Matthew Blizel and David Mendolia of Angled Lines http://www.angledlines.com/ came out with us (Ziptie Rally Team www.facebook.com/ziptie.rally) to a recent test session and put together this video. (the squeeling sound is a form of compressor surge)
False Advertising! Beating the piss out of it usually involves a tree or a creek This car looks terrific. You guys did an excellant job on the build.
no that would be crashing the piss out of it you finish that nissan yet? sno*drift is coming up quick
Zero interest in running Sno*Drift. 100AW maybe, but Feb is a tough time to schedule for my family. Looking like no RMN in May, so maybe Dave can take NT back to a 3 event May/June/July series? Car might make it out to the last rallycross, but I decided to swap to a full custom brake setup since I had to pull most of it back out anyhow, so I dunno. Pretty much everything else is ready to go. Should have the balance bar and adjuster in hand tomorrow and then I can build the box to hold it and the masters (which I already have). Going to have the stock pedal (big offset to clear the steering column) driving a Wilwood balance bar pushing dual 3/4" masters, with a hydro handbrake in the rear (cheap Glow-Shift lever but tapped to mount a Wilwood master cylinder), rear brake lines run though the cabin. Noting unusual for a rally car, but I was going to just run stock at LSPR. Do you have a bubble flare tool? most of the system will use standard double flares, but the last connection between the lines and the stainless steel braided lines to the calipers will still be the stock metric bubble flare.
sno*drift is like the best event! one of my favorites at least. Dave is getting married in May, not sure if he plans to organize any Nemadjis in that time frame.
Snow is fun, it's just that I drive around in snow and ice for months each year, with the stakes being a lot higher than a trophy at the end of the weekend. It's on the wrong side of the lake, which makes the tow about twice what LSPR is, even though it's not geographically much farther away. And it's towing in winter conditions the whole way. You need tires that you won't use for any other event (ice tires). It's very easy to do a lot of body damage with minimal mistakes. Ideally you'd run softer springs at the event too (tried bouncing the car last night, I can climb my fat ass up on the bumper and the car barely moves with the gravel springs I've got on). Add it all up and it just doesn't do it for me. For my money I'd rather find an IIRA team with an open seat for a weekend, or run one of the LaCrosse ice events. Plenty of hooning fun to be had in winter nearer to home.
we use dead end roads only. ham radio operators on either end just in case. we also have a point of contact with the local authorities so they know when we are testing (they usually stop by to see the car)
Interesting. I've always wondered how rally teams test as you'd need access to real roads but of course you don't want to kill anyone. Sounds like quite a production, thanks for the info.
