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Old December 4th 2012, 20:17
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Nice story. It's good to see that all of your efforts made everyone take notice. Keep pushing and I am sure you will edge out the old manx.
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Old December 4th 2012, 23:27
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Once you get it sorted out, you can use the MS2 to control boost too. You can also use a pair of electic S/O valves and a switch, split the boost sense line to both the MS2 ECU and the manual boost controler, set one for 5 lbs and and the other for 15 lbs (ie. STUN and KILL settings).
S/O valves?
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Old December 5th 2012, 07:54
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Shut Off valves. Sorry.
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Old January 27th 2013, 20:04
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It seems like every winter I put the race bug into hibernation, and every year i forget how much fun she is to drive. I pulled the bug out and took her for a spin to cycle the fluids. I needed to put some fresh gas in her anyway so why not. I happened to run across a worked over e36 m3 and we had a bit of fun in the mountains. We chatted for a bit and he was surprised that a bug could be so quick. The autox season doesn't start until later february this year due to fallout from an event with a karting club last year, so I have plenty of time to give the bug a once over.


As a side note, I was going to put this up before and never did. It's a little trick for pulling rubber and gravel out of sticky rubber after a track day or autox. This works with slicks or sticky street tires. Find yourself a curry comb, used for dogs or horses, with rows jagged teeth like this one:


Be rough with it and drag it across the tire to pull the gravel and rubber out. It easier if you do this while the tire is still hot, but it'll still work if the tire has cooled off. Here's a pice that's half and half so you can see how well it works.
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Old January 28th 2013, 04:10
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Great idea! Im always wearing out my gloves brushing off the pebbles...

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Old February 28th 2013, 15:37
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Big updates are looming! I have purchases pending and soon parts with be shipping!

Looking to get:
beautiful tubular arms from vw1303
hopefully some 935 style spring plates from Alex
subaru swap wide sump and maybe radiator from bug@5speed

Already ordered:
US spec 2005 EJ25 sti motor
Subaru gears, mounts, flip r&p, stubs, and trans conversion bits
ty754xxxx sti 5spd trans

I haven't received anything yet but this will be a crazy process. The race bug gets new race bits and subaru motor, and the street bug gets a lot of race bug hand-me-downs. I promise lots of updates and video on both cars very soon!
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Old February 28th 2013, 17:12
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AWESOME!!!!!!!! Let the CAR PORN begin...
can't wait to see all this happen

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Old February 28th 2013, 19:06
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Hi

Regarding your curry comb idea, a lot of the local hill climbers wrap their tyres in Gladwrap after a run and before entering the pits, you need a lot of Gladwrap and helpers to do this.

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Old March 1st 2013, 00:31
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humble...IM SOOO EXCITED FOR THIS!!! soo stoked! ill surly be watching.
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Old March 3rd 2013, 07:53
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Vow...subaru drivetrain I kinda liked your turboed vw engine. If with vw engine it was fast, it be a whole lot faster with subaru sti 2.5 engine Are we talking about close to 300hp engine at stock form?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_EJ_engine#EJ25

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Old March 3rd 2013, 21:14
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Nice cut-away! With only 2wd through the subaru gearbox I'm expecting similar numbers from the stock sti ej257 that I get from my built race motor, around 330hp/300ft.lbs. Not really a fair comparison as the ej257 will be intercooled and my current race motor is not. With only a few upgrades one of my competitors is getting 420whp from his sti on E85.

Ultimately my goal with the sti motor is 400-450hp, all day long at the track without overheating. Then I think I'll be happy... for a while
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Old March 4th 2013, 13:34
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Awesome! Welcome to the dark side!

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Old March 9th 2013, 16:48
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I don't even know where to start with this. First off, I don't condone this behavior, but I am a tame racing driver, so I'm not perfect.

I took Lucy out for a spin this morning, to meet a friend for breakfast at a well known restaurant in the mountains. I like going there because all manner of machinery, car or bike, shows up or drives by. After a nice breakfast I headed back home along a lazy winding road that follows the ridge line. Now I will admit I was driving quickly and having some fun but as I settled down I noticed a sleek black car gaining on me. I fed Lucy a little more go juice, and the black car followed. A little more from me, a little more from him and so on until we are at unreasonable/imprudent speeds. Race track speeds. We continued for a couple miles then I slowed down for him to pass, and I followed him for a bit. Now I could see clearly what had been chasing me, and I smiled wide at the back of a McLaren MP4-12C. Now it was my turn to chase, and he was quick. The driver knew the road and the car, but not as well as I knew mine. Again we continued into unreasonable/imprudent speeds but he couldn't shake me. I noticed that even on crap tires, I could corner harder than he could, and we accelerated at the same rate until aerodynamics started holding me back. He would start to inch away but I could out brake and out turn him. This continued for another 5 miles until we came to a little turn out area, he pulled in and I followed him.



When we popped out of the cars, I told him he could tell all his friends what just happened and no one would believe him. We chatted for a bit and I grabbed some pics of his car and he got a bunch of the bug. He said he was driving the McLaren fairly hard and if I had to guess we were both at around 8/10ths. Below 90mph the two of us were pretty evenly matched.



Then, after about 5 minutes his friends started showing up, more, and more, and more! I felt like a kid in a toy store.























A bunch of folks were asking about the bug, and the McLaren driver did tell everyone that he couldn't shake the bug but no one believed him. As it turns out the whole group was out for a cruise and the McLaren driver was trying to "catch up" with them. Some how he ended up in front of them and that's when he found me. We all chatted and stretched a bit before heading down to Boulder Creek, another stop in their cruise and some much needed gas for me. I split off from the group there and headed back home, but not before trading emails with the McLaren driver.

I know the bug is fast, scary fast, but now I can put that into a bit of perspective. Lucy is as quick as a McLaren MP4-12C The biggest downside to this story? I left my gopro at home *facepalm*

PS: Don't do any of this, ever! Holy sh*t we went fast, like one-mistake-and-you'll-ball-it-up fast.
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Great read, there is the US National debt in that car park.

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