Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

[lukem30]

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Yeah I'm glad Marc was up for it, he sat in on a road rally with me once but the car broke early on, hoping to go a bit further down pembrey. Are you doing it mike?

That would certainly be interesting mat.

[Arwel]

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Im sure you'll enjoy it Luke. Christmas stages was my first ever stage event 4 years ago now. We also have an entry in and will be looking to finish this one as I haven't managed to finish one Christmas/Jaffa Stages so far.

[lukem30]

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I'm really looking forward to it, hope you get to the end this year, see you there.

[lukem30]

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Well our entry has been accepted for the Xmas stages so I've made a start getting the car sorted. First up was some tinkering with the water temp compensation on the map, it now runs a lot better from cold.
Next up was to sort the play in the steering, end result was a new rack, ally rack mounts, new rod ends and a new heavy duty group 4 universal joint. I think the steering items were the only things left on the car I hadn't replaced or rebuilt since having the car, so well overdue.
Booked in Tuesday for suspension set up at Melvyn Evans Motorsport.

[lukem30]

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Rally prep is continuing with a trip to Melvyn Evans Motorsport for geometry set up. It was massively needed as my front end was way out on the one side where I whacked it on the last road rally I did. Had some fun on the way with John who also took his mk2 up, only a few little jobs left to sort.

[onecamohv]

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just read this thread from start to finish, great work luke

[GAZZAMK2]

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What a great car you've built there pal. And used and abused as they should be!

[lukem30]

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Thanks guys, it's been a learning curve.

[dorianwills]

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Melvyn does a amazing job

[lukem30]

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And finally after the long Xmas build up it was time for the Jaffa stages. It was an eventful day but great fun. I normally drive the car to and from events, but I had the luxury off using my dads recovery truck which was nice.



My mate popped down the night before the event to put a few of his stickers on as well.

We were seeded at car 66, one car behind John (freddy68) who was also doing his first stage event. I entered the road rally class, which was the class with the biggest turn out, 16 cars, this meant we had to run road tyres to comply with the class rules.

Stage 1 was ok, made a bad tyre choice putting my wet tyres on which overheated very quickly and gave me a lot of understeer. Then we had some contact with a tyre chicane early on, but it didn't slow us down much and we set a decent time inside the top 30. The damage looked quite bad, but it is only cosmetic, the front panel should straighten and a wing to finish off.

Stage 2 was the worst stage of the day. I swapped tyres to Yokohama a021's on the front and the car felt a lot better, the stage was going very well. Then on the entrance to the 'go kart track' one of the previous cars had pulled out one of the tyres stopping people cutting the apex, I was already on opposite lock going through the fast 90 right and my inside front wheel just clipped they tyre and bent my steering arm. I stopped to check the car was still safe then continued slowly around the stage to the end where we got in just before the stage maximum time.

We had a busy service changing the steering arm and tracked the car very quickly by eye and just made it out for stage 3. After the max on stage 2 we knew any sort of result was gone so we just went out for some experience. Turn in didn't feel great but I had a go and we had a nice clean stage with no dramas.

Stage 4 was scrubbed due to a car fire.

Stage 5 was the final stage and we tracked the car a bit better and had more of a push. We had another nice clean stage with no issues or spins and set a time which was good enough for 17th over all which I was pleased about.

Over all it was a great day, the car has potential to be fast if I can keep things tidy. it was a shame to damage the car but it's nothing serious, and there's no point turning up unless your going to have a go

[lukem30]

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Stage 3

Stage 1

[lukem30]

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The brief time it was looking nice



Into the pits for some running repairs



Good as new



Back on it

[jonsey]

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Looking good Luke. That wing seems to like the lorry tires on the motorkhana track.

[lukem30]

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Looking good Luke. That wing seems to like the lorry tires on the motorkhana track.

It's a carbon copy of my last visit to the tyres, set of safari bars for next time I think.

[redhf]

Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

Luke are you still on a 4.6 cwp ?