an absurdly powerful and lightened WRX?

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PS - One guy here (absurd powerful/lightened WRX) bought a new set of BFGs, ran them for a couple events, then bought a set of Lassa 3s. He is WAY happier with the Lassas than the BFGs. I think I know what I want for Christmas this year.

This for rally-x? I'd say there are much grippier tires out there than BFGs...most snow tires for instance. With the big caveat being that only holds true for venues that de-beading tires isn't a big concern. Tread is softer, more sipes, flexier sidewall...all adds up to more grip than a proper stage rally tire.

Also...absurd powerful and WRX in the same sentence...surely you jest?

Dave

I am *almost* faster than him, Alex. When we were doing the "dirt duel" competiton, he was the AWD winner and I was the 2WD winner, and when we were running against each other, we were basically finishing in a tie. So that means I need more power, or something.

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This for rally-x? I'd say there are much grippier tires out there than BFGs...most snow tires for instance. With the big caveat being that only holds true for venues that de-beading tires isn't a big concern.

We debead rally tires at our venues, couple instances of broken rims. (http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showpost.php?p=245466&postcount=12 )

My experience with snow tires is that they aren't as fast because if it's soft, they clog up and don't grip, and if it's hard, they last about 5 runs before they're bald. Some people can make 'em work, I'm not one of them.



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No idea how much camber I've got. Basically, I threw four camber bolts up front and went to max. I started with two bolts, that was good, put in the other two, that was even better. Eyeball says maybe 2, 2.5 degrees, and maybe 5 degrees caster.

Pete, last century my buddy Paul "The Pom" Morgan together with a little help from a couple of Anarchistas built the red 74 Colt in the rotating photo thing up there ^ that Warwick Patterson in BC now has, it was the first time locally where we did towers and 5 link (Volvo axle after some real tall Anarchista whose Opel was getting refresh put it in a ditch and whacked a desk sized boulder right on the weenie Colt thing) and a rack etc.
Paul made some adjustable lower front arms and adjustable compression strut thing.
Well I comes over and squint real hard and say "Oi! Wuz 'at ya gots fer camber, boyo?" He laconicly asnwers "why that's 3 degrees (those days we all were on snows or maybe BFG TA Mud Terrian--horrible tractor tires).
Me "Fawk me mate 'ats fawkin 10 degreesd if it one, and I gots a nickle 'at says so!"

So he digs in his pocket, couldn't find a nickle so I lend him one, and he turns and say "HA! Nickle it is!!! HA!" (we were both getting all Lordy, I may have smacked him with a welding glove as a challenge--"

We agrees to 1 degree tolerance..
Jeeezuz we spent fawkin hour and a half at least checking floor car etc and using a Carpenter T with bubble, then a tyon of written calcs , a buncha trig--Paul was gooder-er with that bit but I was over his shoulder..

Result: 9 degrees
Lots of muttering, threats of mutiny (mutiny?? Don't ask!) grrrr grrr and finally HARUMPH he gives me my nickle back...

I say if you can really see it its probably too much. come on a degree!!! With all the visual elements distracting your eye, the lines of the car etc it seems super easy to be way off....

Then I said. wanna bet what your castor is???
(duck!)
Last I saw the car a little over 6 1/2 years ago---the day before my little Anna was born in China (fired it up at 15.45 Sunday, flew out at 0930 Monday, arrived just after midnight thirty, she was born 14 hours later.)
it was still all 10 degrees and musta been 5-8 degrees castor.
Nickle bet its still that way.

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The problem with the Falkens was the relatively large blocks, hard compound, and lack of siping in the tread blocks.


If you look at most good gravel tires, each block has a single "sipe" or split down the middle of it. This allows the block to squirm a little bit, and heat up.

The Falkens had a "scribe" in the top of the blocks, but it was exactly that, a scribe, only went down the thickness of your finger nail.



Having said that, i have a friend who is rally-xing on a set of these and he consistantly wins his class...our surface is pretty loose and rutted, so it's more the blocky nature of the tread that works.


You can imitate the sipes with a Tire Groover by putting the blade in upside down.

anyone have before and after pics of a good example of grooved tires?

So, some fuckstick went and stole all of my 14" wheels (all 10 of 'em) along with a few other sets of wheels and three Audi cylinder heads and a bunch of other shit.

So, I may not be able to find out how well they work, or don't.

On the plus side, I got the 4.78 gears back in the car and a pair of .010 shims brought the diff preload up to where the Belleville washers are almost but not quite complete squashed at rest. Haven't tested the preload yet (forgot to bring spare axles with me, duh) but the thing is basically a spool under any kind of load. Just barely unlocks enough when coasting to allow the tires to not chirp and bark. Should be a blast. There's video from the last event and watching it, you can tell that the diff that was in the car was "done". (Tires were fucked, too)



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So, some fuckstick went and stole all of my 14" wheels (all 10 of 'em) along with a few other sets of wheels and three Audi cylinder heads and a bunch of other shit.

Fuck, that sucks. But meth is a helluva drug, I hear, and it'll make you sell all kinds of scrap metal for another hit. I get all kind of weird looks when I pull up to the local scrap place in the new minivan and pull out a box of plumbing scrap or a couple of dead car batteries. But as Geddy Lee once told Bob and Doug MacKenzie, "Ten bucks is ten bucks." I'm just too cheap to not take the cash (I just hope some tweaker doesn't try to take the wheels off my van while I'm getting my ten spot).

Oh, I was hyper-pissed when they broke in and stole almost all of my good rotor housings (several engines' worth: look up the street value of good used Turbo II rotor housings if you can find any) and all of my GOOD spare transmissions and a couple intercoolers and other misc stuff. This time they kicked the door in and took the aluminum that was left, before I had a chance to get it out of there.

Well, on the bright side, i have less stuff to have to find a home for, now...



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I really hate shit like that...f'n crackheads. Read in the news the other day some gal got burned pretty good stealing electrical wire, had to laugh on that one.

Go to the nearest recycle yard for the stuff you really want back...really needs to be better legislation regarding that whole process. Valid ID, thumbprint, etc and the buyer facing penalties for indiscretions just like servers in a bar.

Oh damn that sucks! My cousins into RX7's, so I know what you mean!

They worked good enough.

Damn, can't put two pics in one post?

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anyone have before and after pics of a good example of grooved tires?

Here are some groovy wheels:





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anyone have before and after pics of a good example of grooved tires?

Here are some groovy wheels:

Wow, mang! Rally Wheels!

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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.