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John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Yo Jeff, in the context of rally cars and rally RULES prohibiting "extractors" mounting to the outside of the wheel----the rules are referring to very skinny discs which you can see on the fronts in this very Soooper Bitchin piccie of a very Sooooper Bitchin car: 
Now I gotta go read some cool comparison of works cars on this nutso good French site i found.. Gawddam they dig deep and post so much archival stuff, amazing.....same in bikes, amazing, Here's another, not quite so soooooper but clear. 
So your whatever "tirelief" or whatever is one thing, but rally rules prohibiting 'extractors' refer to these things which were once the rage for those asphalt pervs----and which indeed MIGHT be capable of cleanly slicing off a speccie's head, considering how cheesily that some peoples would mount them... 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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Thanks JV, that is what I always had in mind when I read that rule. I can only imagine how many souveniers we'd have around after a rally if those were used. |
John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Well now you see the violence in the---wait, wrong taunt! Now you see some advantage of being er uh having been around and involved 20 years ago when these were the rage--in Europe---on asphalt, and knowing they were banned by FIA start of 1993 season. And ya also know that the US rule was simply adopted and sat there without thought or purpose for nearly 2 decades. Now today's lesson: Vatanen 1987 1000 Lakes works Ford Sierra. 2nd OA against a fleet of Lancias, GTX, Audis....Blomqvist 3rd..or vice versa,,, whatever it was we long sighted sorts knew the Xratty could be a car capable of any OA result, if the driver had skill. .jpg) 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 08/18/2011 10:57AM by john vanlandingham. |
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John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Ain't mine but I have the key to the shop. Manual lathe, 4 CNC lathes, manual mill. Across the way is Blanchard surface grinder, a mile away is kake's with a couple more CNC lathes and 3 multi-axis CNC machining Centers for mill work. Here's the latest NEW! NEW! NEW thing: Volvo steel flywheels 
Here's other things: Volvo 8 and 16v steel cam cores: 
Volvo to Borg-Warner T5 gearbox bellhousings 
Volvo 11.75 x 1.25" disc and alloy bell; 
Yeah a variety of things. Whaddya have in mind? 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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Banned Infallible Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
You don't need calipers...those hats are so pretty that spectators jump out and stop the car to get a better look. 
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John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
We got them under the BBS looking Volvo 15", under the 'Sirius" 15", and under Omega 15"things that look like Compomotive TH or Sparco OZ. More piccies are taken but not uploaded yet.. I use the same specific Wilwood Forged Superlite that I do on the Xratty set up: 
Very powerful, yet easy to modulate just short of lock up. Todays lesson: the most important performance system and the most rewarding in terms of better stage times and safety is the brake system.... These brakes are good enough brakes that you are on par with, par--parity--with the top cars in the US in terms of braking--hairsplitting of 1% type stuff excepted (Sure sure AP calipers are better, but at $780 a caliper I don't see many Anarchistas de rally buying APs). SO: if we can have torque like anybody else, decent ratios like anybody else, at most speeds we do stages good enough grip, similar or same final drive, and now brakes as good.... What's stopping you from top 3 stages times? 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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A lack of them, anyway.
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John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
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