Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast

In the corporate world, it isn't necessarily that surprising when a company gets a new CEO. By the beginning of April, both Subaru of America and Subaru Japan will both have new CEO's. And in both cases, the new CEO's were chosen to focus on Subaru's move to electrification. So this may be a big deal??? In the case of Subaru USA, Tom Doll is stepping down as CEO, and he has basical...

Subaru S209 and 22Bs are special and sell accordingly for high prices. Low mile GD chassis Subaru STI and WRXs are starting to hit high prices on auctions. Which led to a discussion in the shop, are Subarus collector cars? Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

There are a lot of Subaru Rally Cars competing at any Rally, and they are all going to draw on a similar setup of transmission, suspension, and most likely a Turbo Subaru EJ engine.  But now, there is one STI that is unlike any other Rally Car out there because it has a Ferrari 458 engine under the hood. Sam Albert has been competing in Rally since 2017, and he has had a lot of success in his...

The Subaru enthusiast community is unlike most any other car group because of the amount of information and help that they offer.  If you have a Subaru, and a dream of something to do with it, most likely the community will be able to help make that dream a reality. Art Petrakov aka. thenotorious_a_r_t aka. Art from Grimmspeed has been involved with Subaru's and the Subaru community on Social...

It wasn’t long after we had Heather Holler on the Podcast the first time that she posted up that she was going to be crewing for the 2023 Dakar Rally. I immediately reached out and asked if she could come back on the Podcast to talk about that experience. On top of that, she just got back from King of the Hammers, so we had to talk about that as well. Please enjoy episode #105 of the Flatirons Syn...

Jon and DP try to help with swaybar fitment on a turbo swapped GC, a P0420 code on an aftermarket catted downpipe, pad knockback on a 2019 STI 6 piston caliper and possible relay issues on an Air Pump P2443 code.     If you have any problems you would like us to tackle please let us know in the comments. Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

There are not many links between a Formula 1 engine and a Subaru Turbo engine.  In fact, the only link may in fact be our guest on the Podcast today, Micah McMahan.   Micah is the founder of 3MI Racing, and has a long history of working with Subaru EJ Turbo engines.  But he has also worked at Roush Yates Engines on the Ford GT engine that raced at Lemans, and most recently, he...

If you are going to drive your car on track, and especially if you want to use your car to compete, you are going to need some additional safety gear. A helmet is the one safety item that is required pretty much universally. But what about a driving suite, racing harnesses, a HANS device, or a cage for your car? When do you need to add more safety equipment, and when might you want to? It turns ou...

The 2022 WRX is out now, and we are starting to get a pretty good sense about the performance potential that the new WRX platform has.  With the GR Corolla starting to turn up now too, the question is, how do these two cars stack up against each other?  We got the whole shop together to share our thoughts on the 2022 Subaru WRX vs the new GR Corolla. We talk about performance, modificati...

Jon, DP and Dylan attempt to help a 03 Subaru WRX owner with some low boost issues and then find an unusual answer to the problem. Dylan then shares the recent issues with his 2011 Subaru STI and the strange issue with a coil pack we had not seen before. 00:00 Intro  00:44 Matt's 03 WRX Boost Issues 01:23 Diagnosing with no CEL   02:30 Issue with engine refresh?   03:40 Issue is fou...

For episode #102 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we are picking up where we left off with the last Podcast. Since Episode #101, Donut Media has released 2 more videos with their Hi Low WRX project cars.  And they have had a ton of new issues. If you want to take a look at them, they are the HiLow Brake episode and the HiLow Turbo episode on Donut Media's page. Given the reacti...

For episode #101 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon catches up with Dussex and Tasso. Dussex wrapped up his season at the Global Time Attack Finals at Button Willow, but he ended up having an engine failure at that event as well.  We talk about that, and this leads us to a discussion about the Donut Media Hi/Low WRX engine failure as well. Beyond that, Tasso is involved in looking at the...

DP and Jon tackle a 2010 Subaru WRX STI with a strange oil pressure issue and Donut Media's Engine failure in their HiLow WRX.  What might have gone wrong?  And are Subaru engines really that fragile?

The guys try to help out a fellow gearhead trying to balance family and cars, a 13 Subaru WRX with ethanol sensor problems on a Flex Fuel Build, a 04 Subaru WRX with boost control problems, a 04 Subaru Forester XT with engine swap questions, and finally a 2013 Subaru WRX with a wandering idle.  Jon and Mike aka Drifting Platypus aka DP got to talking and found that they both were regular list...

This is the first episode of something new that we are calling "Hey, what's your problem?" Jon and Mike aka Drifting Platypus aka DP got to talking and found that they both were regular listeners to the Car Talk radio show with Tom and Ray Magliozzi.  That inspired us to get a list of problems or issues that you all are having, and that is what we talk about here! In this first episode, we ta...

For episode 100 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we got Tasso and Dussex in the shop, to record the episode "old school" but we live streamed the episode as well. We talk about the beginnings of the podcast, and about how the podcast changed and developed through the years. We had a live chat open on Youtube as well, so we answer a bunch of questions from everyone watching as well....

For episode 99 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we first check in with Dussex about his last couple of races, and Tasso about how he is getting along with finding a shell and building a new OTC Rally Car. We also have a new member of the Podcast this episode, Mike aka. The Beard aka. DP, from the shop. We then talk about the news that the Pikes Peak Hill Climb is now working with manufacturers...

Loni Unser is part of a family that has a rich history in motorsports, and especially in racing in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.  In this episode we talk about her road from racing go-karts, to Miata's, to driving in the 100th Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Believe it or not, Loni started out racing on skis, not in anything with 4 wheels.  That came later when she started driving Karts a bit, and t...

There are a lot of WRX STI swapped Subaru's out there, and most likely iWire has had a hand in a lot of them. But since we last had Brian on a lot has changed. With the Cobb Green Speed changes, and the fact that all modern WRXs and STIs have a CAN bus, it is a lot more difficult to swap the engine and transmission now. But since this is what they specialize in, this is exactly what iWire is worki...

For episode 96 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Smeedia Returns!   A lot has happened since Tanner was last on the podcast, not the least of which is that he finally got his 6-cylinder turbo STI up and running, broke in the engine, and then ended up having an engine failure.   Tasso and Jon talk with Tanner about his path so far, and what his plan is to continue on with hi...

For Episode 95 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Tasso, Dussex, and Jon catch up with Tasso about his first overall win of a Colorado Hill Climb, and then Gridlife Alpine Horizon. Just a few weeks ago, Tasso was running at the Continental Divide Hill Climb in Monarch. It was a great event for the OTC Racing team as they finally achieved the goal of a first overall finish in the CHCA...

For episode 94 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we talk with Tony Barber from Turn in Concepts about Mike Aumick's Time Attack STI, and Tony's Tesla Model 3 that he runs in Time Attack Street Class. Tony was bringing these two cars that Turn in Concepts supports down to Gridlife Alpine Horizon this month, and since he got into town a bit early, he reached out to see if we would like...

For Episode 93 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we have the second half of our conversation with Larry and Drew from Race Comp Engineering. There has been a lot going on lately, and we haven't had a chance to sit down to record an episode this week, but I didn't want to miss getting something up. So I went back and pulled up the second half of our conversation with Larry and Drew fr...

For episode 92 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan, Tasso, and Jon sit down with Hyundai WRC mechanic Heather Holler. As cool as it is that Heather has been crewing for the Hyundai WRC team for the last 2 years, she has also worked as a mechanic for Dirt Fish, and Vermont Sports Car as well. Needless to say, we had questions, and it was fantastic to get a much better picture of wh...

On Episode 91 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Tasso and Jon sit down to talk to Dewey about how he got him started with Subaru's, and what drew him to Time Attack. Dewey has become a fixture in Time Attack in the last handful of years, and we sit down to talk to him about his roots, which turned into conversation about The Fast & the Furious, Sport Compact Car Magazine and Modi...