E30 Rally Build Thread

[E30_pilot]

Dam that snow video is siiiick! Skinny tires awesomeness!

Dam you guys make me want to join a local subaru/rally group that do runs in dirt lots lol

[SlapDash]

Isn't it? I gave my sponsor a sketch scribbled in Sharpie on a used napkin and that's what he came up with. It's removable too. It's even cooler up close and rock solid.

Underside pics coming up, after Rally Australia today.

[A Sucked Orange]

I am dying to do a snow rally.

Slapdash - light setup is badass. photos of underside, stat.

[MasterOfPuppets]

That Snijers video is humbling, but the second one makes me want to get out and enter a snow rally. Looks like a blast. Good thing it will snow here in about two weeks or so.

[bme30]

Like this...

[Erik]

This is awesome. Now I want a rally E30... Need moar videos like this. Ready, GO!

[blalor]

500hp Chevette

There's a phrase you don't hear very often. Have you considered entering the 24 Hours of LeMons? :) They love crazy shit like that.

[SlapDash]

Ha ha, nice! Thanks for the sig addition.

I'll take a better picture of it when I find myself underneath my car again, but you can see the bash bar a little bit here.

If i didn't have this thing, or the skid plate, I wouldn't have made it past Stage 1.

[iamsam]

Yup, durability is the key.

My skid plate is/was 1/4-inch aluminum plate. It covered the whole underside of the engine and we even had a mini roll cage (bash bar) surrounding the the oil pan and we STILL cracked the pan.

In Pic 1, you can see the plate in the foreground, the bash bar, then the pan. There used to be three inches of clean air between the plate and the bar, and the bar and the pan.

Pic 2 is a bottom view looking up where some killer Maine rocks lashed out and shredded the welds.

Pic 3 shows the dent in the plate from the rock that pushed the bash bar into the pan.

I think I'll relocate my oil pan to the roof.

I think I found new sig material.

Also, Mike, I would suggest somehow tying your "bash bar" mini-cage for your oil pan up to the subframe by angling bars off the bash bar up to the frame rails, to support any loads that would come directly up into the oil pan, like landing on Mt Everest.

[SlapDash]

Umm, they weren't so much 'roads' per se, more like 'ravines' with occasional road-esque features. I've lived in New England my whole life and I've never seen rocks like this.

I was actually avoiding a string of boulders that had been kicked up across the road from the previous 50 competitors, when I hit this wave of gravel that picked us up, sailed us through the air, and dropped us squarely on Mt. Everest with my oil pan as the pivot point.

The hit knocked the wheel out of my hand, my navvie dropped his notes and we were both looking out the sides of our helmets.

We actually finished the stage, but as soon as I shut the engine down after we lined back up, all I got on the soft Maine breezes, was the wafting aroma of hot Castrol.

[MasterOfPuppets]

I think I'll relocate my oil pan to the roof.

Dry sump... I like it. WTF happened out there?

[SlapDash]

Yup, durability is the key.

My skid plate is/was 1/4-inch aluminum plate. It covered the whole underside of the engine and we even had a mini roll cage (bash bar) surrounding the the oil pan and we STILL cracked the pan.

In Pic 1, you can see the plate in the foreground, the bash bar, then the pan. There used to be three inches of clean air between the plate and the bar, and the bar and the pan.

Pic 2 is a bottom view looking up where some killer Maine rocks lashed out and shredded the welds.

Pic 3 shows the dent in the plate from the rock that pushed the bash bar into the pan.

I think I'll relocate my oil pan to the roof.

[MasterOfPuppets]

Yes, skid plate must be removable. My very stout, very well built, brand-new skid plate turned out to be one-time use from the abuse it took. The plate was flat on the bottom, then had a significant bend to tuck up nicely under the bumper. Well, let's just say now the whole plate is flat.

TCMotorsports sells a very nice skid plate for E30 M20 race cars: http://www.tcmotorsports-store.net/e...kid-p3020.html
Currently $180
Have not heard of anyone making an E30 specific flat aluminum style skid plate generally used on rally cars.

Yeah, I don't think anything made for road race is quite what I'll need. I'm thinking full car-width, almost full car-length and made up of something like 1/4" plate aluminum or 1/8" (maybe even 3/16") steel. I'm way more concerned about durability than speed at this point... the 500hp Chevette I'm brainstorming as a follow-on rally car will take care of that.

[cjm]

TCMotorsports sells a very nice skid plate for E30 M20 race cars: http://www.tcmotorsports-store.net/e...kid-p3020.html
Currently $180
Have not heard of anyone making an E30 specific flat aluminum style skid plate generally used on rally cars.

[SlapDash]

Yes, skid plate must be removable. My very stout, very well built, brand-new skid plate turned out to be one-time use from the abuse it took. The plate was flat on the bottom, then had a significant bend to tuck up nicely under the bumper. Well, let's just say now the whole plate is flat.