IAG Thursday Thing EP.45: Talking Shop with Abbott Auto Performance!

BY FAR OUR LARGEST/LONGEST EPISODE EVER! We have Mike McGinnis from Innovative Tuning/Cobb, Graham Gaylord from Boosted Performance Tuning, And Samuel Hui Bin from Dialed in Motorpsorts all on AT THE SAME TIME to go through every modern Subaru Tuning Solution we could think of and give their thoughts. Nearly 3 hours of PURE INFO DUMP! So much information your head might explode in one sitting (you have been warned) so I even made time stamps to skip to the section you want to listen to! 00:00:00 - Reflash and Piggyback options (Cobb, ECUTek, Open Source, UTEC, ect) 00:47:38 - Entry level ECU (Megasquirt, AEM, Hydra, ECUMaste, ect) 01:16:51 - Mid range ECU (Link, Haltech) 1:47:14 - Prosumer/Motorsports ECU + oddball (Emtron, Motec, Bosch, Syvecs)

We haven't done a good "Dewey spews a ton of info on one topic" in a while. With Warranty out, what better time than now to do it. This week Dewey covers all the basics of heat exchangers and how they work as it pertains to a Subaru (though the same principle works for all cars) . Lot's of great info in here. If you ever wondered about why radiators are different, where you need to put an oil cooler, or you are trying to just keep your temps down and not sure where to start, this is a good one!

Just some Michigan kids talking about Michigan things lol. Seriously though we love doing these but it's even cooler when you do them with your friends. We chat with Jake and Sam about Abbott's beginnings, what they are up to now, and where they are going! We also chat about a US based Subaru only Time Attack event and have a good talk about Link's new ECU for the 11+ STI!

One of the originators of social selling in the Subaru community and LONG TIME community advocate, Rick Conk is on the show! This guy is a legend to a lot of us and was our gateway into a lot of the products we bought for our cars. We chat about everything from his early years, his time at RSD, and what happened/is happening to the Land Speed car (and how you might be able to help!). ALSO! Rumor mill has been churning about a new STI again. We chat about what that might look like!

Dewey is stuck in his RV and Warranty is out so Dewey and the Discord regulars hold down an "Ask Dewey" segment. Honestly we thought this one would maybe go an hour and it went nearly two full hours of non stop questions ranging from Time Attack stuff, starting out with track things, way to approach a build, RA Blocks, and everything in between.

You may have seen one of the Exo Trucks on Instagram or at a Subaru show but did you know anything about where they came from or what it takes to build or register one? Well...we LEARNED A LOT this episode!

Gridlife Road America was...drama lol. If you want to know what happened, why we got 3rd and Kal only got 2nd, plus everything else that went down, here is the story. We also chat about the new IAG Radiators and have a great chat about a custom question regarding what engine to use for a 450whp street build. Let's gooooo!

Better late than never. We recorded this ON THE ROAD to Road America. The audio is surprisingly good! Some REALLY good info in here about IAG's new Fortune Auto colab for suspension and our new FA20 pickup. The pickup testing led to some interesting data you may want to hear though!

You "need" that strut bar on your STI to improve handing huh? Let's talk about that. I'm thinking you aren't sure what you ACTAULLY need here and maybe we need to chat. Come learn something!

We have heard every bad idea under the sun. Most of them make no sense and will never work. Then...every once in a blue moon, someone comes up with something that at first sounds awful but the more you talk about it...still sounds awful but you cant help but fall in love with it. THIS IS THE PINNICALE of one of those cases.