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czwalga steve czwalga Junior Moderator Location: Pittsburgh, PA Join Date: 09/16/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 376 Rally Car: 95 awd celica |
Not sure, but my first car was basically sandblasted to death with the entire underside rusting due to it. The plastic doesn't prevent big damage, but slow degradation of the sheet metal. If you prep it in between rallys, i'm sure you can preserve it, but its easy to slap the plastic on in the beginning. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/02/2016 09:24AM by czwalga. |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Professional Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
Yeah, but how many events did you do in that car. Finns build a new car like every two years if they can keep from crashing it. Grant Hughes |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Yeah same with my old car. Entire underside completely clean and bare..Never a big deal out here when we would go play in the woods between events 1-2 times a month but when i moved to fawkin Bawstin immediately it was panic...so it got carefully prepped and painted. And yeah rock spray is a bitch..Out here almost all the so called gravel is actually crushed rock and the rock is often old basaltic igneous nasty shit and "large" so it does abrade the metal... But some stategically placed armor and some deflectors is one thing... blanketing layers in the way of all everything underneath is often just the "this is good....5 times is 5 times better" mentality.. Hey Steve, I think you did good in the snow...What suspenders did you use? 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 Junior Moderator Location: Pittsburgh, PA Join Date: 09/16/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 376 Rally Car: 95 awd celica |
Ha, I had a hell'ish event. Somehow managed 2nd in OL the first regional without notes for 3 out of 6 stages; guys usually right behind me had issues. Dad got sick; never really happened to him before; puked with about 5 miles left on the last stage. Second day, ran two pretty poor stages; re-ran the first stage and drove balls out.... then on the 2nd to last corner I stalled and slid into a snowbank and somehow got stuck; lost 16 minutes. From there I drove about 80% aside from 1 stage (hungry 5, just cause I was familiar with it). Pulled a bunch of people out, was getting stuck behind some people. To top it all of, lost a wheel on the trailer and had to drive the rally car home 8 hours, with a transmission not geared for it and straight pipe. 4200 RPM for 8 hours sucks. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2016 07:21AM by czwalga. |
tdrrally edward mucklow Godlike Moderator Location: charleston,wv Join Date: 05/31/2011 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 763 Rally Car: ford mustang LX 5.0, 1973 VW Beetle |
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