micra_wrc

I would have been interested in the "newbie on track" time, the description in your other thread sounds ideal for me. I don't have the money to spare and Grant thinks the clutch on the RA is on the way out. Shame there's so few cars signed up to this session, perhaps things will pick up nearer the end of the year? imy

1. If your sidelights won't switch off look for the parking light switch on top of the steering column . 2. Use the search function on the forum before asking the same old question . 3. The best first mod for an impreza is the exhaust (backbox at least) 4. Buy a classic 5. Make sure you get regular quality oil / filter changes every 3 - 4000 miles 6. Always run the car on good quality fuel - V Power/BP Ultimate/Tesco 99 and add octane booster for safety in an unremapped import 7. Avoid "chip"ing an impreza - get it remapped by an expert like AndyForrest (Apexi for classics, ECUtek for newage) 8. Sell the Newage and buy a Classic 9. Always wait till the engine is nice and warm before giving it full pelt and let it cool down befrore switching it off 10. Upgrade your brakes before modding the engine 11. A VTA dumpvalve isnt really a good idea unless your car is getting remapped to compensate for it. It will momentarily make your car run rich as the ecu gives fuel for air which has been dumped and not recirculated. All you are missing is the gay noise. 12. Solid rear droplinks and a decent suspension geometry set-up are probably one of the best sub-£100 modifications you can do to a standard car. 13. new ages will undertseer when at the limit 14. If you have a classic get Strutt Braces. The improvement is outstanding! If you have a new age...no luck! loL! 15. Clean out the boost solenoid once in a while and dont fill engine oil right up to max. 16. Go to the SIDC track days at knockhill, you get free tuition from an instructor if you want 17. Love every minute of driving and owning it (it will make handing over the credit card much easier) 18. Goto meets/Knockhill/Crail and tell us who you are?We don't bite sometimes 20. Join the SIDC and you'll get discounts on insurance and dealer supplied parts in addition to track days. 19. For some obscure reason there is a lot of mention of goats & homosexuals in here. Do NOT let this put you off our forums. 99% of our members are "normal" but we are all fans of The Hoff. 20. Always prefill the oil filter when doing an oil change 21. Dont believe everything you read on the forums. 22. Send off for a Shell card 23. What ever BHP you get, you will never be happy 24. BLUE is the best colour. 25. Is your car standard? - leave it that way. 26. Watch out for the Impreza's "lift-off" oversteer. It's wicked, particularly on a wet Knockhill! 27. wave to other scoob drivers 28. never buy a set of lexus rear lights 29. sidc love some photography of your beloved 30. dont sell your scoob you will regret it and will end up with another 1 31. The best place to hang out on saturday nights is at OSIDC 32. Modding is for MEN 33. Going JDM is for winners..........leave the chocolate UK's to the Willy Wonka lovers! 34.^^Andy speaks the truth, JDM is the way forward!! 35. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid and don't mod what doesn't need modding (dump valves etc) 36. NEVER let the other half known how much youve spent on the car.she will be jelious! 37. Dont go to Halfords for your servicing parts - they are more likely to give you filters for a lada or skoda. 38. the bright button really does just make the clock brighter 39. Never believe anything read on Ebay 40. Never buy a impreza when you get 10 spare ST2 (spaceman) 41. CLASSIC ARE The GREATEST IMPREZA BUILT. 42. Try not run your impreza top end as the boxes dont last long(went through 3 last time) 43. Believe the petrol gauge - yes it does use that much! 44. if you have mudflaps watch when reversing near kirbs or they get caught on wheels and bye bye back bumper 45. Your steering wheel lock isn't broken, you're supposed to have to turn it 180 degrees before it engages. 46. Boost solenoid 'chatter' isn't necessarily indicative of a fault (although the Scoob moguls say it can be eradicated the by above-mentioned cleaning). 47. Uneven tyre wear is common. 48. 10 miles use out of a set of newage shocks isn't unheard of - but if you're still under warranty, they're covered. 49. The rear proximity alarm (on newer Imprezas) tells blatant lies in the rain. 50. Door panels dent quite easily. 51. It's won't stop entertaining you on twisty roads! 52. Never use the standard horn in an aggressive manner in a road rage situation, you will just look silly!! 53. You will find that Classic owners are really insecure: they talk about how good their cars are over their Newage counterparts. They be fooling themsleves but they soon realise not to listen to what TheWelsho has to say 54. Welsho knows as much about cars as Fish know about Riding Bicycles ! 55. you will find most newage owners have a huge chip on there shoulders because A) they have lost 3/4 of the value of there cars through depreciation over two years B.) they weigh a bloody ton C) they are almost all are blue with gold wheels D) they are jelous of there classic brothers who continually spank them round knockhill 56. Try not to hold your foot to the floor and do 140mph + for mile after mile, they dont like this and tend to go POP, Take it up have a play and bring it down again. 57. If water/coolant pissed out of the front bumper at the passenger side, then you have more than likely over filled your coolant (overflow pipe) and not burst a pipe. 58. You will find that Classic owners who have bought Newage quickly revert to classic's as they find out VERY quickly just how good the classics are compared to floaty newage boats 59. If in absolute doubt, ask the question. someone will know! 60. If you intend to mod your scooby to anything over 400bhp, you'd better off starting with a newage STI.Atleast you'll never need to replace the gearbox unless you are pure brutal. 61. Don't post Ken Block's Gymkhana vid. 62. Forget all this "Classics are this, New Ages are that" rubbish. ALL Scoobs are feckin ace 63. you will always stop what you are doing when you hear a scooby burble approaching... firstly to check its not your car but then just to check it out and listen to it going by 64. Buy the best parts you can afford so you won't need to upgrade them again later 65. Once you start modding it's hard to stop and newage 2.5's rule! 66. Go on the SIDC track days - gives you the safest environment to learn how to handle your car, fairly risk and damage free 67. Buy a 'Hatch' it's the way forward 68. Every time you look at your Subaru you will smile and be glad it's your car a feel good factor (not many cars give you that satisfaction) 69. Dont let you Wife/Girlfriend drive it or you might get it back looking different to how you last seen it. 70. Dont park your car in multi-story car parks or area's were there may be NED's hanging around as your car will either be stolen or vandalised!! 71. Buy a second car (Not a Scoob) so that when your Scoob breaks down you still have a car to drive about in 72. You will never tire of listening to the burble and will laugh like a small child when it pops, bangs and sets off car alarms 73. Folk that have sold their scoobs always seem to miss it when its gone. Learn from this and don't sell !

