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    Wild West Rally

    Still recovering from the weekend.. I wasn't planning on running this rally but decided at the last minute to try to get the car ready, which mostly meant retrofitting my old GTX shocks to fit the rallyprotege...This turned out to be not easy. But, mostly, everything else on the car seemed ready to rumble so off we went on a 6 hour tow to Pomeroy, WA, for a brand-new location for a rally. We get there and find the revised start order. Fastest drivers start first, and on down from there. They have us starting 2nd....no pressure...
    The main worry with a new unfamiliar event is, how accurate is the route book? Mostly, it was pretty good, 'cept for one corner about a mile into the very first stage, it said, "over crest into downhill easy right" and it shoulda said "over crest into double caution immediate downhill hard right ditch outside" and we kinda rode that ditch a while and took the LF tire off the wheel. Tried to finish the stage like that but it was beating the car up too bad so we stopped and put the spare on. Well, that thing broke apart about 3 miles later. So there we are, no spare, 2 dead tires. We took it off the front, and put it on the rear, and that way we had 2 good tires up front so I could steer. We got through the stage, raced the next stage on 3 tires, and made it into service. We thought the only damage was to the tire, but from then on, the car just didn't wannna run right. Way, way down on power and we still don't know why. But it got so bad that we just let the last 3 stages of the day go. We would have lost a drag race to a Geo Metro, there was no point in thrashing on it under those conditions; not when we were at the bottom of the pack after losing 2 tires on one stage. All the same, we were lucky; 4 other cars got totalled on that one corner.
    Day 2 and the car isn't running very well at all but it's a bit better after plugs and filterchange and such. But by by the end of stage 1 it's back down to about 100 hp again and I got a bit frustrated.... stage 3 comes and I drove that fuquer at 10/10ths, almost never lifted off the gas and won the stage. The rest of the field musta been napping! And then on the last stage of the day, a repeat of the one we won, some power magically showed up at around 4 grand and we took 22 sec off our time. We ended up 4th in class for the day and called it good. The car needs some serious luvin', which it's gonna get before the next rally. We're talking GT28RS, new ECU, new suspension, not old GTX handmedowns. But that rally was FANTASTIC... fabulous roads, short transit stages, enthusiastic locals (one stage got lengthened a little bit becasue a homeowner wanted the cars racing past his house, and the local cops came out and radared us on a few of the long straights so we could seee how fast we were all going), great organization. Next year it's gonna be even better.
    '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
    '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
    http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/vbpi...?do=view&g=110
    http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2599486

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    that sounds awesome jay. I was watching the stats as they updated, was wondering why you had 30 min on stage 1 saturday and why you quit out a few stages. Good to hear and see you made up some time on sunday. Wish I could have gone and watched, would have been awesome. maybe I'll race instead
    No car! I soldz it. Now I have a truck. I like it, but apparently it has a hard time keeping up with a slightly modified 4WD protege with half the hp. Neat.

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      #3
      I was going to go to that but it didn't really pan out.

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        #4
        Plan on attending one way or another next year. The county wants to see a superspecial stage in the fairgrounds....
        '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
        '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
        http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/vbpi...?do=view&g=110
        http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2599486

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          #5
          Originally posted by jay View Post
          Plan on attending one way or another next year. The county wants to see a superspecial stage in the fairgrounds....
          Yeah I'm going to make time to come next year. What I'd really love to do is put a car together that can make it through a race (even if it's slow).

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            #6
            Well, that's rallying, ups and downs. Good write up and congrats on a decent finish on day two with being down on power. Fastest stage time with low power, sounds like your right foot was glued to the floor and no brakes... Good luck with the upgrades and your next rally. One of these days I've got to get up north for a race...

            -Jon R.

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              #7
              So not in shelton any more for the wild west... One of my favorites.. The only thing I disslike about that rally is Forespring...

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                #8
                yeah well, ya take the good with the bad and such. The new location f-ing ROCKS. And Jon, come on up for either this one or the Doo wop rally the end of February, you won't be disappointed!
                '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
                '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
                http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/vbpi...?do=view&g=110
                http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2599486

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                  #9
                  How likely would it be that a stock BG wouldn't make it through the doo wop rally? lol..

                  Never done stage rally before but I'd like to try it..

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                    #10
                    LOL! a stock *anything* won't pass tech. Even production class have lots and lots of mods done, rollcage, seats, belts, etc ( but y'all knew all that, right!)...best way to get into rally is buy a cheap already-prepped car. And Doowop has some rough bits. But this rally in Pomeroy? Really, you could get by on stock street suspension, the roads were that good. Yah rly... no
                    '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
                    '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
                    http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/vbpi...?do=view&g=110
                    http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2599486

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by jay View Post
                      LOL! a stock *anything* won't pass tech. Even production class have lots and lots of mods done, rollcage, seats, belts, etc ( but y'all knew all that, right!)...best way to get into rally is buy a cheap already-prepped car. And Doowop has some rough bits. But this rally in Pomeroy? Really, you could get by on stock street suspension, the roads were that good. Yah rly... no
                      Well I mean stock plus a roll cage and belts / seats. I guess I should give up on this idea right now though, I don't think there is anything cheap about rally

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                        #12
                        I wish there was. A set o' Michelins runs about 7 bills and last one rally if you don't punture one. But you can. if you shop around, get an OK gp2 or gp5 car for 3k or so, but to put a legal cage in a stock car will run a couple grand all by itself. But there is no more fun thing to do with a car!
                        '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
                        '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
                        http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/vbpi...?do=view&g=110
                        http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2599486

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