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I just checked the final results of this season.

There was a three way tie for third fourth and fifth.

But due to me being the most consistent of the three......I got third! Team Cat Flap got third!!!!

So if this means what I think it means, I'll be getting an award at the SCCA awards banquet!!!!

I couldn't ask for anything more, to come away with the third place overall for the season, my first year, in the somewhat large and super competitive Stock Front Wheel Drive class (some of these guys are Rally veterans, with cars preped to the edge of being able to be called stock).

WWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! :happydance

But man that last race beat me up, (one of the other drivers said he could see the entire underside of my car on my second run) I'm still sore all over. It was worth it though. :)

I just had to share. :)

Now that the racing season is over till march, I can switch back to music mode.

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rx7 next....

check the rotor blades often chief

Yeah, given the miles on it and how strong it runs, I think it's been recently rebuilt, but there is a good shop in Portland that builds racing engines for them. :)

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if you can. scavenge a mazda 20B rotory engine for it (usually on mazda/eunos cosmo cars) then have FUN

I don't think we ever got thoes here. But a popular conversion is to put a newer RX-7 engine in the older ones, or they can build me a three rotor monster engine, OR lots of people have put small block V8s in them (with a new tranny, driveshaft, bigger rear axle and beefier front springs). Now THAT would be a silly amount of torque in such a light car. And I happen to have access to a 70s era Chevy 350 that runs good with tranny. :devil

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20B is where its at. 18B engine of RX-7's are OK. but after seeing an import cosmo...... WHOA.

cosmo's if available are probably as cheap as RX-7's due to conservative styling and troublesome touchscreen controlls on centre console

I'm sure one could be had here. (there was a company importing Skylines for awhile, but I hear they had some kind of problem and had to go to jail or something, the people running the company, not the Skylines, they are still cruising around)

If not the whole car, it seems to be big business importing Japanese market engines here. And they are usually really cheap and have low miles. A friend of mine had a Type-R engine imported for his Honda CRX....damn that hauled ass.

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Forget the triple rotor. You can get plenty of HP out of a well tuned 13B. It's probably way cheaper for parts and they're reasonably available. For rallying you gotta think durability as well as overall performance. Maybe think about dropping a new Renesis in it. That way you get all the modern engine controls and driveability. 240HP straight outta the box. In an old RX-7 that weighs far less then an RX-8... that thing would be a rocket! :-)

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Forget the triple rotor. You can get plenty of HP out of a well tuned 13B. It's probably way cheaper for parts and they're reasonably available. For rallying you gotta think durability as well as overall performance. Maybe think about dropping a new Renesis in it. That way you get all the modern engine controls and driveability. 240HP straight outta the box. In an old RX-7 that weighs far less then an RX-8... that thing would be a rocket! :-)

Yeah the tri rotor is kinda exotic.

I'm thinking an oil change and tune-up is all I need right now. Even the 110 HP (or so) that it has now moves it quite well. Just runs rough, needs a cap and rotor (totaly fried contacts), and most likely plugs.

A Renesis would rock. But I don't have the kinda cash right now to obtain it and all the electronics.....unless the Mazda salvage yard near me has a wrecked one.......

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Cool, I'll have to check that out when I can let it load (or I find the instructions I printed on how to save vids from you tube (you change some stuff in the URL and it will save instead of stream))

This dial-up is too slow, and I gotta go into town right now.

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I wasnt even aware you were into this still. Wow. Im sure it takes a ton of practice and mental focus. Not to mention $$$. Good work. :thumbup:

Are you still into the pimping out of compact cars thing as well? As in "for looks" or is it basicly all about performance?

I remember spending i'd say 1000 hours learning to do a rolling heelflip (a.k.a The Killer of Ankles , The Destroy of Knees) on my old skateboard and thought i had acheived some sort of godlike feat when i was finally able to land it without killing myself. I had nightmares about the pain assoiciated with learning that thing for years afterward haha. I finally pussed out of the sport alltogether once some of my buddies started pushing me to try even more extreeme shit, was just to damn painful. Ripped open both ACLs the FIRST time in that process. I knew a guy that broke both ankles , one arm and ripped both ACLs as well learning the same trick heh... this seems even more dangerous. *shudder*

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I wasnt even aware you were into this still. Wow. Im sure it takes a ton of practice and mental focus. Not to mention $$$. Good work. :thumbup:

Are you still into the pimping out of compact cars thing as well? As in "for looks" or is it basicly all about performance?

I remember spending i'd say 1000 hours learning to do a rolling heelflip (a.k.a The Killer of Ankles , The Destroy of Knees) on my old skateboard and thought i had acheived some sort of godlike feat when i was finally able to land it without killing myself. I had nightmares about the pain assoiciated with learning that thing for years afterward haha. I finally pussed out of the sport alltogether once some of my buddies started pushing me to try even more extreeme shit, was just to damn painful. Ripped open both ACLs the FIRST time in that process. I knew a guy that broke both ankles , one arm and ripped both ACLs as well learning the same trick heh... this seems even more dangerous. *shudder*

Yeah it slowed down somewhat when I first moved back out here.

My Focus is mainly stock except for some off-road lights and a custom aluminum skid-pan under the engine 'n'stuff. (both legal for stock class) I just can't afford all the other trickery anymore. :(

Besides I would still go more for performance than looks anymore anyway. (though a little fun shiny here or there is nice sometimes)

I keep it cheap by running in the stock class. So no $$ really gets spent on the car (unless it breaks) and entry fee is only $25 per race day. Usually theres one event a month. (we had 8 races this past season)

I can thank my GF for getting me into it all. With my racing and my muzik she pushes me to just go and do it. (when the first race came up last march and I mentioned it she made me enter) Even if she has to buy dinner and drinks at the club cause I'm broke that week. :thumbup:

And I help encourage her DJing as well. (which usually pays for the drinking)

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I can thank my GF for getting me into it all. With my racing and my muzik she pushes me to just go and do it. (when the first race came up last march and I mentioned it she made me enter) Even if she has to buy dinner and drinks at the club cause I'm broke that week. :thumbup:

And I help encourage her DJing as well. (which usually pays for the drinking)

Ya gotta love a GF like that. I swear mine would make a fantastic rally co-driver. The more insane I drive around corners, the bigger the smile on her face. I gotta take her to a track day at Waterford Hills next summer, I think. :thumbup:

You might want to think about doing a little seam welding on your car's body shell. Especially around the shock/spring towers and other places likely to get beat up by all the pounding your giving it. Assuming that sort of thing is legal... :wink

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Ya gotta love a GF like that. I swear mine would make a fantastic rally co-driver. The more insane I drive around corners, the bigger the smile on her face. I gotta take her to a track day at Waterford Hills next summer, I think. :thumbup:

You might want to think about doing a little seam welding on your car's body shell. Especially around the shock/spring towers and other places likely to get beat up by all the pounding your giving it. Assuming that sort of thing is legal... :wink

Sorry I've been gone awhile.

Yeah the seam welding thing was not legal for stock class.

But the Foci is retired this year.

I'm working on the RX7 now getting it ready. Due to the fact that it has had the carpet, headliner, doorcards, ect.... removed (water damage, due to a leaky sunroof). I have to run in modified RWD class. So now I can seam weld. :)

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