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Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?

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Re: Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?
February 13, 2012 07:23PM
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I loved the Escort. Chatting with Mike was a pleasure the whole day. That car has some WICKED engineering behind it, but man... does it vent gas horribly. I could smell the damn thing driving behind it half a mile on long straightaways. I'm surprised Mike and Josh didn't pass out from the fumes in the car!

He would have even towed my butt back to town if his motor wasn't overheating and the lifters were about to give up the ghost. Class act.

Bummed that we received a 4min penalty for declaring the wrong time on the MTC at the end of the day, but Sarah didn't double check her math and we were a bit stressed trying to avoid crashing into Andrew on the 12 mile flat-tow back to town!

All in all, a good weekend. My 3rd podium (woot!) and it was a good time. Sarah and I really started to click in the car by the end of the event and I think we're going to kick some butt later this year. Time to upgrade the suspension as I easily lost minutes every pass through Campbell Lake/CJ's Loop due to the wicked rough stuff. sad smiley

Working on vids now...

Wicked rough?!?! Where?!?!? Where!?!?



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Re: Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?
February 21, 2012 06:37PM
C'mon Dan, you're just rubbing it in! Your truck has 17"/18" suspension travel while the average rally "car" has ~6". It's not the same thing.



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Re: Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?
February 21, 2012 08:33PM
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C'mon Dan, you're just rubbing it in! Your truck has 17"/18" suspension travel while the average rally "car" has ~6". It's not the same thing.

The average rally car has 7.5" to 8.25" front and 8 to 9" rear.

Lots of stock road cars (Subaru, Xratty , Golf, most all Japonaise) have 6" front, 7.5 to 8" rear.



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Re: Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?
February 21, 2012 10:23PM
gargle my nutsack.


wait.....wut?

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