It had the Olds engine in it when they bought it. The Roadkill guys have just thrown parts at it and blown it up repeatedly in an attempt to get it to live up to the seller’s claims that it did wheelies and ran 10s.

Its the result of putting a coupe over a chassis designed for a sedan body.

At the time it looked that way but in the end it was 100% the FIAs fault that only the Bridgestone cars ended up racing. Teams on both sides of the tire war did everything they possibly could to put on a race. It got to the point where teams were volunteering employees to run the event entirely without the FIA in…

This thing probably cost at least $40k to build.

It’s a fully built, prepped, tested, logbooked, and proven rally car. It would cost at least $40k to build a car to this level of quality. If you want to rally you look for a build like this because you know it will survive the event. Sure you could build your own car for $20k but you are going to run at least 3…

Does it have a clutch pedal? If the answer to that question is no it is an automatic.

Why try to find something when you can just buy another parts Jeep?

Theres a lot of jets running all the time on a carrier deck plus all the equipment and catapults. Thus the total noise on the deck is louder than a single jet.

Le Mans cars are typically right hand drive because the garages are on the right side of the car, making for easier driver changes. The shifter is on the right instead of the middle to simplify the linkage to the rear.

Shifter is on the right so that the shift linkage doesn't have to go through the gas tank which is located directly behind the seats.

Reading that it seems like most of the issues and concerns are around higher power builds with boost. It sounds to me like it doesn’t become a serious concern until you start pushing higher power and temperatures. 

Are the oiling issues actually pump related or are they pan related like on the EJs? With the EJs it’s basically step 1 to move to an aftermarket baffled pan if you are expecting to be cornering hard for sustained periods of time.

Personally I’m not holding my breath for an MR2 successor, I doubt it’s ever going to happen.

The only way I could ever see Subaru building a rear engine car is if they decide to team up with Toyota to build an MR2 successor to replace the BRZ/GT86. I never see Subaru doing this on their own.

Good write up but I feel it would really be worth mentioning that there are clubs across the US (and the rest of the world) who offer legal and safe ways to drift without risking yourself and others. That’s the side of drifting that really needs more coverage, the clubs who are working to clean up drifting’s image by…

I’m with you on not promoting or covering this kind of activity but reporting it to the legitimate venues is only going to cause issues for the drift clubs trying to drift legitimately. It’s already hard enough trying to find parking lots and tracks willing to let drifters host an event and you are on thin ice when…

You are really going for it if you aren’t lifting until after the crest. My understanding was that most of the GT3 drivers where lifting before the crest and then getting back on the throttle once the car settles back down, taking the double right flat out.

They aren’t Renault.

They are semi-public and controlled by the world feed director. Ferrari just wants to make sure that something is hidden if the world feed director decides to use their onboard camera for something while the car is on the grid.

The displays don’t tell you anything when the car is off. They are more interested in hiding all the switches in the cockpit.