Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast

For episode #133 of the Flatirons Podcast, Jon sits down with Harvey from The Boostcreep and Zek from In Boost Performance to talk about Tuning a car and making power Post-Greenspeed. In April of 2022, Cobb Tuning announced that they were making a fundamental change to the way their Tuning software worked with the Cobb AccessPort. Their goal was to move to get CARB E.O.'s for as many parts tha...

There is no easy form of Motorsport. They all have their challenges, but one of the most challenging forms is Endurance Racing. There aren't many Subaru's that compete on track for hours at a time, but one is the STI run by James "Gator" Hudson of Colonel Red Racing. And he is building up an impressive history of wins. For episode 132 of the Podcast, Jon talks with James about ho...

For Episode #131 of the Podcast, Tasso, Mike Pettiford, Dylan, and Jon sit down to talk about the newest racing Sims like Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo 7, and Assetto Corsa. For a lot of us, the first time we got to experience anything like driving a car on track was in a video game. In the beginning, there was a pretty big gap between driving an actual car and playing these games. But with this...

For episode #130 Jon chats with Micah from 3MI Racing to talk about what all goes into developing a part, bringing a part to market, and why supporting companies that innovate is so important. If you have ever been looking for a part for your car, planning a build, etc., almost certainly you have come to a point where you have found a few different options for a part that are all made by different...

One of the hot topics around the shop lately is how much the car buying options have changed in the last year or so. And to that end, what car would you buy if you had a budget of $35,000? Would you look at a new car? Get something used? Find a project to turn into a new daily? Jon and the Dylan's talk about what they found looking around the internet, and what the key considerations would be...

This conversation was started/inspired by a question asked on our last podcast. Why didn't we talk about the addition of Subaru's Eye Sight on the WRX TR? Mike Pettiford of Go 4 It Services was in the shop that day, and we talked about what might be going on with the addition of some of the new safety systems on new cars, and then we did some research and discovered some interesting things...

For episode #127 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Tasso, Dylan, and Jon sit down to talk about the WRX TR that was just revealed. For 2024, Subaru unveiled the new WRX TR that comes with Brembo 6-Piston/2-Pistons from the previous STI, Recaro Seats, and re-tuned suspensions. But where as the last WRX TR from 06-07 which was the least expensive WRX trim, this will now be the highest trim level f...

For episode #126 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Tasso and Jon sit down for a conversation about the state of Rally in the USA with none other than Preston Osborn who happens to be the Competition Direction for the ARA. We start off discussing how the rules change for 2023 is going, and what the motivation was to make this change as well. Then we talk about how Subaru's new car might be ha...

For episode 125 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Dylan, DP, and Jon talk about the possibility of Subaru returning to the WRC, and whether now is the perfect time to build your dream project car. The last year Subaru competed in the World Rally Championship was 2008, and the rumors about them coming back to the series started just a year or two into their absence. None of those rumors amounted...

For episode #124 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon, D.P. and Dylan answer a question from Mike_44 who asked us to talk about bearing failure. What is it? What causes it? How can you prevent it? Bearing failure is something that comes up a lot related to the Subaru WRX and STI so we do our best to cover all the bases on this topic and as always, if you have any questions at all, please put th...

For episode 123 of the Podcast, Tasso and Jon have a conversation about an article that was published recently by Dirt Fish where they interviewed Lance Smith of Vermont Sports Car where was calling on other teams to join the ARA so that they would have more competition. While more cars running in the top class would certainly be fun to watch, it is a somewhat odd request as VSC has just built a c...

For Episode 122 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Tasso, Viet, and Jon talk about the adventure they are about to take in a Subaru Solterra. The Subaru Solterra is their only EV currently, one of our main questions is, can the Solterra do Subaru things? Working with Flatirons Subaru, we had the opportunity to take a Solterra out and see how it compared to the Subaru's that we know and love....

For episode #121 of the Podcast, Jon and DP sit down to discuss the common questions that we get about ideas that seem great, but are unfortunately not as good as they seem at first. The topics discussed include: STI 6-speed swapping a Naturally Aspirated Subaru Removing Air Condition from your daily Installing a Dry Sump oiling system in a daily driven car Putting Fixed-Back Race Seats into your...

