Ask ALEX PFEIFFER Something!

[Pacman]

Originally Posted by hatebbobbarker

theres your problem, your work union, and have a gf. stop working union, spend a little more on her, tell her you need some battleversion stuff.

Its a grocery store so I have to be union. Not working there will cause my pay to go down, and I don't really wanna work at In-N-Out to make the same pay. I'll have a tuition to pay since I'm starting UTI in July. FUN!!!

To keep it tech:
Are rear toe-link bars necessary? I heard that you can adjust rear toe with the factory rods to 0, just the camber will be messed bad (hence the RUCA's).

[brainfood]

Originally Posted by Pacman

Its a grocery store so I have to be union. Not working there will cause my pay to go down, and I don't really wanna work at In-N-Out to make the same pay. I'll have a tuition to pay since I'm starting UTI in July. FUN!!!

To keep it tech:
Are rear toe-link bars necessary? I heard that you can adjust rear toe with the factory rods to 0, just the camber will be messed bad (hence the RUCA's).

In-and-out starts at $9 and hour I think
I have battle version rods and plan on having Alex do my alignment and corner balance since I have new tie rods and toe/traction rods going in soon so I have complete trust in him as well as many many other people. You cant get the rear toe perfect if you run the camber back out to spec thats why you need toe rods. If you are on a budget though I ran mine with no toe rods with very minimal excessive tire wear if that makes sense.

[Pacman]

Originally Posted by brainfood

In-and-out starts at $9 and hour I think

Yeah, its $9/hr but I don't wanna smell like fried onions

How close can you get the toe to normal spec with factory? What about the front, any arms up there I should look for? Alex, got something I should know about which arms are more important than others?

[brainfood]

tension rods will make a huge difference up front other than that your stock tie rods should have plenty of adjustment and if you have coilovers I assume you have camber plates as well. that would take care of the front.

[daytona350z]

hey alex, thanks for the 5 links for my corolla i just anodized/painted them myself now i have a rare set of purple battle version links hopefully will install sometime this week.

btw, my magazine shoot is coming up soon, do you have any battle version stickers?

also will you be at the next dd?
thanks

[brainfood]

Originally Posted by daytona350z

hey alex, thanks for the 5 links for my corolla i just anodized/painted them myself now i have a rare set of purple battle version links hopefully will install sometime this week.

btw, my magazine shoot is coming up soon, do you have any battle version stickers?

also will you be at the next dd?
thanks

Magazine shoot for the corolla? Thats cool what mag is it?

[MonkeySlide]

I got a question for you Alex and I think its one that a lot of us have on our minds right now as SEMA just came to a close.

What on earth possesed you to give up competition to judge for next season?????

Im not saying its a good or bad choice..but out of all the current US drivers you're the one whos known for having a lot of passion for the sport and you are a pretty bad *Censored**Censored**Censored* competitor at that.

Were you that dissapointed in the previous judging that you felt you needed to throw in the helmet and judge yourself?

I mean DUDE! you had a full ride from RS-R! Granted the car took a lot of work to get it to the way you like it but still!

I for one am DYING to know what the heck on this planet did Ryan and Jim say to you or what was on your mind to bring you to such a decision?

Enlighten us wise one!!!

[daytona350z]

Originally Posted by brainfood

Magazine shoot for the corolla? Thats cool what mag is it?

susperstreet will be shooting the corolla

[my 1 88 u]

Originally Posted by MonkeySlide

I got a question for you Alex and I think its one that a lot of us have on our minds right now as SEMA just came to a close.

What on earth possesed you to give up competition to judge for next season?????

Im not saying its a good or bad choice..but out of all the current US drivers you're the one whos known for having a lot of passion for the sport and you are a pretty bad *Censored**Censored**Censored* competitor at that.

Were you that dissapointed in the previous judging that you felt you needed to throw in the helmet and judge yourself?

I mean DUDE! you had a full ride from RS-R! Granted the car took a lot of work to get it to the way you like it but still!

