so DonkeyButt,H8R,SpeedFreak and I drove up to around wilmington to pick up our new rallyX car. 1995 toyota corolla. light brown in color. 75K miles. hit in the front (ran into a jeep), so its above the bumper.

we will track our progress with this thread.

H8R and Donkeybutt removed the busted radiator and all the broken crap has been cleaned out (headlights, fans/shroud, randmn plastics.)

we will continue to work tomorrow.

trying to get it ready for next weeks event. pictures will be up soon.

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM. Reason : ]

3/21/2008 10:03:02 PM

blue painters tape FTW

3/21/2008 10:12:44 PM

oh no sir. too much weight

3/21/2008 10:21:31 PM

progress so far:

AC system delete
Driver's side airbag delete
Passenger side airbag delete
Glove box delete
front right fender and well delete
Under hood webbing delete
driver and passenger side headlights delete
hood catch and latch delete
grill delete
upper radiator support bracket delete

LIGHT IS RIGHT BO!

New battery installed and the beast is alive! started right up!

work to do:

New radiator, hoses, thermostat and antifreeze to be installed.
Used dual fans from an Infinity Q45 for maximum cooling being installed as we speak
1 quart of oil to be added
all 4 tires need tubes
need to fabricate brackets for hood pins
need hub for replacement steering wheel
need some rally lighting
need to cut exhaust for exit in front of rear wheel

pics to come!

3/22/2008 12:20:27 PM

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"driver and passenger side headlights delete"

do you plan to drive it to events?

3/22/2008 12:32:49 PM

please tell me the airbags are intact...

3/22/2008 1:12:03 PM

we are gonna dolly it to the events

Ivan, the airbags have been deployed since last summer when my little brother hit a parked car

the ol' "shoestring caught on the gas pedal" scenario

you know, that happens to everyone, right?



we just took it out for a little test spin and before we got it out of the neighborhood, p0p0 cruised by

we immediately headed back to the garage

3/22/2008 2:13:30 PM

damn, i was hoping for some airbag bombs.

3/22/2008 2:15:36 PM

pics!

3/22/2008 3:43:36 PM

H8R took pics. he'll upload them, his battery was drained

3/22/2008 4:58:07 PM

Need to pick up something like this:

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/car/610496150.html

3/22/2008 5:01:23 PM

nosir.

this was free.

plus we've seen cheaper subarus.

plus awd isnt that special, its more fun, not not so much faster

3/22/2008 5:02:55 PM

I've wanted to get an old AW11 and strip it for rally/rallyx.

3/22/2008 5:04:42 PM

our first event with the car is this weekend. orange county speedway lot. H8R and donketbutt are doing the school on saturday, and if the car makes it to sunday it would be entered in its first race.


anyone have any sort of lighting they can donate? fogs lights or whatever

3/22/2008 8:46:16 PM

walmart sells kits with wiring, a switch, and lights for less than $20. maybe even less, been a while since i looked at them.

3/22/2008 11:16:29 PM

we were talking about mounting 4 hella lights up there.

but thats $120 of lighting

3/23/2008 12:25:51 AM

you can get generic/off brand driving lights a lot cheaper. walmart has those too. the brand is "baja" or something i think.

3/23/2008 12:28:51 AM

hmm

time for a trip!

3/23/2008 12:37:19 AM

i made a trip out to sears and target but neither one of them had lighting like we were looking for



i didnt feel like goin to walmart but we'll have to hit that up

3/23/2008 12:54:00 AM

haha

hella lights...delete

3/23/2008 12:54:51 AM

it's gonna have some sort of lights on front because it damned sure doesnt have anything factory up there

3/23/2008 1:00:13 AM

i've got a set of gravel/sand rated rally TARS if ya'll be interested. $free, i just want them back when derby time comes again (next fall). if you trash one racing, no problem. just try to keep street miles off of them as much as possible.

you need some cibie's. straight old school lighting.

[Edited on March 23, 2008 at 1:25 AM. Reason : .]

3/23/2008 1:24:12 AM

AWWW hell... i just remembered i might have some lights ya'll can have. there should be at least two kc daylighter style (not kc's, look just like them) in my garage. possibly more than two. no wiring, switching, or anything though. shoot me a pm and i'll tell you how to get them.

also, last i was over at joel's he had another set of hella 500's to sell. that was a few weeks ago though.

3/23/2008 1:29:17 AM

pm sent

3/23/2008 12:53:38 PM

hopefully today we can get the car moved to the Killer Customs garage for some tack welds here and there. then it will be good to drive "safely"

3/24/2008 8:03:23 AM

RallyX edition

3/24/2008 10:55:16 AM

fender is painted. ready to go on.

3/24/2008 9:35:01 PM

3/27/2008 9:24:18 AM

almost ready

3/27/2008 3:48:13 PM

3/28/2008 4:34:26 PM

y0 thats hot.

thanx to speedfreak for donating metal.

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM. Reason : ]

3/28/2008 4:41:19 PM

oh snap. this weekend was fun. only did half an event though, cluth was going out. so we hauled her home.

tis good

3/31/2008 9:40:15 AM

bttt

we need to put up some current pics.

right now, the tranny is off. awaiting clutch/flywheel.

then we back no the road mud

4/7/2008 11:20:59 AM

thats a lotta red x's

4/7/2008 11:41:01 AM

must be from the server crash. hopefully they'll be up soon

4/7/2008 12:02:49 PM

baonest, I'm going to pick up an AW11 soon, and I can hit the Rallyx events with you guys. Looks fun.

4/8/2008 4:22:31 PM

y0, its realllll fun.

keep us updated

4/8/2008 6:52:11 PM

we gots the lights workin!

4/12/2008 12:29:38 PM

an AW11 is a horrible choice for a rally event

you'll be the only RWD out there (there's probably a reason for that)

but good luck

4/12/2008 2:38:02 PM

clutch and flywheel are replaced

4/12/2008 6:01:33 PM

update?

4/16/2008 11:55:33 AM

car is up and running. clutch has to "break in" .

just gotta swap the radiator out. one year warranty FTW. its been maybe 2 months since we've had it.

on of the fan shroud bolts was too long and nicked the plastic of the radiator causing a small leak. it doesnt leak much, but when i back the bolt out it comes out, still not a lot.

but advance was cool and said to just bring it in. just gotta clean it up a bit

4/16/2008 12:24:55 PM

i do that with everything from advance, clean up the old part, stick it in the box and return it

4/16/2008 12:55:16 PM

bttt

we had our 3rd event last sund.

it was good. bad part is we de-beaded twice in one heat, caused us to pretty much end our race (race ended as we were trying to fill 'er up)

next race is June 7th. should be better.

re-enforced the steering wheel. and got some nice rubber.

just gotta get tubes for our tires and we are pretty much ready.

5/21/2008 10:20:00 PM

how did you pop the bead?

5/21/2008 10:27:14 PM

its a race car brah,
1+G's on grass will do that

5/21/2008 10:35:42 PM

^^big time ruts (1st de-bead)

and not properly re-inflating our tires to around 45psi (electric air compressor wouldnt kick it past 35 psi, plus were were in the middle of the heat, so we didnt have a lot of time) (2nd de-bead)

5/21/2008 10:48:22 PM

liquid nails on the bead, then seat the tire. you might want to keep a spare set of rims though, those tires aren't coming back off. tubes are good and probably all you need, but if you do cut one down you still have the problem of the wheel spinning inside the tire or it coming off the bead/rim and getting wadded up in the fender locking up a wheel.

5/21/2008 11:19:02 PM

5/21/2008 11:44:53 PM

set em up

5/22/2008 8:57:01 AM