North Bay Ride Report 5/31

[desmoquattro]

Some of the wagons are of the WRX variety, I own one. A Lot of guys like to play around with the motors in them. The stock engine is a dumbed down version of the one Subaru uses in the rally car. If you spend the money to put the rally parts on it you can easily get 500hp and about 400ft.lbs of torque.

My friend Matt manufactures and sells parts to hop up Subarus:
http://www.kstech.biz/

Subaru owners go nuts on mods and mapping. The ECUs are apparently programmable out of the box.

[ghostrider]

I have heard of them. Never was interested in doing any performance stuff to the car. 250hp is just fine by me.

[desmoquattro]

I have heard of them. Never was interested in doing any performance stuff to the car. 250hp is just fine by me.

It's not for everyone.

Matt was at Thunderhill the other day with a customer mappin/monitoring his ECU while on the track. He called me between sessions and sounded giddy. That must be a blast.

[ghostrider]

Can you say 0-60 in 3 seconds flat   

[Michael Moore]

Some of the wagons are of the WRX variety, I own one. A Lot of guys like to play around with the motors in them. The stock engine is a dumbed down version of the one Subaru uses in the rally car. If you spend the money to put the rally parts on it you can easily get 500hp and about 400ft.lbs of torque.

No wonder they were so freakin' hard to pass! 

[enzo]

Great ride, but it was the last weekend of the month.  I wonder if the chippies found that group of Kawi's draggin' knee...