I for one am DYING to know what the heck on this planet did Ryan and Jim say to you or what was on your mind to bring you to such a decision?

Enlighten us wise one!!!

maybe he is stepping up to D1

[hatebbobbarker]

Originally Posted by my 1 88 u

maybe he is stepping up to D1

he already has comepted in d1... what would be the point of competing exclusively in a series thats only here once a year for points.

[AlexPfeiffer]

Originally Posted by MonkeySlide

I got a question for you Alex and I think its one that a lot of us have on our minds right now as SEMA just came to a close.

What on earth possesed you to give up competition to judge for next season?????

Im not saying its a good or bad choice..but out of all the current US drivers you're the one whos known for having a lot of passion for the sport and you are a pretty bad *Censored**Censored**Censored* competitor at that.

Were you that dissapointed in the previous judging that you felt you needed to throw in the helmet and judge yourself?

I mean DUDE! you had a full ride from RS-R! Granted the car took a lot of work to get it to the way you like it but still!

I for one am DYING to know what the heck on this planet did Ryan and Jim say to you or what was on your mind to bring you to such a decision?

Enlighten us wise one!!!

It wasnt so much what Jim and Ryan had to say but it was the other drivers.

I mean, its fun as hell to drive that s2k for RS*R, but I feel and many of the other drivers feel that we need to be judged by our own peers who understand what we are doing. We had a meeting with formula d before sema with the seeded drivers and one of the main topics where about who would be the judges for this season. Without hessitation Sam put up his hand and said, "Alex would be a good judge".

Formula D did a vote, and everyone had a peice of paper with 3 names on it of who they wanted to see as judges and yes, I did get alot of votes.

For me, I want to see our sport grow here in the states. I think inorder for that to happen, some of us have to make sacrifices. After drifting for so many years and watching the sport grow, I feel it was time for me to move out of the drivers seat for a bit and pay my dues again. I will still be running in the demo events and you will always see me at the practice days so I will still be driving, just not competing in FD. I will also run in D1 as long as they allow me to.

[sdtouge]

hey alex
i just sold my car (i think you remeber gold 240sx with the ca18, at dd2 something you drove it to try to help me figure out that janky cut out problem)

i was wondering your opinoins on a l.s.d. my old one had a kaaz, i am looking at either a nismo gt pro or the ats deft force s14 model.
thanks
matt

[MILANO AUTO]

alex is your phone working?

[MonkeySlide]

Originally Posted by AlexPfeiffer

It wasnt so much what Jim and Ryan had to say but it was the other drivers.

I mean, its fun as hell to drive that s2k for RS*R, but I feel and many of the other drivers feel that we need to be judged by our own peers who understand what we are doing. We had a meeting with formula d before sema with the seeded drivers and one of the main topics where about who would be the judges for this season. Without hessitation Sam put up his hand and said, "Alex would be a good judge".

Formula D did a vote, and everyone had a peice of paper with 3 names on it of who they wanted to see as judges and yes, I did get alot of votes.

For me, I want to see our sport grow here in the states. I think inorder for that to happen, some of us have to make sacrifices. After drifting for so many years and watching the sport grow, I feel it was time for me to move out of the drivers seat for a bit and pay my dues again. I will still be running in the demo events and you will always see me at the practice days so I will still be driving, just not competing in FD. I will also run in D1 as long as they allow me to.

To be 110% honest with you, Im somewhat dissapointed.

However I understand that this is something you have to do and probably a lot better in the long run because now we dont have to worry about seeing BS calls and stuff like that in FD competition...I just think that it really SUCKS that it had to cost us one of our best drivers to do it.

Although I think its really cool that you actually got VOTED into the juding seat, that means you got mad respect, LoL or it could mean that everyone was just in a hurry to get you in the judging seat so they wouldn't have to compete against you anymore Ah its probably the first one though

I guess what Im trying to get at is that I understand that this is probably the best thing for everyone but it just sucks to see ya go man.

