Driving rally car on the street...

I don't think you're wrong, especially if they try and load passengers in the back of a street car that has been caged.

When I caged Brent's first street car we removed the back seat, built a shelf on the floor and carpeted it. Did the big gorgeous Sony Xplod speakers on the trunk partition and never had too worry about kids back there.

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OjNK
I wouldn't want to do it as a daily driver, its amusing to do once in a while but its a pain in the ass to crawl in and out of, adjusting the camlocks every time you get in gets really old really fast, the attention it gets from the decal package isn't really ideal.

And race compound brakes.

SQUUUUUEEEAAAAKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's fucking embarrassing.

Mark always swapped on some shitty rotors and cheap pads.
You can chew through a set of rotors fast with cold race pads.

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Civvie seat belts lock under decel, loose competition belts don't. Windshield bars need padded in all cages, belts need to be tight in all cars at all times. Think of a rally/competiton car as a safety system. It all has to work together or you can get bitten pretty hard.

Funny anecdote - my dad's doing work at a facility doing crash safety stuff for the guvmint, and recently they were doing sled tests with belted occupants to see how far they move. Fully belted occupant, civvy seat belts fastened and even pre-locked... occupant had the hips move something like 12 inches, to say nothing for the upper body. What stopped the forward motion ended up being knees jamming into the underside of the dashboard.

Got me seriously pondering a real seat and harness in my DD, that.

Between belt stretch and the 'liquidity' of the human body a lot of movement can be had in a crash.

Civvie belts also can toss both occupants to the inside, into each other possibly.

I'm not actually sure of what a guy can legally do with the belt situation. In Bren'ts Sentra we had some reclining back racing style seats, lots of good support and a set of those 4 point street harness'. I've seen so many kids get in wrecks with that first car learning the ropes I made sure mine was as safe as I could make him.

I really hate to see people with the seat laid back being cool or the dumbass passenger with their feet up on the dash board.

Maybe it's different in your areas, but as soon as I even think of taking the rally car on the street, I have to worry about cops. Rally cars are cop magnets it seems, and I really, *REALLY* don't want their attention.

I've also had people ask me not to run the car in my neighbourhood in mid-afternoon (and I was just idling/moving slowly with low revs), because I woke their babies up from their afternoon naps with the loud ass Swift

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Maybe it's different in your areas, but as soon as I even think of taking the rally car on the street, I have to worry about cops. Rally cars are cop magnets it seems, and I really, *REALLY* don't want their attention.

I've also had people ask me not to run the car in my neighbourhood in mid-afternoon (and I was just idling/moving slowly with low revs), because I woke their babies up from their afternoon naps with the loud ass Swift

There is no need for noise... and i have generally, since maybe88 reccomended to people to NOT paint their cars all fancy schmanzy full stickered out whoopie dooo exactly because of the unwanted attention...
and not just from cops..

If it is a "plain wrapper" and resoanably quiet, its easier to get out and PRACTICE.

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We've had rally cars pulled over on TSD rallies before and no problems at all from the cops.

The REASON they were pulled over though was that some 'concerned citizen' saw 3 'race cars' 'racing' on an highway on-ramp so they called it in. The officer was completely understanding that they weren't racing in any way, it was just three large b'winged Subarus in a row doing regular on-ramp things. OH THE HORRORZ.

A lot of cops are car guys too, if you're not acting like a douche and driving like a douche for the most part things will be good.

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I walked out of Home depot in Brooklyn ny two days ago and saw this bad boy sitting in the parking lot.



Anyone know who that daredevil is?

That daredevil right there has driven that car from Brooklyn to the NEFR in Maine just to hangout. That's hardcore Euro style. But then again driving in NY roads you should have rally suspension.



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That daredevil with the Sentra is me
Did a JDM engine swap recently and been driving it around locally to shake the car down. Currently it is not making the power it should, awaiting a tune...

Not only did I drive it to home depot but we also drove it down to the first viewing of Easier Said than Done yesterday!

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

Next time you gonna take pics let me know - I ll make sure its nice and shiny! lol

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

I shoulda known! Let us know how Black River went, Ozgur...

Was hoping to make it out to BRS as it is my favorite event. Unfortunately, as I mentioned the car is not making power and needs a tune. Didn't want to push and bring a questionable car so the plan right now is to head up to tall pines. Its been a while being in the drivers seat as life (2 kids) got in the way and was enjoying that for a while

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