GavinR's Mk2 Rally Car - FLY

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Rally Car - FLY

Yes that was me, won the first round of this years Internet Table Top Rally Championship popcorn:

For those of you who don't know, a Table Top Rally just involves plotting a route defined by cryptic navigation on a map - you get marks based on how accurate your route is

For more info see http://table-top-rallying.org.uk/

[tim]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Rally Car - FLY

congratulation mate

[Retromotorsport]

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Nice to see your still playing Gavin, wheres the pics of the grins though!!!

[GavinR]

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Thanks - Im sure we'll force ourselves to have another play in it this weekend so will take some photos & maybe even an in-car video

[Sideways]

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Nice one, looks like your gonna have loads of fun with that

[Skids]

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Good to see you bought a quality dry sump tank off Roy at Ralloy and not a cheap pretender.Your car looks very similar to mine (unarched yellow 2.1 pinto)the main difference is my Missus would not be seen dead in my garage never mind helping me with the car.It may be because last time I built a Rally car 15 years ago I rolled it with her in it while testing it for the first time.
Looks like it will be a bit of a beast with that motor in ,keep it between the trees .
Skids

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Rally Car - FLY

Finally got confirmation late last night of my entry for the Classic Tracks Daytime Road Rally on 28th May so just a couple of jobs to do this weekend...

Remove Cossie, dry sump pipes and tank, and fit Pinto back in

Fit new inserts to the front struts and raise the suspension height

Try and make the LSD work like an LSD again

That should keep me busy

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Rally Car - FLY

Got the Pinto in and running Sunday as planned and investigated the diff some more after some advice from Fossie and extracted it on Monday night, stripped it down and found the splines had stripped out of the friction plates, hence no LSD

Strange thing is, I had the axle rebuilt 18 months ago and the same problem was discovered
After a few more conversations with Fossie, we came to the conclusion that this is probably happening because it is set up so tight - I ran the axle for 6 years on the back of my stage car without a single rebuild, when it was first built it was set to 90% locked as far as I can remember which worked perfectly on tarmac stages but now doing Road Rallies there must be more pressure on it
It had been built with thin shims to get it that tight so Fossie suggested trying some wavy plates instead which I received from him this morning and took a day off work to bolt it all back together

Finished it this evening, tried it with a torque wrench and it slips at 95 lb ft but I expect this will loosen a bit when I drive it at the weekend

Roll on the Classic Tracks - I'm seeded 14th out of 75 entries, should be a good event as long as the weather holds - the organisers are concerned about the state of some of the tracks being used but they say they'll run it as long as the tracks are passable

[waynemk2]

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wicked i might pop down to have a watch, hope the weather holds out, as it was nice last year, r u goin to have a crack on the thousand lanes

[GavinR]

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The organisers have been round the route earlier today and recommend a large can of WD40 and some wellies but say the event is definitely on

More rain forecast for tomorrow morning but should be nice on Sunday

Bit different from last year when it was very dusty but I'll get my chunkiest tyres on and hope we get round without too much trouble pray:

Not sure what the next event will be - see what happens on this one first

[waynemk2]

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good luck have a good skid

[GavinR]

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It turned out nice for Sunday, the sun shone all day, the tracks were very slippery in places and some of the fords quite deep, but Fly performed faultlessly and we finished 10th

The first couple of sections were very similar to last year with the addition of a very slippery slalom through a cowshed (about 6 inches deep in cow percy: ) and the tracks were in reasonable condition

Got onto a few more slippery sections, having passed various cars changing punctures, slid into a bank on the next section and the marshal at the end confirmed we had a front puncture
Next section was 2 miles, 6 minutes on a normal tarmac road, changed the puncture and made it in with 2 seconds to spare thanks to some speedy work by Carrie and I

Couple of sections later, steeply downhill round a couple of square corners, locked up and stalled it trying to stop for a codeboard, bump started it, couldn't reverse back to it so made Carrie get out and run 100 yds back up the hill to get the board

Lying 14th at halfway, I wished I'd put the suspension up higher as the ruts got deeper, didn't quite make it round a tight downhill hairpin left and touched the bank on the outside, couldn't reverse out so had to wait for 5 spectators to help push - stopped on the next link section cos of a bad vibration - rear puncture this time where a rock had pierced the reinforced sidewall. Took us a bit longer to change but we knew we had plenty of time so it didn't matter.

Post event pics




Spent a few hours cleaning Fly yesterday - can't see any damage or bits hanging off

[tim]

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weldone gavin, the escort looks how it should look

[waynemk2]

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boy does nt she look dirty, he he, i was watchin by the ford, was wicked fun, i put entry in for 1000 lanes rally, i sitting in navigators seat tho, as i building a road rally stage mk2 myself, also my bro is building one too (welshdiffsniffer)
pics of his in restorations and projects

[GavinR]

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Big congratulations to my wife, Carrie, on her first Road Rally win last weekend on the Classic Lanes Novice Rally



First time she's done a Road Rally with anyone else apart from myself, they even beat all the Semi's and got a nice pic in MN

I managed to see them at 4 points during the night and they were by far the quickest crew out there