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irish44j
irish44j UberDork
11/13/13 10:54 p.m.
Knurled wrote:
irish44j wrote: I thought you ran a 1st gen RX-7? That qualifies as a "light car" in my book. What cars that would be considered "heavy" would you say are dominating in rally-x?
My car weighs more than some of the Subarus out there. I started with the heaviest year and added a lot more weight to it in the form of skid plates and about 2 Home Depots worth of angle iron and sheetmetal in the suspension, and balanced it out by removing some lightweight carpet. On the other hand, it hasn't exactly been dominating this year either. It feels a lot more stable on rough stuff than the car that HAS been dominating, so there's that anyway.

Fair enough. Why so much angle iron and sheetmetal? Is the chassis weak on those?

[disclaimer: since rallycross season just ended, I'm just whoring in all the RX threads to keep them on the front page so the season can live on a bit longer...]

Knurled
Knurled UberDork
11/13/13 11:11 p.m.

I rejected Mazda's suspension geometry and substituted my own!

(obscure reference to Mythbusters)

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy UltraDork
11/13/13 11:27 p.m.

What are you talking about rallycross season just ended? The last race is on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy UltraDork
11/16/13 7:29 p.m.

Miata was the answer.

EvanB
EvanB PowerDork
11/16/13 8:13 p.m.

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Gasoline
Gasoline SuperDork
11/17/13 9:39 a.m.
Brett_Murphy wrote: Miata was the answer.

Don't tell me that.....unless it is past tense.

DuctTapeRS
DuctTapeRS New Reader
11/17/13 12:06 p.m.

The answer is GC Impreza: Proven, small, light, cheap, awd, cheap... awd... And if you get bored they upgrade like legos. Personally I like spending time behind the wheel instead of trying to reinvent it.

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy UltraDork
11/18/13 8:08 a.m.

GC Impreza would work alright, sure, You can even do fairly well with an automatic if you put it into "2" instead of "D".

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