I bought a 1976 Dodge Colt today

12xalt Wrote:
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> Mr Rich, the plan is to save most everything for
> later and do this or that as things break while
> doing rallyx next year or as opportunity happens.
> I'm a poor single income person who just bought a
> house, house first, car second.
>
> John, if I could, I wuold, but I don't even have
> that right now, but I'm sure deals will be around
> in the future (hopefully0


OK, whatever. But I have to say that your plan "do this or that as things break while
> doing rallyx next year or as opportunity happens" is the best plan for spending a LOT more money...

That's just the way things work when you break things..

PLAN, be ready for "opportunity buys' and do things BEFORE they break costs less by far,
but like whatever...

least you ain't pisssing $1900 away on a dog for some guy.....

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John Vanlandingham
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how about "as needed" because it's "getting to where it might break"

rather than just going out and replacing things that still work

Merrilee,

Another option is to sort out your Colt on TSD Rallies with gravel roads. It takes time to properly sort out a Stage Rally car.

TSD's on gravel give you seat time.... and your car a workout. I fact, Scott Harvey retired his venerable ProRally Colt to TSD's in Michigan.

If your goal is Stage Rally, why break your car on rallycross?

Personally, I've never been a fan of rallycross and think you can learn a lot more about Stage Rally on some brisk gravel TSD's.

Rich Smith

I've never broken a car doing rallycross and I've been doing it off/on for a few years now (8 I think, 5 of them in the same totally stock tiburon, little fucker even led me to a class win for a season). I do enjoy TSDs and I suppose eventually the car will experience a few.

I think some of you are jumping well ahead of me though.

1st goal, get the car roadworthy with as few steps as possible. 2nd goal, run a rallycross (if it can't handle a rallycross, then I bought the wrong car).

Any goals beyond that are way off unless I somehow win lottery money.

RallyXs around here aren't usually car breakers. The rarely used ORV park is usually the roughest and it isn't that bad. Unortunately Merilees desire and dedication are probably much larger than the old wallet and RallyX is the best choice. In fact I'd be happy to help in anyway I could. Cage, exhaust whatever I can help with or save you some money just give me a shout.

again, thanks everyone for all the information, emails, offers of help, resources and knowledge that some of you have parts I may one day be able to afford to buy from you

now, if only Todd didn't have 14 thousand projects to do before I can talk him into playing with mine

The automatic is a real Chrysler Torqueflite- the "baby" A904. No wussy Borg-Warner stuff here. It was used behind small-block Chrysler V-8's. Direct (Mopar) Connection offered a shift kit for it. B & M probaby does also. The gasket that comes with the kit won't fit the one used by Mitsu but hte shift kit works great. Shifts with a real bang. Of course you still have the torque convertor slop. At least my Arrow sounded faster with the shift kit in.