For episode 114 of the Flatirons Syndicate podcast, Jon, Wyatt, and Dylan sit down to first talk about the 2023 Pikes Peak Hill Climb.

The 101st Pikes Peak Hill Climb was just a few days ago as we recorded this, and there were a number of records that fell, so we wanted to start off talking about our impressions of the race this year.

From there, the guys talk about an increasingly common occurrence when it comes to looking for parts for older Subaru's which is discovering that the part that you need is not available any more. They talk about options and what companies like Roger Clark Motorsports are doing to bring some of the most needed parts back.

Finally, a story is making the rounds about a 2022 WRX that is now making 600 whp on the stock engine. What does this mean, and how does it change the impressions of the new chassis?

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On this episode of Hey, What's your Problem, Jon and DP do their best to answer more of your questions about:

- Transmission grinds

- P0270 and P0267 Injector Low Voltage after an Engine Swap

- A 2011 WRX Not running right after a transmission swap

- A 2004 Forester XT with a weird vibration from its 4EAT transmission

- Boost Pressure falling off on a 2005 Legacy GT

- And a weird rich idle issue on a 2004 WRX Automatic

If you have any questions or problems that you want us to talk about, make sure that you submit them in the comments below.

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Jon, Tasso and DP talk about how synthetic fuels might effect the car hobby and grassroots motorsports. Will they ever be affordable enough to be a good replacement?

Should we just resign ourselves to the idea of electric cars?

Is grassroots motorsports even going to stay relevant in the light of where the automotive industry is headed?

If you have an STI with a 6-Speed transmission, or if you have swapped an STI 6-Speed transmission into another car, most likely your transmission has a DCCD, or Driver Controlled Center Differential. The STI 6-Speed has a ton of performance potential, and a big part of that is the DCCD when it is working properly.

Subaru gave the STI a computer just to control the center differential, but if you are swapping that transmission into another car like a WRX or Impreza etc., then you aren't able to use the factory STI controller.

Not only that, but before the STI got a 6-speed transmission, some STI models had a 5-speed transmission that also had a DCCD, but the only control at that time was a simple thumb-wheel that let you select the lock.

Matt from MB Engineering (which is the parent company of MAP DCCD) has an STI Type-R which had the 5-speed with DCCD, and he knew how much performance he was missing by not having the advantage of a computer that was dynamically adjusting the center differential, and he happened to have the background to explore building something that would solve that problem.

This ended up being the MAP DCCD controller.

In this episode we talk to Matt about that process, how he got into Subaru's in the first place, and how the MAP DCCD controller works.

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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.

Enjoy the conversation and Stay Tuned!