Re: Performance Trends Newsletter (updates)

To: Visitors to Performance Trends Website

Subject: Product News/Updates, Feb 2010

1. DataMite III Drag Car Sportsman Plus w 8 EGTs for $1299 - NHRA Accepted
2. DataMite III Logger for your Circle Track or Road Race Car
3. Customer's Custom Flow Benches
4. Darin Morgan's Head Design Seminar
5. Engine Analyzer Pro v3.9, minor updates
6. Last January's Newsletter

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1)  DataMite III Sportsman Plus for $1299 for Drag Car - NHRA Accepted  It's the start of race season again, and if you've been thinking about adding a data logger to your drag car or bike, consider our DataMite III.  

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The Base System starts at $699 with:

You could expand this to our $999 Sportsman Package and add the following to the $699 Base System above:

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Our special $1299 Sportsman Plus Package is our best Drag Racing value and adds the following to the $699 Base System above:

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Click on the following blue link for the Drag Race DataMite's main page, which has links to the demo software, prices and accessories, user's manual, and more.

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2)  DataMite III Logger for your Circle Track or Road Race Car  Like the Drag Race DataMite described above, the Circle Track/Road Race version is custom tailored to your special needs.

The Base system starts at $699 with:

The $949 Starter System with GPS would add a GPS sensor which magnetically attaches to the top of the car.  It would give you MPH, lap times, track mapping, engine and tire RPM, tire slip, lateral/longitudinal/vertical G readings, and much more.  With GPS, internal accelerometers and engine RPM (everything except wheel RPM), you can install this system in minutes and move from car to car.

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Or you could go for the Suspension Tuner's Package with GPS for $3442.  It would include the following:

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With either of these packages, or one we customize for your particular needs, you will start understanding how your car handles.  Click on the following blue link for the Road Race/Circle Track DataMite's main page, which has links to the demo software, prices and accessories, user's manual, and more.

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3)  Customer's Custom Flow Benches  We've always had a page where our customer's have shared pictures of their custom dyno installations called "Customer's Dynos using DataMite" under the "Our Customer's" menu item.  Well, we've recently done the same for our Customer's Flow Benches using our Black Box II electronics or EZ Flow System.  Recently we've had a couple more customers share their photos, data, and even a movie file of their flow benches in action using our Black Box II electronics and Port Flow Analyzer software. 

Click on the following blue link for the Customer's Flow Benches page to check this out.  The one customer Performance Through Research in Canada is doing 2 stroke "cylinder flow".  If you are not familiar with flowing 2 stroke engines, their ports are in the side of the cylinder.  To measure the performance of the port, you measure flow as the piston slides down the bore and starts to uncover the ports.  The  PTR guys are recording flow at various crank angle degrees of 48 to 104, and call it .048 to .104 inches of valve lift, which works out very well in the  Port Flow program.  Check out their data, as they get outstanding repeatability with our EZ Flow System.

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Jerry Luke of Sun Engineering in Arizona also sent in pics.  Check out his novel way of selecting various flow orifices.  He's using our Port Flow Analyzer and Black Box II set up for a Custom bench, which is basically the EZ Flow System with multiple ranges.

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4)  Darin Morgan's Head Design Seminar  Darin Morgan (noted head porter and designer, formerly of Reher Morrison), has his own Head development company in partnership with Profiler Performance Products now:  Darin Morgan Cylinder Heads.  He's doing a 2 day seminar on March 20 and 21, covering all aspects of head, port and combustion chamber design, porting, flow testing, wet flow, theory and Engine Simulation, and much more.  Click on these links for more information:   www.darinmorgan.com  www.profilerperformance.com  or email Darin by clicking on this link:  dmorgan@profilerperformance.com

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5) Engine Analyzer Pro v3.9, minor updates  We've continued to get feedback on the new Engine Analyzer Pro v3.9.  One comment was that the Cylinder Head Flow Table should show lift in MM if the program was set to MM for dimensions.  So we added a new Preference to let you select this.  If you don't change any Preference setting, the program continues to show the Flow Table in inches and CFM.  But if you've selected to have the Engine Dimensions in MM, now you can choose to have this table in MM and CFM, or MM and LPS (liters per second).  Our Metric users should like this update.  

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The latest version is v3.9 A.022, and is a FREE UPDATE to anyone who owns v3.9.

If you want to see all we've change for these minor revisions, click on the blue link below to see the latest Readme.doc file:

   http://performancetrends.com/text-files/EA Pro v3.9 Readme.doc

If you already own v3.9 and want to update to this latest version, click on the blue link below.  When asked, select to do a Refresh installation rather than a Complete (typical) installation.

   http://performancetrends.com/programs/Engine Analyzer Pro v3.9 Installer.exe

If you don't have the v3.9, click on the blue link above to download the FREE demo for a 10 day trial period.  The demo installs to a different location than your old Engine Analyzer Pro, so don't worry about this download screwing up what you already have.

Click on the blue link below for a list and explanation of all the major new features:

   Engine Analyzer Pro User's Manual Supplement v3.9 (new v3.9 features only)

You are able to download these for free if you buy the v3.9 update.  This update is FREE to anyone who purchased the Engine Analyzer Pro v3.5 in November 2009, but $75 to anyone owning v3.5 prior to this.  If you own v3.3, it is $110.  If you own v1.1, 1.2 or v2.1, it is $250.  If this is a new purchase, the full retail price remains $469.  Check the table below for a summary.

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6) Last January's Newsletter  Here are the topics covered in our previous newsletter.  If you would like another copy of January 2010's newsletter for detail on these topics, visit our website at: http://www.performancetrends.com/news.htm#newsletters

1. Motorized Cam Test Stand Option
2. Engine Analyzer Pro v3.9 Updates
3. Inductive Pickup Clip for DataMite
4. Do a Coastdown Test on your Dyno for Troubleshooting Later
5. Great Nostalgia, Car Brochures from the Past
6. Last November's Newsletter