Bobby Pitman--hows the project going?
Posted by john vanlandingham
Mark Hille Professional Moderator Location: The hills of CT Join Date: 10/04/2011 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 135 Rally Car: I have two crap boxes |
A cage and the first event entry cost. 
If the t9 shifts run it. Don't build the honda. You will never get back the money and time and effort you spend doing so and it could have all been put into the Merkur. Its a lot of effort/money to change rally platforms. Just think of the spares you have/need. Buying a decent used car will be cheaper and easier and faster than building a decent Merkur. If you want to build the Merkur go ahead. There are enough people on here to walk you through it. Just know that you will never recoup the time and money you put into it. You are doing all this work and spending all this money for fun....so if your not having fun is it really worth it??? Read that last sentence as "If you don't thoroughly enjoy doing automotive work, if you are not capable of doing almost all of the work yourself, If you don't have at least $6,000 to sink into building a car (probably much more because the little things add up quick), and if you are not patient enough to spend a crap load of time building a car.........then you would be better off buying one." Where in NY are you? BRS and ESPR are both nasa events and are both in NY. Either one of them could be enjoyed with a near stock Merkur with a cage and safety equipment Ask me how I know. The suspension would be nice but isn't necessary to have fun and could be added later (sooner than later). You could throw $30,000 at the Merk and I personally still wouldn't ever put money on you winning the 2wd class anytime soon. No offense. You would still probably just be that outgunned. Just go out there and have fun. That is your point. Go do that.... Want to race RA? Take grant up on his offer to get that na manifold and drive that turd of a car to its limit until they let you put the snail back on. After all, driving a turd of a car is more fun to me than laying underneath one for hours on end...... |
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The best thing to do with that money would be to but the VW you were talking about, do some events and learn about the sport, what you like about the VW and - more importantly - what you don't like and incorporate those lessons in your Merkur build. It might push back the completion date of the XRatty, but you'll be stage sooner and learning about what you really want out of your first build. Best thing is ... as long as you don't ball it up you should be able to sell the VW for very nearly what you bought it for, just paying 'operating' costs while running it. (which you'd have for any car) It's near impossible to do that with a car you build from the ground up.) First Rally: 2001 Driver (7), Co-Driver (44) Drivers (16) Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4) Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0) Last Updated, January 4, 2015 
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