What did you do to the rallycar today II

Weeeellll, after much gnashing of teeth and 45 Crayola reditions of what Daddy's rally car should look like, I finally got some paint on the bitch.


http://picasaweb.google.com/thewhitesalbum/PaintingTheCarDecember2007

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She's screamn' fer eet!
Rallyho
Mike White
http://www.facebook.com/rallyhomotorsports



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2008 07:19PM by Rallyho.

heymagic Wrote:
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> Gets a little sticky but...SCCA by default is RA
> as to logbooks and rules, as such your car needs a
> cat. NASA doesn't seem to require them in the mod
> classes, but to comply you'd need a NRS logbook.
> If your car meets the 95 rule I use in Washington
> it would probably be ok getting through tech.Lots
> of cars,very little time... IF someone were to
> protest you for not having a cat ..then it's up to
> whatever stewards decision comes down. Clear as
> mud ???
>
> Gene McCullough
> DooWop Chief Scrutineer
>
>
> Edit..so yep, if your noise level is ok, I'm ok
> putting you through tech.
>

Gene et al,

The whole thing of accepting cars prepped to other sanctioning body rules is a bit grey, but I always interpret it to mean that you need to show that your car's cage and main safety equipment (belts, seats, fuel cells, extinguishers, etc. ) are in complicance with a CARS or RA rules set (whoever issued the logbook), not every single item. CAT's are generally not required for NRS, and are the type of item that would not be checked (by me at least) to some others rules set.

There is fairly good commonality in classes, so mmany if not ost class designations easily transfer from RA to NRS; there are few more special classes in NRS that do not translate directly.

Also, say the following is explicitly in the NRS rules about exhaust and other items in NRS tech:

"Each vehicle must have the following equipment in full functional
condition:
1. Headlights with high and low beams;
2. Parking lights, taillights, brake lights, front and rear turn
signals;
3. Horn, windshield wipers, windshield washer;
4. Inside rearview mirror and side mirror(s);
5. Foot brake and parking brake;
6. Tires of at least 2/32 minimums tread depth;
7. Mud flaps on all driven wheels and rear wheels;
8. Exhaust system, leak free and exiting at the rear of the
vehicle; and
9. Engine sound suppression system which does not
exceed 86db at any time, when measured 50 feet from
the vehicle."

This would tell me to not look for CAT's on RA or CARS logbooked cars unless the car was entered in a NRS class that required one.

Regards,
Mark B.

Finally got the parts for the new new motor! Putting it all together this weekend, hopefully motor in the car next weekend...Sandblast here we come...gotta end this dreadful DNF streak.

Redid the skidplate front mounts in the hopes that it won't come loose and catapault the car, found that most of the rattling clunking noises in back were from the exhaust pipe banging around a bit, redid the timing curves, and made it idle like a kitten, and, who knows, maybe it'll even pass smogtest; we'll find out next week. The new airtemp sender and the Jacobs C4 coil solved a lotta problems.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

1) Reassymbled my Quiaffe (with my JVL 4.46 ring gear )
2) Spent 3 hours getting the diff bearing preloads right. Pulled the races out and re-shimmed a gazillion times (ok, more like 5 or 6)..I need to get better at guessing the right shim thickness..
3) Took apart input shaft to check for the infamous cracks which can show up on the VW 020 3-4 gear sync hub. No cracks for me!

-e



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2008 07:38PM by Eddie Fiorelli.

I had my 4.25 and diff installed by someone but i finished up installing the tranny back on the car today. Tomorrow morning i will drive on the streets and sunday we should be testing...

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

turoc Wrote:
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> I had my 4.25 (also from JVAB ) and diff installed by someone but i
> finished up installing the tranny back on the car
> today. Tomorrow morning i will drive on the
> streets and sunday we should be testing...
>

Eeerrr um!

Let us know how it feels.
>

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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CALL +1 206 431-9696
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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I don't want to scare you but a year ago I had a 4.25 put in by someone I met on the Vortex (I know, but hindsight is 20/20 and my foresight is like 5/20). 1.5 rallies later and I find teeth in my tranny fluid..the knucklehead didn't torque the nuts that hold the ring to the diff down properly and one nut got loose ...Thankfully, I've got the resources to work on my own trannies now...

-e



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2008 11:54PM by Eddie Fiorelli.

And i added the tranny fluid and diff addivite that JVL from JVAB imports recommended.

How s that for a plug!
Thanks John
Like i said ill take it out for a spin tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well.

I was contemplating on doing the install myself but time restraints and my lack of experience on the internals made me decide to have it done by proffessionals.
Thanks Quattrohaus

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Since last installment.....
Seats are in.
I've been cleaning inside the car. 'Tis amazing just how much glass was in how many different places!!
Intake plumbing is rearranged such that filtered air should get to the turbo more easily.
Dave Clark did a very pretty job of applying mud on the driver's side of the car. It is now ready for paint.
Injectors got pulled and cleaned yesterday.
I have two sheets of UHMW soes that those things that go away due to abrasion will not go away as quickly.
JVAB has supplied a different compressor side for the T-4. I'll give it a whirl.
The Volvo is shaping up!!

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

Last night - did some basic maintenance

Installed new U-brace
Installed new thermostat
Drained and refilled radiator
Drained and refilled oil
Drained and refilled tranny fluid
Drained and refilled rear diff
Drained and bled brakes
Installed new exhaust gasket
Cut off old rear plate mounts
Re-Installed rear diff cover
Cleaned IAC
Checked/tightened all suspension bolts
Removed old sponsor stickers

Whew! My arms are tired!

Finnished prepping car for DooWops and took it down to the scales and found we are a fat little car at 2900lbs. O'well I guess that means I just have to keep my foot in it. Yesterday I took the car out for a little shake down and put a rock up though the lower case. Poor car bled like a stuck pig. Towed it back to the shop and put her back on the stands ready to start fixing. And I thought I was ahead of the game.

Continued rebuilding my tranny. Got the case bearings pressed in, preload checks out, a little on the high side but within spec. Then we found the 3rd gear on the pinion shaft axial play exceeded spec so we stopped there. Seems like VW offers a slew of circlips with different thicknesses for this precise issue...tomorrow I call the dealer just for circlips

Almost done with this damn tranny ...

-e

Clearanced the rings
Installed pistons
Installed crank
Head studs
Oil pump
Water pump

God I hope this thing doesn't blow up this time!

Yesterday the intake plumbing got rearranged again for hopefully better efficiency...
The car went for a day trip to Mt Baker for some play time in the snow with snow tires in front and rallytires in the rear. Some good times were had.

I've got the old laptop working again. After several years, it decided to play nice. It must want the car to run well at Doo-Wops. I sure do. Now I'll do some datalogging and figure out where to change the maps so that I need not always run racegas.

Learned something about it yesterday. The required 'race-seats' hurt like hell when you sit in one for over an hour at a time. Grrrrrr..... Lord knows that we can't just have the comfortable seats I've always had in there. No pain no gain huh?

Tomorrow morning I will mount up a bunch of rallytires. Jason was good enough to arrange it with a tire dealer with a reasonable attitude about rallytires. Most of these guys look at any imperfection in the bead area and will not touch the tire.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun