Quoterkj I use a tow hitch and a small trailer... That way I can carry anything and still have my best friend for cruising Exactemundo! A trailer is cheaper than buying a pickup truck.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
"does NOT run, may just need timing belt" There's no such thing as "may just need timing belt". If the timing belt broke it will need cylinder head and valve repair too, possibly pistons as well.by Ferdinand - Technical Forum
One more run on the same stage, our third pass. The road is starting to get a little chewed up in spots, but it's still awesome quick. Completing this final stage, we only have one more short (ha!) hour and twenty minute transit back down to rally HQ at the Sunday River Resort to reach the finish, keeping our fingers crossed the whole time that we don't actually run out of fuel now,by Ferdinand - Community Forum
After completing the stage, we hit the local highway to transit straight back around and run the same stage again. But of course there's a delay at the start. We're right down near the tail-end of the running order. Cars ahead of us all start into the stage at one-minute intervals, then loop around on the highway to come back and re-enter the same stage, again starting at one-minutby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Due to the revised schedule after Friday's cancellation of the South Arm stages, we're running Saturday's stages out of order. SS8, 11, 12, now SS9, 10, & 13. After the completion of the two loops of the awesome Sturtevant's Delight stages, SS11 & 12, we're now heading back for a Service stop. On the way there we had a big scare. The engine hiccupped once, aby Ferdinand - Community Forum
This is our second pass on this fabulous stage. No more fooling around. Game face on. We're going for it. Note how this time we're straight into 4th gear right off the start! At 2:05 we got a bit of a fright when we came up on the warning triangle of Matt Bushore / Dave Shindle. Their VW Jetta was upside-down in the ditch off the right edge of the road. That looked nasty. Butby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Because the two South Arm stages were cancelled on Friday, the total stage mileage was no longer enough to qualify as a National event. So Saturday's schedule had to be revised to include some extra mileage. To make that all work out they also had to shuffle the order in which the stages were run. So, after SS8, we went straight to the 16 mile long Sturtevant's Delight stage, runningby Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteMichiel 318iS Fast or not, it must be great to do this. It sure beats sitting in the office. QuoteThanks for sharing, I enjoyed the videos. There are another five stages still to come. These next five are awesome! QuoteI like the way Martin calmly asks to repeat a corner. I'm very lucky to be teamed with someone as good as Martin. He really is an outstanding driver, always fulby Ferdinand - Community Forum
In the two full seasons I've been riding with Martin in his Nissan 240SX, we have never DNF'd a rally and never even come close to crashing. Until this stage... This stage was run as a turn-around, once in each direction. After waiting for all the cars to complete SS7, we lined up for the return run on SS8. With the National and Regional entries combined, there were 43 cars runnby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Due to the cancellation of Friday's two South Arm stages, and with the exception of Friday evening's awesome Concord Pond stage, we've done nothing but very short super special spectator stages to this point. Now finally we're hitting the real stages. This stage, run on the Success Pond Road, is extremely FAAAAAST! It's all wide open, flat out, easy fives and sixes.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
We were entered in two separate regional rallies, Friday's Drive Your Future Rally, and Saturday's Berlin Rally. The 2-day National New England Forest Rally covered the exact same distances, with the only difference being that the national teams had their cars locked up overnight in Parc Fermé, whereas we were free to do whatever we liked with ours. We actually didn't have anythiby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Concord Pond is the signature stage for the New England Forest Rally. It is VERY fast, with wide flowing turns, a couple of big jumps, and is jam-packed with spectators. It really was too bad that the South Arm stages were cancelled, because we've been sitting around doing nothing most of the day, just cruising slowly up and down the local highways. Now, when it really counts, we'rby Ferdinand - Community Forum
The South Arm stage is just under 10 miles long on some really awesome roads. It has a little bit of everything, super fast straights, big jumps, an extremely tight hairpin, and lots of rocks everywhere to smash wheel rims and/or shred tires. We were to run this stage once in each direction. After the two short Mickey Mouse super specials, and hours of sitting around waiting or transiting onby Ferdinand - Community Forum
After the short half-mile opening super special stage, we had to transit for nearly an hour on open highway to Mexico, for another short super special stage in the fairgrounds here. The jump under the Red Bull banner is on the short section of road running along the west edge of the baseball diamond. They use a bulldozer to create the jump for the fans. It's a "table-top" jumpby Ferdinand - Community Forum
