Jonathan Rallyboy, come here and discuss honestly this business of Truck vs CAR
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Well dose that help on why not well i do know you would set up for rally but the suspension needs massive over haul and remounting to remove torsion bars coil buckets and the crapy steering there mostly pitman's there night mares. With the car too you have one solid shell. Im not disisng trucks iv bin to the baja 500 2 times and 250, in mexico where they can do 140 striate shot and hit boulders and all with 30 inches of travl. I think its just costly your running a solid axel that need tons of work for 4 link of fab a indie just dose not seem to be a good bang for the buck. but if you wana jump it get a pu i want to build a prerunner someday. On the other hand toyota built a rally pu and alot of trucks go for the pikes peek but i think this might be out of the price range http://www.aria-group.com/pages/casesix.2.html TSSFAB.US No HYPE just parts!!!! And check us out on Facebook!!!  Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2008 08:32PM by SteelSolutions. |
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Build it for sweep or course opening. No entry fees, less prep involved, helping event organizers, and you still get to play in the dirt.
I go offroading at the beach, at the mountains, tow, camp, may do Rally WVA sweep if I'm not codriving, ....I've done sweep at numerous other rallies, sometimes planned and sometimes after DNF early as a codriver, its fun. Get to see the carnage, hear the heartbreak stories, yank on rallycars, drag rallycars, see the stages and follow the rally on the via netcontrol. Better than sitting crammed packed in a spectator area. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2008 12:43AM by CommanderSalamander. |
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turbocharged, intercooled, 280-hp. 4.3 liter V6. full-time all-wheel drive
That might do ok its hevy and leafs and tortions swap to links coils and has a full body i would imagin with a good drive would do good around hear but the same driver in a 240 or xr would still beat it with out any problem even with a 80 hp disadvantage.  TSSFAB.US No HYPE just parts!!!! And check us out on Facebook!!!
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Good point i would of liked to see the potential of a truck drawn out more and the real snags of say a toyota or ranger or what have you truthfully enough money and or skill could prabably put a truck out there that might do something if i was forced to rally a pickup i would get a 94 ranger single cab short enough, not 93 same body but they run i beam front and that's vary stout but no adjustment. and you would have to switch to a rack and pinion. for the back of the truck id move everything back i can and throw the bed away and get the desert glass run the cage threw the cab 4 link with a pan hard bar. Throw in a explorer 8.8 limited and disk breaks. A turbo for the 2.3 and a t5 i think you could do ok it would swing bad if you don't get some weight over the back, which the 8.8 would help because its heavy. But like what was sed earlier 240s and xr's have suspension solutions and you would have to do exstencive work to get anything close to the ether of those cars, in my case i can build all that stuff myself but to pay me to do it would take some ky. If you can build all the stuff yourself you might get a truck done for close to the same price with tons of one off work. There is people that build bed cages and cage kits for toyota and rangers for rangers i like http://www.camburg.com/cages.html and toyotas I like http://www.chaosfab.com/92100.html for suspension. You could do all the same with the toy 2wd but there's just little more in the pocket book if you want anything newer than the 80's. I might do a 3 link and build it just like a desert truck and just have two sets of suspension for rally and desert the rear drag links would be almost 4 feet long and custom front a arms that are mounted dead center and use f 150 knuckles and a j arm that mounts center where your radiator is spose to be, cool part you could save money on shocks because all you need is coilovers no housing. But the would thing would be trying to get it to as close to how a car is set up as stance and suspension might as well get a car. The only reason for me would be to build a dual purpose rally and slamming in the desert. Any other real input, hop i didn't wind bag it up just my thoughts because i have thought about it, coming from my love of the baja racing seen.
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