Well, let's not get too far afield from autocross.
A. I'm not a rally fan of any sort.
B. Those guys had the nerve to say in the rally presentation that
rallies were run at below legal speed limits ;)
C. You are right on all counts.
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: bluemr2@juno.com <bluemr2@juno.com>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 6:40 PM
Subject: The Cost of A-X (long)
>>Snipping the balance of an excellent post. The last Detroit
>>Region meeting program was "getting started in ....." The re
was
>>general agreement that the cheapest form of autosport (at least
>>as is available within SCCA) is Road Rally. They never
mentioned
>>Dramamine on the list of required equipment, though.
>
> Hmmm, Road Rally (at least the one I went to in the Detroit
Region)
>looks to be MORE expensive than auto-x. There's less equip. to
buy to be
>competitve, BUT repairing the car after every event looks to get
>expensive fast. (Luckily, we got away from it only needing a
<$70
>alternator belt replacement) The "old" one was about 9 months
old.
>Plus, gotta wash the car a lot more often ;-)
> Seriously though, with the abuse the car took, shocks/struts
are going
>to go a LOT faster. Need another set of wheels as 16" alloys
don't cut
>it (14" steel wheels are the way to go, surprised we didn't
wreck the
>alloys that time out). Bottomed out the car a couple times
(that can't
>be good)... And consider that road rally events puts a lot more
miles on
>the car. And it would have been REALLY expensive if we hadn't
seen that
>"herd" of deer in time...
>
>Brian
>
>
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