Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast

Jon, Ryan from DSX Motorsports, and Scotty sit down to have a conversation about how limited slip differentials have become the new key for faster lap times in the Colorado Crew. We then talk about the local tracks, High Plains Raceway and La Junta, and how walking the track, and getting to know all of the details and subtleties of a track are key for going faster. And last but not least, we discu...

When we left you at the end of episode 63 of the podcast, we were about to head out to Super Lap Battle at Circuit of the Americas. Now, for Episode 64 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we are back, and we are here to talk about everything that happened at Super Lap Battle. Ryan from DSX Motorsports took his Super Taikyu car out and put down some great laps this weekend. Ke...

Jon, Scott, Ryan, and Tasso sit down to talk about plans for 2022. Super Lap Battle 2022 at Circuit of the Americas is this weekend as you listen to this.  We are taking our Pikes Peak car to run this year with our driver Scott Crouch, and Ryan is bringing out his Super Taiyku car as well. We talk about our plans and expectations for Super Lap, and then what we have in the works for the rest...

We have special guest Olly Clark from Roger Clark Motorsport joining us on the podcast again! The biggest news since we last spoke with Olly is that their newest race car, Gobstopper III, has now been revealed. They have been doing a lot of testing, and are working to get Gobstopper III ready to compete in the 2022 UK Time Attack series, and we get a lot of insight into that process. We also talk...

Jon and Ryan sit down with Brian from iWire to talk about wiring, Subaru swaps, and everything Subaru wiring. Anything to do with wiring, and the electrical system, in general, can be really hard to diagnose.  And if you are trying to do something like swap a turbo engine into a car that didn't come that way, there can be a lot of wiring involved.  For many of us, this is the part of tho...

Bucky Lasek is back on the Podcast! Bucky has been working on a ton of projects, so we wanted to check in with him to talk about what he is working on, and to talk about anything that he had planned for the new year. This turned into a fantastic conversation about Bucky's projects, Skateboarding and how it really relates to driving, and even how Bucky got involved with Subaru's Rally program. Be s...

Jon and Ryan sit down to talk about Subaru suspension with Drew and Myles from Racecomp Engineering. Right upfront, I'm going to tell you that this was a great conversation, but we got so caught up in it that this ran a good deal longer than our regular Podcasts. But it is well worth it. We start off talking about how RCE began, and then we get into a really wide-reaching discussion about Subaru s...

For episode #58 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Scotty, Ryan, and Tasso have a question that we have talked about amongst ourselves a fair amount here at the shop, and we decided to throw the question to a Podcast. If you had a budget of $50,000 and you had to buy a car, build it for a series, and race for a season, what would you buy, and what type of racing would you do? Now...

Thanks everyone for listening in 2021! We will be back in the new year after a quick break over the holidays.  Your support means everything to us! #staytuned to what we have planned coming up next year.

For Episode 57 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast Jon and Scotty sit down with Ryan from DSX Motorsports and Jeanette from Red Queen Racing to talk all about PRI and what it tells us about Motorsport in 2022. The Performance Racing Industry Trade Show ( PRI ) happens every December in Indiana, and it is the motorsport equivalent of SEMA. The main difference is that this show is very he...

If you watched to the end of Episode 56 with Harvey, we talked about making a bonus episode about Methanol, and this is it! For the bonus episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Ryan, and Tasso talk with Harvey (the owner and Tuner/Calibrator from The Boostcreep) about Methanol as a fuel, and Methanol injection. Tasso had started working out whether or not he could possibly sw...

Jon, Ryan, and Tasso sit down with Harvey, owner and tuner at The Boostcreep, to talk about how Tuning works. For a long time now, every modern car's engine is controlled by a computer or ECU. When this first happened in the mid-90's, the first thought was that this was going to be the end of modifying cars, and tuning them to make more power. It didn't take long for people to realize that the fun...

