Hello, just joined, WRX wagon

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Hello all, my name's Michael, I joined the site after being approached in a shopping lot parking lot in Gardiner by a fellow, I think he said his name was Seth, who'd noticed my WRX.

I'm not especially a car enthusiast or a "motorhead", but I love driving my car, do autoX and rallyX and have tried some track, hope to try out a drag strip some time. No point in having thse fancy hi-perfomance cars w/o knowing how to drive them well....
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(Not that I'm all that skilled yet, lol)

The car is heavily modified (I put it in the "garage," it says mods 0 in the info becasue it was too much of a pain in the butt putting in each mod one at a time in the mod section, but there's a complete list in the description) in the vein of rally/autoX.

I joined mostly hoping I'd find local (at least in Maine) driving events, since most events by other clubs aren't very local, being held in NH, MA, CT, VT, 2-4+ hrs away (I'm in central ME), quite a haul to do on any regular basis (and also expensive when the gas prices are hi, lol).

It doesn't look from the events forum there's much going on yet along those lines, but hopefully if the group grows that will change, mahbye someone will join who owns a really large field or somehting and wants to open it up for ppl to drive on....
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You'd probably get Maine ppl from NASIOC, NER (the New England branch of SCCA), NEQ (the New England branch of the Audi club) and a few others wanting to participate.

Also interested folks might want to check out Cumberland Motor Club, they do a few local-to-Maine autocrosses during the season, and the NEQ does at least one local rallyX a year, in Union

Cheers!

 
Hey Michael, Glad to have ya aboard! things are a little hectic right now with the forum being reorganized n all, but you'll find a lot of good info here.

your car sounds reeeeal sweet. and i think i speak for everyone when i say: Let's See Some PICS!
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Welcome!!! We have few on this site were R/xing yesterday. I know that one was at oxford drag racing. And many A/xing on sat & today. Also many are CMC class champs. For our little state I think we have much to offer. Again, Welcome and get some pics up man! Enjoy the site.

 
So how do you set up an ABS on/off switch that sounds interesting? Nice wagon by the way lets see some pics of this beast. How do you like your prodrive bcs im trying to decide if I want to install mine or switch to a forge mbc.

 
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Thank you, for all the welcomes. I probably won't be actually on the site all that much, but I can be reached by email.

I do notice that tho y'all don't have much driving stuff in the events section, there is an auto/rallyX section, that's nice. I didn't do much driving last year while trying to resolve various tuning issues, but one of the things I usually do for myself is gather a list/schedule of all the driving events from various clubs in the area, if I do that this year I'll post it up for others' benefit. One of the nice things abt most of the various car clubs is they're vary welcoming even if you don't own that make of car - esp the BMW & Audi clubs, who regularly sponsor driving events (tho I've heard the Porsche and 'vette owner's clubs can be a little snooty or exclusive)

To answer the questions/comments, the car again is a 2002 wagon, the specs are in the "garage".

As for pics, I suppose I can dig some out & post them, but it's not much to see - it's just a regular old bugeye type WRX wagon, you guys have seen lots of them
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- there're a few cracks and scrapes in the front fascia that I keep meaning to fix but never get around to, from too much enthusiasm and too little control going around corners on ice out at Tim O'Neil's, lol, and it looks just stock except for the slightly larger STi scoop and the mud flaps. The APS exhaust is dual tip and looks almost like the stock, you have to look closely to see it's actually quite a bit larger, and the trailer hitch only adds to the "sleeper" effect, lol (not that even stock WRXs are really very "sleeper" any more, since they've become popular, tho the wagon by nature still gives more "ordinary car" effect that the sedan).

To the person who asked abt the ABS switch, it's simple to do, I don't recall if I found it as a mod on NASIOC, or just got a wiring diagram or looked at the fuse panel and figured out which wire to wire a rocker switch into, but that's all there is to it, is doing that and finding some place to put the switch. It's wired at or near the fuse panel that's under the steering wheel, and if I recall, you can probably figure out which wire by looking at the panel and seeing which fuse is the ABS fuse. You'll probably have to take of the molding covering the pedal area & all that under there to really get at it. I have my rocker switch and a second rocker switch that lets me have power to the audio system and cigarette lighter w/o having keys in the ignition both crammed into one of the empty switch holes near the cruise control & fog light switch at least on the 2002 model), the two square switches just abt exactly fill the longer rectangle there. I'll search thru my stuff some time, and if I find anything written I'll post it up or send it to you, or if we're in each others' area, maybe you can just look at my wiring & see what I did.

As for the interrupt boost controller, I went to that b/c I was having a lot of trouble with boost oscillation and we thought it might be a controller problem. That problem actually turned out to be a tuning problem, w/the guy tuning at the time actually not knowing what he was doing and screwing it up, and not a mechanical one, so it didn't solve anything. Other than that I've not really noticed a diff from it, esp since it was installed at a time when I was having a lot of boost problems and so I had no chance to just see, ok, this is how it is w/the regular one, and this it how it is w/the interrupt type and actually have a comparison one vs the other - but supposedly it's a crisper response, esp at higher boost levels.

Regards,

Michael

 
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Welcome.

I drive an 03 wrx wagon in yellow and my wife and i autox a 2000 RS with CMC regularly and hope to get to Devens at least once this summer. Hopefully we'll see you out there. We are numbers 40 and 180 please say hi.
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