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Streetwise Wraps up Formula Drift Season in Irwindale

Streetwise Wraps up Formula Drift Season in Irwindale

Last weekend the Streetwise crew headed out to Toyota Speedway at Irwindale to support the DVM Mustang for the final round of the Formula Drift 2009 season. Most of practice was spent getting the 2004 Mustang and the driver Doug Van Den Brink tuned up for the speeds required to run at this track, as [...]

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Morris and Nagy Prepare for Black River Stages

Morris and Nagy Prepare for Black River Stages

Driver Has Already Clinched M1 Class Championship Harrisville, NY. Brad Morris (Charlotte, NC) and Doug Nagy (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA), head to upstate New York to compete at the Black River Stages Rally on the 19th and 20th of September. Morris has already clinched the M1 class championship for drivers of two wheel drive cars [...]

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Third Place finish at Gorman Ridge Rally

Third Place finish at Gorman Ridge Rally

I co drove this weekend at Gorman Ridge Rally for Julian Parmann in his new (to him) Subaru Impreza 2WD car. This was Julian’s first time at a rally ever, and he did an excellent job of getting the car to the end. We picked up speed through out the event and avoided many of [...]

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Tennessee Win for Morris / Nagy in the Wet

Tennessee Win for Morris / Nagy in the Wet

Brad Morris and Doug Nagy Move Up in the Standings Linden, TN. Brad Morris (Charlotte, NC) and co-driver Doug Nagy (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA), in only their second rally together, won their class at Rally Tennessee on 23rd and 24th of May 2009 in soggy conditions. As in years past, the NASA-sanctioned tarmac event took [...]

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Trailer Tribulations

Trailer Tribulations

Brute Industries and Streetwise ® Offers Safe and Easy Solution for Trailering Your Low Ground Clearance Car “Last year at VIR/Museum event, I shot a 2×12 homemade ramp about 30 feet. I could have easily killed someone. I just ordered a set of TrailerRamps.”–Bink, Corvette Forum Senior Member Getting into a Scrape Transporting your sports [...]

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Understanding The Subaru WRX Fuel System

Understanding The Subaru WRX Fuel System

One of the keys to achieving power is the correct ratio of fuel for a given quantity of air. Either too much or too little fuel results in an engine that is down on power, delivers poor economy and has a big question mark against its long term durability. The primary job of the engine [...]

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Performance Engine Tuning For Your Subaru.

Performance Engine Tuning For Your Subaru.

It may come as a surprise to many, but the theory behind Subaru performance engine tuning is not nearly as complicated as it is made out to be, especially when dealing with production based equipment. Engine tuning is neither a black art, nor is it a form of magic. Extracting power from a Subaru WRX [...]

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Subaru Sensors Explained

Subaru Sensors Explained

Cam/Crankshaft position sensors – provides information from which the ECU can determine the exact rotational position of the engine, RPM and rate of acceleration. This is used to enable sequential fuel injection, or the control of individual fuel injectors, in addition to sophisticated miss-fire detection functions. Base ignition timing is also calculated from these two [...]

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Miller – MIG, TIG Welding Equipment helps Fabricate Rally and Drift Cars

Miller – MIG, TIG Welding Equipment helps Fabricate Rally and Drift Cars

Read about Streetwise on the Miller Welders site. Miller – MIG, TIG Welding Equipment helps Fabricate Rally and Drift Cars Streetwise

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North Nevada Rally Canceled for 2009 Back in 2010

North Nevada Rally Canceled for 2009 Back in 2010

North Nevada Rally Canceled for 2009 Back in 2010 Streetwise

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