A few short weeks after our recent trip to Road Atlanta we headed to Redline Time Attack at Streets of Willow. Luckily for us this event took place in our own backyard. We had to opt out of the practice day in order to prep the car for the bumps and bruises that Streets has to offer. Much like actual streets, the course has a multitude of bumps, dips, and other treacherous obstacles to avoid.
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Global Time Attack Road Atlanta Vol. 2
Photo by: Motolyric
We left off sitting pretty on the top spot in Unlimited AWD after the first day knowing that saturday was truly going to be go fast day for everyone. Continue reading
Global Time Attack Road Atlanta 2016 vol. 1
The last time that we were able to Road Atlanta with Global Time Attack was back in 2014 when we were still in Street class trim, now as the car has undergone numerous changes with aero, tires, chassis we head there in the Unlimited class. With the jump to the higher class comes a barrage of competitors, not only that but Road Atlanta had one of the craziest field of Unlimited Class car in years setting up for a battle royal. Some of the heavy hitters included GST Motorsports, Lyfe Motorsports, Professional Awesome, DBW Motorsports and UMS Tuning.
Starting out with a Bang!
Since Global Time Attack Super Lap Battle ended in November of 2015 we had a new motor to build and improvements to make. First we found that our APR GT-1000 wing has a bit more effect than our old GT-250, so we had to reinforce our wing mount to withstand the forces produced. Continue reading
The Struggle Vol. 10
So now we are in the second week of November 2015 we are working our way towards getting the car complete for Global Time Attack Super Lap Battle. At this time we have already ruled out the idea of actually finishing our aero package to the dismay of Rami (team aerodynamics engineer). Although Wasp Composites was able to build us a brand new and enormous splitter. This was built to counter act the forces that were provided by APR Performance’s GT1000 dual element Swan neck wing.
You can see here the difference in surface area in comparison to the splitter we had been using for the last few years in street class. Wasp through with the use of Rami’s design also integrated replaceable rub strips into the design. Continue reading
The Struggle 2015 Vo.9
The motor is in and it all runs so we should be all in the green correct…. Yea right! Now the fun starts again.
So at this point we decided that we need to pull the motor back out based on some conversations that we had and what might be the problem. We first pulled the motor and swapped out the oil pump and oil pickup being that those are 2 items that could cause issues with oil pressure beside the worst problem of all… The mains…
So after we took the motor out again we went ahead and measured the mains and they were out of tolerances.
So we made the decision to move the spare block, but before we assembled the motor we decided to check the main clearances. Good thing we did being that it needed a align bore. So we get the motor back up to Outfront to get this all completed oh and did I tell you that it is now October and Super Lap is right around the corner!
But before we get all of that done why not take a trip to SEMA!
Here is some great Time Attack family!
Great dinners with all the family.
Now we get back to the shop and get the car up and running!
Gil and Oscar spent a lot of sleepless nights getting this ready just in time! Without a doubt the weeks leading up to SLB have been some of the most stressful ever with this team! And it hasn’t even begun to start to bring the completely sleepless nights yet!
More to come…
Thank you to all my sponsors and supporters!
The Struggle 2015 Vol. 7
Keep in mind that we have now changed all of our original game plans of really competing in Redline Time Attack and Global Time Attack season and are just hoping to make some events to get some testing in before Super Lap Battle, but we were still wanting to make the largest Subaru event of the year Subiefest. Subiefest is in September and at this time in the build it is end of July or beginning of August. We all of a sudden came into contact with Lost Art Liquids an e-liquids company aka subie vape madness. They wanted to come on board with our team and we were glad to have them! But this meant that we were about to have to make a few changes…. And by few I mean a lot!
Here is how the trailer started.
So the first item on the agenda was to refresh the cars livery, I turned to Advanced Printing and Graphics (APG) to come up with a new design incorporating their logo as well as all of our other sponsors. This is an emense task and I must admit not that much fun. Along with the livery, new shirts, a canopy and then finally a trailer wrap would all need to be completed. But before the trailer could be wrapped I had to go and find one and buy it! It is still a work in progress but just like everything else we tried to make the trailer be a place where we could go to get out of the elements, store and be a home away from home.
The trailer wrap was one of those items that just about didn’t get done… It was finished at 4:30 in the morning the day of Subiefest. Big props to the guys at APG for staying up all night long and getting it done in time so that we could rep it at the event. 
