Doo wops!

Day one results are in. Yeah Jay! 2nd overall. Take it the new stuff works. What was is again, suspension and turbo? Holy shit Burress! 3rd overall. Excellent job. Also good job to John Lane. No rolling, apparently no big mech problems and 5th overall. Oh, and Adam, you should change you signature to 'I put the hurt on cones.'
http://nwrallynews.org/DW08Scores.html

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Grant Hughes



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2008 09:53AM by NoCoast.

NoCoast Wrote:
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> Holy shit Burress! 3rd> overall.


And, if not for the chicane penalty, 2nd o/a. Right on!

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-Brian

After too many days of too many hours of lastminute prep, we got the car barely ready to make the event. Day 1 was only 3 stages, 35 stage miles. The 2 crane creek stages were canceled, downed trees in the road. Tahola is one of my least favorite stages and we ran it twice in one direction and once in the other. My plan was just to try to survive the day so we could do the really fun roads on sunday. So off we go, finish stage 1 and find that we put the Protege out there as 1st overall. Stage 2 we were 2nd fastest, there was a PGT Soobie that came in with a miraculous time almost a minute faster than anyone else. He never approached times like that again, so this may have been a timing error. In any case we kept the car on the road and were doing well. The Hintz bros. car, always very fast, had a busted exhaust on stage 1 and DNS stage 2 so all we had to do was finish stage 3 quickly which we did so we finished 1st in Open for day 1 and 2nd overall. Day 2 opened with 2 runs on pavement. I don't have much experience driving fast on pavement on rally tires. We played it safe and were 3rd or 4th overall after those 2 runs, then straight into Pico Left. This is a very tight tricky nasty dangerous road that I loooove to run. We did pretty good, 2nd fastest behind Hintz. Back into service, then out for Pico Right. Coming into the first acute right, we lost a boost hose and had less than 5 psi the rest of the stage, dammit. Turns out I used a T bolt clamp that was just a little too big, and in the rush, I hadn't noticed. Lesson learned. Cuz the lack of power made me miss that acute right by a little and we put the RF corner into the shallow ditch for a bit and bent what we thought was the tie rod. We got through the stage but now down 20 sec on Hintz, still 3rd overall. My crew got the leak fixed, along with reaaligning the front end, fixing a fuel leak at the filter in the trunk, and putting a new set of hard compound Michelins on the car. I haven't run hard compound before. Wanted to try em out, but this was the wrong surface and wrong temperature for those tires. Brooklyn Tavern West was very very scary on those tires, so we went with my old set of Falkens for Smith Creek stage. That was more like it. Tons and tons of grip and we set off at a very brisk pace. Then we came around a medium right and the front of the car went totally beserk. Before I could stop the car we sorta rode an embankment and took a tire off the rim. Looking at the skidmarks we could clearly see the LF wheel was scrubbing rocks to the inside, trying to steer left and go down the road, but the RF track just drove stright to the embankment; the control arm that we hit on Pico had had enough and broke... kinda hard to steer a car when a wheel declares independence. DNF for Sunday but we went down swingin'; my codriver looked at our times, and since Hintz was out from his DNF Saturday, if we had stayed on track at the pace we had, we'd have gotten the overall freaking win. This was um disappointing news. Still, Saturdays' results were a personal best.
Nothing expensive was broken. We have to unwrinkle that fender a little and replace a CV joint and reinforce a new pair of control arms. The car is going to spend some quality time with a couple REAL mechanics as opposed to myself, who will make the car reliable enough to be a real threat. Seems if we show pace to go for the overall, they think it's worth the effort. Olympus rally is mid april, we'll run it but *only* if the car is truly prepped, ahead of time...

Many many thanks to the huge crew, who made me, a hack, feel like a bloody pro racer!

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

Hey Jay, it was looking awfully good out there on Saturday, good attack mode.

Shame about the control arm, youse ought to get together with a friend of mine up in Maltby and have him fab you up some strong tubular ones---like I'm helping with some machining with on some road race turbo Portch 944.

Jus-a stinka about it, Camber! and CASTOR!!! and cheep cheep!


Oh yeah I saw the crazy 45 second plus time for that guy in the car he was saying cost $150,000 to build, and all three times past the Speccie Point the car looked clean but not "fast", and as with all but Dave in his, was revved to about 3500 before being shift to the next gear, so I don't buy for a second the +45 second quicker, cause that would mean he was significantly faster everywhere else on the stage.

What color did you paint the struts??

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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blue man, blue. I'll hafta get that maltby feller's contact info. I want this car to be more reliable!

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

To be clear the PGT car $86,000 including an alocation of a healthy shop overhead, but he owns the shop...

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In the long run reality always wins.

Jay Wrote:
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> blue man, blue.

Wohoa, where'd ya come up with something so crazy!, It's like edge-y, man!

I'll hafta get that maltby
> feller's contact info.

OK

> I want this car to be more
> reliable!

That's a good plan!
Yer oughtter stink aboot the rear links to youse noes?
>
> Jay Woodward
> Snohomish, WA
> '90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
> Chronologically, 40...

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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.

derek Wrote:
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> To be clear the PGT car $86,000 including an
> alocation of a healthy shop overhead, but he owns
> the shop...
>

Who's counting?

The boy needs to spend more if he wants to beat the mighty 240 Volvo!!

or put a bit more time on the crazy RABBIT!!
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>
> See me go at:
> www.11tenths.com
> In the long run Reality always wins.

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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.

Most of the time on Sunday the Rabbit was faster... clearly given our current socital values the answer is to spend even more!

Or reconize that PGT is a class that should be slower then GP2 cars most of the time. For the record I never finished a rally behind a PGT car in the golf.

IMHO at least $56,000 of the $86,000 was spent on ego stuff. On here in the past someone let me know my golf never looked good sitting in parc ferme - well carbon foot rests do not make you faster.

The Rabbit is a study in less is more, a few stage wins and but for a faulty Fuel pump he would likely have won overall.

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In the long run reality always wins.

Was he running notes?

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

There are no notes for this event all drivers drove the stages blind. Tom would be at a disadvantage as I am not sure he has done all the stages in the past nor has he done them that often.

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In the long run reality always wins.

john vanlandingham Wrote:
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> Jay Wrote:
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> > blue man, blue.
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> Wohoa, where'd ya come up with something so
> crazy!, It's like edge-y, man!
>

I painted the struts red. Geez Jay, didn't ya even look?

derek Wrote:
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> For the
> record I never finished a rally behind a PGT car
> in the golf.

Was your 2003 car a different Golf then?

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Self-righteous douche canoe

Aw geez Dave, I got all confused by the blue springs. Yer right, they be red!

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

Thanks Grant,

What can I say....awesome weather, great competitors, and great organizers...this event always makes us smile. This year we came out with the intention to have yet another great showing. Unfortunately we didn't get to complete the entire event. A fuel pump failure en route to the second running of Pico stopped us short. Despite getting flat towed back to service, and a valiant attempt by the service crew to get us back out to the stage, we were time-barred and DNF'ed for the day. Fortunately, after speaking with the organizers of the event, we were allowed to repair the car and run the last four stages of the day, setting some VERY quick times.

I think Mr. Lane would've had to take us by over 50 seconds on the second running of Pico in order for us not to take the overall win, but hey, it was fate, Ray's last run, he had to go out with a bang, I wouldn't want to lose to anyone else that weekend. Both Lane and Damitio were a class act, and having a 2wd car win to boot was awesome.

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-Tom
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