Hey Gustav,
Sorry to here about your illness. I use to do alot of autocrossing and road racing with my own personal vehicle and I know what you meen by stamina, racing does take a toll on you.
Never did any rallying, this is the closest I have ever come to it though. The guy that owned that car took me for a ride in a dirt field by my work....it was awsume! Hopefully you'll be able to drive again!
Good luck to ya.
John

Thanks John,

I'm making very good progress in recent months,slow but steady.In fact, i've been putting my mountain bike together this weekend so i can start off with some light excersise.

I used to have an autograss/autocross buggy which i did't compete in,just used to play in the fields with it.I regret selling that now.

What sort of car did you have?When you say road racing was it circuit racing?

That Rally car looks interesting.Only other current cars i can think of with suicide back doors are the new rolls royce and the mazda rx8.

if i do get to race/rally again i'll probably build/run my own car.(nothing too grand).I'd like to do a 4x4 for offroad trials or a rally car for club events.

For no particular reason,here's a pic of one of my dream cars in action:

Hey Gustav,

Carefull on that mountain bike.:eek:

I actually raced a truck believe it or not. It is a 1990 Toyota truck. Standard cab, standard bed. Really light, I had it weighed in at about 2700 lbs. I had all the suspension work done (as much as you can do to a truck anyway) lowered, big anti-sway bars ect. The motor is a fully built supercharged/nitrous oxide nothing left stock (that I can think of) 4 cyl. Yes 4 cylinder. It's putting out an estimated 350hp. I am only running about 10lbs of boost is why the horsepower numbers dont seem bigger for everything I have done. Some of these guys with 4 cylinders and turbo are putting out well over 1000hp! Those are drag cars of course which I also use to do with my truck.
I did not race circuit when I did road racing. It was an old airport strip that they converted into a road course. Pay an entry fee, tell them what you are driving and they would put you in a class. I only did that course twice though.

Yeah that Saturn rally car was pretty interesting. Saturn sold him that car for only $1 and sponsored him for a season or two?
Saturn was actually the first coupe (modern coupe anyway) to come out with suicide doors back in 1999. They dont sell Saturns in the UK do they?

Your dream car.....Looks like an early to mid eightys quattro?
John

That truck of yours sounds really cool,i bet that was heaps of fun.
I love the sound of a supercharger aswell.There's something very satisfying in building something fast out of something that wasn't intended to be.Kind of like what i like to do with solid axle RCs.

Yeah,the 80s was probably the golden age for rallying.Huge crowds in those days.I think that car may be an early Group B or maybe earlier group 4.Audi were the first to pull the plug on group B after a series of accidents involving spectators,the class was banned shortly after.

Speaking of big power from little engines,in the 80s F1 teams were achieving 1500 bhp from 1.5 litre turbo 4 pots(imagine the lag on those!).Rumour has it that the BMW blocks in the Brabhams came from old road cars and some say that the engineers used to pee on them and leave them outside(sounds unlikely but who knows).

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....so this means that there is a solution to very high rpm noise is lower.....and can this solution be solved to all nitro cars?????? if possible for a nitro mt-2 then please notify me... thank you
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Only made a small differnce,just kinda took the shrillness/high frequency down a bit,it was on a loud pipe.i don't think there'll be a way to solve the high noise levels,they need the pipe to resonate as i understand.I don't have any neighbours for a good 1/2 mile or so,so i used to keep the nitro for the crappy weather, but i gave up on nitro stuff in the end when it annoyed me for the last time.