big den

mine is a 56 plate sti.

What mileage had you done before you started noticing these problems?

Den

Wow - more Smokies in Arbroath!!

Think about it!!

Den

sounds like a find gordy

should try getting it put on dvd & share it with us

I could do with finding out how to transfer video to dvd - I've got loads of old video from as far back as the early 80's when ITV used to show highlights of the British & World Rally Championships.

Managed to swap the recordings from Betamax to VHS a few years back just before my old Betamax video player finally ceased to function.

Think I'll go dig some of them out & give them a wee play through.

Den

In my opinion, Impreza Turbos with NO rear spoiler =

Each to there own though!!

Den

FPMSL - oh ma sides!

and I hope the numpties that moaned at me and gave me grief cos they wanted to leave early feel like right muppets now when they see the gaps in the O and the N in the helicopter footage

Wonder if they were the same ones that looked as if they were using what appeared to be paper print out Gathering stickers i.e. inside the car without straight edges and looked faded. I was surprised to see folk not prepared to stay that little bit longer.

We even did the extra lap of the track & joined the merge in traffic jam twice at the end

Thats not quite correct!

Competition cars have competition Insurance, therefore are allowed to run with the numbers visible as some races are run on the public roads, (like road rallys, done at legal speeds, timings taken from ability to drive perfectly and mapread)

If you have standard liability insurance and you have COMPETITION NUMBERPLATES with NUMBERS on the car, it can be construde that you are partaking in Racing (WHICH IT STATES ON YOUR INSURANCE YOU ARE NOT COVERED FOR) and therefore are technically running illegal.

If you have an accident, i guarantee the insurance company will pull that and youll end up being fined. On top of that youll be prosecuted for not having insurance.

My brother and i have raced since 1968 for him and 1981 for me, the law has ALWAYS been that and i doubt it will ever change.

You can listen to all the stories you want, but dont say you were not warned!

Well I informed my insurance company that I was putting FULL WRC replica graphics on the car. They noted it on the policy & said there was no issues - just the usual crap that if I have an accident they would repair the car to standard & would not replace any graphics damaged.

I'm not saying you're wrong m8 but maybe we should get this clarified once & for all as it often comes up in threads - who would we ask? Mr Plod, DVLA, competition licencing, Association of Motor Insurers?

Den

that's a good deal stevie, but you know the trouble the last time you tried to sell yours, it really is a struggle to shift them the now.

Stevie

Fook it m8 - put it on a 0% Credit card and then worry about selling your's m8.

You only live once.

If only it was that easy eh?

Den

TBH, I think insurance companies 'try it on' with your initial renewal quote, playing the % game where they hope a certain number of people will just accept the price without question.

Both my wife & I are with A-Plan and they tried to take the p1$$ with both of us at renewal time - me last December & my wife in May this year. In both cases they had raised the price ~£100 so, I did a quick 'confused.com' & 'gocompare' search which brought back quotes almost half of the A-Plan prices.

Quick phone call on each occasion got the 'oh, don't know how that happened. The renewals Team must have been mistaken'. Funnily enough with a bit of 'coaching' they beat the best price by £10 each time. Did whinge that they had to waive most of their fee but hey, life's a b!tch.

So Stephen, defo worth a call m8 - even do a 'confused.com' to hopefully give yourself some ammo for negotiating. If they don't come down take one of the better quotes.

Den

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Somehow just managed 32.2mpg in my MY07 WRX PPP Wagon.

Noticed it yesterday coming back from Glasgow (after a wee visit to Willy @ Meercat for centre section ) the odo was heading towards 300miles and I still had just under a 1/4 tank left.

I used to always get about 220ish per tank with average of about 22mpg but since having a longer journey in the mornings it went up to about 25 / 26 (on the odd occassion), but this was like Xmas!

Who needs a diesel.

I was going to challenge myself to get 300miles to a tank but it happened!

This was still with some spirited but admittedly also some pussy driving.

On the down side though, the ferkin NUL nozzle fell out the pump today when I was filling up with V-Power and twatted my car - BRAW! Who fixes dents!

Hmmnn - Pussy driving & tw@t, those two terms fit in well wi the tweed jacket look you took up recently ya dobber!!

Den

That'll be to cover the increase in Road Tax plus an environmental tax (aka get it up the motorist)

Bitter - not me!!

Den

I don't wanna say this but no......

I like the idea of the monster one, but the mock up wasn't qutie right somehow... The other design I quite like is the team USA one. Now with red Bull livery:

http://rally.subaru.com/event_2008_snodrift_gallery.html

Scroll down near the bottom of that page Blue Hawkeye with Team USA/REd Bull graphics.. Different, but not too different fromt eh SWRT graphics you had before..

I'm liking the look with the Lamp pod on the rally cars but not sure if it would work on a road car. ie fitting, quick removal for summer/daylight and uprated battery/alternator considerations - maybe someone can comment?

Anyway back on topic - to be honest I haven't seen that many Hawkeyes around with the SWRT graphics and I have kept mine on longer than I thought I might (10 months so far)........

but, I guess if you want a change John and not to put the same on the car again then it's your car m8 so you have to go with your instincts of what you can live with.

Den

Yep have to agree, it was walnut sack cold! Seemed to get colder as the day went on.

Good day though, the 6r4's sound amazing, more of them this year too.

Did ye no have yer new Tweed Jacket on and luminous anorak??

Den

The whole Road Tax thing is a bag o sh1rte IMHO.

