New to Maine

dflwrx

dflwrx

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Hi Guys (and ladies),

I just moved to Portland from Marquette, MI. I'm really excited that there's a vibrant subaru community here in Maine, just like in Upper Michigan!

My wife and I own 2 subarus.

My DD/track car:

2002 WRX: PSM, wingless, built ej207, rotated mount turbo, FMIC full STI driveline, coilovers, alcohol/water injection etc. (~450whp on street tune)

Wife's DD:

2004 WRX Hatch: WRB, 5mt, prodrive replica wheels, mostly stock.

I've been driving and modifying subarus for a long time. I do all of my own work, including the engine build/assembly, rotated mount piping fabrication, and Engine management calibration and tuning.

I mostly do stock ECU reflashes for subarus (via opensource software), but I've also tuned stand alone (APEXi Power FC, Megasquirt, etc.) systems for both subarus and other platforms (single turbo RX7's, built DSM's, etc.).

I've been active in a variety of forms of motorsports over the years. I've driven competetively in SCCA Solo 2, SCCA RallyX, TSD rally, Track days, drag racing, Winged Warrior Shootout, Midwest Subaru Shootout, etc. I was setting the car up to run Street Tire class in the Redline Time Attack series this year, but due to the move to Maine I wasn't able to make the events I'd planned on.

I've also functioned as either a crew member or Crew Chief for SCCA Performance Rally and Rally America teams in both Production and Open class. I've served as an event Chair, Course designer and Event promotor for SCCA Solo II, and am an SCCA member and licensed SCCA Solo Safety Steward.

My major interest with racing/subarus is driving and learning/teaching different car control techniques and handling dynamics, however I'm also very interested in theTuning and Calibration of Engine Management systems, Forced induction system design and fabrication and the physics and thermodynamics that govern the function and performance of internal combustion engines.

I'm a forum moderator on http://www.thelocale.org, http://www.msuracing.com and http://www.nmucc.com (mostly smaller local or university car/racing forums that I've lived near the home base for and have gotten to know the site administrators/members).

I'm really excited to get to know the local Subaru community, and I hope I'll be able to meet up with you guys for some events in the near future!

Cheers,

-Reid

 
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Welcome, Reid. I'm sure many here will benefit from your experience.

Some of the folks from Team O'Neil are on here; they're the folks that trained up Pastrana and Block for the RA (and for Block, eventually the WRC) series. Good people to get to know
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Welcome to Maine, and welcome to the site. Glad to have you! Take a look at the events section, we have monthly dinner meets and other stuff.

How did you find us?

 
welcome welcome! come stop by some meets. i'll be sure to keep an eye out for you on the streets of portland. something tells me i'l be able to spot you!

 
Welcome! Those are the things I'm interested in as well, although I don't actually know anything about them (driving, engine tuning).

 
Welcome mate!!! I live in portland too, so you might see me around :-D

 
Welcome Reid. Would love to hear more about your rally experiences.

Our team Last Ditch Racing runs an Open Class STI in R-A events with pretty good success (when we don't wreck or blow up, that is). We are shopping a new ECU for the beastie before New England Forest in July, hint hint....

Team is based in Bangor.

Dave G

 
Thanks for the warm welcome!

I'm very familiar with Team O'Neil, I loved watching Tim drive his Open class Focus at LSPR when I was up in the UP. Definitely a rally icon.

My Rally experience is unfortunately nothing to rival, or compare to Team O'Neil. I crewed briefly for the late Jeff Moyle (Open Class VSC STI, a former Mcrae X-games car) and was crew chief for a Production class VW GTI that ran mostly regional rallies/Max Attack. I'm hoping to buy/build a stage rally car in the future (isn't everyone?), but up until now (and for the next 3-4 years my involvement has been and will be limited by time constraints.

Most of my really involved experience has been SCCA solo 2, although I've done quite a few track days/rallyx's/etc.

As far as that open class STI, I'm not sure I'll have time to be as much help to you guys as I'd like to be (starting an 80hr/wk job pretty quick here), but what setup are you running right now? Stock ECU, stand alone? Did the old ECU kick the bucket, or are you guys just looking for a fresh map?

I'm really looking forward to checking out some events! Hopefully I can make one in the next week before I start work
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LDR has been running a Hydra Nemesis but that's going bye-bye for a something new that the car owner is currently shopping. we want launch control and anti-lag that we can count on working -- unlike the Hydra that gave us so many probs that we actually carry a spare ECU on board.

We had some great battles with Jeff Moyle at New England Forest 08. Jeff's time came way too early. Who was your VW pilote?

 
Carl Seidel had the Production/Group 2 VW GTI. He hasn't run that for quite a few years though. He stopped running the GTI a few years back and was actually Jeff's head mechanic while Jeff was still around. I don't think Carl ever made it out to New England with the GTI though, he mostly ran regional rallies in the midwest so it may not be a car you're familiar with...

I've never worked with Hydra myself, although the few friends I've had that ran it on their subarus also had a lot of problems with it. Whether they were hardware or tuning issues I can't really say, but people don't seem to have as good of luck with it as you'd like to see..

I have an aftermarket ignition cut launch control/FFS system on my car right now. I've been pretty happy with it in conjunction with the stock ECU reflash I'm running right now, but it doesn't provide/support Antilag so you'd be kind of out of luck there...

Are you guys looking at any ecu's in particular right now?

 
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