Black Bear Rally - 2nd O/A... almost 
Posted by MRWmotorsports
Martin Walter Senior Moderator Location: North Gower, Ontario, Canada. Join Date: 03/01/2006 Age: Ancient Posts: 450 Rally Car: Nissan 240SX |
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John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Alexei, I've been fighting with trying to make something acceptable for the rear of a Suzuki and its been hell with that dumb socket in set up... Its just like Xratty and Golf IV front I tried ordering some shocks which after long delay,came and they were normal 50mm and I agree boring the whole to 50mm is bad from 2 points of view A) the material (cast steel? Iron?) around the outside is THIN and obviously weak... and  if its weak it MAY fail and if it may fail then the replacements need to be modded.
I've come to the conclusion the best thing is the simplest: just use the machined bottom to my ordinary struts which are made for Xratties. and extend the towers up maybe 125mm to accomodate the "strut" and get good travel.. Ie mod the bodyshell once and be done with it. Whaddya think? 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. |
Alexei Stapinski Senior Moderator Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Join Date: 12/30/2010 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 48 Rally Car: 1991 Suzuki Swift |
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John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Hey Alexei, I have piles of photos of the knuckles rear and I can post them up and we can do some sketches and get this figured out..I know what needs to be done to make it rally worthy from a "clean sheet of paper" viewpoint, maybe you take some photos of the inside rear of the car to see if a reasonably easy way can be done to dodge the cage and minimise the fawking round. Let's open a new thread in Construction but take some piccies of your set up.. What I have in mind is basically a strut with at least 190mm travel, stock is 160mm but I'm thinking if we have to cut the inner fender well and zap in something like this: 
Then we can simply choose to make it this high or that high... And more travel in back isn't limited by CV joint angulation so in a way, why not do more travel? 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. |
Chris Martin Mod Moderator Location: Toronto, Ontario Join Date: 01/15/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 567 Rally Car: E-85 powered Impreza |
So our story.
We suffered a strut failure (not johns). We were trying something new and apparently it wasn't up to snuff. About .5km before we actually ended up off (and rolled), something felt odd, very much like a flat. Car was pulling and seemed to "drop" in the front corner. We came down into that "water" splash and an already reduced speed, and the entire corner of the car decided it wanted out. It separated the ball joint, and pulled us off the road. We were along for the ride. We got pulled off into the bushes, and spun 90 degrees to the road. As we were almost stopped, something caught the passangers side, and tipped us onto our side! Apparently i should have known better than to suspect a flat DMACK 
No glass was broken, just a couple fenders and a hood from resting against some really small trees. Chris |
John Vanlandingham Elite 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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Vittorio Bares Senior Moderator Location: Londonderry, NH Join Date: 04/10/2007 Age: Ancient Posts: 413 Rally Car: Audi 4k (3b conversion) |
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Joachim Sandgaard Godlike Moderator Location: New Jersey Join Date: 10/17/2011 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 52 Rally Car: 1990 Eagle Talon TSi AWD |
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Martin Walter Senior Moderator Location: North Gower, Ontario, Canada. Join Date: 03/01/2006 Age: Ancient Posts: 450 Rally Car: Nissan 240SX |
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Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff Senior Moderator Location: Ottawa, ON Join Date: 12/08/2007 Age: Ancient Posts: 59 |
Zzzzzz-Zzzzzz 
Wait till you see the last stage. We were going a bit slower to try to save the diff, so my note-calling was somewhat less enthusiastic. It even puts me to sleep watching it now. The last video should be posted up tonight.
zzzz, zzzzzz, *! Huh, say what? There were hot babes??? Oh, I get it. No big money, no hot babes. Damn. Back to sleep... zzzzz. |
Joachim Sandgaard Godlike Moderator Location: New Jersey Join Date: 10/17/2011 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 52 Rally Car: 1990 Eagle Talon TSi AWD |
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Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff Senior Moderator Location: Ottawa, ON Join Date: 12/08/2007 Age: Ancient Posts: 59 |
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