Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast

For episode 90 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we did something a little different.  We asked you all a question on our Instagram page, which was "what is keeping you from going to the track?"  And you had a lot of good reasons/answers.   So Dussex, Tasso, and Jon go through them.   The most common ones were lack of funds, or lack of time, so we talk about...

For episode 89 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Ryan, and Tasso catch up on all the racing that the guys have been doing lately. Tasso is just back from running in the Lands End Hill Climb, the second event of the CHCA Season. Dussex was running with Global Time Attack at the Ridge a couple of weeks ago, and now he is just back from racing at New Jersey Motorsports Park on the...

For Episode 88 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon sits down with Brett Middleton, the founder of MRT Performance in Australia. Back in 2001 and 2002 when the Subaru WRX first landed in the US, most shops, and even Subaru Dealerships, were left to look for a company that made the best parts for this car that we were just getting for the first time. That is how many of us discovered...

For Episode 87 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon sits down with Drew and Larry from Race Comp Engineering to talk about suspension valving. The inspiration for this conversation started with Digressive valving, but to talk about that, we would have to talk about how valving worked, and that would make for a broader discussion. Drew was certain that we could spend an entire episod...

For episode 86 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon sits down with Ken from KNS Brakes for a deep conversation about, you guessed it, brakes. In the Subaru world, whether you have a WRX, STI, or a BRZ, there are a lot of options when it comes to brakes. And if you have a WRX, one of the first upgrades that people tend to look at is moving up to the STI Brembo Brakes. To do this prop...

For Episode 85 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan, Tasso, Scotty, and Jon have a conversation about Motorsports. Dussex, Tasso, and Scotty all get out to compete their cars as much as they can. And I think that it is fair to say that they are all doing their best as privateer/grass-roots racers to compete in whatever class that they run in. And it isn't easy most of the time. The...

For episode 84 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Scotty and Jon sit down with Tim Hardy.   For most every year that we have raced up Pikes Peak, Tim Hardy has also been there as well running his black E30 BMW.  The point where we knew Tim was serious was when he showed up with a ton of new carbon fiber panels on his car, and we ended up finding out that he made them all him...

For Episode 83 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan and Jon sit down with Trey Tyler to talk about SCCA Rocky Mountain Time Trials.   Trey has been a fixture in the Rocky Mountain SCCA Time Trials group, and he has quickly established himself as one of the front running cars with just under two years of competing.   To get that fast that quickly is somewhat unusual so we...

For Episode 82 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan and Jon sit down with Bailey Ipock to talk about Super Lap Battle, his WRX Wagon Race Car, and why he switched to an Evo. Super Lap Battle 2021 didn't go to plan for us, and it turns out that we had some company there. We had a couple of great conversations with Bailey Ipock at the event, and after seeing what he went through at S...

For episode 81 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan, Tasso, Scotty, and Jon talk about Pikes Peak, Running lemons, and we have a big announcement! As we sat down to record this, Tasso and Ryan had just both driven in the Lemons race at High Plains Raceway a few days before. They were in different cars and on different teams, so there was a lot to discuss. But we were also in the mi...

For episode 80 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Scotty, Dussex, and Jon talk with Amir from RS Future.   Amir has been running his 1991 NSX in Time Attack for a few years now, and he has now refined his car to the point where he is now dominating the Street class in Global Time Attack.  This year he took first in Street class at Super Lap Battle at Circuit of the Americas...

For episode 79 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Scotty, Dussex, and Jon sit down with Tony from Turn in Concepts to talk about building a Subaru racecar. Most of the time when you are driving on a day to day basis, you aren’t spending much time at wide-open throttle, getting into threshold or ABS braking, or stressing the cars cooling system up to or beyond its limit.  Driving...

For episode 78 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Scotty, Tasso, and Jon sit down to talk about Subaru Time Attack, and Time Attack in the UK with Sam Pickering.   Sam has been competing in the UK Time Attack series for a few years now, and he has been having a lot of success lately.  He also has an awesome Youtube and Instagram channel where he talks about all of the work t...

For Episode 77 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan and Jon sit down with Devin from Professional Awesome to talk about how running GLTC at Super Lap Battle went, and the lessons learned.   If you have listened to any of our episodes talking about the issues that we had a Super Lap Battle, you know that the event didn't go smoothly for us, and there were a number of other comp...

For episode 76 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon and Tasso talk with Preston Osborn, the Competition Director of the American Rally Association.   2022 is all ready off to a fantastic start for the ARA.  Most of the Rally's that have opened registration so far this year have not only had good attendance, but have in fact sold out.  And fairly quickly too.  It...

For Episode 75 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, our guest is Jamie Moreno, The Racing Chica! A few weeks ago when Viet and Jon went to Utah to drive the new 2022 WRX and 2022 BRZ, it turned out that one of our friends, Jamie Moreno, was one of the instructors for the event and has been driving the 2022 WRX on track at the Utah Motorsports Park for a bit now. Because of all that time...

For Episode 74 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Ryan and I talk to Cole Powelson about his run up Mount Washington, World Time Attack, and the two crazy cars that Lyfe Motorsports is getting ready for the 2022 Pikes Peak Hill Climb. I will mention that I was late getting Ryan the link for the Podcast, so I started to talk to Cole as he was getting set up, and asked about the electri...

For Episode #73 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Drew and Myles from Racecomp Engineering are back on the Podcast to talk all about the new 2022 BRZ and 2022 WRX. When Drew and Myles were first on the Podcast, they had just taken delivery of their 2022 BRZ and the initial impression was that the car was good, but they needed a little more time to see just how good the new BRZ was. N...

We had a number of questions come in for our Question of the Week about switching from MAF based tuning to Speed Density and I decided to reach out to Harvey from The Boostcreep who has been tuning our cars for well over a decade to get to have a detailed conversation about how these two systems work, and when and why you might want to make the switch to speed density tuning. We didn't know how lo...

There has been a lot of change going on in the aftermarket performance world in the last couple of years.  And it seems like the speed of that change has been increasing pretty significantly lately.  Then yesterday Cobb sent out the April edition of their Green Speed Newsletter , and it has sent some shockwaves through the tuning community. For a while now, tuners have not been able to d...

We chat with Tanner Smith about everything he is doing with his Youtube channel, Smeedia. If you have spent much time on Youtube, you would most likely have seen the 6-cylinder turbo STI that he has been working on for the last 2 years or so. Tanner has also been creating a lot of really helpful content for the Subaru community on his channel as well. We chat with Tanner about how his channel star...

Jon, Scotty, Dussex, and Tasso talk about what they have been up to for the last couple of weeks. Scotty headed to the track to test his car out ahead of his next event, but that didn't exactly go to plan. Tasso had his car in our shop to hopefully get it up and running and ready for the season, but that didn't exactly go to plan either. The main discussion for this episode is what to do when work...

For Episode 68 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Scotty, Tasso and Dussex sit down with the Flatirons Tuning Rally Driver Scott Crouch to talk about the 2022 100 Acre Wood Rally. This is the first rally of 2022 for us, and I knew that we had a bit of a stretch of bad luck, but it turns out that we have DNF's the last 5 Rally's that we attended.  Needless to say that is a st...

Jon, Scotty, Tasso, and Dussex have a chat about the bombshell that Subaru announced on March 11th, that the STI has been discontinued. There was a lot of expectation and anticipation surrounding the next generation of STI.  The rumors seemed almost too good to be true in that the car was going to make close to 400 horsepower from the factory. We were even hoping that the next STI might get a...

Jon, Scotty, and Dussex chat with Thomas Smith who took 3 in Street Class at Super Lap Battle, and had the fastest Subaru on track that weekend. Even though we were largely focused on our car during Super Lap Battle, we did have a chance to talk a little with Thomas, and see him put down some fast laps.  Looking at the car, and hearing a bit about his build, we knew that we wanted to get him...