Not many of us do high mileage in our Scoobs but we are classed up beside the 'school run' 4x4's for Road Tax. There are loads of 'mondeo men' doing 60K+ miles per year and they (ok - their companies) won't be paying the higher band road tax - that's just not fair. Does not take a genius to work out who contributes the most C02 emmissions.

Until the big car using Countries - USA, China (getting there) take the same type of action, the UK's efforts are gonna be like fartin against the wind.

This is one argument for a road usage / mileage type charge INSTEAD of road tax.

We also need a 'run over a green campaigner day' - bloody do gooding, veggie eating, tweed jacket wearing, peely wally gits!!! No offence to run of the mill veggies or council employees who wear tweed jackets as part of the expected council look, intended

Another thing while I'm on the soap box: road tax is supposed to fund road repairs & maintenance, my ar$e. I've seen forest tracks after the Scottish Rally has been through them for a Rally stage in better condition than some roads in Stirlingshire & the Glasgow area.

We just keep getting screwed in this Country!!!!!

Den

lookin good mate,any pics of harness fixings?? do they go through rear seat or do they use the rear seatbelt fittings??

If John has the same type of harnesses as I have i.e. removable if you want to use the rear seats, then they use the rear seat belt anchor points. I also had to replace the front seatbelt anchor bolts with eye bolts for anchoring the lap belt.

Den

Colin if you are willing to travel to Bonnybridge (Between Cumbernauld and Falkirk) then Hypertech is the place to go.

http://www.hypertechscotland.co.uk/home.htm

£55 all in. Speak to Dunc ort Alex

Gus

Another vote for Hypertech. Made a big difference to my Hawkeye

Den

Just out of interest... Does anyone know what the "Fast Road" settings are?

I remember them being mentioned many times in the past but I dont remember anyone posting what the settings are. The answer that was often given was "Just ask the alignment folk they'll know" Didn't help when I asked about them.. They just looked at me with a blank look *sigh*

Thanks,

Hi

I started a thread about 'fast road settings' the other week after having them changed @ Hypertech.

Someone asked the same question about the settings and I said:

"not 100% sure but I think the fast road was negative 1 degree on the front (however, they could only get mine to go negative 0.55 degrees - MY07 STI) but it has still made a difference."

When I arrived @ Hypertech, I had -0.17 on the OSF and +0.2 on the NSF No wonder I was understeering on Right Hand bends!!

http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=108867&st=0 - if you want to check it out

Cheers

Den

where is this Hypertech place, sounds like i should be paying them a visit

Hypertech are in Bonnybridge Tel. No. 01324 812212

Den

I have an MY06 2.5 WRX & I've also noticed that the outside front edge's are not wearing well. So am I to assume after reading the other posts in this thread that changing the geometry will not only cure this but reduce the understeer & increase turn-in?

Wear on the outside edge was what I got on previous Sti's with the standard settings. You can also see a bit of 'feathering' across the tread. So this time I decided to get the geometry set-up with Fast Road settings. Not done a lot of miles so far but I can say it definitely seems to have cured my understeer and the car is cornering a lot better (not surprising really as I had slight negative camber on the OSF and positive camber on the NSF )

I understand that you may get some wear on the inside edge of the front tyres with the fast road settings though.

If so could someone post the actual settings for "fast road" or Prodrive or both please so I can get mine set up.

not 100% sure but I think the fast road was negative 1 degree on the front (however, they could only get mine to go negative 0.55 degrees - MY07 STI) but it has still made a difference.

Why would Subaru make the standard set up with some positive camber & what advantage is this supposed to give us? Seems strange to me.

No idea and apparently the tolerance on the 'standard' factory settings is quite wide aswell.

I'm looking to get the prodrive springs fitted after christmas. So if I had the geometry changed now would I have to get it doen again with the new springs?

You would probably be better waiting and getting the geometry done whe nyou get the springs fitted IMHO

Cheers

Den

So far, Ive heard people saying great things about these settings, but also the Prodrive settings, and also the Group N settings....

so how do you choose then?

I did a search for previous posts about the geometry before I eventually went to Hypertech. From what I read it seems that 'Fast Road' & 'Group N' settings may be the same or very close. The previous posts also commented that the Prodrive settings can give/enhance the tramlining effect on our wonderful UK roads and was perhaps more suited to track days.

Early days but so far am liking the 'Fast Road' settings!!

Den

If you don't mind me asking,how much did the set-up cost? Is it worth doing to a standard car?

Cheers,

Colin.

No worries - it was £55 incl. the vat and took about 1.5 hours. I've not done that many miles since the settings were done but, I think it is definitely worth doing this to a standard car - my STi was still standard and I did not want to wear the outside of the front tyres like I have done with my last couple of STi's. I noticed an immediate difference - the car just feels more 'connected' to the road especially on the 'twisties.'

There are other threads aswell where others have had this done and noticed the improvement.

Den

Took the Scoob to Hypertech on Saturday to get the geometry set-up with Fast Road settings

Dealer had given a try setting the geometry to reduce wear on outside edge of front tyres - bzzzzzzzz WRONG ANSWER!!

Geometry was well out and now I know why I was understeering on right hand bends.

Thanks to Dunc & Dunc Junior at Hypertech, it's all sorted. Great service and very genuine, helpful folk

What a difference

Wish I'd had this done on previous Scoobs now

Den

Yep - got mine today at last aswell.

Already on the car - a wee bit smaller than I expected, especially the Scottish Saltire but they serve the purpose - acknowledging the memory of Colin McRae.

Den

Tenting it sounds ace!

Can't see me getting my wife into a tent though, said she would never sleep in a tent!

Bummer!

Go without her then ya big puff!!