The suspension has been awesome!!

Inevitably, as you improve your equipment and increase speed you look for further improvement ... if I had the budget, I'd start looking for alternative that had adjust-ability in dampening and bump - but I think this would more than double the cost (think Reiger ...

Hi - as most of you know, 034 MS has discontinued support of their ECUs...and of course, just in the knick of time, I've popped the reverse polarity diode:

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This is probably a $5 part - easy fix - if only I knew what part to order!! Does anyone know what the part number is ...

lol - I'm sure I stole it from somewhere...I recommend tying in the strut towers to your cage. My first rally 4k did not until I hit a big hole in a winter event that pushed one of the towers back about 2"...they're not that strong on their own...

Skid plate is pretty weighty - but it still got bent by a rogue baby head in Saguenay - deflected enough to bend the bolts on the oil pan extension...but the car, with 1/2 tank of fuel and a spare tire came in at 3038#'s

Square tube to the underbody



Smaller square tube to the skid plate


Slip square tubes into each other, 2 bolts - and you're good (I also have hitch pins that go through the square tube in case I do loose the front somehow)

Also made some high mis-alignment nut holders using old sockets...this has proven to be invaluable.

Posting pics of my skid plate setup as several folks have asked:

FIrst I built a support frame from 1" DOM.

If the tire is more in the upright position - you might be able to modify the floor some ?

yep - here is a pic of how I changed the bracket - it moves the tank back a bit, but not so much that I had to change the bulkhead configuration. I don't know how this would work with stock fuel lines as I have a different implementation for the fuel pumps...

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I just remembered that I moved the gas tank backwards by modifying the brackets (I'll look for those pics too) - plus you'll see that I cut the trunk a bit in a wide v-shape in order to facilitate in-out.

2 195/15 fit, but only 1 205/15 will fit

I'll take some pics tonight - its a tight squeeze and I cut some body material near the lock pin...

here are some weight stats on the rig:

LF 884 Front 1789 58.9%
RF 905 Rear 1249 41.1%
LR 593 LF/RR 1540 50.7%
RR 656 RF/LR 1498 49.3%
Total 3038 R Bite

A wee bit heavier than I thought - I bit lop sided on the rear left-to-right (I'll check the heights later to make sure they are even) - but ...

AJ - I only measured 7A exhaust, I don't remember why intake was discarded, I think it was due to contributing to high lag - but might be worth looking at again.

Chaloux - that would be interesting

See facey space for a video ;p

no worries - I'm sure I can source one when we go back to the dyno...and here are the results from the dyno...and there are always people to recognize that have helped on the journey:

Marc Swanson - EFI Express - this guy knows his business, has been tuning quite some time and prefers to play it ...

Very interesting albeit perhaps too late for this first go-around of tuning...which one did you buy?

US Performance Rally is overshadowed by very unfortunate spectator deaths that occurred in early 2000's - this led to SCCA dropping the sport altogether and lots of rules to make the sport 'safer' - the restrictor being one that would slow the cars down - agree or disagree - I don't see unlimited ...

Coupe Du Quebec was on the verge of instituting something along those lines - you either run 91 octane or race gas - but always through the restrictor. The concept being that the 'big dollar' teams would run race gas and the weekender teams would run 91 - 'evening' things out as far as $$'s go...the ...

haha Dana - yep, trying to get as much value out of the relatively meager dollars I have compared to the big guns I'm racing against...I figure this information will help others and will certainly help me figure out what I need to do next...

and there's more - in order to be able to tune at the dyno I've made a degree wheel that we can use to measure what's going on



downside of the 3b intake manifold is that you need to remove the TB to remove the valve cover

in order to try to wrap my head around this - I built a model that shows the degrees of the crank and which stroke the piston is on. This helped my understand that the way I currently have the cams set, is exactly what you want:
1. Exhaust as piston begins descent on the intake stroke
2. both closed ...

ok - believe it or not I'm finally getting ready to start this thing - but in doing all the necessary due dilligence, I've discovered that my Cam timing graph is fawking wrong - if anyone would like to verify my thinking that would be GREAT!!!!

So here's the thing - motor turns clockwise, that ...

I've looked at the TR30r - $10k - $15k each. You should have bought those lol Might have been the same guy I was considering buying them from

I think a street version is very simple - you can buy shorter inserts and shorter/stiffer springs - I'm thinking of doing this for a tarmac setup...

I'll measure the springs - but I remember they were 14" or so? I also just noticed that your arm looks a whole ton lower than mine - your rise from the shock body to the tie rod hole looks to be around 3" where mine looks like its around 7"...

Btw - since I swapped the ball joints left to right to ...