18 by 8 in Hyper Silver
Streaming video: Walter Rohrl / Audi Quattro.
Watch his right foot. You're seeing downshifts (matching revs),
upshifts, and throttle steering (managing oversteer/understeer to
rotate the car and power through those corners).
Left foot braking is employed to slow the car, or to balance the car
in corners (transfering weight forward to rotate, etc).
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The techniques:
Left foot braking
Heel and toe
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Walter came to left foot braking relatively late in his career. In his
book "The Walter Rohrl Diary" (thoroughly recommended) he says that he
only learnt about left-foot braking when he went to Audi & he couldn't
qwell the quattro's understeer. Stig Blomquist (the left-foot master!)
took him out in a recce quattro & demonstrated the technique. Walt
claims that it took him quite a while to refine it because he kept
changing the pressure on the brake pedal while he pumped the gas. He
learnt that the secret is to retain a constant pressure on the brake
pedal while varying the throttle. Ever the modest Finn, Blomquist
denies that he taught Walter the technique & says he picked it up
himself. I know I may sound like an anorak (geek), but much as I love
the Mini I lalso have two Ur-quattros (early & late) because like many
petrol-heads in their 30's & 40's I was heavily influenced by the
Group B era of rallying which I humbly submit was a short but golden
era in motorsport.
Via MINI2.
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complete with all four machine cut mudflaps, 6 aluminium
brackets and fitting kit, including detailed instructions with
diagrams.
Specific fitmetments are available for the Impreza and the Lancer.
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Above are FastLine rally mudflaps.
Fastline Flaps are rally style mud flaps that use all factory holes
for mounting. There is no drilling to your beautiful new STI.
Ordering from FastLine was fine; they advised me these were back ordered,
and alerted me to when they were shipping. The installation instructions
mash together STi, RS 2.5 steps etc, and the photocopied pictures are a little
difficult to read for detail. Some of the mounting hardware is worked just fine,
but instead of using their drywall screws, I used autobody clips as shown below
from Rally Armor.
The FasLine mudflap installation took 90 minutes.
Rally Armor also makes mud flaps, rally style but modestly sized compared to FastLine.
Rally Armor's installation instructions are great.
Rally Armor clip:
iwsti threads:
1, 2.
Search for 'mud flap', 'mud flaps', 'mudflap', 'mudflaps'.
Photo: Credit.
The heat shrink tubing is 1 inch in diameter, and I used less
than 2 inches of a 4 foot long piece (the shortest they sold).
1. Let it dangle on its retention strap, against the fender
2. Balance it on the fuel door
3. Wedge it between the fuel door and fender
4. Use a clamp to hold it to the fuel door
5. Hang the strap over the notch in the fuel door engagement clip.
6. Hang it over the pump handle so it is not touching the paint
at all.
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My VW cap looked like it had been mitre-sawed about 6mm deep,
2mm wide, and the groove could be used for slotting and securing
the cap atop the fuel door.
My MINI had a loop on the inside of the fuel door which received
the threads of the cap and held it in place.
The STi has none of the above as I can tell. The cap can be rested
on the notch, but it often blows off.
Wheels: 18x8.0 Prodrive GC-06Ds
Tires: 225/40 ZR-18 BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW summer radials
