Real rally car restoration

Here's a link to a thread on the Opel forum that I posted showing the ongoing restoration of my Opel Ascona B. This is my "what did you do on the rally car today" thread. Just though some of ya might be interested in what a REAL rally car looks like!
http://www.opelgt.com/forums/racers-forum/15470-restoration-my-ascona-b-rally-car.html

Boo, you have to be member of the forum to view the pictures.

Awesome. Registering Now

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-Jason

Registration is free and painless...

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Opel is a 4-letter word...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10498579@N07/sets/

I registered. Pretty cool little car.

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Welcome to the cult of JVL drink the koolaid or be banned.

Dave,
Interested in what you are running for valving on the bilsteins... We have a similar double a-arm setup on the SAAB 99 with the shock mounted on the upper a-arm and presumably a similar motion ratio and corner weights to you? We are running 345/135 which seems to work ok.

Luke, what size strut housings are those?

Don't know what the valving is, they are rally Bilsteins for the Ascona B. The person to ask is JV, he would know what valving you need for that thing.

They are not struts, they are a conventional 46 mm shock.

Saabfarm Wrote:
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> They are not struts, they are a conventional 46 mm
> shock.

Actually measure the shock body and you'll see they are not 46mm but rather closer to 50.00mm
Bilstein is too lazy to correct all their literature where they let idiot ad copywriters call them "46mm" shocks.

The diameter of the working piston inside is 46mm and the family of 50mm shocks is called B46.

The 40mm and the Ford unique 41mm inserts have a 36mm piston hence their name P36 (P=Patron= Krautski talk, barrowed directly from French, for "cartridge or insert.)

Hey Luke I seem to recall the "Bilstein Schweden" 99 shocks I used which I got as NOS Sport and Rally stuff being 408/152, different from an off the shelf Bilstein from Bilstein.
Of course that was for original mounting position.
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Man, you guys are the shit.. What you do is so fucking cool.

The cage work in your ascona Dave was making me oooh and ahhh. The more I read around here the more I'm just blown away. You're a bunch of really cool guys and it's obvious that you're good at what you do.

My hats off to you fellas.

-Michael LeCompte

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Michael LeCompte