looking good Niall for those that are into the social networking malarky, the McRae Vision has a Facebook page Hopefully we can increase exposure of the charity and catch a wider audience with news and photos of what the charity has been up to Click here to go to Facebook page imy

Top Gear stand Wacky Races stand – funniest thing ever, the actors were re-enacting the cartoon Red Arrows the pictures reflect about 25% of the show and we're seriosly thinking about making the trip again, as a punter, so we can see everything that we missed (the hill climb, race track and the rally stage)

Other cars/exhibits Some of the stands from the big boys (Nissan, Alfa etc) were stunning, wouldn't have fancied helping put them up the owner of this is selling it. It was done up by The Who to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust and it is immaculately painted and restored

The supercars they were in a special marquee and omg, so many stunning cars in one place but wayyy out my league was tempted to open the doors and sit in them and someone else must have thought the same, as a car alarm went off just as I was thinking about it! Hmm which Lambo do I want? this was the only one that was fenced off and had its own burly bouncers...

The F1 cars I didnt get to see the cars on the track or see any drivers, but I did hear them and they sound amazing. Lotus girls

The celebrities Our neighbour, Ken Block Ken Block came over to the stand (tall guy in black shirt with his back to the camera) and I tried to get a photo with the fella... err excuuuse me Mr Block..... I don’t think he’s seen me.... Quick, take the picture anyway, if you squint you can see [his arm!] Yay! The chap on the left is Campbell Roy, Colin’s business manager and our boss wrt the Vision stuff Robert Reid getting interviewed from the chap from WRC (Neil Cole) Kris Meeke Marko Martin Ken Block Merino Francitti (blue shirt) and his father in law (some famous guy in a band, can't remember his name but Grant got v. excited!) Upcoming young driver (again I cant remember his name)

Richard Burns Foundation stand

the DiRT2 gaming unit Punters chose to race under Colin or Richard and fastest lap times for each got a passenger ride with Jimmy McRae in the rally stage. Choose your champion!

The R4

The McRae Vision stand and crew - we were joint charity partners with the Richard Burns foundation

Just back from helping at the McRae Vision stand at Goodwood Festival of Speed We had mobile shop/retail unit, the L555BAT Impreza and the R4 with us, and also a gaming unit that let punters have a shot of DiRT2 in the D-Box chair am knackered from the long journey home and the long hours spent manning the stand over the 4 day event Grant and I didn't get to see much of the Festival, it was bloody huge and sprawled all across the estate! our lunch breaks were confined to walking to near by stands and exhibits, as we didn't want to get too far away from the Vision stand but I did manage to take loads of photos and they are too good not to share It was a fantastic event and I highly recommend saving your pennies (burgers were £7! I dont care that they are organic!) and spending 2 or 3 days there, there's too much to cover in one day.

several updates, 30 June Update 1 - Scottish Motor show, Knockhill Many thanks to col666 for taking the photo of us, sorry that Power Images wasnt mentioned in the article, I did tell them to credit you if they were going to use it. Update 2 - Jim Clark Rally the retail unit was in Duns square on Friday night and Saturday, relocating to the service area for the Reivers on the Sunday. Gus and Tam paid us a visit on the Saturday. Update 3 - Chatsworth The retail unit, the Sierra Cosworth, the Nova and the DiRT2 gaming unit went to Chatsworth Rally show. We were raffling the chance to sit next to Jim when he took the Cosworth around the stage and Our next outing is Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend More Info Here on the McRae website

I think you should get the regional director/manager to confirm this in writing, including how long this will take and if you will be compensated for the money you've spent when you have been scoob-less I admire your patience throughout this but agree with the consensus of posts and ask for your money back. imy

hope you manage to catch a stage or two, Click here for stage times

oo thats nice. Strange how such a subtle thing can change the look of the car

it wasnt me the Vision stand was in shot in the background behind one of the driver interviews 5 minutes from the end. It was Grant's hand that you saw, I had gone for a toilet break when the tv crew were there. the McRae Vision guys are also involved in organising the SRC and asked us to publicise this for them to boost the ratings.

on tonight

a bump for last year's thread about my friend fighting bowel, abdomen, liver and lung cancer. Sadly she lost the fight and passed away 2 weeks ago Am looking for donations as part of our Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research. Click here to donate online if you are able to spare some change. many thanks, Imy

Highlights of the first 4 rounds of the Scottish Rally Championship on BBC2 this Sunday. Imy

mine's had a wash and a valet

glad that it was recovered so quickly but sorry to hear that it was taken in the first place

aww shucks, you're welcome John. You've been so supportive of all the McRae stuff that we've done it was our pleasure to give something back btw, I've got £20 worth of raffle tickets here for you, you better come and get them at the Jim Clark

hiya