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thanks to Peter for the obvious. Thanks to Grant, the tombola was rigged. Thanks to Andywrx and Zippo the human cannonball, you were great company Thanks to the LHFOJ for winning the liter and a half of JD which will keep me entertained until you get back. Thank to Higgy for taking my methanol Thanks to G Mac for being the ramdom drunk at the end. Callum W

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Great post Alan. Driving from Balloch to Stirling this afternoon I scewed the nut after seeing a car wrapped round a tree just outside Strachur, wasnt a scooby but looked like a jap import of some description. The Road all the way to Arrochar from where I had been was empty so I made good progress but as soon as other road users started to appear I thought about this thread, thought about encountering someone like the driver of the crashed car or making a poor decision and causing others the same fate. Its so easy to get complacent.

Bill Greer built my car. Its a 95 STI RA with a 98/99 WRC bottom end and heads. The WRC manifold was the only bit we couldnt get so we had one made. He also sourced a Gp A S2 gearbox for me. The car puts out over 420bhp and 420lb ft of torque, It does alot more but it jumped the rollers at dastek so Ill only quote whats been recorded. He set up the handling mods i have to his own spec. He set up the brakes I have just replaced my own hybrid brakes with. He is going to fit a full FIA cage and all the WRC Carbon interior I have. He balanced my bottom end so the crank is proportional to the pulley, so finely balanced in fact that the engine tore the center out the flywheel it was balanced to. Bill said "Woops, a bit to fine!! Sorry" and replaced the whole lot as quickly as his workload would allow free of charge and changed expensive oil and plugs free of charge as way of a freebie. When he doesnt know he says "I dont know but I can phone a man and find out" When he makes a mistake in my experience he says sorry and fixes it (There was an instance where a mistake was made but customers trying to defend him and trying to be nice made matters worse) Every garage makes mistakes now and again, especiallly if your building fast cars cos more can go wrong. I have spent thousands at Greersport Racing and I am very happy. I dont suffer fools galdly and would tell you right now if I thought they were no good. If I want my car serviced or something done I cannot do I will take it across Scotland to Bill rather than than take it any where else closer. Bill has been building rally cars since I can remember. And 9 times out of 10 gets it right. The one time is a pretty good strike rate. Ask anyone who does this work, East Linton, Ears etc etc. They will all tell you the same you cannot keep everyone happy or get it right 100% of the time. But what you can do is accomodate any dramas and make it better. I think that about sums it up. And that is why me, a greeting faced confrontational madman who gets on with no one and hates the world likes Billy and Col;in Greer. They are pretty good in my books. Callum W SIDC Life member.

A bit of lighthearted humour, Sorry Dad. []

I would put my money on a warped disc Andy, but best to get someone like Dunc to have a look. Where you had it serviced it could be that Steve Wonder worked on it wearing boxing gloves. Callum W

I wouldnt tell anyone you were going out after work and conducting attacks on B Roads if I was you. It reeks of Sutcliffe

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 newage 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 Andy Forrest (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.

Very nice

Voting for the M Sport WRC test contract finishes tomorrow at 8pm. All proceeds for this go to the Richard Burns Foundation, a marvellous charity. Big Colin Greer got a wild card into this because of the astonishing pace he set on the rallies he competed, Luck just never went his way on a couple of events. Lets change that for him he deserves a break. I would vote for anyone I knew had it in them and who needed a wee helping hand, and Colin fits the ticket. Even just to give the cost of the text to the RB Foundation text msportcolingreer to 60066. Thanks. Callum W

Still gutted.

Very interesting Cal, thank you.

How do intend feeding more power to the rear wheels?

Your car is twitchy because you have dccd and to cut a long story short you will more readily get oversteer because you have more torque going to the back wheels. Understeer feels a hell of a lot more controlable than oversteer, but controlled oversteer can be made to make you corner a bit more productively 9 times out of ten. I dont think your post from the dark side is true for a quick subaru however as alot of the understeer is down to the central diff set up on a car, say your wrx will understeer more readily than one with more torque to the rear wheels like a jap dccd set up like andys. I stiffened the rear of my car and was still having to induce rear wheel torque slide to compensate for understeer, as The Squirrel will testify to.

Outstanding, I am now sharing a forum with sir Colin Chapman.[]

Like I just feckin stole it!!!!

Colin Greer has got the chance to drive for M Sport next year. He has been put forward with other wild cards and voting will decide this. If you would like to vote for him text msportcolingreer to 60066. Please help Colin get the chance of a Ford Motorsport car for next season. (M sport is run by Malcom Wilson and is fords version of Prodrive etc) Thanks Callum W

Its been going on for a couple of years up here now, the get a beach caster fishing rod, put a big washing machine magnet on the end and have a look through your letterbox for a table or the hook where you hang your keys. Then its through the letterbox, magnet picks up the keys, or a hook made from wire bent into shape and they are off, They may leave it a couple of days until you think you have lost your keys and are using your spare set. Someone on here had a car pinched a couple of years ago, I was talking to someone who had experience of this sort of thing and thats how he explained how it happens. Callum

You wont know until its looked at, a new crank isnt that dear, you could get it treated to make it even harder as well, if your crank is gubbed and you need to use it a regrind and acl oversized bearings is a good move. Dont listen to any horror stories I know many people who have done it to good effect and no dramas. Callum

The Jools mobile looks superb, and handling seems spot on, doesnt look like there was a single hint of understeer. RCM know thier onions. 10 out of 10.

A dump valve does exactley what it says. It dumps the pressurised air being forced into your engine when you lift off the throttle to slow or to change gears etc. It dumps it because if it doesnt it would stall the turbo as it surges back round the system when you lift. If you have a recirculating valve, which is fitted as standard anyway, this returns the air into your induction system which is good because that air has been accounted for by your MAF sensor as it was sooked in. If you vent to atmosphere and dont put it back into the system and do not have the car remapped to account for this, then when you lift the standard or unconfigured ecu will still have this air as being present, and supply the fuel that that air would need, this means that the engine will suddenly momentarily run rich, in extreme cases causing bore wash, thats when your cylinders get too much fuel, and there is so much that some gets washed by the pumping pistons and into your oil, thinning it, or worst case, kaboom. Very rare but worth mentioning. The difference in type is thus. And governed by which noise flicks your switch, or how your car behaves. Some see very little ill effects with a VTA, some do. Personally on a standard ecu I would go with recirc. On my car running a non standard ecu and not having a MAF, I run VTA through a bailey dump valve which gives me no problems and chirps like a wrc car. Mind you, I am running 1.8 bar and technically my car is a wrc car but the bailey DV is more than up to the job, but does get looked at regularly just in case. Callum W

Those brakes look interesting....

Lovely cars, I bet the torque on the RS 200 was ferocious.

Cheers Colin you saved me the trouble. Callum

Mate, Im not trying to pee on your bonfire, and I apologies if I sound blunt. I dont want to put you off, PM me and Ill tell you what you need to be looking at.. Regards Callum W