Hero Road Rallies

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I tried this in the motor sport forum with out success, maybe more luck here?

A pal and I have entered our first historic rally with Hero this weekend. Coming from a sprinting background we are having a few last minute doubts about car preparation. We have entered my lightly modified TR6, which is essentially a road car with a few tweeks but it is quite loud. Hero have not been very forthcoming about noise limits or idneed if this is tested at all. Does anyone have any experience of these events and any advice they can pass on?

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Thank's gents. any advice welcome.

We've done non competitive rallies before, including the Laon Historic a few times, but this is a bit of a toe in the water into something a little more serious.

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Thank's for taking the time to look into it. My car uses an off the shelf TR6 exhaust and three DCOEs and is quite loud but we've never had any problem with the law either here or abroad (Apart from a small speeding faux pas) so hopefully all will be well. until we get hopelessly lost at least.

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Will do, if not too depressing. I'll keep an eye out for your dad.

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Clubman, this is our first go at this sort of thing. Should be OK at 98 db, my sprint Westfiield usually measures at 97 db and is louder than the TR. The TR6 would have six throttles as standard, so not really altered in that respect, just Webers are much easier to get to work correctly than the original Lucas mechanical injection.

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That's the issue which precipitated this thread, we have tried several times to resolve eligibility issues and have been promised a response, but nothing has been forthcoming. Still I don't think we are the only TR6 entered so I'm sure its in hand.

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Thank's for that. You have to love the MSA, I've done a bit of 12 car stuff in my Impreza, but couldn't in either the TR6 or my Elan. Best of luck on Saturday, do say hello if you see two confused guys in a red TR6 goingvthe wrong way.

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Perhaps we should follow each other? Hope to see you there.

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To update the thread as requested, we had a great day, and many thanks to those who offered advice. There was noise testing to the MSA 98 db limit, we initially tested at 104 but Hero were excellent and their on event technical assistance were able to resolve the issue to allow us to compete.

Although the event was far more challenging than we expected it was hugely enjoyable and very well organised. We ended up 4th in class, which for first time out, we were delighted with. Thank goodness we took advantage of the training day or we would have been lost.

Richard, did you have a problem with the Jag, we did not see you at the finish?

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I think this one day event was a couple of hundred quid, being at the cheaper end of the events Hero offer. It does represent excellent value compared to say a sprint that may only cost £80 or so, but only gives you six or seven minutes behind the wheel. Some of the more exotic rallies are serious money.

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It's a TR shop single box system, but with the Revington sprint springs the car is really too low for this sort of event and the backbox is now slightly reprofiled. We're going to need a more effective back box preferably shallower and mounted as high as we can get it. Even then we may have to consider raising the ride height an inch or so.