 Geoff Raicer's Tuner Shootout Write-Up Hey Guys, some of you in the Subie community have known about Full-Race for a while, some are just learning about us. We've been a pretty hardcore turbo kit manufacturer for about 6 years now and our specialty is manufacturing twinscroll turbo kits. We just became a vendor on here, so you will likely see a lot more from us in the near future. For anyone unfamiliar with us, our twinscroll kits spool faster, have quicker boost/throttle response, are more durable and make more power than traditional single scroll turbo setups, and even more than most other competitor's kits. We've been pretty quiet about our Subaru development, as we've been working hard for the past 3 years to perfect our Subaru designs before releasing the complete kits out to the market. After this past weekend's Modified Magazine tuner shootout, its safe to say that our twinscroll 35R testing is almost complete. We still have a few minor details to work out, but the cliff notes are as follows:
- Geoff Raicer 
Pete Martini's Tuner Shootout Write-UpFirst, I want to thank Full-Race for inviting me to this event. It has been a long and eventful week for me. I must say that I sure wasn't ready for this!It all started with the failure of my GT40R. I contacted Geoff at Full-Race about getting my single 60mm wastegate converted into a dual 44mm setup. Everything was going great and on track until I get a call from Geoff inviting me to the super lap battle. This was Sunday night May 18th. Being the optimistic person I am, I accepted. Intake and manifold headers apart, I loaded the car onto a trailer and set off on a 6 hour drive to Arizona at 4:30am. Arriving in Arizona, I was greeted by the Full-Race staff. There I spent the next three days getting the new up-pipe and reverse mount intercooler installed on my car. Everything was set for a dyno tune of Friday. Friday afternoon rolls around and I drive to UMS for tuning. To my surprise, I see a bunch of other race cars and tuners. What is going on; I think to myself. Before I know it, I am part of Modified's Tuner Shootout! With my car not tuned (previously a 40R with a different intercooler), I was bolted onto the Dynapack and off I went. first run, 315whp. Oh boy, seconds to make a quick change; done. Next run, 330whp. I make more changes and the last run yielded 370whp; we're done. Done. I stay behind and make some changes after everyone is done and make 496whp with a few more minor tweaks. The next day, I go out to get 100 octane fuel from the local gas station; the pump isn't working. 91 octane mixed with 100 it is. I return to the track where Mike Speck drives the car on the autocross and absolutely loves it. We realize that we need slicks on the car. Geoff scrambles and gets a set of slicks. We're in business. We run the quarter mile (I make the first two runs and suck) and Brady makes the last two. We do ok with only 21psi of boost (didn't want to push it ). Mike goes out for the super lap practice session. He does very well but the oil temps are getting high. Geoff and I quickly rearrange the oil cooler to get more air flow. We make some minor adjustments and were as ready as we are going to get for the super lap session. Mike goes out and does an amazing job. The car performed great and I couldn't ask for more especially not knowing about the event before hand. Geoff at Full-Race is a master in manifold tuning and that is an understatement. I want to thank him and all the great staff from Full-Race for coming through. I also wanted to thank Teddy at Mavrik Motorsports in Fullerton for all his support whenever I needed it. - Pete Martini PhotosComments written by Geoff Raicer. This car had an APS 725 FMIC which is IMO much too thick to use for time attack applications. We pulled it off and installed our Full-Race Intercooler Kit with Response piping (includes everything required to reverse mount the intake manifold and keep AC, PS, Alt). This allows for much more thru-flow to the radiator and reduced water temps.  Pete already installed our Twinscroll 40R Turbo Kit very well. We wanted to produce the broadest and meanest powerband possible, and were not too concerned with dyno and 1/4 mile numbers so we pulled the 40R off and went with a twinscroll 35R.  All buttoned up ready to go to the dyno!  Belly shot of Full-Race Twinscroll 35R Kit and underbody bracing (remember there is no cage in this car!)   About to battle Crawford's Street STI in the drag race!  Thanks for the slicks Crawford crew!  Right before the main event...  End of the night, very tired crew. On the left is the manager of FR's R34, on the right is my crazy hybrid 4runner project. Lol. Thanks for reading :) - Geoff Raicer |
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