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There isn't a day goes by that I don't love this car.

You have twelve hundred goats rampaging around your box that receives the mail.

Yes, thank you for the advice on launching seeing as I had never really done Crail before. I sat on the line, all 4 wheels spinning, you giggled your way down the strip after screwing the nut. Cheers straight bloke! Callum ;-)

.65 worked for me Neil.

If your car was manufactured before August 1996 and is an import you do not need a catalytic convertor and that changes the spectrum of any tests. You can prove the age of manufacture of you car by checking the labels on the seatbelts, these are made the same time the car is manufactured. Check what your V5 says you may need your date of manufacture put in. There is another way of checking with your VIN number the date of manufacture but Ive forgotten. Callum

Callum Im back in Louisiana again. The car is in deep storage again being fettled and honed once again, handling, ALS and LC are all being looked at along with seating arrangements the gears and driveshafts, needless to say like so many others I have become a driveshaft collector! The Tein coilovers are just too brutal for the power, and they need reconditioned. G Mac and myself went testing on our private Island which has really poor roads and it was silly, we must have hit the roof with our heads about a dozen times. I need something that I can stiffen up and ease off as I need it so I think Steve has a solution from Whiteline who are on the ball incidentally. The width of the car combined with the size and type of tyres is really making the car grip, thats why Prodrive widened them in the first place and it really does make a huge difference, but at the cost of driveshafts and understeer, the torque just wants to eat them. I have a few suggestions where to get uprated ones but budget and other things needed on the car first will dictate when I get round to doing that. Understeer, well that seems to have been cured for the time being and a track session will show up any shortcomings there when I get round to it. Finally the gearbox, a snapped driveshaft led to a collapsed bearing, its all fixed now and in all I think it was just a case of bad luck, however when we add another dollop of power and torque I have no idea how its going to handle it, not very well I imagine. I have been thinking outside the "box" (Pardon the pun) on this one and think I may have come up with a solution, however Im saying nothing until it actually happens incase it turns out to be a load of tripe. Thats all I can think of just now. Callum W Not to be confused with Calum or Callum the Gun.

Genuine prodrive WRC seats on the front but no cage. When you have an external waste gate you can either recirculate the bled off exhaust gas back into the up pipe or just VTA with a mini exhaust known as a screamer pipe. Some silence it some have it straight through. I like the phantom boak it gives and have kept it straight through. On boost it's really ASBOish.

Things are coming along Jase!

I'm glad the shaguar has gone to a good home.

Thank you for your kind comments Grant Im humbled, all credit should however go to Steve Whitson, he built it I mearly supplied the money and talked with him about what we were going to do. Well the gearbox problem turned out to be a snapped driveshaft and a collapsed bearing which have now been replaced. Ive driven tha car all day and even at only 1.6 bar its an animal, In fact Im off out in it again!! Callum

I'll take some and post them up during the week.

Aye the wee trumpets are are rather nice, having been on a good number of years Im used to wee trumpets. The screamer pipe is pretty feckin outrageous sounding!! No Stephen the Fatboy is staying in Scotland and will serve my lust for speed on this side of the pond. I have my iron in another fire as far as cars are concerned in the USA! Callum

There are a few options out there. First job is to repair the 6 speed which is in hand, and to understand we have a limitation. Second is to have a look at what's available in the USA and to look at shipping costs. failing that I'll be digging deep and spending alot of time offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to foot the bill for what I have in mind. I love a challenge! callum

Well as most of you will know I had the the car mapped on Monday. It all went very well however Ive managed to hump the six speed gearbox with the torque. Im glad this happened before we switch to the bigger injectors and start chasing the boost. Defo well into the 500 club, and looking forward to easing into the 600 club. Once the new injectors arrive. Thanks to Uncle Steve Whitson for the late nights, and to Uncle Andy Forrest for taking on the new ECU, Im sure you will both be pleased with how its all gone so far. I cannot commend the build quality enough, its absolutely awesome, thanks Steve. Callum W

Why was the character you portrayed in the Coatbridge Amateur dramatics society called "Colin Throatrod"? and why do you always say that Johnny got a bum deal?

Says the man who sits down to pee.

Goodbye! And thanks for the fish! Good luck with the business Paul Callum

You won't be so feckin smug when I climb through you bedroom window and eat you liver as your wife and children sleep you hand pumper! And yes I do like goats and dance to "I was a male Stipper" in Sticky Carpets. I do not however share the same view as Andy. He may wish to boot your peas, or alternatively agree with you and simply take the lotion from the basket and rub it on his skin before he gets the hose again. You'll need to ask him.

I don't think you offended anyone Peter and your english is much better than many a person who posts online. I simply didn't agree with you staking a claim on Team Subaru. Any bunch of Subarus grouped against a team of Datsuns or Fords would naturally be called Team Subaru. If you went to TOTB however and called yourself Team Subaru that would be different, because there would be the Team you were talking about who are well established as Team Subaru at that event. We have a wiring Issue at the moment Peter that need addressed before final mapping, we swapped to a different ECU and this has thrown up some problems. I have my team of technical experts working around the clock on it as we speak...(Chuckle) Its good to see things moving along at your end. If I get a power run before I go back home Ill let you know how I got on. However you cannot get inpatient in this game or things go wrong. Callum W

"THE ARTISTS FORMALLY KNOWN AS TEAM SUBARU HOWEVER BECAUSE ANOTHER BUNCH OF SUBARU ENTHUSIASTS OCCASIONALLY USE THAT NAME WE CANNOT USE IT THIS TIME FOR FEAR OF OFFENDING SOMEONE" Why not use that one. FFS......

Peter, don't be a fanny. He can call it whatever he wants. If you have a group of Subarus competing together its going to be Team Subaru. Im quite sure the people you annoy on a regular basis wont mind or hold any legal claim over the name Team Subaru providing they don't compete in the same competition against each other causing confusion. The above statement just makes you look silly.

I would love to put my name on the list and have a laugh, unfortunately I won't be in the UK. Ill keep my eye out though and see how you all get on please post loads of pictures, oh and the results as well Callum

Certainly in the UK there is a trend of thieves breaking into your house to get the keys, or fishing them through the letterbox with a pole and a magnet if you leave them on the hall table or hung up somewhere.

Dude, If they came into my house in Louisiana I have the right by law to shoot them dead. As far as the law over here is concerned my home is my castle and i have the right to defend it. I would have no hesitation what so ever to killing anyone stupid enough to try. And to answer any of you lefties out there, I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Bring it on. sympathy to your loss. Callum W

"naebidy move, theres bin a murdur!!"