gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
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gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
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gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
It's rough, iddnit, but as a 4wd car it'll be more inner-esting for selling.
lemme know if you need nice sooper bitchin suspenders. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
I may have to take you up on that john . Have you ever done any 1995-99 eclipse suspension. Pretty straight forward design , minus the dual wishbone dumb b.s . I think I can make the 3rd gen front suspension work in a 2g with the old school solid lower control arms .
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
I've done first gen and it was straitforward. You probably have some 1st gen junk laying around, first thing I'd look at is the splines on the outer CV. If you can poke 'em into first gen then you can probably pull it off, the rest really is just connecting the dots... Next thing would be to check CV ID splines if the OD into the hub wont work. In some furrin country where they talk all funny VW guys describe making hybrid outer CV by using the inner cage of one thing with the outer housing/stub of another like some Audi. Maybe that could work but those Japanese are tricky fawkers and the chgange spine couints for no good reason--like the transfer case spline going from 21 to whatever...or legacy rear spine into the hub being 1 toofie less or whatever than Impretzled. With first gen hubs its an easy 190mm/7.5" travel deal and wasn't any tire to spring interference. What's the rear shock lime for mounting? Damn forked things on bottom? John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
OK, I'm sure something can be figured out. Probably 50s by the time you're ready so you can smack into stuff when you get all stoooopid.. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
gagegregory Gage Gregory Senior Moderator Location: Knoxville Tn Join Date: 01/15/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 138 Rally Car: 1996 Eagle Talon Tsi |
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czwalga steve czwalga Senior Moderator Location: Pittsburgh, PA Join Date: 09/16/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 376 Rally Car: 95 awd celica |
I dont know dsm's well and what things are worth, but wouldnt you be better of selling the engine/turbo to some ricer kids?
Throw a decent NA engine in. Most likely be cheaper especially if something breaks and you'll come out ahead $. You can still drive a low powered car fast and you'll probably develop better habits because of it. This is probably just me personally, but if I was looking for a rally car, it wouldnt matter what engine it had in it; I wouldnt pay any more money for the the turbo'd engine vs an NA engine; as a starter/beginner rally car. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Steve, people have been saying that forever, and it is groundless but it keeps getting repeated...the inevitabl thing that's next is boys start mumbling confused versions of "maintaining momentum" and "high cornering speed" Think of this. Watch a vid (gotta find them with speed and gear diplayed)of Loeb or Gronholm at a T junction on gravel and they'll be down to about 40km/hr at the slowest point. 40km/hr is 24 mph..of course they're on the gas again and BAM! up to speed. The guys talking fast cars teach bad habits don't know. They are with 99.9% certainty lame ass brakers--brakes being the hardest thing to master--since its the thing needing the most judgement..And they probably haven't owned a "fast" car SLOW cars teach bad lessons, bad lessons teach bad habits.. EVENTUALLY a person must learn to show restraint in things. Slow car are so slow what guys learn is tho try and throw them at corners--because they're afraid to slow down---BECAUSE it takes hours to get back up to speed... So they throw the cars at corners--remember they're newb-u-lar type guys---and they go off crash, DNF and most importantly miss the mileage they most disparately need.. We who know better must stop repeating Bad Cliches, and recognize where those cliches originate and why people say 'em.. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
czwalga steve czwalga Senior Moderator Location: Pittsburgh, PA Join Date: 09/16/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 376 Rally Car: 95 awd celica |
Wasn't Loebs first rally car a sub 100hp fwd Peugeot or something?
Really it doesn't matter though, the point is it may be a way for him to save money and rally more next season. Whether the numbers work out he would know better than I would. Its just a suggestion. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Doubt that. Probably closer to 130, and knowing the Cup rules--which I have scanned from 2001, it was probably with short gearing.. see the French don't fuck around. Most drive their daily driver 1.3 or 1.4 cars quicker on open roads than most of the field here does on SS.. seriously. I've driven 10s of thousands of miles in France back and forth around the whole country for 2 race seasons, and last was there in a little 1.1 Fiat rental car in 1993 for WRC Monte Carlo. My co-driver was scared shitless and we were a rolling traffic jam and were powned bad by even service rigs passing foot down round blind corners three wheeling I saw once. After 3rd day he decided to return the car and split "if we are ever to be friends again" He was terror stricken and had 6 years as co-driver at that point.. When French go rally they aren't going to drive something slow, they want to drive a car different from their daily driver and its going to have more motor, and better box.... Besides, if there was a class of 20-40 1.3 cars in a Cup or Trophee, then in that class there's competition, and importantly depth of competition. One blink and 10 guys are ahead. And, we ain't Loeb. The most impressive cars at '93 Monte were the 1.3s especially Pavel Sibera and Emil Triner in the Skodas. If you've ever watched the videos of the God named Jean Ragnotti, then you have an idea of how they must drive. Have you seen any of Ragnotti? John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Pascal Pascal Belperron Professional Moderator Location: Ipswich, MA Join Date: 12/08/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 12 Rally Car: 85' Saab 900 |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Mod Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
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