Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
Purest look away, hardcore fans get a barf bag. But here it is, enjoy.
"Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
Banned Mega Moderator Location: the end of the universe Join Date: 02/12/2006 Age: Ancient Posts: 1,432 Rally Car: 1980 Opel Ascona B |
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Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
tee hee have made the elders scratch there heads in WTFness
"Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
love it or hate it, i have to get some credit for dreaming outside of the box and following through with it. Better then most the bench racers out there.
 "Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
Banned Mega Moderator Location: John and Skyes Magic Love liar Join Date: 08/24/2007 Posts: 2,154 |
And the gloves are off! Welcome to the cult of JVL drink the koolaid or be banned. |
Grant Hughes Senior Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
Hey Matt. I love it but it's not moving in that picture? Getting a engine running in a different vehicle is the easy part. Getting it to move and drive not weird and fix any design issues is the hard part! Grant Hughes |
Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
well its mildly hard to get moving shots with no one to hold a camera. not unless we all want a drive by shot.
but I get ya, i have some miles on it, it's all up and down the folks drive way, sure no one knows that is almost a mile long and looks like most rally stages out there, but yeah there you go, if you could see it, you would probably understand why i was drawn to rally so much, probably because i have been yelled at for years about driving up it to fast.
also they have a huge old horse field that i have purposely been driving around in trying to find any noises, clunks, other weirdo things. nothing like hitting some whoopies with some moderate speed to drag your fuck ups out. as of now, the only thing i have to report was a clunking 10+ year old shock, so things are still attached where they are supposed to be. i get a windshield tomorrow, i'll let you know if it blows up on the road. nothing like hitting the freeway to chase those gremlins out. "Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
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Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
Well first the rotary was long gone and didn't even have a motor mount to start with, and I think a stock volvo motor may hold that title better.
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Kevin Turner Mod Moderator Location: Newark, DE Join Date: 01/27/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 364 Rally Car: 2wd Impreza... dude you should do an sti swap |
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Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
Challenge accepted.
Drive quite nicely, took it up to about 70, windshields are for pussys.
Think my tranny may not had been such a great deal as I thought before, it's rattling pretty good on deceleration. So it's that or the third member, which felt really good when I redid the bearing preload, so I'm pointing my finger at the trans right now. Nothing a summer of rebuilding a tranny can't fix "Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
John Vanlandingham Super 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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Oliver Klozoff Senior Moderator Location: Oregon Join Date: 09/10/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 480 Rally Car: Nada |
Meh, I'm having fun, that's really all that matters.
Sure could I have made more blah blah blah with whatzit and a whozit motor, sure I could have taken this from this and mated it with this to make that. Rally isn't always the best ideas put forward, hell we strap ourself into cars and fling them down gravel roads at stupid speeds for pity sakes. In the end of the day it all comes down to what puts a smile on your face. sure I could had tracked down all the parts needed to put a rotary back in there, but it wasn't what I wanted to try to do. I wanted to see if I could do it. it puts a smile on my old mug to walk into the garage and see what I built. I'm proud of what I have done. There was a million other ways this build could have gone, this was my build and my money so this is how I wanted to build it. If you want a rotary powered rx7, go build yourself one, personally i didnt. "Rally racing makes a heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty" |
Pete Remner Mod Moderator Location: Cleveland, Ohio Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 2,022 |
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Andrew Steere Mega Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
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