more than a road car impreza sti

 

The size of that Intercooler surely proves that the standard TMIC is no where near up to the job for serious hard use. That looks three times the size of the STI TMIC. Look at that carbon fibre cold air feed...how much for one of them!? Come on Mike Wood tell us a part number and price!

 

LOL... what sort of boost do you think WRC cars run, and on a 'small' turbo with restrictor. You just can't compare WRC items with what works for road cars.

Nice pics btw

Tony.

 

Exactly. A WRC car will spend an entire stage on boost and under WOT. Comparing the road going TMIC is just impossible.

 

What's with the oversized pipe that lOOks like an exhaust silencer off the intercooler?

Cracking engine bay!!

 

How do Mitsubishi get away with their car then? Where's the homologation for that?

 

Probably 75 big ones, as I've had it on very good authority a gearbox is 25k

 

Interesting, that must be the '07 car, which isn't going to be used until Mexico I think. Very cool.

Compare the pics below - the top one is from Atkinsons '06 car, taken at the Prodrive charity open day last year and the bottom one is from wrxjay03 -





The intercooler hoses are completely different, I wonder what else is.

Steve

[ooops, edited to get the pics in the right order!]

 

Strange also to see BFGoodrich tyres

I know they are changing to BFG this season but just looks weird

Nice pics btw

 

With the intercooler mounted there and recieving cold air from the grill where have they hidden the radiator - lower down in FMIC position ?

 

Yes. It is mounted at an angle.

 

nice pics

stunning looking car

 

the engine will only do 700 (carefull) miles before it has to be rebuilt at a cost of £20K, so not really worth buying even thouhg the whole car costs £500K, still would be nice to tootle around in once every decade or so!

 

the intercooler is angled to help with aerodynamics and downforce, the scoop is closed up as serves no purpose but has to remain, thats why they use the WRX scoop instead of the STi one and i think the engine costs between 50 - 70K!

cheers

Mickey