Ziptie Rally Team (ZRT) is proud to announce the addition of car 858 to the team! Car 858, a 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX, will be driven by Anthony “Izzy†Israelson and co-driven by Jason Standage in Rally America’s Open Light class. Anthony and Jason are newcomers to rally competition and are looking to learn and capitalize on the experiences of teammates Carl Siegler and Dave Goodman. Carl and Dave operate car 171, a 2004 Subaru STI. In 2009 they ran in Open Light (finishing 3rd driver and 2nd co-driver in the Central Regional Open Light standings) and have moved to Open class for 2010. Anthony and Jason in their new rally car Anthony and Jason will be making their rally debut at the Nemadji Trail Rally on May 8th in Duquette, MN. After that, they plan to contest Gravity Park, Nemadji Trail 2, Nemadji Trail 3, Ojibwe, and LSPR in an effort to secure the 18 coefficients necessary to transition to Super Production or Open for 2011. Carl and Dave will be competing at these same events (with the exception of Gravity Park as they will be traveling to STPR the week after) and hope for a solid two car ZRT showing. The 171 car is coming off a strong showing at 100AW taking 2nd in Open and 3rd overall during Friday’s regional rally (a small engine fire took them out of Saturday’s rally) and is currently 2nd in Central Regional Open class standings. Carl and Dave at 100AW Ziptie Rally is a performance rally team based out of Golden Valley, MN. The addition of car 858 gives ZRT a strong presence in the Duluth, MN area as both Anthony and Jason hail from the region. ZRT’s crew chief, Matt Alexander also lives in Duluth. For more information on the Ziptie Rally Team look them up on facebook or visit their website www.ziptierally.com.
It is a 02 RS, swap to WRX, has a custom cages cage, DMS struts/spings. Was run as SP/PGT car most of its life, log book goes back to 05, believe was 21 or 22 races on it. Currently getten swapped back to RS spec to be Open Light
Nice guys! Lookin forward to making it to NT2 or NT3 and cheering both cars on. Izzy, you use anything from Tonym's old car?
sounds nice, who had it before? good luck with the season. remember just finishing your first rally is a major victory.
Dash wirings all back in place, did some mad scientist on engine harness, soon to be mating engine back to trans, keeping fingers crossed to have her back in tonight!
The car was raced by the polish clan out of chicago, before that it was mostly run on the east coast. Motor and trans are installed got get couple plugs on trans swapped, my be running again tonight! As soon as she's running ill get some pics up! Only thing coming off TonyM's car will be the rally bar lol
Play'd mad scientist some more last night, consulted our knowledgeable crew chief Chux, car now cranks, runs for 10 seconds then dies, figured out a few more things that need to be changed. Back to the garage after work tonight! Many thanks to Carl, Dave and Chux for the help!
View attachment 21745 Day three of owning the car, 2.0 T comes out, kinda sad..... View attachment 21746 Dash all back together..... View attachment 21747 97 Legacy GT 2.5 Transplant..... switching the wiring was interesting..... but it works! View attachment 21748 Offically RA 858 View attachment 21749
View attachment 21750 My GD line up View attachment 21751 Doing alittle work at home..... View attachment 21752 Dante using Carls line.. "we gotta go...." View attachment 21753 DJ ... dad as soon as I can reach its on
Damn Izzy you got a lot of cars and the boy is getting huge! You still have the cop car and the Stangs?
Custon header built and installed, basically straight piped. You can still tell she's a boxer, just has a different tone to her! Many thanks Phil for all the welding and tool of death cutting/grinding, Nate thanks for un-f-ing the windows, and finding/stopping the leaks!
Wish I could have made it over to the boonies of soup yesterd, say some pics from Nate tho, excited to hear this thing. (maybe this weekend or something?)
