boofighter
boofighter HalfDork
4/14/09 3:33 p.m.

so for some sick reason it decided to snow today. i was driving to work and i saw a guy driving a small subaru justy 4wd. that got me thinking and so i did a google search to see what could be done to those little cars. i found this. i think that it fits in with the whole grass root thinking. any way if you don't read french some of the post are translated, but for the most part the pictures do the talking. mad little engine

problemaddict
problemaddict Reader
4/14/09 4:10 p.m.

Wow.

poopshovel
poopshovel SuperDork
4/14/09 4:30 p.m.

That's what the berkeley I'm talkin bout gat dammit.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
4/14/09 4:31 p.m.

Diz.. AM

Tim Baxter
Tim Baxter Online Editor
4/14/09 4:38 p.m.

Good lord.

What I want to know is, why haven't one of you loons done this already to some poor unsuspecting car?

m4ff3w
m4ff3w GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/14/09 4:48 p.m.

That thread is full of win.

Win in a can.

Wininacan!

belteshazzar
belteshazzar Dork
4/14/09 4:59 p.m.

that is what I call a wholeassed approach.

jgp1843
jgp1843 HalfDork
4/14/09 8:05 p.m.

FWIW, Subaru ran a full-race, turbocharged Justy 4WD at Pikes Peak back in 1987 (might have been 1988, but I think '87). The engine was so small it looked like a briefcase with a tiny turbo hung on the side. The driver looked like a little accountant, with black-rimmed glasses - but he never lifted for the corners I was watching, and had the little thing plenty sideways! No threat to Walter Rohrl's times in the factory Sport Quattro, but a decidedly cool little car!

2002maniac
2002maniac New Reader
4/14/09 9:49 p.m.

boofighter
boofighter HalfDork
4/14/09 10:29 p.m.

that is cool, you sound like you were there.

poopshovel
poopshovel SuperDork
4/15/09 9:18 a.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: Good lord. What I want to know is, why haven't one of you loons done this already to some poor unsuspecting car?

Marc Osgood and the Clemson Klan have done this in more than one car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrNzZuXOjg

autox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZ-_xe3Ygk&feature=channel_page

fiat22turbo
fiat22turbo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
4/15/09 9:52 a.m.

I was planning something similar for my Challenge 924. Wouldn't fit in the budget and would have been too complicated to work out before the event. Maybe next year.

ultraclyde
ultraclyde New Reader
4/15/09 10:31 a.m.

gawdamightydam. Wow. That guy pees out more ambition than I was born with. I hope he leaves the car that factory color.

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury HalfDork
4/15/09 11:04 a.m.

holywhatthebajeezus!?!?!

with all that boost, hes gonna have to retard the timing to FTMFW* before top dead center

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