What did you do on the rally car today?

pulled motor, tranny, subframe, and suspension

replaced tranny mount, strut bearings, steering rack boots
pulled head and took to machine shop for valve job and resurfacing
used liquid nitrogen death-ray on front unibody, strut towers, and frame rails
Stitch welded up the seams and plated the subframe pick-up points
Removed nearly 45lbs from the car.
Disassembled my old Brantz International Pro ODO to se if i could modify it towork with the new sensors---it is fairly tamper proof :-(
Replaced the front and rear main seals and timing belt in the "new" motor for my street car
Replaced the rear windows and control arm and bushings in my brother's car
Modified a replacement front bumper for the rally car (smashed old one at Rally TN) so that it fits my tow loop and the car.
Replaced throw out bearing
Cleaned cleaned and cleaned

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I nuked the engine in the Galant today. I was stuck in the fast lane at rush hour and had to keep popping the clutch while coasting in 3rd gear to get the engine to fire long enough to get off the road. Lost multiple cylinders in the process. Just before giving up the ghost in a smokey, steamy fiasco on the shoulder, she sounded just like a WRX.

Now that it's home and cooled down, cranking it sounds just like I forgot to install spark plugs.

(sigh)

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

Did you?

gilbrock Wrote:
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> Did you?

Nope. Two of the plug wires were melted to the head. I've only tested two cylinders, but they reported 30 and 60 psi, respectively. It's done. Back to the old Talon for a while...

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

Pulled the destroyed motor out of the Talon, stripped it of anything usefull. Dragged old spare motor (with spun bearing) out of storage and stripped down for a complete overhaul. It needs to be hot tanked, honed, new pistons/rods, oil pump, turn the crank, all new brgs etc. Lotta work to do before BRS in September (well...for your average full time job married new baby over worked under slept type guy).

Gotta get this thing going so I can maybe sell it and work on the Xratty for next year!

frumby Wrote:
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> Pulled the destroyed motor out of the Talon,
> stripped it of anything usefull. Dragged old
> spare motor (with spun bearing) out of storage and
> stripped down for a complete overhaul. It needs
> to be hot tanked, honed, new pistons/rods, oil
> pump, turn the crank, all new brgs etc. Lotta
> work to do before BRS in September (well...for
> your average full time job married new baby over
> worked under slept type guy).
>
> Gotta get this thing going so I can maybe sell it
> and work on the Xratty for next year!


Nice! I've decided I'm going to make use of my wonderful Tuesday off this week by yanking the head off the Galant and inspecting things. This will be the first time the head's been off in over 210k miles, so hopefully I can get away with a ring/hone job. If that's the case, next Saturday night, after I've missed both the Gorman Ridge Rally and the 15th Annual DSM Shootout due to work, I'll be sitting in my garage, drinking cheap, American beer, and starting to get the Galant back on the road. Wish me luck.

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

----Nice! I've decided I'm going to make use of my wonderful Tuesday off this week by yanking the head off the Galant and inspecting things. This will be the first time the head's been off in over 210k miles, so hopefully I can get away with a ring/hone job. If that's the case, next Saturday night, after I've missed both the Gorman Ridge Rally and the 15th Annual DSM Shootout due to work, I'll be sitting in my garage, drinking cheap, American beer, and starting to get the Galant back on the road. Wish me luck.----


Good luck! That's alota miles on a turbo motor.
I ordered a bunch of parts. New crank, Eagle Rods, Arias pistons, Cometic HG, All new timing assy, new Oil Pump, water pump.etc etc. Head is already reconditioned. Looks like the DSM will be my rally car for a while to come, so why not upgrade the motor while I've got the chance? Hopefully get the block bored and tanked this week and start the assembly.

Saturday or so I spoke with Johan about Sellholm goodies for the rallycar.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

JohnLane Wrote:
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> Saturday or so I spoke with Johan about Sellholm
> goodies for the rallycar.

You seem bound and determined to spend more than twice what you need to and then have freight on top of that.

Why's that when I got these 50mm things in some part thinking of you and the SPE?

I'm really puzzled.



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> JohnLane
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> Overkill is consistently more fun

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John Vanlandingham
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Today I backed out, noticed a little ding that I had forgotten about, and wondered how much I spent insuring and plating that car this year since I won't get to compete in it. *crap*

Oh well, next year.

Anders

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Grassroots rally. It's what I think about.

Cool....got new forged pistons, Eagle rods today! Beautiful parts. Now I gotta figure out how to put this motor together so it doesn't blow apart like the stocker did at RTN last year (Anders...you may remember)!

Wahoo! I can say something! I dropped the engine off at the machine shop... Soon I'll be able to build the bottom end. Oh! And I picked up a fuel cell. Hurray for working for a prior race car garage.

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

Did a post-mortem after snapping an axle at Ojibwe. It snapped in exactly the same way that it did it Maine. The CV didn't go, but the axle stub broke off the end of the CV. Called the supplier. Turns out I got a bad batch of outer CVs. Supplier apologized profusely and is covering it.

Most aggravating, considering I basically drove all the way across the country to just hand the G2 Championship to Duplessis. He probably would've beat me at Maine (his home turf), but I probably would've beat him at Ojibwe. Grr. If, if, if.

Regretting running a Quaife. I have no complaints about Quaife and it's done exactly what it's designed for, but it wasn't designed for rally. Just ordered a KAAZ.

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Self-righteous douche canoe

hoche Wrote:
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> Most aggravating, considering I basically drove
> all the way across the country to just hand the G2
> Championship to Duplessis. He probably would've
> beat me at Maine (his home turf), but I probably
> would've beat him at Ojibwe. Grr. If, if, if.

You'll just have to come to LSPR to settle it with them once and for all!

Did some testing this weekend on gravel Car feels loose up front but will play around with alignment and tire pressures. While testing had a little off hitting a pile of dirt after the rear went in to a ditch and kicked up. Damaged a little bit of front fender and rear wheel arch. Overall a pretty decent weekend. Now just gotto get the car setup a little bit more to my liking...

Oscar

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