In the corporate world, it isn't necessarily that surprising when a company gets a new CEO. By the beginning of April, both Subaru of America and Subaru Japan will both have new CEO's.

And in both cases, the new CEO's were chosen to focus on Subaru's move to electrification.

So this may be a big deal???

In the case of Subaru USA, Tom Doll is stepping down as CEO, and he has basically been in charge of Subaru USA since 2013.

This may mark a big shift for Subaru in the coming months and years, and those changes may now be much bigger than they were going to be.

So what does this all mean? We decided to sit down and have a conversation about it.

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Subaru S209 and 22Bs are special and sell accordingly for high prices. Low mile GD chassis Subaru STI and WRXs are starting to hit high prices on auctions. Which led to a discussion in the shop, are Subarus collector cars?

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There are a lot of Subaru Rally Cars competing at any Rally, and they are all going to draw on a similar setup of transmission, suspension, and most likely a Turbo Subaru EJ engine.  But now, there is one STI that is unlike any other Rally Car out there because it has a Ferrari 458 engine under the hood.

Sam Albert has been competing in Rally since 2017, and he has had a lot of success in his 2004 STI.  But a little while ago, he got to thinking about the ARA Rules, and how if he would make a switch to a naturally aspirated engine to get away from all of the restrictions that are placed on turbo engines, he might be able to build a cool car, and gain some advantage if he could just find the right engine.

Believe it or not, the engine he decided to switch to is a Ferrari 458 flat-plane crank V-8, and somehow, he has been able to not only make it work, but do so in such a way that this STI Rally car should now be better than ever before.

As soon as we heard about this build, we reached out to Sam because we had to find out more about how he decided to take on this build, and how he got it to work.

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The Subaru enthusiast community is unlike most any other car group because of the amount of information and help that they offer.  If you have a Subaru, and a dream of something to do with it, most likely the community will be able to help make that dream a reality.

Art Petrakov aka. thenotorious_a_r_t aka. Art from Grimmspeed has been involved with Subaru's and the Subaru community on Social Media for nearly a decade.  And in that time he has taken his 2004 Forester XT and transformed it into a completely unique vision all his own.

For episode 106 of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we talk with Art about his Drift Forester build, how Social Media has changed through the years, and about what his future plans are for his new Youtube channel.

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It wasn’t long after we had Heather Holler on the Podcast the first time that she posted up that she was going to be crewing for the 2023 Dakar Rally. I immediately reached out and asked if she could come back on the Podcast to talk about that experience.

On top of that, she just got back from King of the Hammers, so we had to talk about that as well.

Please enjoy episode #105 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast with Heather Holler.

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Jon and DP try to help with swaybar fitment on a turbo swapped GC, a P0420 code on an aftermarket catted downpipe, pad knockback on a 2019 STI 6 piston caliper and possible relay issues on an Air Pump P2443 code.    

If you have any problems you would like us to tackle please let us know in the comments.

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There are not many links between a Formula 1 engine and a Subaru Turbo engine.  In fact, the only link may in fact be our guest on the Podcast today, Micah McMahan.   Micah is the founder of 3MI Racing, and has a long history of working with Subaru EJ Turbo engines.  But he has also worked at Roush Yates Engines on the Ford GT engine that raced at Lemans, and most recently, he worked at Red Bull Powertrains designing the next generation of Formula 1 engine.  

We talk about the process of developing a racing engine from scratch, and about how you can change or modify an existing engine to improve both its power and performance.  We also talk about Subaru engines, why Subaru has stuck with the boxer engine for so long, and what some common ways are to improve an EJ257's reliability.  We also talk about how some of the cutting edge technology in current racing engines may trickle down into the engines that we will see in street cars.  

For more information on 3MI Racing, you can follow them on their Facebook page here:  https://www.facebook.com/3MIRacing 

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If you are going to drive your car on track, and especially if you want to use your car to compete, you are going to need some additional safety gear.

A helmet is the one safety item that is required pretty much universally.

But what about a driving suite, racing harnesses, a HANS device, or a cage for your car?

When do you need to add more safety equipment, and when might you want to?

It turns out that this topic comes up around the start of most track/race seasons, and it is definitely something that deserves a good conversation.

For this episode of the Flatirons Syndicate Podcast, we brought in Michael Pettiford of Go 4 It Racing to share his experience as both an experienced racer, and as someone who has been coaching and training drivers of all levels for a number of years.

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The 2022 WRX is out now, and we are starting to get a pretty good sense about the performance potential that the new WRX platform has.  With the GR Corolla starting to turn up now too, the question is, how do these two cars stack up against each other?  We got the whole shop together to share our thoughts on the 2022 Subaru WRX vs the new GR Corolla. We talk about performance, modifications, every day use and which one we would all rather have.

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Jon, DP and Dylan attempt to help a 03 Subaru WRX owner with some low boost issues and then find an unusual answer to the problem. Dylan then shares the recent issues with his 2011 Subaru STI and the strange issue with a coil pack we had not seen before.

00:00 Intro  00:44 Matt's 03 WRX Boost Issues