Now along with the trailer they were also taking the time to make our new crew shirts and T shirts, helping us rep all the companies that help us every step of the way.
Now Oscar puts on his crew shirt for the first time being the new recruit.
The car itself was something that we were all eagerly awaiting to be completed for multiple reasons, one being that we were excited to see the new livery but another being that we needed to get it back so that we could get it back to the shop and get it running as we were really hoping to be able to drive it at Subiefest.
Now they finished the main wrap but being our timeline we had to get the car back to the shop and get working on it. Luckily for us APG was gracious enough to come to Yimi Sport Tuning and apply the rest of the decals.
Now here is where things get a little interesting the car at this time had yet to be started and with less than a week to go until Subiefest 2015 our subie hadn’t even been started yet! The guys worked all night and day the week leading up to it and remember all these guys have a day job and Paul owns Yimi Sport Tuning!
The finished product was amazing! It really sets the car apart from all others and makes the car impossible for photographers to miss!
The team really came together at the last moment staying up all night long and then working all day at Subiefest which is probably why we were all wearing sunglasses. Although the car did not get any dyno time so we were unable to actually drive it on the track but we were able to start it and drive it into its location! Although the car was now a running driving thing…. We had an issue and that issue was low oil pressure…
To be continued…
Thank you to all my sponsors and supporters!
<a href=”http://www.yimisport.com”>Yimi Sport Tuning</a>
<a href=”http://www.lostartliquids.com”>Lost Art Liquids</a>
<a href=”http://www.full-race.com”>Full-Race Motorsports</a>
Borg Warner
<a href=”http://www.scatcrankshafts.com”>Scat Crankshafts</a>
<a href=”http://www.jepistons.com”>JE Pistons</a>
<a href=”http://www.supertechperformance.com”>Supertech Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.killerbmotorsport.com”>Killer B Motorsport</a>
<a href=”http://www.advancedclutchtechnology.com”>Advanced Clutch Technology</a>
<a href=”http://waspcomposites.com/blog”>Wasp Composites</a>
<a href=”http://www.swiftsprings.net”>Swift Springs</a>
<a href=”http://www.aclraceseries.com”>ACL Race Bearings</a>
<a href=”http://www.mil-spec.org”>Mil Spec</a>
<a href=”http://www.aprperformance.com”>APR Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Rays</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Project Mu</a>
AP Racing
<a href=”http://www.gtspec.com”>GTSPEC</a>
<a href=”http://www.whiteline.com.au”>Whiteline</a>
<a href=”http://fuelinjectorclinic.com”>Fuel Injector Clinic</a>
<a href=”http://www.outfrontmotorsports.com”>Outfront Motorsports</a>
<a href=”http://socalporting.com”>SoCal Porting</a>
<a href=”http://aeromotiveinc.com”>Aeromotive</a>
<a href=”http://www.power-division.com/home.php”>GSC Power Division</a>
<a href=”http://www.koherentworkz.com”>Koherent Chassis Workz</a>
The Struggle 2015 Vol. 4
Some of you keen observers may have noticed that the hood new hood was already on the car… Well ya that happened as well. Thankfully in the background of all the cutting and chopping and wiring and welding Wasp composites was working on our new and much lighter carbon fiber hood. Along with the hood Singular Motorsports and Rami were working on the hood louder design in an effort to ensure that we have the best available airflow and move the most amount of heat out of the engine bay.
These were designed after we did extensive testing on the body to know exactly where we would get the most amount of heat extraction. Some might thing that oh they are just louvers that could not have taken that long… Well let’s just say that we like to ensure that our designs are going to be successful. That is why Rami was the head of this task, he has constantly proven himself in these situations proving to be the best organized as well as the greatest level of detail covering all the angles.
I was lucky enough to have Richard help with the most fun part of the project… Cutting the carbon fiber to fit in the new louvers. 
Richard also stuck around to start the next task which was tryin for a 3rd time to add the fender flares. A side note, I attempted to get another set of flares from a dealer online which I asked numerous times about fitment and low and behold they were complete crap. Even better was after I received them and reported back about the poor fitment he then sold them for half price indicating poor fitment but wouldn’t help me out… So screw that guy. This time I finally got we a company that cared about their products fitment and looks. Juggaurnaut Aero Designs came out with a very good looking set of fender flares that are tailored to fit my year (as well as basically any other year or model of Subaru).
Check out those Snap On tools in action!
