Thread: Off Road Racing

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

A nice pic here of the Lada,,

and a shot of our 245 hard at work--

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This is the only one of yours that I have found as yet:


I still have another 1000+ photos to go through

What happened to you guys anyway??

Edit: found another one of both our cars

Originally Posted by Treads

Is flying done to minimise the wear and tear on the suspension? Sure that would affect traction

It also does bad things to your heart rate!

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It also does bad things to your heart rate!

Dunno, looks like you blokes are just chatting.

I dunno what Russells looking at
theres a dirty big tree not so far ahead he should be concentrating on!


as for chatting, I do most of it,
but when he does talk its usually a "oops"
Thankfully not many of them

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It also does bad things to your heart rate!

And the rest of your body after two days

I'm soooo sore! I nav'd for 3 laps of the short course & 4 laps of the long course on Sunday. My shoulders and neck are killing me I got out after lap 1 of the second long section and nearly threw up! The Lada is pretty rough

Our little excursion during prologue was the telling factor of our poor showing over the weekend For everyone else's benefit here's the story:

First qualifying lap going flat out over the hill into heart start


Bevan pressed the middle pedal, only for it to go straight to the floor so he turned left at 80kph


Over the first contour and back onto four wheels


Only to see a log looming in front of us


Launch!


Landing on two wheels and still doing about 60kph


Finally hauled it to a halt with the handbrake and turning it off in gear


If we hadn't deviated left we would have done this, only ten feet further on, and endo'd the car


We got out of it with some minor damage that slowed us down for the rest of the weekend. So with a last place qualifying time and the damage we were relegated to running last in every single section afterwards. Not only that; but my driver was pretty shaken and was only doing 9 tenths for the next few heats

We found that the loss of brakes was caused by a damaged shock tube cutting a rear brake line


On Sunday we retired with a broken control arm, broken trailing arm and a separated driveshaft with 700m to go With 199.3km of the 200km race done, it's the furthest the little Lada has ever been in a long course event

We did the recon of the long lap,, thats where the clutch failed, with the Hewland you can change gears without a clutch which is the only reason we made it back to the pits.
We both admitted that the long laps would not have been fun--

Originally Posted by numpty

Nice work.

It would go even better with a Fiat Twin Cam, which was a popular mod a number of years ago, as they are basically 60's/70's Fiat engineering.

After some looking into our options we'll probably be investigating the installation of a 2.7EFi Hilux engine/gearbox & rear diff + some basic suspension mods

Our main efforts will be going into the class 2 buggy that's 1/3rd complete We're hoping to get it done for Wittitrin in March