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Gorman Ridge Rally 2013 Once again, I signed up to run Course Closing (999) duties, following the last rally car at a good pace. I seem to have fallen into a great/fun job for both myself and Carlos (the adventure Celica). Along with me, I have a HAM radio operator in the car, to call...

It would be sinful, but the VW Golf R32 could be interesting, awd, plenty of power, decent hatch back storage space... -Jon

There are a few examples out there, on the web. Rally suspension and small BFG all-terrains, a skid plate under the engine and tranny, you'll be good to go. -Jon

Looking great, and as always, amazing fab work. I'm assuming the rear shock, upper pin mount is still using some kind of rubber isolation, in that top bolt on cup.? -Jon

Nice articulation...

Sounds good. I'm guessing Chuck will be begg'n her to co-drive often, since I sold my rally car to his last co-driver. -Jon

Yes, I'm suppose to be doing Course Closing in the Celica again. I changed out all the brake pads this weekend, along with one calipers that decided it needed to start leaking after being compressed to accomodate the thick pads. Damn, I hate working on drums. They work just fine and keep a...

Make it a hitch mounted unit, add a box receiver into the bumpers front and back and carry it in the back of the wagon most of the time. I built a hitch mount winch set-up years ago, 2006, to work heavy sweep. The thing is still sitting on my garage floor, the only use it ever got was spooling...

Looking great, love the interior mods and beautiful tig work. I'm day dreaming of my next project lately, wish I had half the welding skills. -Jon

And to pull this thread back up. Next weeks episode of Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" - Mogollon Monster, it was so written here... Laura and I were down the road a ways from the film crew, relaxing at a camp site that was technically still closed for the winter, at least that's what the...

Thanks for the compliment. It has been a ton of fun building it and driving it all over is even more fun!

Looks great, nice looking light bar too!! -Jon

"im guessing you probably never, or hardly feel like you NEED 4wd to get anywhere?" I've never gotten it stuck!! Some might say I'm not trying hard enough, I look at it like I go where I want to go, which doesn't include, up the face of a rock slide or down a mud bog. I've driven it through...

Well here's the lengthy build up thread for my Celica: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/39512-New-adventure-Toy(ota)-in-AZ?highlight=jrally It was built with a similar mind set as yours, a good all around vehicle to take me where ever I felt like that day. It took a while to...

You aren't seriously expecting sports car handling out of an off road capable vehicle are you? All awd cars push/understeer unless pushed past the grip limit of one end or the other, just the nature of having all corners fighting to be the fastest. My Celica is fair at on road and off road...

more to follow...

I posted my story in the Regional / Four Corners section: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/80223-The-Prescott-Rally-28-29-Sept-2012-is-looking-for-volunteers!/page7

That's pretty much what I used on the back of the Celica, 10" travel, remote res., Fox, off the shelf. I'm using it in nearly a 1:1 ratio, shock mounts just on the back of the rear axle. I ended up having to increase the valving, once I had the *****'n fronts installed. I think we went up...

The spring rates sounds fine, so maybe it is all in the valving. Any idea how much nitrogen pressure they are running? More than 200psi seems excessive to me. I'm running dual springs on the front of the Celica and single 225lbs in the rear. On the fwd rally cars, I run single springs in the...

Great looking SWB!! Jeaulous.