Congrats to Mike and Claudia for 2wd Drubbing at SD!
Posted by wvonkessler
Wilson von Kessler Elite Moderator Location: Lookout Mountain, GA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,127 Rally Car: Colts are in Finland; now '87 325i, '89 325i |
Congrats to Mike Hooper and Claudia Pullen for their wins at Sno and Drift. Calculated against the big boys, they were 4 minutes ahead of their next 2wd competitors, and beat a bunch of fancy schmantzy equipment with their crusty old E30.
 "Talk about drugs. Driving a car like that, going that fast, it’s like all the drugs at once." - Tommy Byrne "Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?" - The Brain Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2016 11:42AM by wvonkessler. |
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Very well done! Always liked the e30 and good to see someone doing it justice!
Hey john didn't you rally one of them fail wheel drive things... 
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That's how awesome he was (is.) He handicapped himself with an underpowered (but well geared) fail wheel drive car just so everyone else could think they had a chance against him. Poor bastids never knew what hit them. |
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John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Yeah I did..And a year before I enter first event for real I had a very nice fully factory rebuilt close ratio box with a 5,83:1 final drive and a fresh all steel 4 pinion LSD...and soon had spares.. The VERY exact thing that is now so cripplingly expensive for all FWD cars---if there anything even made for whatever thing some guy gets a bright idea to build.. That box cost USD345 and $370 to airfreieght in..Still have it, (several ring and pinions later), LSD still works fine- (been shimmed a couple of times) So I had THE big problem solved..one that would cost $3000-6500 for asy cars....or for the way bad FWD Fiestas just the gear stick and mount is $1800....brand new T5 trans is under that for a completely new gearbox. And remember, my own business was niche specialist on those particular model V4 powered Saabs. The rally car was a demo car...And thus every penny of rally parts, frieght, gas, licences, the huge $75 or $85 entry fees/day, machine shop work, eventually the van and its tires, gas, trans, motor, insurance, 90% of the phone bill were ALL Business expenses and deducted under ADVERTISEMENT. Thus reducing taxable income and helping lower tax liability... But I did not even then push 96s as an idea for others very vigorously... Those days I pushed Opels: Manta and Ascona A chassi....and helped of course anybody regardless of it was a Datsun or a Toyota or Colt or Capri or a GHL...even tried to help the one Volvo loon at the time.....except he was in his own fantasy world and beyond help..( In early 90s when Volvo was dethroning Ascona B as THE car I ran into him at a shop and had a nice current issue of the weekly paper FULL of results...He insisted "Nobody runs 240s...Every runs 140s..That's because the double a arm suspension" I tried to get him to look at the current 1 week old newspaper where the results for rally after rally in A, B, or C class were Ascona, 240, 240 Ascona, Ascona, 240 240, Escort, 240...page after page..only now and then were the in C class a rare 140.. Literally poked fingers in ears "I can't look , not time to look LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA !" And ran away.. Too bad the guys on the counter were both good friends who saw the whole thing and sorta said, Hey currrent issue, let's look at results and aloud "Whoa cool lookie: Ascona 240 240 Ascona 240 240..." Hilarious... 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. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2016 08:06PM by john vanlandingham. |
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Actually considering you guys have been going pretty good 9-10 events with one of those boxes is a miracle! Whaddya gonna do now? Time to move up to 2wd???  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. |
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