car parts.
D&W was (is?) a chain of massive tuning shops in Germany. Some of their own stuff, a lot of K&W and the like.
The two books at the bottom of the picture are an inch thick each.
Inside.
And for the Roadster fans, this is the sort of stuff that gets a certain corner of the internet all hot and bothered.
I've got some American tuning books as well, probably. But I was never into that scene quite as much.
David S. Wallens said:So, some old-school hardware still in service: This is still in my Miata.
Not gonna lie: this picture made me say to myself "danger to manifold"
Gotta admit that showing injector duty cycle is a cool feature.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Isn't it? It's plugged into the Miata's FM/Link.
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