Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
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Re: Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
#2Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Re: Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
#3Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
> someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills
I'm just going to pull the band-aid off, you're probably not the target audience for a drag-race sleeper rig.
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#4Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Money, lots of money.
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Re: Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
#6Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Vermont Sports Car.
They build all the fast Subarus for everyone; Travis Prastana, Bucky Lasik, Ken Block, Lia Block.
The Huckster, the Project Midnight; all them too.
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#7Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Honestly, just learn it like anything else. Understand the basic components of an internal combustion engine (block, crankshaft, rods, pistons, camshafts, cylinder heads, valves, intake and exhaust manifolds), the 4 cycles the engine goes through (intake, compression, power, and exhaust), how fuel delivery and ignition systems work. And then there are tons of resources on tuning and you can get the software for a laptop.
Re: Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
#8Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Premade as in have someone built it for you?
Well, the same way they did it. You offer up a load of money to a reputable build shop and come back in about 2-5 years depending on how busy they are.
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#9I would like to see a comparison between this and a Lancia Stratos.. They somehow share the same vibe
Re: Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
#10Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning / mechanics skills get something like this premade?
Honestly, just learn it like anything else. Understand the basic components of an internal combustion engine (block, crankshaft, rods, pistons, camshafts, cylinder heads, valves, intake and exhaust manifolds), the 4 cycles the engine goes through (intake, compression, power, and exhaust), how fuel delivery and ignition systems work. And then there are tons of resources on tuning and you can get the software for a lap…
Then there is the building of the engine and understanding clearances for specific applications and RPM's, value train harmonics when thing start getting to crazy high revs like 9500.
Still very learnable but outside the scope of standard engine rebuilt stuff.