STi

I doubt that there is any single piece of the streaming video from in
the footwell that directly connects with the footage out the
windscreen, but to watch all of this going on is flat AMAZING.

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 is one of the greatest & was voted Driver of the Millenium by
his peers who span the top league of FIA motorsport - Formula One &
WRC. That footage is taken from the 1986 San Remo Rally in the quattro
E2 - the last victory for what I feel is the most charismatic rally
car built. Some of the outside shots show a quattro A2 (LWB) and
others show an E1 and an E2 - so there is a mismatch between the
interior shots and some of the exterior shots.

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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Ralli Art mudflaps are available from the UK from Scott Lowe.

Incorporating laser jet technology the kits are supplied
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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Long Island Subaru Club (LISC), the Longisland usergroup.

Nice logo.

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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.

Sample Rally Armor instruction:

Rally Armor clip:

iwsti threads:

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Search for 'mud flap', 'mud flaps', 'mudflap', 'mudflaps'.

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