Midnite........

[Scoobtastic]

Well...it all started Satuday morning @8:55am!!!..got woken by some noisey bugger arriving on my driveway,20 mins after the initial shock of seeing that sort of time on a Saurday morning,we were on out way to a little town called Plymouth,to ses Mindnite come come to life,with here recently installed Cosworth Block and other goodies,on arrival Team Fraggle Rocket stumbled accross a BlokewithoutScoob,who surprisingly enough had his scoob with him!!!

we knew from our source that a certain gentleman was due to appear to aid in bringing life to Midnite,as after a few hours of drooling and horsing around,he appeard,yes Steve Simpson and his Boffin Co worker arrived!!..mean while myself ans Blokewithoutscoob got bored n went for a play,(but that will be revealed in another thread,so you'll have to wait :wink:)

the chaps set about working on Midnite to bring her to life!!......BUT they had an issue,so Martyn took apart the Fraggle Rocket Doner car the Steve had kindly donated to him!!!!!!....so with SIMTEC ecu number 2,Midnite coughed and barked into life,holly fekin ****!!!......the noise from that Garret rotated GT35 was...well.....meqnwhile the Rocket was sat outside in bits,the owner(Steve) heads in hand knew what was goin on and muttered a few chioce words!!......

here we have The Men that can....some of the tuning GODS in the world of Subaru!!!

here we have the car..meet MIDNITE a 2003 Sti8

with a few chice mods....

yes the big hole you see in the engine bay is the entry point of the Garret,could easily suck up a small child or dog!!.....

so afrter a little bit of tinkering Midnite's ECU is all sorted and ready to be placed to once again bring her to life,with a few turns of the the key shes up and running,barking and snarlling at all of us,we all have big grins at this point as the noice is like an orchestra on a creshendo...Martyn is set and ready for action...

with that pose he leaps into action....the car burbles out of the workshop and round to the Dyno cell......tennsion arises....as she's backed onto the rollers......

we all wait in antisipation to see what she runs the 1st time,the run up on the rollers proves too loud to stay in the cell without ear protection,so we relocated........so here we have the 1st run result on the base map(i'm she Martyn will correct me if i'm wrong)

2nd run...

3rd run....

4th run...

from what i can remember she was only running on her LOW boost setting(once again i'm sure Martyn will correct me)

soon after that last run we left as time was getting on iirc half 5ish!!....lol

so on that note we left,as soon as any more is heard on the progress of Midnite i'm sure we'll be updated with some stunning results.....

Many Thanks to Alan,Martyn and Lee and the rest of the crew for letting us hang around and be a part of the day!!.....Fanbloodytastic 8)

[scooby princess]

What an amazing car, and once again martin has done a wonderful job

[jd]

still more to come from this car.

another boring day in the life of Fraggle Rocket Racing.

[Bailey73]

I want that power

[rae_sti]

what a beast

[MartynJ]

Thanks for the write up ED.....

The boost as you can see from the graphs was a lowly 1.1 bar midrange with 1.5 bar topend , this was due to an issue with the external wastegate...This is going to be addressed with fitting a larger or another one to go with it...

We fully expect this car to male 550+bhp on pump fuel and 600+bhp on race fuel @ 1.8bar boost...

We have Martin Vincent of Japanese Performance on his way down tomorrow to feature the car so keep your eyes peeled for it in a future mag....

[jd]

dont forget to get mine in the pics LOL