Rally car out of a BHA | Frankenstein Project

[nyl]

So yea i have another one that I plan to turn it into a rally car. It will be powered by 1.8 BPT engine, gonna turn it into a 4x4 car (all the frontal part gonna be modified to fit the engine and all the parts, also gonna replace front spoiler, hood, headlights, etc. with the ones from BJ 2003 chassis.

Any other ideas you guys might add for this "Frankenstein project"?

[worldhazard]

Um, cool idea, but unless you got some crazy mad fab skills, I'd honestly recommend going about something that will not be a damn near completely one-off build... but if you do, use the toyota alltrac drivetrain.. or better yet, hell just go 46g3t motor and evo running gear! lol

[irishkev90]

Agreed^

The work required to make the car 4WD will be a pain to begin with and require a ton of skill and money. And also modifying the front end to use the BJ body work and lights will take a lot of skill and patience.

Honestly, I'd love the see a BH rally car, but it's just not a reasonable thing to do, in my mind. Finding a BG 4WD would be much easier and a helluva lot cheaper.

[MD323]

bha could be very competitive in FWD rally. both my 323 and Mx3 tailslide corners on gravel with just some fancy steering input and speed


as far as 4x4 is concerned, that sound like a mighty be bite of project to take on.

[nerd racing]

I say do it! I am finding out that it is a lot of work to go AWD from FWD but it isn't impossible. Expect it to take time doing something that hasn't been done, or hasn't been well documented before.

[jay]

It won't be legal. NASA might be OK with it (MIGHT... haven't checked their rulebook on that lately), but RA says you can't make the drivetrain something that wasn't offered for that make and model by the factory.

By all means, build it into a rallycar. It can be made to be plenty fun as a frontdriver. To the point where putting the incredible amount of effort into making it 4wd even if legal to run, to be not worth it. Remember, a rallycar is something that when you wad it into a ball, you should be able to say "well that was fun" and afford to turn right around and build another. This is something that went by the wayside when I did the gt4 swap... it was supposed to be cheap, but I forgot the rule of "make your time/money estimates, then double or triple them"...and I wasn't even having to redo firewall and floorpan like you're gonna hafta do. 'Sides, 2wd has more street cred in US rally these days anyhow. After 2 open class 4wd cars, my next rallycar is gonna be a gp5 RWD, nuff said.