650hp Ford Fiesta..

[WA2ONK]

Check out this guys driving skills....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TshFWSsrn8&feature=youtube_gdata

[KB2WIG]

Yeah, pretty poor..... cant stay on the road,  skidding around the corners, cant even pass a guy on one of them 2 wheel things withought going in cyrkles.  Fishtailes on wet roads......  the cars crappy; lots  o flame on the exhaust.... looks like theres no heater in the car, he's gotta wear gloves to keep his hands warm.  I bet the driver gets poor gas milage... ... paint job's crappy,   looks like its from a soda can.


klc

[Opcom]

Aren't the wrong wheels propelling the vehicle? No wonder he developed them fancy driving skills. OK I see this is in France. I do not want to hear another Frenchman complain about America's driving habits, choice of cars, or taste in motorsports. just let it go.

[Opcom]

I don't think I could do that. I don't understand how it's done really.
excusez-moi.

[Ed/KB1HYS]

Tricked out car, 4 wheel drive, selectable braking (either wheel set) etc.

I thought the manual gear shift just in front of the steering wheel was cool, with the digital gear readout on the dash.

impressive HP, but It rather did sound like a chainsaw though...

[KE5YTV]

Pretty much the way I look driving my '56 Tbird w/powerpac to the grocery store.   

Mike

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Kinda hard on the tires.

All rally cars are 4WD. This looks like one of them. They really are some of the baddest cars on the planet. Most will do 0-60 in a few seconds, on ANY surface. And the rally cars of today are powered down from those of about 5-10 years ago. Too many bad crashes with the old cars, so they toned it down some. Manufacturers like Lancia were making some crazy fast rally cars before the change.

[ke7trp]

I tune those type of cars for a living.  That car is a very special car that costs a couple of hundred grand. They sell an awd version in europe. We get a crappy econobox with no turbo and FWD here.

Its all wheel Drive of course,  The poping you are hearing is the anti lag system. The ECU throttles up and starts pulling -20 to -40 degrees on the timing and skipping every other ignition fire.  This way, The explosions happen in the exhaust manifold which produces boost pressure at idle. The car can sit still at a couple thousand rpm and make 20 psi of boost pressure. When you touch the gas pedal, this mode is dropped so you have instant power.  Its active when he shifts or lets of the gas in a corner.  Its very destructive but also provides no lag, no respool of the turbo and 6oo to 700 ft lbs of trq from 3k to 8k rpm on a 4 cyl.  These cars run a restrictor in most races which limits then to 300hp but the trq is still there at 600 to 700 lbft. This restrictor fits into the compressor housing the turbocharger. 

The transmission is a Sequential unit.  Its titanium. One man can pick it up and walk off with it.  The unit is switched by solenoids. He is just actuating a paddle shifter. Sometimes the driver likes a lever but it still hits switches.  The lever he is pulling is simply a rear brake lever.  This helps him to initiate the slide during a rally race.

I saw this car in person at the SEMA show in las vegas a couple of weeks ago. They setup a course like this in the huge convention center parking lot and ran a course.  It was fun to see it belching flames and spinning all four around corners in person.  These videos are a publicity stunt.  THere are several series. The last year he made was when he drove a Subaru.

Alot of technology into a small package.

c

[KD6VXI]

Skoda, Peugot and a few other companies we really write off here in the US of A really make some FAST all wheel drive, near all terrain vehicles.

Clark, you have any pics of your WRX anywhere?  Or videos?  Or pics of the destroyed parts


--Shane
KD6VXI

[KM1H]

Ive been playing that video for my grandson for awile now. He never tires of it.

I love the driving, cant stand the chainsaw buzz.

[ke7trp]

http://www.importtuner.com/features/0702_impp_2002_subaru_impreza_wrx/index.html

There is mine shane.


C

[AJ1G]

Clark - Very impressive Subie, but where's the mobile rig?

Chris, AJ1G Stonington, CT