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Sean Edwards
Oooo nice, looks very tidy. I was wondering what kind of car you drove......rx7?

Also noted about the harness bar.

He drives a home built XRATTY full of sooooper bitchin suspenders, mounts, brakes from JVAB

Next is Toyota Supra diff, and "606" JVAB rear strengthened square subframe and rear brakes.

Sean Medcroft: There are no cross bars in the backstays on your car? I should read the rules more carefully, that was a bunch of work on mine!


Sean Edwards: Nice work! The scale model is a good idea all around. The reason they don't like tubes with bends in them for things like the bar over the windshield, or door bars that pooch out, is that during a big impact, the bars are in tension, and those bends turn into "slack". Imagine the door bars meeting that big doug fir, if they are pooched out, it wont be long before they are pooched in. When the cage is tested during those moments of truth, it needs the tubes to stay the same length, tubes that are bent can get longer and help pry the joints apart. WRC cars have those cool triangles at the top of the windshield, but those cages are analysed by big time engineers and made form cro-mo. Just sayin' because it took me a while to figure out what they were squaking about.

On the other hand the A-pilar bar is tricky, most cars need a bend on that one.

Yeah, the rules only require the X in the main hood, not the stays.

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phlat65
Yes, run the tubes to the front struts, the front of the car takes a beating. I just fixed up Adam Crane's Corolla that basically was close to collapsing the front end.

pictures please

did not take any, but once the car was on the frame rack, clamped at the rockers, I could wiggle the front of the frame horns up/down a good 2 inches by hand! The strut tops were 2 inches in and up from stock. That car was hammered. We pulled it back just past and stitch welded every seam in the front end. That got rid of 3 degrees of neg camber.......

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phlat65
did not take any, but once the car was on the frame rack, clamped at the rockers, I could wiggle the front of the frame horns up/down a good 2 inches by hand! The strut tops were 2 inches in and up from stock. That car was hammered. We pulled it back just past and stitch welded every seam in the front end. That got rid of 3 degrees of neg camber.......

No surprise after the way he treats it. The way rally cars are meant to be treated.