The New England Forest Rally was headquartered at the Sunday River Ski Resort and started with a very short half-mile SuperSpecial stage through some parking lots starting here. There were a bazillion spectators. I'm not a big fan of these mini-stages, but it's an opportunity to crowd lots of spectators into a small area. We took it easy on this brief stage, not wanting to do anythby Ferdinand - Community Forum
On Fri-Sat, July 17-18, Martin and I competed in the New England Forest Rally in Maine and New Hampshire. Our first foray into the American rallying scene was quite an adventure. Here a good little 4-minute video about the event. About one minute into the video you see Ken Block (Mr Gymkhana) taking the jump under the Red Bull banner. Martin and I in the Nissan 240SX got waaaaaaay moreby Ferdinand - Community Forum
I doubt the stock dampers can be rebuilt, and it would probably cost more to rebuild them than simply buy new ones. Changing ride height alone shouldn't affect damper performance. But changing spring stiffness obviously will. There is a danger in using the long stock dampers with shorter springs though. It is the dampers that limit how far the suspension can move at full droop. If yby Ferdinand - Technical Forum
QuoteEarendil Perhaps a picture will help :-) Are the three remaining studs/bolts still in there tight now? If you were to put the new guibo and driveshaft back in there now, would you even need to hold the heads of those bolts from behind the balancer drum when you put the nuts back on? If all you're doing is replacing the worn guibo and driveshaft, it looks like none of the rest of tby Ferdinand - Technical Forum
Try these RealOEM drawings instead.by Ferdinand - Technical Forum
QuoteEarendil once removed the drive shaft should be held above ones head and triumphant wookie sounds made. Video of that? Please. Congrats!by Ferdinand - Technical Forum
Quoterkj It looks like your lovely wife helps out on track day... The lady in the third shot is not my wife. She has a very similar hairstyle though. This lady is one of the karting officials. She goes around with a paintbrush and a little pot of paint, different colour each race weekend. After the karts have been tech-inspected she dabs certain critical bolts on the engines so nobody can sby Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteCab Treadway I really like a lot of those shots, especially the candid ones taken while cruising the paddock. I like the candid ones too. The telephoto lens is great for that as it allows me to lurk far enough away that people don't notice I'm taking a photo of them. Otherwise they usually insist on making goofy faces or posing.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
My son, Christoph, asked me to take some shots of him racing his Rotax kart (#04), so I took a bunch yesterday. I had fun shooting the other characters that come out to these events, including the "Mini-moto" pocket-bike racers. Those guys are nuts! I borrowed my daughter's fancy camera. She showed me how to switch it on and off. Way too many buttons and options on that thinby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Quoterkj QuoteBimmerBrad...motor/tranny raised a couple inches (how high can I go with this thing?). You're going to be limited by the transmission hitting the body and the general connectedness of everything, watch out above as you push the motor up. You're going to want to raise the engine up as high as possible, and then find it's still not high enough. Lift it, then go bacby Ferdinand - Technical Forum
Well said, Cab! I totally agree.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteArcheo-peteriXThe oil pressure sensor is just a switch. With the plug at the sensor unplugged and the ignition on, the bulb should light up. short the terminals on the plug and the light should go out. If this is what happens then the sensor may be toast. If not then the bulb or the wiring to the cluster is the problem. It's the other way around. With the sensor switch closed, the wireby Ferdinand - Technical Forum
A8: Peanut 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkLR4Ih_zd8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkLR4Ih_zd8 We were certain we could have been quicker on our first pass on Peanut, if not for the dust. We considered deliberately checking in a minute late for this second run of the Peanut, and taking the 10-sec penalty, because we felt we could make that up with a faster run if we had a clear 2-by Ferdinand - Community Forum
A7: Peanut 1 Starts here. This is the same 13.5 km Peanut stage that's part of the Tall Pines Rally, except run in the other direction. Ken Block crashed out of the Tall Pines Rally on this stage last year. Tall Pines - Peanut 1 (part 1/2) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUenqljCU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUenqljCU Tall Pines - Peanut 1 (part 2/2) - ;]http://www.youby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A6: McCaw Westbound - Starts here. This stage was tough because we're heading into the afternoon sun. With the dust hanging in the air it was really difficult to see where the roads goes. On this 7 km stage we were 3rd fastest, again faster than Donnelly/Drake, finishing 7 seconds quicker than them. But we're still 1:16 behind them in total time. We have two more stages tby Ferdinand - Community Forum