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Scratching the itch..... We've been telling Kev this for months and now we've done it. Scooby Clinic have their first race win in circuit racing. Not time trials or one make shootouts, but a win in saloon and sports car racing up against some big tackle.... It all started when Ice Driver instructor and racer Tim Evans decided he wanted to switch to saloon car racing. As soon as Kev heard about it, he stepped forward with the offer to try one of the Scooby Clinic SC450 cars for a few days, more to get Tim's feedback than anything else. But Tim liked it so much after the test, he asked if he could race it at Croft in the Northern Sports Car Championship round at the weekend. The car's not in the best of health, a bit down on power and with a weak gearbox, but Kev agreed. The lads made a few suspension setup changes that Tim asked for and off he went. Meanwhile, down at the Prodrive proving ground near Birmingham, the Ice Driver car was spending the weekend working for 6th Gear Experience under the probing gaze of the Prodrive staff. So with Tim qualifying 5th at Croft and the Ice Driver car keeping the 6th Gear customers happy at Prodrive's track, poor Kev was sitting at home beside his mobile like a father in a maternity ward. So what about that win? Tim got it. After qualifying 5th in the dry, it rained for the race. Minor panic, as all Tim had was Toyo 888 road tyres, not full wets. He had to graft hard for it and he was trading rubber and paint all race long with a Group B Metro 6R4 and a rather rapid BMW M3, but the SC450 car crossed the line in first place overall, complete with number plates and tax disc in the windscreen... Tim's opinion? "What a strong engine. Considering this was a bit of a last minute thing and we only entered to see how it stacked up against the opposition, we couldn't be happier. Now I've raced it once, I know what I'd do differently next time. Plus there's bags of development potential in it, so I'm up for one of these for next season" Kev's view? What do you think. "I was sitting at home watching the mobile, not sure whether I wanted it to ring or not. I'm capped to bits. Tim's done a great job and proved a point that Imprezas can be turning into racing cars, not just rally cars. Now we've got to roll our sleeves up and bring forward some of the developments we had planned even earlier. Can't wait for the next round" Scooby Shootout 2008 Drag Final Winners
Our SC450 Package Performs at the Scooby Shooutout! So what do you do when your Pro Class Time Attack car isn't ready, you've a racing driver lined up to drive who's attitude to racing is in the original Steve McQueen style of ,"Racing is life, everything else is just waiting around", but you want him to be at Scooby Shootout? I guess you give him the keys to Kevs 22B road car and ask him to break it... The car runs the Scooby Clinic fast road engine, but the engine is three years old now and as well as Kev ferrying his dogs about in it, it's had a fair few runs on the dyno for various tests, so Kev was unsure exactly how healthy it was. A quick oil and filter, a run on the dyno to show a reasonably healthy 420 Bhp, empty out the dogs and off it went to Elvington. Whilst Andy McKenna has spent plenty of time on the frozen lakes in Sweden in the Scooby Clinic / Ice Driver Impreza, he'd never sat in Kev's Daily Driver until he dropped the clutch on the start line. There's nothing much he can fiddle with apart from the centre diff, so Andy had to get creative and managed to whittle the time down to get within 0.8sec of Olly Clark " It's got some poke off the line, that's for sure. I've figured out the centre diff setting, now all I need to do is work out how to turn the stereo off. I spent the last run with Hotel California by The Eagles. It's a good job Kev took his dog out, though. It would have been pinned on the back window on that last run..." After some confusion with the track layout and some unusual times being set, Andy ended up just outside the top four, so missed the final by 0.2 sec. Disappointed, Andy? "For sure. OK so it's only a road car and Kev's Smoker at that, but I'd like to have been in the final. You can never tell what might happen when it's a single lap shootout" So dog refitted, Kev jumped into the car for the journey home. Next year, it might get more than just an oil and filter. Kev might put a couple of Magic Trees in it too, just to help with the dog aroma.... Read more about the Scooby Clinic 450 Bhp engine in our Performance Packages section. ICE DRIVER Impreza
WORLD RECORD 10.74 @ 136mph with a bolt on turbo!!! We have been developing the new Scoobyclinic SC55 bolt on turbo which uses a full Garrett Gt35/40 ball bearing cartridge, machined to fit in a Subaru direct bolt on turbo with internal wastegate. The turbo was bolted onto our Time attack club car that came 3rd in the 2007 series with a SC50 turbo. On its first tune on pump fuel the car made 554bhp and 507 ft lb Torque!!! (A UK record for a bolt on turbo) We decided to send the car down to drag strip even though it was still setup up for track with full roll cage as we knew it was capable of a 10 and on it’s 3rd run with a poor 60ft time of 1.95 (as its on Pirelli road tyres) it still managed to a 10.74 @ 136mph breaking the current known world record of 10.8 for Subaru with bolt on turbo!!! In the new year we will try and push the record further with the car set up properly and may even try mapping with race fuel and hopefully have a few more customers into the 10's with sc turbos Current best times to date with Scoobyclinic turbos: SC55 10.74 @ 136mph SC50 11.03 @ 128mph SC46 11.3 @ 122mph Keeping It Real!
We have made it our mission to provide competitive track and race packages at a fraction of the cost Thus KEEPING IT REAL! Making motor sport affordable! We have seen lots of very well prepared cars but they all seem to have been designed and built without any one thinking just how much it was going to cost! Now it’s great for us to see but could any of us really afford it? Probably not so we settle back on our laurels and just pay to see other people’s cars race. “Not now!” you hear us cry! During our daily tuning and development we have found what works and what does not also what is too expensive and what is the best for the money enabling us to create competitive race cars at a fraction of the cost! Andy Started coming into scoobyclinic a few years ago for us to prepare his early wrx for track day use, we did a few modifications to his car more or less the same road going packages that we offer our customers with a few more up-rated handling goodies. Andy’s feedback and track day results we simply astonishing so we knuckled down and did lots more R&D to get the car going even better always with the budget in mind. The car got better until Andy was so confident with the car he wanted to compete for real! We decided that TIME ATTACK would be a great first event for Andy to try. He sent off his entry form for a club class place but unfortunately it was full, “we have spaces left in the pro class if you want one?” Andy was confident in his skills and the car for club class but could we compete in the pro class? We had a good think but were so confident in what we had created we made the desion to go for it in pro class with a car that cost 9K to prepare!
As you can imagine when we arrived at Donnington park for the first round of the series we were wondering just how competitive our 9k car would be alongside cars costing over £100’000 we did not have to wait long as Andy’s Times kept getting better throughout the day and from a massive pro class of 22 cars we came in 10th simply amazing for a non pro driver and a car costing as little as it did!
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