Ready for Olympus Rally (mostly)

We have worked long and hard to get our 2008 STi ready for rally ahead of both the Subaru World Rally Team and Subaru Rally Team USA. Sure the car is not completely sorted, but it is clean, nice and I believe will ROCK at the Olympus Rally in Pomeroy, WA

Hopefully no "issues"

Here are some pics, more to follow after the rally (hopefully one with us on the podium, we are hoping for a 3rd or 4th (realistically).

We are running with PRIMITIVE rear suspension and stock front suspension with Cooper Weathermaster 17" tires in front and 16" rally tires in the rear.

We plan to run the center diff in AUTO mode with bias to the rear tires. We shall see how that works. The speeds there are extremely high and I would not be surprised to see 120mph...

tune into details at: http://www.get-primitive.com/ or http://www.specialstage.com/ or even http://www.nasioc.com/ for rally updates and info.

Construction CONTINUES - slowly

Here is the SWEET RALLY ROLL CAGE going in over at Streben Racing. Behind on everything now though and going crazy!

Dyno VIDEO

Here is a snippet...

Dyno results!

(Click on pic to enlarge....)

We took the car to PDX Tuning last night for a baseline dyno run and preliminary tune. The baseline pull with a totally stock configuration, heck only 198 miles on the odo was:

246 hp at the wheels and 278 lb/ft of torque at about 3300 rpm.

After Jarrad's magic tune, it pulled down 278 hp and 319 lb/ft torque at about 3200rpm

Video to follow

2008 STi Primitive RALLY CAR

305 hp (at the crank) and 290 lb/ft of torque

Here is our baby

Pics of the new car getting ready for DYNO at PDX Tuning tomorrow. Will post BEFORE and AFTER tuning dyno numbers.

Graphics going on....

The STi is getting a few required and sponsor graphics this weekend while I am at the T-Bird rally (see ALCAN BLOG) for our Alcan shakedown.... Pe