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Rally-x cont… bye bye ハチロク

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

So I’ve made real life harder than it should be, with my somewhat extravagant car life these past ten years. Makes for some difficult decisions.

And… Sunday morning, at the rally-x, after I just tagged three cones (one of which…

Gravel FTD

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

In the Pits at Rally-x - RNN14

Rally-x today. I told Andrew that if I beat him I’d be happy. I always downplay my cars. Truth is, the Pulsar has 100hp more, and studded tires, which probably did a whole bunch on a couple major ice…

Rally-x Tomorrow

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Gearing up for rally-x tomorrow. Installed some Sparco mudflaps, and gave the undercarriage a second coating of rubber. It’s amazing how much those two things quiet the car down on an ugly road. The front mudflaps are a pretty hard tune set up though. They’re only about 1cm off the ground which means they rub and scrape everywhere. I should have put them a little bit higher, but I want the most efficiency out of them. I’m not into rock chips. They stick about 1″ from the body, front and back. The rear ones don’t have to do so much more to protect the car though. There’s basically no rear over hang. I also didn’t want the rear ones low, because they can get caught in the tire and ripped off when backing up, a lot easier than the fronts can. So as you can see… the rear ones sit a lot high, which somehow helps create a raked look. [...]