Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast Flatirons Tuning

This is the week of the 2024 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, and our car and the team are up on the mountain getting ready for the race this Sunday.

With all that is going on, we didn't have the chance to record a new episode of the Podcast, so this seemed like the perfect time to go back to our Pikes Peak Roundtable from episode 30 of the Podcast.

This was recorded as we were getting ready for the 2021 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, and we had on a number of guests with a ton of experience on Pikes Peak.

We talk to:

Scott Crouch - Flatirons Tuning driver
Andy Kingsley
Stephan Verdier
Victor Kuhns
Dave Kern

It was a great discussion, and definitely worth checking out if you missed this episode.

Thanks for watching and thanks for your support!

Cobb Tuning has just released their NexGen Flex Fuel for the 2015 - 2021 WRX, which comes after the release of their first NexGen Flex Fuel kit for the Sti.

We were definitely glad to see Flex Fuel come back as a function of the Cobb Accessport, but when we saw that the new system was running through the CAN Bus on these new cars, it was clear that there was a lot more that Cobb had to rework to make Flex Fuel available again.

We were able to sit down with Lance and Billy from Cobb Tuning to go over everything that was involved in getting Flex Fuel back on line, and the processes that they go through when developing a product like this.

We also talk about the benefits of running E85 and Flex Fuel as well as touch on some of their future plans for this system as well.

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!

For episode #144 of the Podcast, Jon and Jeremy sit down to talk about taking an old car to the track.

Jeremy has a number of Subaru's that he has driven on track, and all of them have some years on them.

As more of us are looking back to the earlier WRX and STI to build track cars, this is becoming a more common thing to see at the track.

So what should you do differently to prep an older car to take to the track? And what should you do differently once you get there?

And is a newer car really the solution if you want to avoid some of these issues?

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!

We just had Dominic Acia of GetaDomTune on the podcast a few weeks ago, but he happened to be in the area and when he stopped by the shop, we had to sit down and record another conversation.

One of the biggest questions or suggestions that we got after talking to Dom last time was about the Subaru FA20DIT and FA24DTI engines.

So that is what we talk about here.

Dom only had a limited amount of time so this conversation is somewhat short, but there is a lot of good information in here.

If you have any other questions or topics that you would want us to discuss with Dominic, make sure to leave them in the comments below!

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!

Smeedia returns to the Podcast for Episode #142 to talk about the end of his 6-Cylinder STI.

This is Tanner's third time on the podcast and the original intent was to bring him back on after his 6-Cylinder STI was fully up and running. But now word has come out that he has decided to part out the EG33 6-Cylinder engine he has been working on for all this time, so we had to get him on to talk about it.

It is safe to say that Tanner has put his heart and soul into this project, so it is certainly not an easy decision to change course at this point. So we wanted to get an idea as to what went into that decision.

We also wanted to get an idea of what direction he might go in next.

A big thanks to Smeedia for coming back to the Podcast, and I hope you enjoy the conversation!

Stay Tuned!

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!

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