15" dmacks take scary loads of pressure. 14" dmacks are not bad.
15" dmacks take scary loads of pressure. 14" dmacks are not bad.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Tomorrow is tire day, can you tell?
Grand Cherokee wheels on a 'Yota! I love it!
Are those Mark VII BBS wheels in the left rear corner of the bed?
In reply to moxnix:
You're not kidding- I had to leave my regular tire place and take them to a place that does heavy truck tires just to get enough pressure!
In reply to The_Jed:
The mesh wheels are BBS, but they came on RX7 convertibles- I think mk VII wheels have too little offset for FC use.
Merry Christmas motherberkeleyers 
AWESOME!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Got my temp tag, drove the car to the gas station and back in the monsoon we're currently having. Observations: -I need to go a few degrees colder on the fan thermoswitch, it gets pretty hot before they kick on. -I need to seal the roof/roof vent/other stuff better. Any hints from the FC experts on where I might find leaks to the interior? -The defroster/defogger isn't very good at its' job. -The suspension ROCKS, stuff that has my truck bottoming out is barely noticeable in this thing.
Whoa, you are in pa? Where?
wvumtnbkr wrote: Whoa, you are in pa? Where?
I was thinking the same thing! I'm down in York, just 16 miles from the PA/MD line.
Quakertown!
I never get to hang out with other wanklers.... I'm from Pittsburgh.
Where do you plan to run this? I have thought many times about building an Audi rally car, but haven't seen much in the way of places to run it.
Events tentatively planned for this year:
Waste Management Winter Rally- 2/20 Wellsboro, PA
Empire State Performance Rally Tarmac (if it happens)- 4/? Narrowsburg, NY
Hyperfest RallySprint- 5/21 Danville, VA
Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally(maybe)- 6/3-4 Wellsboro, PA
Rally West Virginia (if it happens)- 7/? Snowshoe, WV
Black River Stages- 9/16 Harrisville, NY
Empire State Performance Rally Gravel- 10/28 Narrowburg, NY
DC Region SCCA also has a solid RallyX program that runs in Frostburg MD, and Blue Mountain SCCA runs RallyXs in Kempton PA occasionally.
Intersting, maybe I should go ahead and build one. There are a few more semi-local events than I thought.
For rallycross there are also 3-4 events in Harrisburg over summer.
Hey is the RX7 going to make it out to Kempton in 2 weeks?
In reply to RedGT:
That's the plan.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Events tentatively planned for this year: Waste Management Winter Rally- 2/20 Wellsboro, PA Empire State Performance Rally Tarmac (if it happens)- 4/? Narrowsburg, NY Hyperfest RallySprint- 5/21 Danville, VA Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally(maybe)- 6/3-4 Wellsboro, PA Rally West Virginia (if it happens)- 7/? Snowshoe, WV Black River Stages- 9/16 Harrisville, NY Empire State Performance Rally Gravel- 10/28 Narrowburg, NY DC Region SCCA also has a solid RallyX program that runs in Frostburg MD, and Blue Mountain SCCA runs RallyXs in Kempton PA occasionally.
Pretty sure I've been reading that ESPR Tarmac was just cancelled for sure.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Events tentatively planned for this year: Waste Management Winter Rally- 2/20 Wellsboro, PA Empire State Performance Rally Tarmac (if it happens)- 4/? Narrowsburg, NY Hyperfest RallySprint- 5/21 Danville, VA Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally(maybe)- 6/3-4 Wellsboro, PA Rally West Virginia (if it happens)- 7/? Snowshoe, WV Black River Stages- 9/16 Harrisville, NY Empire State Performance Rally Gravel- 10/28 Narrowburg, NY DC Region SCCA also has a solid RallyX program that runs in Frostburg MD, and Blue Mountain SCCA runs RallyXs in Kempton PA occasionally.
You forgot - Rally of the Tall Pines - Bancroft, ON - Nov 25/26, 2016
Really - get up here!
In reply to NGTD:
Huh, Bancroft is only 7 hours from here- so closer than, say, Magnum Opus in Michigan. I have plenty of time to think about it, but thanks for the heads up! I hadn't been looking at Canadian events at all.
Sandblast? March date... http://www.sandblastrally.com/
In reply to Mad_Ratel:
Maybe if I'm really itching for something else- I did it last year (RallyMoto) and it's a long way for a single day event.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Events tentatively planned for this year: Waste Management Winter Rally- 2/20 Wellsboro, PA Empire State Performance Rally Tarmac (if it happens)- 4/? Narrowsburg, NY Hyperfest RallySprint- 5/21 Danville, VA Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally(maybe)- 6/3-4 Wellsboro, PA Rally West Virginia (if it happens)- 7/? Snowshoe, WV Black River Stages- 9/16 Harrisville, NY Empire State Performance Rally Gravel- 10/28 Narrowburg, NY DC Region SCCA also has a solid RallyX program that runs in Frostburg MD, and Blue Mountain SCCA runs RallyXs in Kempton PA occasionally.
Ill be looking for you at hyperfest, also if you need some emergency wrenching we are only about 2 or so hours from danville.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: In reply to NGTD: Huh, Bancroft is only 7 hours from here- so closer than, say, Magnum Opus in Michigan. I have plenty of time to think about it, but thanks for the heads up! I hadn't been looking at Canadian events at all.
I am biased, since I have been volunteering for 16 years and am heavily involved with running it (last year Chief Safety Officer and Driver Course Car - 000B), but many say that it is one of the best organized rallies in North America.
When I looked at where you were I realized that it was not that far.
It is a tough rally. One full day - starts around 9 am and ends around 9:30-10 pm.
For the first time I would run the Regional - less miles but still a challenging day. Less $$$'s too.
I've put about 160 miles on the car since getting it inspected- in the last 30 or so, it has had an occasional miss around 6k rpm... I'm thinking the fuel filter is full of whatever poop was in the tank, so I ordered a new filter/strainer combo.
Did some practicing with GF/codriver this weekend. We wrote stage notes for a local road yesterday, and participated in a road rally today.
Backroad stage notes:
-Went very well once we got on pace (consistent note delivery, good communication)
-We won't need transit headsets, the car is loud but not impossible to talk over
-The car flys quite well
Road Rally:
-Also went very well (2nd in novice, 3rd overall)
-This was not a TSD like I had hoped... more like a silly, no pressure scavenger hunt with very little need for any sort of pacing 
it was fine, just not what we were looking for.
-The "Rally Tripmeter" app seems to work well, although this wasn't a very rigorous test.
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