Occasionally we all start to lose our minds…. The build process is starting to really get to everyone as we are all dying to get back to the track and get on the part where we go fast. Although things are about to take a very interesting turn and then we have to get ready for Subiefest in a hurry!!!
Alex and Oscar on the other hand were just prepping for the new power plant and working on their Fast and the Furious faces.
When the new Full Race Manifold and BorgWarner turbo shows up and people get a little excited!
One thing to note, everyone on this team has a full time day job which means everyone is working on this project voluntarily and without any compensation. Every drop of our free time goes into this and when I say that around May we started to work on the project every Saturday and Sunday every week for 10-14 hours a day. Some are planning, some are building, some are just beating our heads against the wall. But without a doubt each member of the team is giving it their all. I cannot thank them enough or show enough gratitude to them for the amount of energy that they put into this team.
Thank you to all my sponsors and supporters!
<a href=”http://www.yimisport.com”>Yimi Sport Tuning</a>
<a href=”http://www.lostartliquids.com”>Lost Art Liquids</a>
<a href=”http://www.full-race.com”>Full-Race Motorsports</a>
Borg Warner
<a href=”http://www.scatcrankshafts.com”>Scat Crankshafts</a>
<a href=”http://www.jepistons.com”>JE Pistons</a>
<a href=”http://www.supertechperformance.com”>Supertech Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.killerbmotorsport.com”>Killer B Motorsport</a>
<a href=”http://www.advancedclutchtechnology.com”>Advanced Clutch Technology</a>
<a href=”http://waspcomposites.com/blog”>Wasp Composites</a>
<a href=”http://www.swiftsprings.net”>Swift Springs</a>
<a href=”http://www.aclraceseries.com”>ACL Race Bearings</a>
<a href=”http://www.mil-spec.org”>Mil Spec</a>
<a href=”http://www.aprperformance.com”>APR Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Rays</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Project Mu</a>
AP Racing
<a href=”http://www.gtspec.com”>GTSPEC</a>
<a href=”http://www.whiteline.com.au”>Whiteline</a>
<a href=”http://fuelinjectorclinic.com”>Fuel Injector Clinic</a>
<a href=”http://www.outfrontmotorsports.com”>Outfront Motorsports</a>
<a href=”http://socalporting.com”>SoCal Porting</a>
<a href=”http://aeromotiveinc.com”>Aeromotive</a>
<a href=”http://www.power-division.com/home.php”>GSC Power Division</a>
<a href=”http://www.koherentworkz.com”>Koherent Chassis Workz</a>
The Struggle 2015 Vol. 1
Super Lap Battle is the largest Time Attack event in North America and the preparation is just as large. For instance you could easily say that it took from SLB 2014 til SLB 2015 for my STI to be prepped for this event… Or you could say that we made so many changes and ran into about every obstacle possible going through the build we thought would be completed in just a few short months and it turn into a year. This volume of articles will cover the struggle that was our build out from the 2015 season or event as it turned out.
We also were prepping to bring the car back to Pierce Motorsports and have him add on to our cage as Mod/Limited then allows for more additions that will help with ridgity.
The motor needed to come out as well for a check up. It was a very good thing that we did this being what we found… All four of our rods had been bent and the cylinder bores had been damaged. If we did not break 5th gear during super lap battle and tried to run Redline Time Attack ACS Roval the likelyhood of a catastrophic failure was very high.
We started with great optimism and tons of pizza working on changing our dominant street class car into a dominant Mod/Limited class car. This process involved cutting weight on the car as much as possible, adding larger and more aero components, and why not add more power! Now when I saw that doesn’t it sound like a weekend or so worth of work? HAHA boy when you start to really write out this list of items to be accomplished it really begins to take on a new meaning.
We had to tube the front of the ar being how much rubbing that kept occurring throughout the last 2 years, although we were going to be pushing the wheels and tires out wider with a different offset and flares we decided at this time it would be better safe than sorry.
We began with the items that would cost the least, which is busting out the sawzall, grinder and drill and taking off anything and everything that we didn’t need. This is where things can get a little tricky, you are making decisions that could easily cost you more work later on if you are wrong so keep in mind we always thought about it quite a bit before cutting. Although I must admit this is the part that I particularly excel at especially the part where you get to cut and hammer. Along with cutting weight with metal reduction Gil and Oscar also went to town working on the wiring harness cutting out any unused wires and connectors.
Most people would run very very far from this task but Gil and Oscar jumped on it and worked through the entire harness cutting off what we did not need.
