Rally Car Prep Tips and Tricks for Grassroots Racers- Part 3! Engine Bay Prep
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2020
- Part 3 of a series on cheap and effective car prep techniques for Rallycross, Rallysprint, and Stage Rally! Go a little deeper into the minutiae of prepping a car for the rough stuff beyond the obvious. This video focuses on engine bay prep and common modifications. Enjoy, and ask questions!
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excellent!
Awesome! What's that black stuff in the front passenger side of the engine compartment. Sort of looks like plastic can lids or something? With the Aerocatch hood pins, are you still using the stock hood release latch in addition to those? It'd be cool to see how you wired up your kill switch and also about your electric power steering. Keep it up man, these are great.
Hey Pat! The lids on the passenger side are the tops of the horns for our dixie horn setup. Important to make sure the fans are happy! For the hood latch, ARA rules require the interior actuated hood latch be disabled so that the hood be opened entirely from outside. Some people delete the entire latch, but I left the secondary hand latch that is actuated with the hood partially opened. I'll definitely go over wiring the kill switch and what I did for the EPAS setup in their own videos in the future!
I have enjoyed all of your well produced videos. What paint did you use for your engine compartment?
Thanks! I used a thick layer of brush on Rustoleum enamel on top of Rustoleum primer, and it has held up well after 4 years
Like to see a video about the EPS system.
Hey Richard- look for a video soon on that. I'll be doing it before the interior video
Great set of videos Dylan, really enjoying them. I've been watching Team O'Neil on YT and although they are very informative with fantastic content and production, I was almost at the point of saying there's no point of getting involved as the budget they were talking about was massively out of reach. They are talking about entry level cars in the region of $30,000 before you even turn a wheel.
Then I came across yours and thought it might actually be affordable. Are you ultimately governed by FIA regs? Here in Australia we run under CAMS. but if you go to rules and regs it takes you straight to the FIA hand book. I would assume that yours are based on the same stuff.
You can't use road signs in Australia as they are only 1mm ally ( or so I've been told ) However the steel poles that hold them up are 2 3/4 inch 4 mm wall gal pipe ( or so I've been told ) Are you going to do any more in the series....
Glad you liked it! Here in North America, sanctioning bodies use large portions of the FIA regs for their ruleset, with small adjustments for common sense situations. While the rules can initially seem overwhelming, taking them system by system as you bring your car up to spec makes them much less intimidating. Make no mistake, rally racing is a much larger initial investment than something like a weekend track car or other form of motorsports. I had well over $10k USD in my build even with doing every single bit of prep myself, keeping stock brakes, stock engine, and all the other little tips that you see in the videos. My best advice would be to try to find a used entry level car for sale to shortcut all of the build time and get you something closer to the end result that might only require a few changes to bring up to current legal status and make ready for stage.
I'll be doing more videos in the series soon, as it's our winter lull here in New England!
@@DylanGondyke Hi Dylan thanks for getting back to me. The main aim is to get my son involved in as many aspects as possible. My history is rally, street machine, custom semi's ( we call them trucks ) Monster trucks and Jet Trucks. so it's actually an exercise in passing along as many skills to my son as I can.
The car we have is a 1.6 DOHC Hyundia Getz 117 hp 890 kg, which was a repairable right of bought for under a grand. He got stuck into removing the repair panel from the donner shell and I welded it back in for him. Cost to repair that and get it inspected was just over $350.
Most of the budget is going to be FIA approved stuff. like seats, harness, HANS device. and I've opted to buy an FIA approved roll cage as it wasn't much dearer than the price I was quoted to buy seamless tube ( which won't be available until the end of March ), and the inspector here can be very very picky.
The Getz has pretty week suspension so the upgrade will be K Sport who does a control rally spec package for the earlier Hyundia Excel, and that bolts straight in.
Steel wheels, rally tires and he can use my old coms system from my monster truck. We'll be doing stich welding, strut tower strengthening, strut bracing and ally bending ( sump and fuel tank guard ) running the brake lines through the inside of the car our self.... A, mainly so he can learn that sort of sort of stuff.... B, to keep the cost down... It has to be a log book build hence all the FIA gear, or it can't compete.
I would like to get the car to the first stage for about $6500. with a 20% contingency plan.
The roads here that they use for gravel stages are pretty good, red gravel with a clay base, they're usually pretty well graded as well, no big rocks as they usually run Super B and pocket Road Trains log trucks along them they're pretty wide as well.
Look forward to seeing your next video...sorry for the ramble....
@@aussietruckphotosandmodels8510 that sounds like a very well thought out and practical plan. Don't go too crazy on stitch welding and chassis mods for a first car! (Like I did...) That's time you could have spent just driving it and learning and having fun instead. Best of luck to you two! Aussie roads look like dream roads to rally on
What’s the name of your light bar
It's a no-name lightbar that I wouldn't recommend. I suggest looking at Diode Dynamics for quality lightbars!
install strut bar
A strut bar isn't as important on a fully caged and seam welded car, and working in the engine compartment becomes more difficult if one is installed. For a non caged rallycross car, a good stiff strut bar will make noticeable improvements.