Deepwater Sporting Car Club, Targa Tasmania, Julia Rabbett, Tony Sullens, Jim Richards, Subaru, WRX, S202, Subaru S202, Targa, Rally Club based on The Central Coast

The engine is STD with STD exhaust (60mm) it has more boost, 1.7 bar and tuned with ECUTEK by Paul Fisher @ MRT and Michael South in a joint effort of Research & Development, which will benefit many others with what we both have learnt.

The engine was done by Michael South and Tony Sullens, the cams were degreed in and apart from that it is STD. The power band is very narrow thanks to the very small exhaust, peak power was near 240kw @ the hubs and at 5400rpm, torque was near 500 Nm.

The car was a bare shell 3 weeks ago, Tony had never driven it until
Targa, Michael South did the suspension testing and tuning the week before Targa while Tony & Julia were already in Tasmania doing reci, the spring rates were way to stiff, but the springs we wanted were not available, so it was a case of 'run it as it is'.

THE COMPETITION

There are near on 50 of these in GT2's and 3's, there are almost as many
GTR's, R32's, 33's and 34's that run in Targa as well as the odd Monaro, Torana and Walkinshaw.

After Day 1 and some adjusting from dirt to Tar Tony & Julia were heading up the
leader board, by Day 2 they were in the lead, Tony then took it easy on the tyre's, the 4 tyre's you start with is all you are allowed for the complete event, over 2500km's and 400 competitive, if a team changes a tyre for any reason , they incur a 2 minute penalty, Jim Richards was in the lead after Day 2.

Then there was some neat driving on some wet stages where Tony not only caught Peter Brock but passed him in the stage ( and caught it all on incar footage as well), At the end of the stage Peter Brock came up to Tony and was totally blown away at how much Tony left him behind!

By Friday night (Day 3) Tony was down by 19 seconds, a spin on the lap of the local race track lost Tony 11 of that.

Day 5 - Sunday - This was the day the service crews had to get up really early to get out to a service point that was to later be blocked by road closures, the roads were wet and the waterfalls were flowing, it was only going to get better from here.

It was raining and this was our best chance, on first stage not only did
Tony & Julia win another stage but they also took the lead again. The following stages, one of which was over 40km long, it snowed and light hail, Tony took near 2mins from Jim, the weather was to change the whole event, now the top 3 spots outright were held by 4wd's, GTR 2nd and Tony Quinn 3rd.

Tony passed 10 cars in this stage, had a spin, hit a post and still won the stage which claimed 7 cars, many of those were write offs!

Channel 10 had 2 cameras installed all rally, after last yr where Tony
was leading they knew he would be fast again in the wet, what they
didn't count on was him been fast in the dry too!

At the presentation a guy was overheard talking to his wife
talking about Tony, this is what he said "Gee that guy can drive, he went around the outside of me on a tight corner sideways in the wet with two wheels on the dirt!" Gives you an idea of the commitment required not only on your own, but to minimize the time lost when you catch someone!

At the end of the day the Team and The sponsors all did there bit to
make this happen, all the days on the dyno, all the nights in the
workshop, history was rewritten!

Anthony Barkley, Michael South, Quinno, Phil Faulkner, Sharlene Sullens, Sue South

MRT Performance, ECuTek, GMC, Mitre 10-Gosford, Kumho Tyres, Race Brakes Sydney & Sonoco Fuel.