The next item on our list was to install our new Fortune Auto Dreadnought Pro coil overs and then try to figure out how to fit our new Yokahama Advan RGIII wheels and more importantly 295 wide tires! As anyone with a GD Subaru knows fitting 255 or 265s are difficult so going wider than that is down right a pain in the ass. So I looking around and found some overfenders but being the company that made them were crap and wouldn’t back up their product. So I then had to buy another set but that was only after we made the attempt to make our own which really did not go very well.
We chose a set of Yokahama Advans wrapped in Hankook TDs.
Everyone got into the mix as cutting and hacking is a great stress reliever.
Next up we actually put something on the car!!!
Thank you to all my sponsors and supporters!
<a href=”http://www.yimisport.com”>Yimi Sport Tuning</a>
<a href=”http://www.lostartliquids.com”>Lost Art Liquids</a>
<a href=”http://www.full-race.com”>Full-Race Motorsports</a>
Borg Warner
<a href=”http://www.scatcrankshafts.com”>Scat Crankshafts</a>
<a href=”http://www.jepistons.com”>JE Pistons</a>
<a href=”http://www.supertechperformance.com”>Supertech Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.killerbmotorsport.com”>Killer B Motorsport</a>
<a href=”http://www.advancedclutchtechnology.com”>Advanced Clutch Technology</a>
<a href=”http://waspcomposites.com/blog”>Wasp Composites</a>
<a href=”http://www.swiftsprings.net”>Swift Springs</a>
<a href=”http://www.aclraceseries.com”>ACL Race Bearings</a>
<a href=”http://www.mil-spec.org”>Mil Spec</a>
<a href=”http://www.aprperformance.com”>APR Performance</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Rays</a>
<a href=”http://www.mackin-ind.com”>Project Mu</a>
AP Racing
<a href=”http://www.gtspec.com”>GTSPEC</a>
<a href=”http://www.whiteline.com.au”>Whiteline</a>
<a href=”http://fuelinjectorclinic.com”>Fuel Injector Clinic</a>
<a href=”http://www.outfrontmotorsports.com”>Outfront Motorsports</a>
<a href=”http://socalporting.com”>SoCal Porting</a>
<a href=”http://aeromotiveinc.com”>Aeromotive</a>
<a href=”http://www.power-division.com/home.php”>GSC Power Division</a>
<a href=”http://www.koherentworkz.com”>Koherent Chassis Workz</a>
Remembering Ivo
Many people know Ivo for his astounding Subaru 22B build; it is a build that people will stop and take a picture of no matter if they are on the freeway or a sidestreet. It has also brought up more conversations between car guys than you can imagine, it is that iconic.
One of the most amazing and impressive features of the car was that it is still registered on the street and Ivo would drive it on the constant. He would take it on canyon runs or just cruise to pick up some food. Even with all the accolades that he received for the car he was incredibly humble and always asked other people about their builds and was genuinely interested.
The first time I came into contact with Ivo was when he was working with their massively impressive BMW racecar. It’s attention to detail left you instantly impressed and asking questions of all sorts. 
Although most knew Ivo for the cars he built the lucky ones were able to take the time and get to know him for the man he was. Through our time at the track and the times off I was able to be one of the lucky ones that were able to call him my friend and got to enjoy the time spent with him. He was able to touch many people through cars and motorsports.
Our trip to Road Atlanta for a Global Time Attack event was definitely an experience I will not forget and I am sure everyone on the 2 teams won’t either.
Ivo of Renner Motorsports was a man that will be remembered by everyone he came into contact with as a man that would do anything for anyone. He went out of his way to make your life better, whether it was to congratulate you on an excellent lap or help you fix the problem that everyone said was unfixable. He was well loved by everyone as the outpouring from the entire community showed the level of admiration that people have for him.
I know that I will always remember Ivo and I can only hope to be as good a man as he was. 
Thank you for everything Ivo, I am proud to have been able to call you friend and will miss you greatly.
Photo credit: Import Tuner
This campaign was created for those friends of Ivo and Renner Motorsport who want to help in some way. He is survived by his two 9 year old twin boys, and his wife. The funds will go to his two boys college fund and future endeavors. I would like to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. The amount of support from the community is overwhelming.
https://www.paypal.me/mrbrando
(no fee if friends and family)
or
https://www.gofundme.com/renner
Race In Paradise Ivo
12-7-69 to 12-6-15
Jager Racing 