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Hi guys A mate of mine is getting some new tyres sent over to the island and has asked if any of you need some. He is ordering Bridgstone RE070 225/45/17 as found on MY04 onwards STi's They are £85 per tyre and he says the carraige is the same wether he orders just 4 or more tyres, he would just split the carraige cost with you If you are interested let me know

Many happy returns Jim Have a good day

Thanks Tracy, she has a long way to go yet. When you say "pots" do you mean when we talk about 4 pot calipers? When talkin about pots in regards to calipers we are refering to the parts of the caliper that applies the pressure to the pads pressing them onto the discs. You can see them in this pic, they are the round silver parts, there are two on each side of the caliper hence the name 4 pots

well, after much discussion with various people (thanks to everyone for your advice) I have decided to order my clutch which should be here next week. I have decided to go with an AP paddle clutch with a sprung centre, yeah I know some of you are gonna say its too harsh for every day driving but it does give me the option to break the 400 bhp mark if I decide to, and the fact I have gone for the sprung centre will make it somewhat more user friendly and easier to live with. Unfortunately Ian cant fit the clutch until after the rally in a couple of weeks, which I s'pose is a good thing as it gives me a chance to sell half my life on manx.net and the likes to cover the costs. So basically I am gonna have to drive miss daisy for a couple of weeks until the clutch is in and we turn up the boost

good luck dude

Morning Dudes Anyone heading out to watch the Autocross this afternoon? Its at Ballagary Farm, St Marks, scrutineering at 12 practice starts at 1 ....

I placed a post on XLR8 after I first spoke to kilo_4que about the car on SN

That is one bloody big bug mate Thanks dude

LOL yes thanks dude will sleep even better once the clutch is done and I can stick the boost up a bit

Thanks Jim, would it be alright if I held onto it until I have had my clutch done so that we can ramp up the boost? LMAO Cheers Ashley, was good fun that wasn't it? the road we were on was the Sloc by the way Would be good to see the video of that run, do you have it hosted online? would you be able to do me a copy on disc mate? Did Charlie have a camera in the car too or was it just yours?

Well got the car back about quarter to five this evening. It was Richard Bulmer who did the mapping by the way for those who are interested. We have backed the boost off to 1.1 and the clutch is even slipping at that on full chat, but the car feels so strong. Richard has smoothed out the delivery so it pulls constantly from 3k to the redline (if I could get it there without the clutch slipping). Richard has given Ian maps for my car for 1 bar 1.2 and 1.4 so when we have the clutch done it is simply a case of plugging in the laptop and warp speed here we come. Have had a run up to Ramsey and back and I deffinately had the grin back. Ian is gonna get me some prices together tomorrow for clutches so we will see what he comes back with. Shame about that one you had Nick I would have taken that off you. The clutch that is in my car just now we are pretty sure is the one it came out the factory with so that would make it 9 years old, Richard said there is nothing wrong with the clutch thats in the car its just that it cannot handle the power the car is now producing, if I had left the car standard the current clutch would have been fine.

Nick, have PM'd you the reg number

there are many many Scoobs over here that are not or have never been members in here and as far as I am aware it was not one of our members who owned the car but I could be wrong as we have some members who dont really frequent the forum, someone might recognise the car I am 99% sure this slid off the road at Guthries earlier this year anyone know who owned it?

Is this the same car we were talking about on SN dude?

have been awake since half five dude cant wait to

Morning dudes Have written a little update on my "My New Additions" thread http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtop...t&p=1045970

Morning folks, a bit of an update for you all As some of you will be aware Ian @ PACE in Union Mills was flying a fella called Richard over here to map an Evo rally car he had just finished, Ian had spoken to Nick and asked if there was anyone looking to have thier Scoob mapped, I of course jumped at this as it meant I did not have to get the car off the Island and after it breaking down on me the other weekend I was not entirely sure it would make it to Edinburgh for Andy F to map it. So it was all a bit of a rush to get a walbro fuel pump and SARD pressure regulator ready for me to get the car mapped. Luckily Dave K had a walbro he could sell me and I managed to get a regulator from Temple Tuning who were the only place I found that had them on the shelf and could get it to me with enough time to fit it before dropping the car off to Ian. I dropped the car off on Tuesday evening. Obviously the Evo was the priority and my car was there to be done when the Evo was cooling down or Ian was swapping out parts, I was sitting having my lunch yesterday when Ian called trying to find a walbro for the Evo as it was still running a standard pump. After a few of phone calls nothing could be sourced so I rang him back and gave him permission to use the one out of my car to allow him to get the Evo mapped up, just as well I did. As good a job I did on the connections for the fuel pump Ian called to say there was a problem and if he had not taken it out something could well have gone terribly wrong. So after him calming my nerves all was well again. Ian called again at 8:30pm to say they had put the fuel pump back in my car and had been out to do a few laps of the TT course in it, he told me that they had had the car running at 1.2 bar giving really good mid range punch making his wifes MY99 wagon feel really tired and sad. "There is only one problem" he said, "ok, I am sitting down so go on" i said. As it turns out the engine is really strong and is producing its power really well and with alot of "punch" as he put it, but, the clutch cant handle it, it is starting to slip ever so slightly around 4500rpm. He advised it was very slight but worth looking at replacing as the car deffinately has more potential but Richard does not want to take it too far as with the clutch slipping he is unable to check properly for DET at 1.3 bar and upwards. Ian said they could back it off to 1 bar which means the clutch would last longer or they could fine tune the map for 1.2 this morning meaning I would be looking at doing the clutch a little sooner, hmmm I thought, a little greed took over I think, and I decided go with 1.2 and replacing the clutch. So there you have it up to now, I will have the car back later on so will post another little update later to let you know how big my grin is.

Morning Richard, morning everyone My car is in for remapping today, not sure if I am more excited or nervous LOL and the worst bit is I am at home with nothing to do today and tomorrow except wait for the call to collect my car

Hello and welcome to SIDC, lovely car you have there My name is Dave and I am the regional organiser for the Isle of Man, PM me your email address and I will add you to my contact list to keep you posted on the local happenings Is the GB270 your first Subaru? Who's is the black Impreza in the back ground of the first pic?

cheers ash that will be only 276(ish) now

dude, what does mine say? morning dudes and dudettes, how are we all?

tell me about it, have been working on my car most of the day getting it ready for mapping in the week hope you get fully sorted soon mate

glad you are sorted Nick

Cheers mate, speak to you saturday Nick, did what you said mate and rung him up seems like I am the only one going for this, Ian said he had an enquiry from a fella with an MY01 but he said the lad spent more time umming and arring about it than anything else

That would be great mate, thank you Could I pick it up off you before sunday? If I have it on a laptop then I can offer it to the fella as well as just the software and he can go with whatever method he prefers.