Road legal rally car
Discussion
As mentioned over the page, it's the servicing that would kill the idea of a rally car for road use. Sure, you could normal road tyres on, and brakes that heat up at lower speeds to make it safer to use in traffic, but if you kept the engine pure WRC spec it would need to be serviced a lot. Replacement parts will cost mega money too. I remember reading about the turbos that WRC cars use, iirc they are built from titanium to make them stronger and more heat resistant, costing £8000 or more for a unit, and each team generally has to replace the turbo in each car more than once. So I'd give it perhaps a couple of months use on the road before it needs replacing, if that!
I'd still love a rally car for the road. If I was super rich I'd have a Peugeot 205 T16 built, give it tyres and brakes that worked on the road and leave the crashy suspension, super-loud exhaust, lack of silencing and lack of comfort as it was on the car back in the day. There is a video on youtube of an older rally star driving a T16 on public roads, though he is tootling along at best! It's still a cool fantasy, even if it really should stay a fantasy.
I'd still love a rally car for the road. If I was super rich I'd have a Peugeot 205 T16 built, give it tyres and brakes that worked on the road and leave the crashy suspension, super-loud exhaust, lack of silencing and lack of comfort as it was on the car back in the day. There is a video on youtube of an older rally star driving a T16 on public roads, though he is tootling along at best! It's still a cool fantasy, even if it really should stay a fantasy.
Sam_68 said:
Honestly: for the daily grind, give me a nice little mainstream hot hatch back or an MX5, any day.
I'd go with that too! I love the idea of a rally/road crossover like a Subaru Impreza or a Lancer Evolution but anyone can see that a 'proper' rally car would be a nightmare on the road. I mean, the Lancer Evolution servicing intervals are bad enough!
John D. said:
Jayho said:
davepoth said:
All rally cars are, by definition, road legal cars. They have to be to be able to drive between special stages.
As to why you don't often see Focus rally replicas, it's mainly down to the lack of AWD on the production cars.
Reminds me... aren't rally cars suppose to adhere to the speed limit and legal road laws during certain stages? AKA if a council decided to to plop a speed camera on a special stage and teh rally car was going over the said speed limit of the road would = speeding?As to why you don't often see Focus rally replicas, it's mainly down to the lack of AWD on the production cars.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3108065.stm
ETA - I should have read the post properly - Doh!
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 3rd April 16:54
Flintstone said:
matthewg said:
Lordbenny said:
Here's mine....now sold!
spec?http://www.powerengineering.co.uk/acatalog/Updates...
Lordbenny said:
The 'shopping list' was actually a list of some of the parts actually fitted to the car. Unlike a lot of 'barry' cars around at that time the builders of the car put the list on the side to advertise the products manufacturer, they got them a bit cheaper that way! As for being a rally car....It wasn't. It was a replica and wouldn't last 5 minutes on a rally. It was a genuine M-sport body kit (one of two that would actually fit a production Ford Focus)& did have 400bhp, it was built by Power Engineering, see here:
http://www.powerengineering.co.uk/acatalog/Updates...
Thank you, interesting reading.Great car.http://www.powerengineering.co.uk/acatalog/Updates...
gog440 said:
And the fuel economy would kill you, If i remember correctly the special fuel that was used by the wrc cars is about £15-£20 per litre (if I am wrong it is likely to be an under estimate)
Also every rally car I have driven has no soundproofing, a straight cut gearbox, you can hear every pop and bang, every pot hole, piece of gravel etc, impossible to speak to your passenger without an intercom.
Also they are a b
h to maneouvre and in traffic as they are normally have a paddle clutch which is either in or out.
Friends got a fully preped mini 1275.Also every rally car I have driven has no soundproofing, a straight cut gearbox, you can hear every pop and bang, every pot hole, piece of gravel etc, impossible to speak to your passenger without an intercom.
Also they are a b
h to maneouvre and in traffic as they are normally have a paddle clutch which is either in or out.Striped back to just paint
Fuel cut off
Battery cut off
Roll cage
Dash removed with a piece of flat metal over where it was
Loud as fk exhaust
No heaters or anything
Has a normal gearbox with a race clutch though.
Said he hates it in traffic, he also drives with those big ear muffs that digger drivers use.
So fun on a B road however
Sam_68 said:
Chris Harris is a motoring journalist, whose job is to sell the maximum number of magazines to spotty teenagers and daydreaming wannabes.
I thought his job was to help the motor industry shift as much metal as possible to those who can afford it.I can't see any reason why the industry would pander to journalists to help them sell magazines to those who can't afford to buy cars.
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