For episode #55 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Ryan and Scotty sit down with Paul from Verus Engineering to talk all about Aerodynamics. If you have listened to many of our previous episodes, then you know that aerodynamics, and how to improve the aerodynamics of your car is a topic that we have discussed more than once.  For this episode, we got to sit down with someone...

For episode #54 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Ryan, and Scotty sit down with Keith from 969 Performance to talk about Twin-Scroll turbos. We have a new series on our Youtube channel where we answer a Question of the Week. A couple of weeks ago we answered a question about whether or not it was worth converting a WRX or an STI to a twin-scroll turbo. We have a lot of experien...

For episode 53 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast Ryan and Jeanette have just come back from the SEMA show in Las Vegas, so that is the focus of our conversation. SEMA is a huge show held every year in the Las Vegas Convention Center, and it is typically a showcase for all of the major aftermarket companies to show off any of their new products, etc. It is also a great opportunity to g...

Jon, Ryan, and Scotty sit down with Mike Pettiford from Go 4 It Racing . The inspiration for this episode came about after we recorder episode #48 where we discussed how many times the driver is as much a cause for a handling issue as the car or set-up might be.  After that discussion, we wanted to bring that conversation around to how you can solve that problem by improving as a driver. And...

For episode 51 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Tasso from OTC Racing, Scotty, Nigel, and Jon have a conversation about one of the more overlooked but crucial aspects of taking your car to the track. Budget. It is no secret that the more you take your car to the track, and especially if you start to compete in one form or another, you are going to have to have some kind of budget. N...

For episode 50 (!), Jon, Scotty, Ryan (DSX Motorsports) and Tasso (OTC Racing) talk about how important it is to use the time you have in the offseason so that you and your car are ready to race next season. Now that colder weather is setting in and winter is right around the corner, it means that for most of us, the season is wrapping up. Whether you were able to make it through a full season of...

Jon, Ryan and Scotty sit down to talk about how the last NASA Rocky Mountain event went at High Plains Raceway. When you are building a car to compete in a specific class, it is natural that your focus would be the cars and drivers that you are competing against. What Scotty and Ryan discovered was that sometimes taking a look at what is going on in other similar classes can be enlightening, too....

We talk about the Global Time Attack presence at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Then we talk about the best approach to dealing with a handling problem. What do you do if your car understeers? Or has a handling problem in general? Most of the time, the place that we start is by adding a part like a sway-bar, etc., and/or to adjust the setting of the suspension that you have (if there is any). This wil...

For Episode 47 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we have Dave from Rallispec returning to the Podcast to talk about Subaru engines. If you listened to our first podcast with Dave (Episode #24), you know that Rallispec started building and modifying Subaru's before the WRX had even landed here in the US. It didn't take long for them to get a pretty clear idea of what components in the...

For episode 46 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, our guest is Farah Nanji from the Mission Makers Podcast. Farah has two separate, but successful careers. She has a successful career as a DJ, but she has also had a passion for motorsports since her early childhood. Farah spent a couple of years racing karts competitively in her childhood, and then in 2011, she founded a group called...

For Episode 45 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, we catch up with Tasso and talk about his experience at the Lands End Hill Climb. There was a lot of tough competition there, not the least of which was Rhys Millen in his GRC Hyundai. Tasso, Rhys, and Dave Kern were all battling for the top step of the podium all weekend. From there we talk about how the open rule set for Ra...

We sit down with Utah Motorsports Park Lap Record holder Shawn Murphy to discuss his time attack WRX STI. He holds the records for NASA class TT2 for the Outer, East, and West Circuits, as well as TT1 and TT2 records for the Full Course. His current race car started out as a daily driver, but once he started to take his STI to the track, it didn't take long for it to fall into dedicated track car...

We have 3 very special guests join us for a fantastic discussion of the origin of Time Attack in the United States and Australia. Our guests for this episode are Ian Baker who is the organizer for World Time Attack in Australia, and Jason Dienhart and Kiet Le who organize Global Time Attack and Super Lap Battle.  We talk with Ian, Jason, and Kiet about what drew them to the sport of Time Atta...