Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast Flatirons Tuning

A rally car goes through a lot on stage between the rough terrain and demands that the driver puts on the brakes, suspension, and especially the engine. One of the keys to success in Rally is to have as reliable a car as possible, and it is with that in mind that Jeremy from Money Shift Rally installed an Emtron Standalone ECU in their Rally car.

For episode #141 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon sits down with Jeremy to go over the data that he collected from the 100 Acre Wood rally and what they have learned from it.

What is the relationship between oil temperature and oil pressure?

What can losing a bumper tell you about your cooling system?

Being able to collect and corollate all of the data that runs into a Standalone ECU can lead to some really interesting conclusions.

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!

Be sure to follow Money Shift Rally on Instagram and here on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@UCXHPILKAtgUxyvxkSJQpz3w

Dominic Acia is back for the second part of our conversation in episode #140 of the Flatirons Syndicate podcast.



In this second part, we dive into Dominic's experience developing and making parts for the Subaru EJ platform.



We talk about pistons, stroker and de-stroker EJ25 builds, and of course we discuss the his Cylinder-4 Cooling mod.



We also talk about somethings that he is working on, including a Dry Sump oiling system and Air Oil Separator.



Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!



You can find Dominic at:



https://www.getadomtune.com/



https://www.youtube.com/@GetaDomTune/videos



Here is a link to the GetaDomTune Discord:



https://discord.gg/3CX4n6k7Zq



In this Episode:

00:00 - Introduction to Part 2

00:54 - How did Dominic start making parts to make these cars and engines run better?

08:40 - The origin story of Maxwell Power

18:00 - Developing a 2.6 Liter Subaru engine for an Airplane

24:50 - Developing transmissions for propellers

27:10 - How developing parts for Aviation translated back to cars

32:13 - Where did the idea for the Cylinder-4 Cooling Mod come from?

45:28 - GetaDomTune Discord Channel

49:23 - Designing parts to fix a problem

53:54 - Dom's Dry Sump that is in development

1:01:54 - Why Dom hates Front Mount Intercoolers - Air to Water?

1:06:00 - Let's talk about the Pikes Peak Hill Climb

1:15:26 - A look at Dom's Air Oil Separator in development

1:23:20 - Wrap-up

Dominic Acia of GetaDomTune has been a constant fixture in the Subaru world for over two decades.

For this episode we sat down to talk about how Dom got started working on and tuning Subaru's, and the plan was to talk about what he is doing now with parts like the Cylinder 4 cooling mod, and the new parts he is working on, etc.

And we did. It was a great conversation, but we chatted for over 2 hours.

So we are going to break this conversation up into two parts. Part one is all about how Dom started playing with, and then working on Subaru's, and how he got involved with tuning them as well.

Part 2 will be up next week, and we dive into the Cylinder 4 Cooling Mod, and a lot of other things that Dom is working on now.

So enjoy this conversation, and Stay Tuned for part 2 as this is a lot of great information in here.

Thanks for watching!

You can find Dominic at:

https://www.getadomtune.com/

For Episode #138 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon, Tasso, and Viet sat down to talk about the state of both Tasso's new OTC Racing Rally Car build, and the Flatirons Tuning Pikes Peak car.



The conversation started out well, and some good points were made.... But then the conversation got a bit chaotic.



It is a good chat and we hope you enjoy it.



Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

For episode #137 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon sits down for a deep conversation about Subaru Engines with Ryan from P2P Racing.

P2P Racing has been building up a diverse set of engine packages, and they have been doing a ton of testing in their project cars at events like Super Lap Battle, and World Time Attack.

From that experience, they have learned a lot about what works on high-power Subaru EJ and FA engines, and they do a few things differently from some other engine builders out there.

They are also working on a crazy re-fresh for one of their shop cars, and Ryan shares what he can about that project as well.

P2P Racing Engines are now available at Flatirons Tuning as well!



Thanks for listening and Stay Tuned!

For episode #136 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, Jon has a deep conversation about Turbochargers with Matt from Turbo Dynamics.

Turbo Dynamics has been building high performance Turbo Chargers for Sport Compact cars since the mid 90's, and one of the first cars that the specialized in were Subaru WRXs and STIs.

We switched to a Turbo Dynamics MDX555-450 turbo on our Pikes Peak car years ago, and we were immediately impressed by it.

In this episode, we try to get an idea of how Turbo Dynamics builds their turbos, and what sets them apart.

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!