As far as paying your dues...DUDE you left HAWAII to move to LA!!! I think you suffered enough!

Looking forward to seeing you set things straight for 06 though man.

anyway since this is the Ask Alex thread I should ask a question.. soo..

You said that you'll still run demos and D1 if you're allowed to, so will you still be using the S2K for that or will you be running a different car now?

[hillkill]

Just a fuel question. How would you set up a surge tank? Everytime I have half a tank or less my car starves around right turn drifts. Is it necessary for an extra pump? I already have a walbro 255 in the tank. Oh yeah It's good to see that the judging will be in check for the next FD season. Thanks bra
I guess If your still judging there when I make it to that level, some L&L might help in the finals

[my 1 88 u]

Originally Posted by AlexPfeiffer

I will also run in D1 as long as they allow me to.

any japanese events?

[AlexPfeiffer]

MonkeySlide,
I know, it sucks I wont drive as much. I'll still be working with RS*R and using the s2k for december US vs Japan. Hopefully get that thing set up for the first round of D1 in march.

hillkill,
L&L would be perfect.
For a surge tank, its basicly a small tank outside the main tank. Your basicly making a small gas tank, about 1/2 to 1 gallon in size, usually out of aluminum, and run a low pressure pump to push fuel into it from the main tank. Then connect your high pressure pump to that.

You end up with 4 lines, 3 of which are on the top of the tank.
1, fuel from the main tank, feeded by a low pressure pump.
2, the return line from the motor
3, and over flow line for when that surge tank is full, running back to the regular overflow line on teh main tank.
4, main feed line to the motor, your main fuel pump and fuel line to the motor is connected to. Mount this one at the bottom of the surge tank.

If your getting problems with running out of fuel in corners then this would be the way to go. Its not cheep to make all of the lines and add an extra pump though.

my 1 88 u,
naw, just the USA ones.

[snowdrifter]

alex, meet you at soldier field you were very respectfull to me as a fan and just wanted thank you for taking one for all us fans and the drivers of FD !!!!!
see you there in 2006.

[360-d1]

alax are anybody, my friend give me his 90 cressida a well ago. I am planning to put a 7m trubo motor in it. My problem is that I went to change the rear diff to limited slip. The question is, do they make Limited slip for the cersside's
are I of to find a way to fit the supra rear diff to this car? please help!!

[Kelten]

quick question. On your 86 what tire pressure do you use the most wile drifting (front and back)?

thanks
Kelten

[AlexPfeiffer]

360-d1,
I'm not sure if it will fit. You may want to check out supraforums.com , someone there may know.

Kelten,
Depends which tires I have on. With the azenis sports, would be about 32 front and 40 to 45 rear. With yoko es100's, would be about 32 front and rear.

[Cornerstrike]

Hey Alex,

How in the world did a Chevy Cobalt win that freaking Time Attack? I am still in disbelief. I cannot understand how this happened!!!!!!!

[drifterd]

Dear Alex

How are you such a pimp? I must master the ways of the Pfeiffer. You are the most G-money ballar of all time.

Sincerely

Fan

P.S. the upstairs room dose not happen to be open next weekend dose it?

[Slapshotnerd]

Originally Posted by Cornerstrike

Hey Alex,

How in the world did a Chevy Cobalt win that freaking Time Attack? I am still in disbelief. I cannot understand how this happened!!!!!!!

they had a few days rented out on that track the week before. Everyone else showed up to the track that day and had way less time to dial in settings. Plus, they had a pretty much endless budget for engineering. Throw enough money at something and some of it is likely to work...

[djnarush]

yo alex. i sent you an E mail through battleversion.


360, i forgot which gen, but the 3.73 supra lsd, well the internals atleast, Will bolt into your pumkin.
i had the same in my truck till i blew it
here is a pick of the pumkin
http://www.customtacos.com/gallery2/...t=1&thecat=500