Rally Colorado 2023 was a couple of weeks ago now, and the Flatirons Rally Team had a great start to the event. We started the second day near the top of the time sheet, but a podium finish just wasn't meant to be. Scott and Ryan ended up rolling the car a couple of stages in on Sunday, and fortunately they were both able to come away from the crash with very minor injuries which is a testamen...

Last weekend, Subaru revealed the new BRZ TS which will be available in 2024. This model of the BRZ is Tuned by Subaru Technica International, and comes with Brembo Calipers and tuned suspension. We give our impressions of the BRZ TS and try to decide if the changes to this model make it the best option. Subaru Motorsports and Vermont Sports Car also just revealed the new Subaru Rally Car which is...

There have been a ton or Rumors floating around the internet lately, and there are a number of them that relate to Subaru. For episode 118 of the Podcast, we decided to talk about some of the more interesting cars that may be landing in the future like: A new S2000 due next year with a Civic Type-R Engine? A new Subaru Truck or Brat? The 2023 Prodrive WRX There is also a rumor that Toyota is devel...

For episode 117 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, our guest is Brian aka. 900 BRZ. We brought on Brian so that we could talk to him about all of the testing that he and some of the other members of the California BRZ/GT86 community has been doing regarding a potential oil pressure issue with the FA24 BRZ. Brian has done a fairly extensive amount of testing with data-logs of oil pressure data on...

For this episode of the Podcast, DP, Wyatt, and Jon talk about making your Daily Driver better. Many of us spend a lot of time driving our cars, and a lot of the inspiration to start changing or modifying our cars is to make them better and more enjoyable to drive. So where do you start and what things should you consider when you start making changes to your Daily Driver? Thanks for listening and...

For Episode 115 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Tasso, Dylan, and Jon first recap how the Ascend Time Attack went for the Flatirons Tuning Team. From there, they talk about how Tasso's new Hill Climb car build is going. Tasso of OTC Racing has taken on the challenge of building a new race car from scratch. He has all ready put in a lot of work on the car, and it is off getting the cage put...

For episode 114 of the Flatirons Syndicate podcast, Jon, Wyatt, and Dylan sit down to first talk about the 2023 Pikes Peak Hill Climb. The 101st Pikes Peak Hill Climb was just a few days ago as we recorded this, and there were a number of records that fell, so we wanted to start off talking about our impressions of the race this year. From there, the guys talk about an increasingly common occurren...

On this episode of Hey, What's your Problem, Jon and DP do their best to answer more of your questions about: - Transmission grinds - P0270 and P0267 Injector Low Voltage after an Engine Swap - A 2011 WRX Not running right after a transmission swap - A 2004 Forester XT with a weird vibration from its 4EAT transmission - Boost Pressure falling off on a 2005 Legacy GT - And a weird rich idle iss...

Ryan Douthit is the creator behind Driving Sports TV where he reviews all kinds of different cars and trucks. But if you are Subaru person, you may recognize or know Ryan from his former life as the editor of Subie Sport Magazine too. Ryan has been a creator of Automotive content for a long time, and we sit down with him to talk about Subaru's, what it was like to make Digital Video in the ear...

On this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Tasso, DP, and Jon try do decide if you should just buy an STI, or if you should Build It Yourself? With STI prices going up lately, this question is coming up more, and with everything that has changed, it was worth revisiting this topic. So if you want an STI, what would you do? What factors make building or buying make more sense? Thanks for l...

Synthetic fuels are an exciting technology that might help prolong the use of our beloved internal combustion engines. Jon, Tasso and DP talk about how synthetic fuels might effect the car hobby and grassroots motorsports. Will they ever be affordable enough to be a good replacement? Should we just resign ourselves to the idea of electric cars? Is grassroots motorsports even going to stay relevant...

If you have an STI with a 6-Speed transmission, or if you have swapped an STI 6-Speed transmission into another car, most likely your transmission has a DCCD, or Driver Controlled Center Differential. The STI 6-Speed has a ton of performance potential, and a big part of that is the DCCD when it is working properly. Subaru gave the STI a computer just to control the center differential, but if you...