gearheadmb wrote: In reply to eastsidemav: Oh its a hoot. Since you raced a corsica let me ask you a question, did you ever try running it without a front sway bar, if so how did the car react?
Never did, but it might be worth disconnecting an end link to see if you can get a bit more traction coming out of the turns.
The rallyx beretta has gone to the big scrapyard in the sky. A guy stopped in while I was working on the barn asking to buy it. I gave him all the details, to which he seemed disinterested. I asked what his plans were, he said he was gonna scrap it. I was a bit hurt, but in reality I've ran i think one race in three years. The brake line has been blown for over a year and i haven't even considered bringing it in and fixing it. Last time i looked it was getting rusty underneath. My wife was tired of it sitting outside. And the buyer offered close to what I have in it. So off it went.
This was the first vehicle i have ever participated in a legal, sanctioned race in. It was my first dedicated race car. It was never the fastest car at the race, but every race we entered, we finished. And not because it was babied. My race partner and I had a policy of " Dont over do it in the morning session. Give it hell in the afternoon. If it dies, it dies." It never died. It wasn't what you would call fast, but it was faster than anybody would expect a 2.2 beretta should be. I think one of the big reasons was gearing and a flat as a pool table torque curve. In the beretta you launch, upshift at 5500, and you're done, second gear for the rest of the course. It didn't make a lot of power but it made about the same amount of power from 2000-6000 rpm. Combine that with some rockauto shocks and Walmart cheapo mud and snows it was actually pretty good. Once we learned to drive it brought home some trophies, or window stickers, whatever. And we smiled ear to ear through every run.
So I guess that was my eulogy for the beloved BARF-1. I guess my biggest takeaway from the whole experience has been that you just can't beat E36 M3box racing. We could have spent more, and gone faster, but we wouldn't have had any more fun.
Any plans for a replacement? I mean, if you had fun rallycrossing a Beretta, you'd have fun rally crossing damn near any cheap (running) E36 M3box out there :) And there are a lot of cheap E36 M3boxes out there looking for a home :)
In reply to irish44j (Forum Supporter) :
No plans at the moment. I have too many irons in the fire right now to be able to spend weeknights getting a car ready and a whole saturday racing. Maybe in a couple years when I have the farm a little closer to how we want it to be. Right now I just dont have the extra time, money, or energy for it.
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